Thank you for this wonderful mods :) I was a little disappointed when I first use your mod, but on careful look, textures are reasonable. At the time I installed your mod, I was doing killing skeletons in "Bloated Man's Grotto." B4 yours, I can summon and kill 72 max, or game will freeze. Then I saw your mod and with that, can go up to 120. Thank a lot.
One of my friends has a laptop with an old 2 core 2nd generation Intel CPU G960 running at 2.2 Ghz, 4 Gb Ram, and HD Graphics 2000. I installed Skyrim LE on his other ( more powerful ) notebook, and told him it's the best game. He never played it for 2 months, but when his 12-year-old son came to visit him, the kid found the game on his laptop and has been playing it for a week now, this friend asked me if the first aforementioned notebook could run it, because his little son taught him how to play and they both enjoy it. Now he wants to give his best notebook to his son, and asked me to install Skyrim on his old weak notebook. The specs are above, do you think it'll reach stable 30 fps with average settings with the help of your mod? No mods are planned yet, just a clean vanilla game.
I'm getting 55-60 FPS on my notebook, and it has only 1GHz of CPU, which is pathetic, so yes, he can definitely get a playable game on his machine.
However, I'm using various tweaks and other mods to get this result. My mod is just the textures for the list I provided in the description. I could share my tweaks with you, if you like.
Sure. Your experience would be more than helpful, bro. I got an 8 core CPU now, so the days when I had my simple but true Athlon x2 250 are like 10 years ago. Used to play such hits then - NFS, GTA 4, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, etc. Never came across Skyrim at those times. It was later. Didn't even know the word "mod" then.
hmm..interesting! maybe this is not the place to ask this, but can you tell me how many time your game crash? and if its not crashing, can you share the tweaks that you are using? because even with the tweaks and mods that I have to prevent crashes , my game still CTD every 20 to 40 min play.. and sorry for bothering you x)
That's a simple question. Just remembering. I played Skyrim LE for half a year, then I started using mods, at a beginner's level. The simple mods like -more money of the merchants, or faster running. Then I got used to it and my Nexus Mod Manager was always full. So many great mods that you would like to try. Bro, my advice is go over to SE. When I was on LE the game started with a certain number of mods one day, and didn't start at all the next day. Skyrim SE, for me, is like 50 times more stable, with mods. Tweaks or no tweaks. It's like Windows 98 that was glitchy as hell, and Windows XP which was much better. There were times when I got crashes every 2 minutes in LE, went back to Mod Manager, turned off the new mods and still got crashes. It made me very angry. Don't use Skyrim AE of course, because most of the old great mods that use SKSE will be incompatible, but Skyrim SE would be a good start. I had them both on my PC for 2 years, and the day when I deleted LE was when I found a perfect ENB for my Skyrim SE. Up until then my LE looked better. It was about 2 years ago.
My final conclusion is Skyrim Se is much more reliable about mods, plus you can easily convert simple mods from ESP into ESL yourself if the modder hasn't done it and load not only 255, but 900 or more, the only limit is your imagination and your PC. For example that is how Skyrim evolved during the past years https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/images/156317
About your PC. Now you can find very cheap combos like the MB - CPU - Memory at incredibly low prices on AlieExpress. For example you can get Xeon 2650 v2 which is roughly equal to Ryzen 5 1600, with the MB and 16 Gb memory for less than 80 dollars. This CPU works fine with GPUs like GTX 1060-1070- the new 3050.
Answering YdestroyerY, I didn't have any crash yet. If you are using a lot of mods, maybe some of them are script intensive. Scripts can slow down your game as hard as larger textures.
I learned by myself that unfortunately there is no magical solution when it comes to weak machines: you need to play cheap and use lightweight mods all around.
I was using 150 mods and my FPS was never under 50 on a 1280x720 resolution. It is not HD, but it is also not that ugly. I went to STEP Modifications and read about every line of code in the games INIs to know what I could and what I couldn't mess with and it is working great for now.
I like your way how you describe it. But it is like brushing dust off a 486 CPU. The progress keeps going on, bro. No better games for this decade though. Witcher 3, and Metro Exodus. That is all. Cyberpunk turned out to be a plastic world with zero-AI NPCs. A huge disappointment, haven't played it to the end. Modded it a bit, but during the whole gameplay just said - f*#@ it, and deleted the game.
