Is it possible to port mods back to the old skyrim?

[Lisselli]

 

I read once SSE plugins are not backwards compatible.

 

Hmm. Hopefully I get some confirmation soon.

Thanks though

 

You can easily confirm that yourself..

[Ru5tyShackleford]

Holy crud that worked. I had no idea you could do that. Thank you OldMansBeard!

Edited December 2, 2016 by RustyShackleford69

[cdcooley]

Some will work some won't. You should really try opening SSE mods in the original CK and resave them before trying them in the original game. (Just like you should run old mods through the new CK for SSE.) And of course you have to deal with unpacking and repacking any BSAs since that format changed between games. It's still probably something you shouldn't do if you value your savegames though. Problems won't always be obvious immediately.

[thestigma]

Of course it is possible - but you face all the same (potential) issues that people run into when they port oldrim mods to SSE.

Just how much work it is to port something depends on the content of the mod. There aren't that many big changes in oldrim and SSE, but most mods will run into at least one of those and they need to get fixed otherwise you end up with crashes or other unintended behavior.

 

I've seen a few cases of mods working in both with no modifiction, but I wouldn't rely on that even with the simplest of mods (even simple file-replacers like texture mods can be affected by the fact that SSE now uses some different formats for certain filetypes).

 

The best option is always to get the mod-author to port it officially whenever possible. They will have a far easier time of it, knowing the inns and outs of what they created.

 

-Stigma

Edited December 5, 2016 by thestigma