Is Special Edition or Original Skyrim better for adult mods?

[SexyTop69]

On 1/8/2025 at 4:26 AM, belegost said:

All new versions of USSEP require CC crap as masters. On 1.5.97 I sick with last pre-AE version. It does not require fishing, survival crap and whatever those other two are, to be in your load order.

 

I fucking hate fishing in games.

 

That's really shitty of them to include all that crap and not have it optional, also shitty to of them to archive 1.5.97.

[Kastagir]

On 1/8/2025 at 1:26 AM, belegost said:

All new versions of USSEP require CC crap as masters. On 1.5.97 I sick with last pre-AE version. It does not require fishing, survival crap and whatever those other two are, to be in your load order.

 

I fucking hate fishing in games.

LE doesn't have to deal with any of that garbage, and hasn't for nearly 12 years since the last update was released for it.  But what do I know, I'm just a dinosaur.

Edited January 12, 2025 by Kastagir

[belegost]

1 hour ago, Kastagir said:

But what do I know, I'm just a dinosaur

How is telnet these days?

[Z0mBieP00Nani]

LE version is really only good if you are trying to avoid the updates that break mods in Skyrim SE or AE, and the CC stuff that is made for it. A long time ago I would have said LE was the better version for adult mods because SE was still new and didn't have a lot of support yet, but that's not really true anymore. Special Edition is simply a more stable platform for modding in general, and there are a lot of mods for it that apparently are not possible with the legendary version of Skyrim, Bugthesda is done molesting the original version with updates though.

[Jonsey Charms]

On 12/2/2024 at 11:49 AM, Gukahn said:

Set it to only update when launching, since you'll only start it with SKSE later. Go offline before starting it just in case. Might be a bit paranoid but hey, it works

You can actually fool steam into thinking it was updated correctly even if it had the old version, it only updated when it's flagged for an update, it will not update every launch if you disabled it even if it says update on launch..you see the manifest sets a flag if the update was successful and then dies not check the crc again until it has a flag again...so if you update once it gets the flag cleared you can then downgrade and or update to anniversary and then downgrade it still will say it was updated and the game loads normally as if it was.

[JimUpdating]

go in to the steamapps/steamlibrary directory, and set appmanifest_489830.acf to read only. It looks like Steam tells that file what the Skyrim SE/AE file sizes and versions should be, so when it does the check of whether to update, Steam sees that Skyrim matches the .acf file, and doesn't update.

 

USSEP not having old versions available - I can see this from both sides. Yes, it is irritating if you want to downgrade to an older version of Skyrim SE. However, for authors of such a widely used mod, dealing with bug reports for multiple versions would be a nightmare as I'd expect a lot of users wouldn't report which skyrim version, and a lot of bug reports would probably be version inconsistencies. It works for the beginner/average skyrim mod user who simply downloads from Steam and on Nexus goes for locations/quests/items/textures that don't use SKSE.

[spoonsinger]

1 hour ago, JimUpdating said:

go in to the steamapps/steamlibrary directory, and set appmanifest_489830.acf to read only. It looks like Steam tells that file what the Skyrim SE/AE file sizes and versions should be, so when it does the check of whether to update, Steam sees that Skyrim matches the .acf file, and doesn't update.

 

 

Not quite. As part of the update process it tries to write to the .acf so it knows the sizes of the update and how far it's got through it once it starts downloading. As you mark the file read only it can't write to it, therefore it doesn't start the update., (but puts a moan message against the download in the Steam application which is not a problem).

[JimUpdating]

6 hours ago, spoonsinger said:

 

Not quite. As part of the update process it tries to write to the .acf so it knows the sizes of the update and how far it's got through it once it starts downloading. As you mark the file read only it can't write to it, therefore it doesn't start the update., (but puts a moan message against the download in the Steam application which is not a problem).

thanks for the correction, key thing is it does block any updates?