Modder ‘winedave’ has released a brand new HD Texture Pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. This pack, called Dave’s UFHD Mountains, is 1.8GB in size and adds 8K textures for most of the mountains.
Unfortunately, the modder has not revealed any additional details about this pack. As such, we can assume that the pack overhauls all of the mountain textures. Not only that, but it also includes new moss rocks, as well as matching landscape textures.
I don’t believe we’ve seen a lot of 8K textures for Skyrim, so I strongly giving it a go. To be honest, I’d love to see more 8K textures for other objects and characters, or at least more photogrammetry texture packs.
Last year, modder ‘jd941’ released the first photogrammetry mod for Skyrim. However, this mod is no longer available for download. On the other hand, the second photogrammetry mod we shared in February 2019 is still available. That pack featured 4K/2K high quality photogrammetry textures for landscapes, so I suggest also downloading it.
In order to showcase the new 8K mountain textures, winedave released the following screenshots. As such, and if you don’t want to download a pack that is almost 2GB, we suggest viewing them.
Those interested can download this new HD texture pack from here.
Have fun!
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“I’d love to see more 8K textures for other objects and characters”
For Skyrim/Skyrim SE specifically it’s largely pointless using 4K and above textures with the exception of modding some of the game’s largest size assets such as mountains. Hence for why this and some other mountains mods do.
For most other assets, e.g. characters, furniture and clutter there’s very little point in using higher than 2K textures or, at most, 4K/2K as opposed to 4K/4K. Using 4K and above textures for those assets will give next to no appreciable difference in Skyrim/Skyrim SE (obviously that rule won’t apply to most other games) while using up more VRAM and many more GBs of SSD storage space.
P.S. You’ve forgotten to link the mod in question!
Ah my bad, fixed.
Skyrim SSE without this texture pack, however with 4K Assets and Dyndolod, Tweaked Inis for High LOD Draw and Detail, etc, = 10294MB on VRAM . 3840×1600*
Sure post aye, however John, like ACS in 6880×2880, needing 22GB VRAM, as we all know, we need more VRAM in these cards, VRAM is the biggest factor and reasoning to upgrade in 2020, when the RTX came out, last year? lmao.
“like ACS in 6880×2880, needing 22GB VRAM,”
I tried these texture packs for new vegas perfomance was horrible, dont know if i should bother with this.
You don’t need 8K Textures . Just stick to 2K, mainly depending on Spec, you should be fine with some 4K Textures, just know this is Skyrim, and It’s engine is not enough . So balance .
John shitposting more articles than we in the comments
Game dev here. Texture size should be proportional to screen space. You can get just as much detail as an 8k texture by using multiple 2k textures and seamless tiling textures and have no performance impact whatsoever.
Using 8k textures en masse is the video game equivalent of outfitting every single car in a town with a 1MPG supercar engine even if they have absolutely nothing to gain from such a thing.
I´m no game dev and your comment, for this layman, seems relevant, sooooo… with due respect, take this as a real compliment when i say that your textures look good 🙂