I want download Skyrim AE. Should I do this?

[PopkaPiska3000]

I have a lot of sexlab mods on Skyrim SE, but i want to download windows 11 and download Skyrim AE. Is this a good idea, or are there many SexLab mods that haven't been ported to AE yet? No need to ask a bunch of questions, just tell me whether it is worth doing or not?

[Just Don't]

There's an entire forum thread dedicated to this. Pretty much everything has been updated to be compatible with current version or there's a replacement mod for it. One thing though, abandon this SE and AE mentality and start to check compatibility for mods in terms of game and SKSE versions. 1.6.1170 is the current Steam version of the game and you'll still see it listed as Skyrim Special Edition on your Steam account. The executable is still called SkyrimSE.exe, and so on. And not every mod requires specific version compatibility, it's mostly mods with a DLL file in them. So it's up to you to check if mods you use and that do require version specific compatibility have been updated or not.

[eflat01]

22 hours ago, PopkaPiska3000 said:

I have a lot of sexlab mods on Skyrim SE, but i want to download windows 11 and download Skyrim AE. Is this a good idea, or are there many SexLab mods that haven't been ported to AE yet? No need to ask a bunch of questions, just tell me whether it is worth doing or not?

 

"SE" ver 1.6.1170 is basically "AE", It's the same engine. I did not even DL it, Steam did an update to my SE I had for years when I was not lookin, have the basic CC content etc... They're very sneaky like that.

 

So ther you have it 1.6.1170 and AE are basically synonymous.

Edited April 22, 2025 by eflat01

[PopkaPiska3000]

Ok guys, thank you for your answers!   

[Just Don't]

4 hours ago, eflat01 said:

Steam did an update to my SE I had for years when I was not lookin, have the basic CC content etc... They're very sneaky like that.

When Steam pushes an update and you have default settings to allow updates, your game gets updated. It's not a different version, simply a new patch release with both changed and new files, as most updates do.

[eflat01]

2 hours ago, Just Don't said:

When Steam pushes an update and you have default settings to allow updates, your game gets updated. It's not a different version, simply a new patch release with both changed and new files, as most updates do.

 

I had SE and let it update the version and I ended up with ver 1.6.1170 .. which is AE anyway. @Just Don't is correct. 

 

I played Skyrim long before Steam was ever around. I went from the games first release all the way to the latest but not in any real measure the first version I bought through Steam may had been LE? When SE (a 64bit engine) came out I bought that played it and then let it go docile... had not played the game in years.

 

How I got updated was I started playing it again and the first time when I launched it it took forever to boot, noticed it's downloading all this CC stuff? Fishing, Curio, Saints and Seducers, asked my son and he told me what had happened is they gave everyone who previously owned SE the update including all that CC content for free - as a gift.  They also updated the .exe, .esm's and all the archives. 

 

Of course then I had to grab the latest Creation Kit etc... 

Edited April 23, 2025 by eflat01

[nmagod]

That's why best practice is to have steam set to "only update when launched"

 

and then you only ever launch it through like, Mod Organizer 2 or something

 

 

[eflat01]

10 hours ago, nmagod said:

That's why best practice is to have steam set to "only update when launched"

 

and then you only ever launch it through like, Mod Organizer 2 or something

 

 

 

Yes but when I stop playing a game for a while I clean the directory of mods. I only go back and get the latest mod versions once I start playing again, most the time you find a better mod for some functionality anyway. Besides especially with SKSE and most devs who write DLL just will not support older versions so if theirs a bug there you're kind of screwed. 

Edited April 23, 2025 by eflat01