Unfortunate I don't have spare money to upgrade this laptop, and it won't worth it either. I'm planning on buying a new PC in the future, but for now, I have to use this little f*cker here.
I know Skyrim SE is better on pretty much every aspect, but not for low-end machines like mine. In fact, my laptop doesn't even open SE. 4GB isn't just enough RAM to play comfortably, and I wouldn't have the freedom to mod the game as I'm having with LE.
I'm not an American not European, so I'm not paid in dollars, which makes everything expensive. Believes me, when people say "oh but that is just 50 bucks", I think that 50 bucks is 1/6 of what I make in a month. And I need to pay rent, put food on the table and buy a lot of diapers for my daughter. So yeah, let's play Legendary Edition. :P
Bad that smart people are born in the so called "developing" countries. And the whole world system urges them to move to the US or Europe. The world is changing fast at this very moment. I hope everything will be better. Because your country's development was slowed on purpose.
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ah yes, maybe you are right, now that i think about it, i never tried SSE yet, I don't know why, maybe because I want to stick to the old game? My laptop isn't "that bad", and it can run SE with 2k textures I guess (Im using them in LE) its just as you said, I got mad every time the game crash, and sometimes I lost 20-40 min game progress because I forget to save, and about mods? heh I got 250 active plugins, let alone the mods that doesn't have an esp or esm, so yeah even if I did followed a lot of fixing guides, i don't think my game can be stable with this heavy moding :'( well, i think its time to say hi to SE then.oh and thanks for answering my question
I've been on the both shores bro. Come over. You'll have to reinstall all your fav mods, but 90 percent of them are converted, and there are some that are not available on LE. You will have a busy day or two, reinstalling all your fav mods. But after that you will be surprised, how come my game hasn't crashed not once this week. There are some improvements, slightly better houses in Whiterun, but I'd recommend you to mod the cities. For Riverwood - Photorealistic Farmhouses. Even 2k looks perfect on a FHD monitor, etc.
Moving to SE (AE current update) will not remove crashes created from mods/bad mods only base game issues like the memory issue and some other bugs (that can be removed) also a lot of SE mods are still broken, a option I use is copying the stability section of Sinitar's LE guide as that section works wonders (his LE guides works but I don't know about his other ones)
I have been around both long enough to know that both can be perfectly stable with a 2000+ mod setup if done correctly
That's some bad advice. Sinitar is notorious in the modding community for providing horrible modding tips and his guides are not guides, but mod lists. He is also well known for being a dictator on his Discord community by banning anyone who even slightly try to correct him when he makes a mistake.
Avoid him like the plague.
You can read a full essay about him, written by the author of the Phoenix's Flavor guide here:
Most people would suppose that since the stability part of the his modlist works, than all the rest should work as well, and that's far from the truth. It is better for people to just forget him. When I started modding I was excited by his mod lists too, but they are utterly crap.
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I was a little disappointed when I first use your mod, but on careful look, textures are reasonable.
At the time I installed your mod, I was doing killing skeletons in "Bloated Man's Grotto."
B4 yours, I can summon and kill 72 max, or game will freeze.
Then I saw your mod and with that, can go up to 120.
Thank a lot.
Now he wants to give his best notebook to his son, and asked me to install Skyrim on his old weak notebook. The specs are above, do you think it'll reach stable 30 fps with average settings with the help of your mod? No mods are planned yet, just a clean vanilla game.
However, I'm using various tweaks and other mods to get this result. My mod is just the textures for the list I provided in the description. I could share my tweaks with you, if you like.
Your experience would be more than helpful, bro. I got an 8 core CPU now, so the days when I had my simple but true Athlon x2 250 are like 10 years ago. Used to play such hits then - NFS, GTA 4, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, etc. Never came across Skyrim at those times. It was later. Didn't even know the word "mod" then.
and sorry for bothering you x)
Just remembering. I played Skyrim LE for half a year, then I started using mods, at a beginner's level. The simple mods like -more money of the merchants, or faster running. Then I got used to it and my Nexus Mod Manager was always full. So many great mods that you would like to try.
