For a returning player, what's best now? Oldrim, SE or Anniversary?

[penguintennis]

Hi, so I recently saw the Anniversary edition release and watched a few videos, and like any old addict I got sucked back into the idea of reinstalling Skyrim. But, honestly I can't quite decide what to go with. In the past I only ever played Oldrim, because it had the best array of stable mods, and back then SE was still new and seemed quite unreliable. I'm surprised now how old SE is (6 years!), time flies, but I figure given that being the case that perhaps Special Edition is the way to go now? Or would you all think Anniversary is worth giving a go? I do like to mod my game out quite a bit so ideally I want something with a good selection of stuff that is also stable. I always had stability issues with old Skyrim so I'm hesitant to go back to it. 

 

Please share your opinions. 

[fonixphoenix]

IMO, a lot of things are still broken in SE/Anniversary, whereas Oldrim mods are very advanced by now. 

[Psalam]

The best answer is the one that you can use best. LE requires doing a lot of "preparation" for modding. Currently the best source for that is this guide:

With this, the traditional slam about LE being "glitchy" or causing frequent CTD just doesn't hold water.

 

SE is currently the one best avoided. It is being transitioned into AE (whether you like it or not). That means for the next few days/weeks all the mods are being adapted to the changes that Bethesda has brought us.

 

Finally, AE is nothing but the newest version of SE. Once again, a large number of mods are currently not working with it but there is every reason to believe that will change soon.

[ReverendFelix]

Just now, Psalam said:

SE is currently the one best avoided

I disagree. Simply avoid the AE update. I feel that SE is the best option due to the time that has passed for LE mods to be ported over. Plus it has a more stable 64 bit engine and etc.

[MadMansGun]

4 minutes ago, ReverendFelix said:

Simply avoid the AE update

some key mods have been updated to AE and don't work in SE anymore.

[ReverendFelix]

20 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

some key mods have been updated to AE and don't work in SE anymore.

Oh yeah? Like what? They didn't leave a SE version behind? Unlikely... I haven't run into this yet.

[EdinMG]

Both games, at least I have both installed, I'd never completely move on from LE to SE. I haven't updated my game and consequently any of my SKSE dependant mods. The SE update is still in standby mode on Steam...LoLs

[woodsman30]

Yea same question different day LE vs Se vs Ae at the end of the day it is still the same game Beth just rehashes every couple of years. LE works great I am not worried about updates I have access to more mods than I will ever use..ever. I run LE at 59FPS... 95% of the time rare if ever it drop to 50 Ultra settings across the board and modded to Oblivion . When everyone complained about SE and its release/issues my game still worked great... Enter the AE debacle my LE game still works great no issues so while everyone debates/fixes this new issue I will play LE... enough said.

[MadMansGun]

37 minutes ago, ReverendFelix said:

Oh yeah? Like what? They didn't leave a SE version behind? Unlikely... I haven't run into this yet.

then you haven't tried to download ussep recently, it's AE only now.

[ReverendFelix]

5 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

then you haven't tried to download ussep recently, it's AE only now.

Yep, you got me there.And no archive file for SSE. That's fucking stupid. It's hard to believe that team would do things this way.

[MadMansGun]

17 minutes ago, ReverendFelix said:

It's hard to believe that team would do things this way.

no it's not, Arthmoor has done this many times before (and other retarded things).

[ReverendFelix]

12 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

no it's not, Arthmoor has done this many times before (and other retarded things).

Hey be nice, it's a team not just Arthmoor... But yeah, I know he can act questionably. Maybe I'll message him about it, because that really is kinda messed up. I can understand updating stuff, but no legacy availability... why?

[Tlam99]

1 minute ago, ReverendFelix said:

availability... why?

reaction to how he was treated on RE..t ?

Or he is as he is ?

 

[Michele Magus]

Currently I would say SE, as the New Creation Club stuff runs in it, and AE will need time for the DLLs of various mods to be reworked to work  with it.

I made a full backup of SE before playing with AE, which is how I know the CC material works with SE.

 

I like LE, but I do not like the memory leaks, or the 4 GB ram limit on it.

[Grey Cloud]

13 minutes ago, Michele Magus said:

I like LE, but I do not like the memory leaks, or the 4 GB ram limit on it.

Memory leaks? ENB was designed to overcome that umpteen years ago.

[donttouchmethere]

2 hours ago, Michele Magus said:

I like LE, but I do not like the memory leaks

 

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

Memory leaks?

That's why I always have a towel below my Tower if I play Skyrim LE.

Just wring the memory back into the RAM.

[Psalam]

8 minutes ago, donttouchmethere said:

 

That's why I always have a towel below my Tower if I play Skyrim LE.

Just wring the memory back into the RAM.

And I thought he was talking about my senior moments! ?

[donttouchmethere]

18 minutes ago, Psalam said:

And I thought he was talking about my senior moments! ?

lol, no worries, nothing a towel couldn't fix ?

[SmedleyDButler]

Hey, if it was good enough for Douglas Adams....

[Michele Magus]

Memory leaks as in Skyrim LE stops working properly until one does a system reboot.

It corrupts memory not allocated to it.

[venomr]

I would choose LE or SE for now.  I think AE is still in its "bethesda may update the thing every 2 weeks and break your mods" phase. Also I heard that some mods like AdditemMenu haven't been updated for AE yet. 

 

AE is looking better all the time, so we just gotta let it age a bit. Like cheese.

 

 

[ReverendFelix]

On 12/5/2021 at 11:41 AM, MadMansGun said:

then you haven't tried to download ussep recently, it's AE only now.

 

On 12/6/2021 at 6:35 AM, ReverendFelix said:

Maybe I'll message him about it, because that really is kinda messed up.

Well I'm probably gonna get banned from AFK mods site, but I put in my 2 cents regarding the USSEP.

 

Check it out here if your curious.

[penguintennis]

On 12/8/2021 at 6:23 AM, ReverendFelix said:

 

Well I'm probably gonna get banned from AFK mods site, but I put in my 2 cents regarding the USSEP.

 

Check it out here if your curious.

I had a look at that, and at the nexus link for USSEP, and man... what is with the scorching arrogance and contempt the mod authors/moderators of USSEP seem to treat everyone with? They act like everyone who asks them a question is pure trash or something. It would cost them absolutely nothing to leave an old version of USSEP up on Nexus too, and they seem to refuse to even answer as to why they won't. Really seem like nasty people. 

 

That asides, I'm actually using the latest USSEP version (4.2.6 alpha) which is supposed to be for AE/1.6.3 or whatever it is, on my SE game that is on version 1.5.97, and so far from my testing there aren't any problems? Granted, I have only made some characters and walked around, visited some cities etc. to test performance on the new modlist I'm putting together, but yeah they aren't noticeably conflicting so far. But is it fair to say they will probably conflict? And if so, does anyone know where USSEP can be found for 1.5.97? 

[Edit] Found USSEP for 1.5.97 in https://www.loverslab.com/topic/118460-skyrim-se-for-beginners-v-326-3bbb-hdt-smp-hph/

 

[lrl]

New update  AE do the fix mod dance *( 

 

 

[quarzo]

Nice Thread, i was thinking if back after 4 years, AE seems promising, so i will wait a bit more