
These are mostly vanilla textures, with lighting mods and ini edits etc.īefore installing mods you must follow these steps:ġ. Also note, no landscape texture pack is used in the screenshots. This guide prioritises gameplay and performance over graphics, especially when trade-offs have to be made. I know these visuals are not very impressive, but they are still significantly better than vanilla, with nearly no performance loss.

Even today in 2020, there are still many things mods don't fix or improve. Modding takes time, usually has some bugs, and will affect performance. While the above statements are sometimes true, they are also very misleading. "If you follow all instructions and use common sense, you won't run into problems" "Mods fix and improve every aspect of the game" "100+ graphics mods and an ENB make Skyrim look epic, with no performance loss" "You can have 200+ mods installed that are 100% free of bugs and glitches" I hope it helps you save time and avoid some frustrations while modding Skyrim.

To keep this guide simple and performance friendly, I will only cover the essentials, so no ENBs etc. They tend to require powerful PCs, and have bloated mod lists. I wrote this because (in my opinion) most other guides are not clear or concise enough. This is a performance-friendly step-by-step guide to modding, based on over 4000 hours of experience with modding and playing Skyrim. Note: This guide is also available for Legendary Edition Skyrim (better for old potato PCs) - "Concise Skyrim Modding Guide".

There's even a new mod that does it for you. In the mean time, it is easy to stay on version 1.5.97 or downgrade to it. Once most of the modding community has migrated to the new Anniversary Edition, Please note, this guide is for the 1.5.97 version of Skyrim.