Bro, my advice is go over to SE. When I was on LE the game started with a certain number of mods one day, and didn't start at all the next day. Skyrim SE, for me, is like 50 times more stable, with mods. Tweaks or no tweaks. It's like Windows 98 that was glitchy as hell, and Windows XP which was much better. There were times when I got crashes every 2 minutes in LE, went back to Mod Manager, turned off the new mods and still got crashes. It made me very angry.
Don't use Skyrim AE of course, because most of the old great mods that use SKSE will be incompatible, but Skyrim SE would be a good start. I had them both on my PC for 2 years, and the day when I deleted LE was when I found a perfect ENB for my Skyrim SE. Up until then my LE looked better. It was about 2 years ago.
My final conclusion is Skyrim Se is much more reliable about mods, plus you can easily convert simple mods from ESP into ESL yourself if the modder hasn't done it and load not only 255, but 900 or more, the only limit is your imagination and your PC. For example that is how Skyrim evolved during the past years
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/images/156317
About your PC.
Now you can find very cheap combos like the MB - CPU - Memory at incredibly low prices on AlieExpress. For example you can get Xeon 2650 v2 which is roughly equal to Ryzen 5 1600, with the MB and 16 Gb memory for less than 80 dollars. This CPU works fine with GPUs like GTX 1060-1070- the new 3050.
I learned by myself that unfortunately there is no magical solution when it comes to weak machines: you need to play cheap and use lightweight mods all around.
I was using 150 mods and my FPS was never under 50 on a 1280x720 resolution. It is not HD, but it is also not that ugly. I went to STEP Modifications and read about every line of code in the games INIs to know what I could and what I couldn't mess with and it is working great for now.
The progress keeps going on, bro. No better games for this decade though.
Witcher 3, and Metro Exodus. That is all. Cyberpunk turned out to be a plastic
world with zero-AI NPCs. A huge disappointment, haven't played it to the end.
Modded it a bit, but during the whole gameplay just said - f*#@ it, and deleted
the game.
I know Skyrim SE is better on pretty much every aspect, but not for low-end machines like mine. In fact, my laptop doesn't even open SE. 4GB isn't just enough RAM to play comfortably, and I wouldn't have the freedom to mod the game as I'm having with LE.
I'm not an American not European, so I'm not paid in dollars, which makes everything expensive. Believes me, when people say "oh but that is just 50 bucks", I think that 50 bucks is 1/6 of what I make in a month. And I need to pay rent, put food on the table and buy a lot of diapers for my daughter. So yeah, let's play Legendary Edition. :P
And the whole world system urges them to move to the US or Europe.
The world is changing fast at this very moment. I hope everything will be better.
Because your country's development was slowed on purpose.
Check out my fav song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qBigNV1xs
If you liked it, Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhwmB95EX1A
My laptop isn't "that bad", and it can run SE with 2k textures I guess (Im using them in LE) its just as you said, I got mad every time the game crash, and sometimes I lost 20-40 min game progress because I forget to save,
and about mods? heh I got 250 active plugins, let alone the mods that doesn't have an esp or esm, so yeah even if I did followed a lot of fixing guides, i don't think my game can be stable with this heavy moding :'(
well, i think its time to say hi to SE then.oh and thanks for answering my question
Come over. You'll have to reinstall all your fav mods, but 90 percent of them are converted, and there are some that are not available on LE. You will have a busy day or two, reinstalling all your fav mods. But after that you will be surprised, how come my game hasn't crashed not once this week. There are some improvements, slightly better houses in Whiterun, but I'd recommend you to mod the cities. For Riverwood - Photorealistic Farmhouses. Even 2k looks perfect on a FHD monitor, etc.
I have been around both long enough to know that both can be perfectly stable with a 2000+ mod setup if done correctly
Avoid him like the plague.
You can read a full essay about him, written by the author of the Phoenix's Flavor guide here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/o3h3b3/so_why_is_sinitars_guide_so_terrible_anyway_an/
I know that part works as my game works fine after following that part
Also I never said the SE or FNV ones worked