Should i downgrade?

[AbiatKungen]

I have Skyrim Special Edition version 1.6.640.0 downloaded on Steam. Is this version considered AE or SE? And should i downgrade my Skyrim with the patcher to 1.5.97.0?

[scorrp10]

From modding perspective, 1.6.640 is considered AE. From Steam perspective, 'AE' is just a bunch of creation club mods added to base 1.6.640 game.

 

At this point, about 99.99% mods run perfectly fine on AE. Only things that do not are essentially abandoned .dll SKSE plugins. For many of those, there are alternatives.

Any new mod development, new features, improvements etc - it is all being developed for the latest version. And there are already some nice mods that require some of the new content included in 1.6.+

 

Unless there are some absolutely critical to you mods that only work in 1.5.97 - and no viable alternative - there is zero reason to go back.

[7531Leonidas]

If you are just starting (or starting over) in Skyrim, I don't think that you have any reason to consider a downgrade. If you see a mod that only works on 1.5 versions, or earlier 1.6 versions, you can check this modding wiki ( https://modding.wiki/en/skyrim/users/skse-plugins ) for updated versions or alternates.

[AbiatKungen]

Thank you so much for the answers!