New to Skyrim: What Non-Adult Mods to Get?

[Paradox_of_Theseus]

I'm new to the modded world of Skyrim, having only played the vanilla version years ago. I stumbled onto the modding community and didn't realize it was as large as it was.

 

That being said, I am not sure where to begin with mods to improve the game. Right now I am looking for mods to improve things like textures, landscapes, ect..what sort of mods are you guys using as a base for these things?

[jimdandy28]

This is a good place to start:

 

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Yeh ghoper can explain very well how to begin and install.

 But there are many ENB MODS so look which one your PC can handle ghoper prolly advice RealVision but that don't mean its best or your taste.

 

Also research first for you begin so you won't be frustrated later on when you crash if you carefully read info on mods and follow steps needed you will prefend alot frustration.

 

BOSS, TES5EDIT or SKSE are few of mods you must have.

 

If you have DLC also don't forget the unofficial patches must have for skyrim.

 

Read up some guides, aslo very helpfull

 

But just view ghopers videos and you know alot more in few days.

 

Show your loadorder also so we know what you have installed already.

 

For starters here is some advice on what must do or do not when installing mods and how to prefend problems.

 

 

ISSUES AND BUG FIXES

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0) First of all, almost all problems happen because of things you did to your game

or OS, various fake memory tweakers, boosters are at first place. Antiviruses, bad drivers,

overlay monitoring, capturing, overclocking, etc etc etc prevent normal functionality.

Also if you configured game incorrectly by modifying skyrimprefs.ini, it's also lead you to

nowhere. This prooved many times, not just by one user, you all do the same mistakes.

1) If you have crashes at startup, run as admin and make sure no other

software hooking in to game process, for example some antiviruses, screen capturing tools, videocard monitoring or overclocking. Afterburner, D3D Overrider, EVGA, ATI Tray Tools,

DXTory, Fraps, XFire - some versions of these software incompatible with

wrapper version of ENBSeries, so use injector version or disable those utils.

Also Skyrim Performance Monitor may produce this behavior, try without it or

set in it's options D3D9 mods compatibility.

2) Lower performance when borderless window mode turned on together with vsync,

to fix disable any of them.

3) If stuttering bother too much, edit enblocal.ini file vriables ExpandSystemMemoryX64, ReduceSystemMemoryUsage(especially this one), DisableDriverMemoryManager.

4) ALT-TAB not work in fullscreen mode when EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=true

5) Game by default forcing vsync to be on, in enblocal.ini parameter exist which

toggle it, so modify if you have issues with screen tearing.

6) Infinite loading happen when frame rate is too high, use fps limiter or vsync

vua EnableFPSLimiter=true or EnableVSync=true in enblocal.ini.

7) (obsolette issue for latest version) Creation Kit (CK) is not work properly, delete d3d9.dll (or don't run injector

version if it used instead of wrapper) or use another enblocal.ini which don't have

memory fixes enabled. Future versions may work, not sure yet.

8) Pixelated screen means that you have borderless window enabled in enblocal.ini. This is good feature for those users who know what to do with it.

9) Strange behavior of game physics, flying objects - you have too much high fps, turn on VSync or FPSLimiter in enblocal.ini, this is game bug.

10) ALT-TAB not work, amount crashes not reduced, stuttering and textures are

missing. This probably because enbhost.exe process not started by the mod because of

admin rights issues. This problem not occur when ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=false set.

11) Red text message appear in the left top corner. So, why the hell everybody say

it's error message? If you don't see "error" word in it, then it's not an error, but important

notice or warning.

12) Graphic effects do not work after installing this. To turn on ENBSeries as graphic

mod (ENBoost use only patch of it), set parameter UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

in enblocal.ini.

13) Stuttering with newest versions or low performance at some locations means

that your VRAM is full, press F4 key to free it (can be assigned to another key via KeyFreeVRAM

in enblocal.ini file). Also you may change ReservedMemorySizeMb to fix stuttering. Later i'll

do tweaks against this issue.

14) Process enbhost.exe not working, so memory reduction is not effective as with it, if hdtPhysicsExtensions mod installed.

 

Good luck

[myuhinny]

ShowRaceMenu Precache Killer by kapaer is a must if you plan on using more then one hair mod/eye mod as too many will cause either huge lag lock the game of or send you to the desktop. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33526/? Enhanced Character Edit http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12951/? or ECEE - RANs Enhanced Character Edit Enhancer http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35713/? for a better player creation there are many options that you can change with these there is another one like it but I can never remember the name of it. Safety Load by kapaer blocks "Infinite Loading Screen" bug and game freezing during play. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46465/?

[Eugen0001]

well  good mods  for starting are immersive weapons,  immersive armors, monster mod,  skymomod,  intresting npc´s and skyre + reproccer ^^

these are not changeing the  basic hairs  bodys and so on it just  ads  changes to the gameplay and make the game  a bit  bigger overall.

[frosted210]

Amidianborn Book of Silence, Amidianborn Whiterun, Amidianborn Landscapes, Amidianborn Caves, Bellyaches HD Dragon Replacer, Perfect Whiterun, Superior Rock Textures, Enhanced Wetness and Puddles, Lorkhans Vision Night Sky, Real Ice, Real Clouds, Improved NPC Clothing, Static Mesh Improvement, Enhanced Blood Textures, Pure Waters.... That should get you started texture wise, you can use this too, just read the instructions on how to use...Optimizer Textures and of course an ENB wraps it all together, my choice is Project ENB along side Climates of Tamriel...

 

 

 

[Rayblue]

I'm new to the modded world of Skyrim, having only played the vanilla version years ago. I stumbled onto the modding community and didn't realize it was as large as it was.

 

That being said, I am not sure where to begin with mods to improve the game. Right now I am looking for mods to improve things like textures, landscapes, ect..what sort of mods are you guys using as a base for these things?

 

Go for the basics first, the most important essential mods.

 

1. Unofficial Skyrim/Dawnguard/Hearthfire/Dragonborn Patches

2. TES5edit

3. The latest version of SKSE http://skse.silverlock.org

4. SkyUI

5. A Matter of Time

6. iHUD 

 

For further reading:

http://www.tesgeneral.com/

http://wiki.step-project.com/Main_Page