LE or SPECIAL EDITION

[Thornagar]

Hi, Ive recently purged my LE edition skyrim from all its mods to give a fresh re install without any loose files. Now I am wondering if it is worth moving over to special edition. Has the modding there caught up and can I create the same experience I had in LE? Also which is more stable as in less crashing.

[Lyreal]

SE, no question. It's more stable, faster, have no (serious) mods limit, get 4 free DLCs and nearly all mods today are create for it.

 

The most mods are already converted to SE or are replaced by better mods.

 

PS: An uptodate SE and the buyable AE are to 100% the same version of the game.

[Thornagar]

1 hour ago, Lyreal said:

SE, no question. It's more stable, faster, have no (serious) mods limit, get 4 free DLCs and nearly all mods today are create for it.

 

The most mods are already converted to SE or are replaced by better mods.

 

PS: An uptodate SE and the buyable AE are to 100% the same version of the game.

Thank you for your response, I am a little scared of having to find all the mods I want to get the experience I want but I guess it is going to be worth it if I don't crash every 2 minutes

[Thornagar]

17 hours ago, Lyreal said:

SE, no question. It's more stable, faster, have no (serious) mods limit, get 4 free DLCs and nearly all mods today are create for it.

 

The most mods are already converted to SE or are replaced by better mods.

 

PS: An uptodate SE and the buyable AE are to 100% the same version of the game.

gotta say though, getting Bhunp running is supper confusing, it looks like I need to do a lot more work just to get simple phsysics.

Edited June 30, 2023 by Thornagar

[NCK30]

4 minutes ago, Thornagar said:

gotta say though, getting Bhunp running is supper consusing, it looks like I need to do a lot more work just to get simple phsysics.

 

Tell me about it. I was setting up my SE/AE install on my new computer. 

 

Figuring out 3BA or BHUNP is much more time consuming than I want. Also my CPU was running at 100 % with 3BA.

 

The Vagina from both 3BA and BHUNP was spazzing out. And the model is ugly compared to my LE vagina. Also there is no HDT editor in SE/AE. You have to use Notepad++.

 

 

Landscape mods are superior though. Before I quit the modding I had a dream setup with Tree, Grass, Montains and Water. See link for pics.

 

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/107275-nck30-animations/page/38/

 

 

My perfect working HDT PE install on LE demands no work. To get to that point in AE I have to spend hundreds/thousands of hours modding.

 

MY LE ENB is also much more colorful than what the Special Edition offers. Even from Pi-Cho high preset ENB which I used for the SE/AE screenshots.

[sikamikanico78]

considering crashes on LE if you use the enbseries mod without any real enb if you dont want i raises the game memory up to 24 giga istead of the usual 3 it uses so there are no more crashes 

[Thornagar]

2 hours ago, sikamikanico78 said:

considering crashes on LE if you use the enbseries mod without any real enb if you dont want i raises the game memory up to 24 giga istead of the usual 3 it uses so there are no more crashes 

ye I did all that, but eventually after playing a save for many hours the crashes still start.

[Thornagar]

welp I am just at a point of giving up now, hours of modding and I just can not put textures on my character while using BHunp. LE was so much simpler.

[NCK30]

28 minutes ago, Thornagar said:

hours of modding and I just can not put textures on my character while using BHunp. LE was so much simpler.

 

Please explain?

 

 

What I found most difficult was to begin using Mod Organizer 2. It has some learning curve compared to Nexus Mod Manager in LE.

[Thornagar]

1 hour ago, NCK30 said:

 

Please explain?

 

 

What I found most difficult was to begin using Mod Organizer 2. It has some learning curve compared to Nexus Mod Manager in LE.

maybe that is the problem I am still using NMM,

 

Anyways in my body slide I can see textures like nipples and so on, but ingame I get original game textures over the changes body, which believe me looks freaky. no nipples bassically XD

[NCK30]

Could be that You use CBBE textures with an UNP body like BHUNP.

 

Have You checked the texture paths from your body mesh files? - Maybe try installing body textures manually without Mod Manager.

 

 

I had a hard time with Mod Organizer, as all mods were installed outside the Game directory.

 

In LE I was used to see these files where they should be.

 

In my experience body replacers, textures and animations only worked when I installed them in the STEAM game directory.

 

FNIS also gave me headaches when installed outside game directory.

 

 

The good thing about Mod Organizer 2 is that everything is handled inside this program. You can start all modding programs via MO2.