Skyrim LE vs SE?

[genericuser27]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm hoping to get some opinions on which is better: SE or LE? I'm talking about a moderate to heavily modded play through. My LE I feel is getting old and unstable.

 

I've not used SE yet and have been a loyal LE user. Is it time to move on? I intend to mod my game a bunch.

 

1. I'm moderately experienced in LE but 0 amount in LE, in terms of maintenance/Creation kit/converting armors from different bodies, will these skills transfer over? Or do they use different processes?

 

2. How good are the quality of mods? and the quantity? In terms of both Loverslab and Nexus.

 

Thank you before hand for your help!

 

[Papitas]

I'm not sure if there's still any reason for keep using LE in this decade. 

Maybe if you are obsessed with ENB or you are a time traveler, I guess? 

 

Otherwise, those 64 bits really make a difference when it comes to memory allocation, which means you can have many more different things in game before you run out of RAM and your game crashes. 

So, yeah. SE is more stable if you want to heavily mod it. 

 

Most "must have" mods are already in SE and there are WAY many more mods (specially, newer mods) that are simply not possible on LE. 

 

About your questions:

1. Yeah. Aside from learning how to convert dds files to BC7 compression, I think everything you know works right off the bat. 
2. I have no complains. As I said, most mods that are really worth it were already been translated to SE and there are some mods that aren't possible in LE. 

Edited May 13, 2022 by Papitas

[Aethelay]

I think I will wait a bit more and then swap to SE at some point, but I am a sick fuck and therefor I am still using LE with all the mods...

[Karkhel]

IMO it depends what types of mods you want, some have versions of both, some have mostly version on one or the other, example for me Sexlab Survival is an essential mod, obviously a matter of taste, but SE verions of that is a port and not really getting updated that much last time I checked. The way I mod skyrim is I pick one big mod and then stuff that works well together, I think it makes sense to have a more structured system for that, so mods don't interfere with each other too much. So just ask yourself which mods you feel like you need, if they have version on both just go with SE for stability.
SE is getting plenty of visually pleasing non content mods for sure, but a lot of actual advanced mods are either ports or still only on LE. I have yet come across a mod on SE that's not on LE that would make me switch, and I am generally checking both sections out of curiosity. So again, proritize what you actually wanna play with, and then if you can go for SE.

Edited May 13, 2022 by Karkhel

[Gukahn]

No, just no!

How many times do people have to asked that? ?

 

[Just Don't]

On 5/13/2022 at 4:24 PM, Gukahn said:

No, just no!

How many times do people have to asked that? ?

The year is 2345, H-23JD homed in Base B-23 orbiting Earth's remain, connects himself to the ultra-verse. After checking all 15 mandatory targeted ads he goes on his favorite shitposting board to ask a very important question.

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yo weridos
found ultra retro game
cant decide better version

 

Skyrim

Skyrim Legendary Edition

Skyrim Legacy Edition

Skyrim+

Skyrim+3 dlcs (wtk is a dlc caaaaaaaaaaaat)

Skyrim SE

Skyrim Special Edition

Skyrim Super Edition

Skyrim Special Edition 1.5.97

Skyrim Special Edition with paid mods (srsly?)

Skyrim very Special Edition

Skyrim Anniversary Edition

Skyrim Century Edition

Skyrim old dog Edition

Skyrim Red

Skyrim Green

Skyrim...

 

[rallyelgen]

Skyrim SE is better then Skyrim LE

Have run both on a computer with very little ram (8 gb) and integrated graphics (yay Intel HD8000 series), and it crashed on me when i were to go in riverwood or out of the riverwoord trader into town.

 

The explanation i found through a lot of google searching is that there can be a problem where the cells do not want to work as they should, so you'll get a crash when you try to enter them. The only solution they've found was to try to get into that place from a different direction.

 

So it's simple, if you want lots of problems with not being able to play the game correctly use LE, otherwise  use SE.

You could do very much to get SE running on slow computers as well. Just because you can make LE Run on old computers easily, it does not mean that you couldn't get SE to run on that too. It's just takes some more mods

[rallyelgen]

Foe those who are interested.

 

If you have a problem with performance try Outfits be Gone xD

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/108963?tab=description

 

(LE only, sorry).

 

Completely Deletes the usual cloths (all cloths with 0 armor value, i believe). All other armor are still there.

You wont be seeing any bandit with normal cloths with this mod on. Only armor.

 

So this is not a mod that makes all npc's naked, that's just what happens when an npc do not have any other armor (clothing to wear).

This mod does not remove any modded armor either. I actually think that it's just limited to Vanilla Skyrim clothing (no DLC clothing affected).

 

Edited May 31, 2022 by rallyelgen
For those that still play's skyrim LE, even after everything i just wrote...

[Guest]

If SE is so good, you don't need patches. Should be fine as is. No? Didn't think so.

 

The fact of the matter is, mod which ever is convenient to you. I personally don't because all the years of investment I have put towards LE. Not just getting it stabled, but I'm talking about mods I have downloaded for the game. The way I have organized not just my Skyrim mods to keep everything clean and organized. I have way over 300GB in Skyrim mods. No way in hell I will do the same for a game that not only is over 10 years old. Yes, SE and AE are the same turd at the end of the day, but it's way too much time invested. From downloading the mods, full webpage screenshots of mod descriptions and cropping them. Give me a new game to heavily mod and I'll gladly do the same thing all over again. But not a game that offers the same exact content. So for better or worse, both will provide instability and crashes. Simply because it's a Bethesda game. SE just may give you less of it.

Edited May 31, 2022 by 3G4

[Acacia17]

Lmao fanboys trying to justify getting scammed, by paying for the same game twice(and thrice even for some of the most zealot, fhrice if you count VR). 

 

And they double down by forcing a migration of all mods from LE to SE. For all practical reasons and limits of modding, there is no real difference between SE and LE, as long as there isnt a mod that literally can not work on LE, but can on SE. Which there isnt, and never will be(for all practical reasons).

 

Ah Skyrim fanboys, thank you for existing. I would never feel like a genius otherwise. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by Acacia17