Skyrim Special Edition

About this mod

2x upscaled textures using modern techniques and neural networks for EVERY DIFFUSE TEXTURE IN THE BASE GAME, providing extremely crisp, clean, high resolution vanilla textures. DLC content included.

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This was built off of Cleaned SSE Textures so technically speaking, its 4x resolution from the original Skyrim LE textures! (2x SE)
Also thank you to Novelyst for the Fixes I utilized as well


As far as I'm aware, these are the cleanest upscales on Nexus Mods. Most, if not all other upscale projects are older, mix and match resolution scales, utilize some non-vanilla assets, and used either the original LE textures for the upscale (which is half the resolution as a base) or the upscaled textures from SE which had a lot of artifacts. Also, older upscale methods are far less sophisticated and accurate. I used the BSRGANx2 model by cszn for these, using PyTorch. 

Project Clarity uses different upscaling methods, and support has been dropped as of October 31st, 2023. (RIP)

This is great to also use as a mod to cover items that aren't already touched by your other mods (and they most likely all aren't)


USSEP patch is available. 
If you would like to cover Creation Club content, Kartoffels has already made an upscale that's included on the mod page with their Creation Club version of Cleaned SSE Textures. It doesn't use the same methods as my upscales, but they're still pretty good.

Creation Club Anniversary Cleaned and Upscaled

As a side note from the CSSET page, this applies to this upscale pack as well since they were used as most of the base for this mods upscales:
"Skyrim SE did some funky stuff. I fix with big machine. All textures except tintmasks, and cubemaps. Which should be generated or replaced with that one tintmask modCubemaps can be found here."

All files are in BC7 Max format. Texture maps are not upscaled, because upscaling them has proven to be extremely difficult to get accurate even with dedicated texture map upscalers, and they provide basically no visual difference at the cost of install space and VRAM.

SEPERATE UPSCALE PACKS

Actors
Architecture
Armor
Clothes

Clutter
Dungeons
Landscape
Weapons


CLUTTER PACK TEARDOWNS

Banners
Signs
Statues