Will changing from oldrim to SE kill my frames

[grimothy8]

Hey all,

First time poster. I've just got hooked on skyrim after buying it almost 10years ago but never getting beyond Riverwood. I only reinstalled it (oldrim, the original game) now out of interest after buying a 4K TV for the first time and being curious how it ran. I'm amazed by how it looks in 4k resolution, no mods, with a pretty average graphics card (1660 Super) with all settings maxed. Am about 12hours deep after only 3 or 4 days.

 

I'm getting frame rates of between 60 up to 120, and it's extremely smooth - fps is king for me. I've read SE does have better graphics and is more graphically demanding. So with SE, am I going to be taking a big hit to frame rate with this setup? I don't want to buy SE to get better visuals, but then have to turn settings down to keep fps over 60 and end up with it looking worse than oldrim.

 

At preset i'm not bothered about mod support as i am still playing through for the first time, but iif I buy any expansion packs, want to know whether to go SE first.

 

Thanks for any advice!

 

Edit: sorry, should have said, PC has a ryzen 2700, 16GB ram, windows 10 64.

Edited February 17, 2022 by grimothy8

[strawbqwerty]

The main issue you will have now is that upgrading to Sky rim Se is no longer possible. You will have to now use Skyrim Anniversary, which is Sky rim Se with some creation club mods bolted on. This is the free version then you will have to pay for the full version. Which has even more creation club mods bolted on. Remember though that quite alot of these creation club mods have similar or same free versions on nexus. Then of course the game is now larger than Sky rim le, so this may impact your performance. You can use the free version and through a mod on nexus bring it back to Sky rim Se . This I have done and stopped steam from updating my game. Then the vanilla game is still the same as sky rim le, just now 64 bit and better graphics.