... and I have to say, I'm reasonably happy with the results. Mind, this is more a product of Rudy ENB + Obsidian + Reshade than anything intrinsic to SSE. On the other hand, if I'd tried to run this setup under LE. I suspect the game would have exploded through lack of memory.

The main motivation for the switch was that I was getting fed up of having play-throughs collapse under the weight of their mods, just as things were getting interesting. It's probably too soon to say if I'm going to get the stability improvements I'd hoped for ...

... but I have to admit, things are looking promising.

Here's another one of my vampire captives, awaiting instruction outside of Haemar's Shame.

Pity about Barbas photobombing the scene, but I guess you can't have everything.