As you may all know, we love Skyrim. And in the past, we’ve shared lots of screenshots from its modded version. But how can PC gamers experience such visuals themselves? What mods do they have to download in order to turn Skyrim into a mesmerizing game? Well, our reader ‘Sean’ has shared with us two videos, a couple of screenshots and a list of mods via which you can – literally – transform Skyrim into one of the most beautiful games to date.
As Sean told us, the mods that were used in the following screenshots and videos are:
–Project Reality – Climates of Tamriel V3
–Climates of Tamriel Weather Patch
–Natural Grass Texture Floor
–Pure Waters 2.0
–RealVision ENB 262c
–Skyrim HD – 2K Textures – Full
–HD Plants And Herbs
–Birds and Flocks
–Better Dynamic Snow
–Enhanced Blood Textures
–Static Mesh Improvement Mod
–Unique Grasses And Groundcovers
Enjoy!
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Sorry about the video quality, YouTube compression really sucks sometimes. I uploaded the best quality using Shadowplay.
why realvision of all enbs?
i dont mean its bad, but its nothing spectaluar as well
It was really just meant as a test, so I just picked the most popular mods on nexus, turns out I actually like the look of these ENB. People complained about how those lovely skyrim shots are probably unplayable with all the mods so I decided to put that to the test, without the grass mod, I can get 60fps+ ,though in places with the grasses mod I can get 60FPS+
if u actually dont care about the fps
u can achieve something way more spectacular.
(two different modified enbs)
ran these at 30-40 fps
Yes I know but it wasn’t about making uber shots with borders
yeah
i always had a thing for the letterbox.
thankfully most enbs have a option to set them off
also idk how a amazing spiderman 2 screenshot came up in there.
*spectacular
Im running Skyrim with 32 mods(1600p)…some way better than it…4k textures
its damn demanding…even my SLI aint handling it well…with all those mods.
Im loving Skyrim, never played it before…so its is being a good time. (greybeard truce / double-hand 95).
Yeah, without the Realvision ENB you can do 4K easy on a 970 but with it on and x4.0 DSR I’m in the high teens and 20s. Unqiue grasses and groundcovers knocks about 10fps off as well but without it I can get 60fps easy with RealVision ENB.
970 back at october…SLIed it in december for Dying Light!
Do you guys think that an ASUS GTX660 DirectCU II with 2gb vram can handle this list of mods on skyrim ?
No, Realvision ENB is the biggest FPS kiler but it does make the game look far better. You should be ok without Realvision ENB. Unique grasses and groundcover also hits FPS a lot but both can be tweaked for lower quality. You also might get stuttering with 2K textures, I’m seeing 2GB VRAM usage at 1920×1080.
Ok thank you for the quick reply, I did not think to go beyond 1920×1080 anyway. How much VRAM is required to enable all the mods?
You can get the cut down 2K textures so you should be OK with them. It’s the 2K textures that take most of the VRAM, the others don’t much.
I’m so sick of hearing about Skyrim. I spent more time modding that game than playing it. Boring story, forgettable characters, and dated combat. Most overrated game ever.
I know what you mean but I’ve not played it in a long time and now with these mods it seems fresher, I avoid the main quest and general quest from the usual people as long as I can and just explore, loot, fight ect.
To be honest it really only started out as a test for my new i5 4690K/GTX 970 to see how well it handles these intensive mods.
Yet: “I spent more time modding that game than playing it”
That speaks volumes about yourself.
It’s nice and easy with nexus mod manager yeah, you don’t need to spend time modding much at all.
Using the guide on OCUK forums! Can’t say I’m too impressed by the video, no offence Sean
No problem, it really wasn’t meant to be an impressive video, more a performance test with the mods.
Looks great. I already got one million mods installed.. i wonder if i gotta delete all of them, have a fresh install and get all of those mods here?
It’s really just a personal pick of popular mods to see how they perform and look in real gameplay and frame-rate tests.
I’ve seen far better.
http://www.asot.es/2001/09/skyrim-mods.html
Now, please stop taking about Skyrim
I use sharpshooter’s ENB config with Driver forced AO and AIR ENB’s subsurface scattering. I’m probably insane, but I like how my game looks.
Also Sean I am disappointed! No parallax mods!
Sean lists mods and shows videos, people complain.
The internet, full of spite.
I swear.
Good job, I liked it. Thanks.
People are not complaining about the article. They’re complaining about the subject.
Yeah well, I’m not a big fan of the core game but the mod support is awesome, vanilla is just awful.
Love these articles with Skyrim mods. Still play the game from time to time.