Anunnak Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Hello all I'm building a new system: i5 2500k and a GTX 570 1.2 gb. There are a a lot of mods out there, my problem is choosing which ones to use. The 570 is a powerful piece of tech and Skyrim is a beautiful place, I was wondering which mods would you recommend to make it look even better.I do have a few in mind but I'd still like to see what people recommend. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarabMonkey Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 In addition to most of the textures mentioned by STEP I would recommend InsanitySorrow's replacers:http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1083-insanitys-mountain-texture-replacer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babis8142 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Those are the high definition mods I use. I haven't noticed any incompatibility issues like the game not starting or crashing. I think some of them replace the same things. At some point I remember clothing mod and Skyrim HD were both replacing backsmith's clothes. quality map realistic water texturesSkyrim hdenhanced night enhanced blood texturesflora overhaul improved npc clothingxenius character replacementvisible windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanEG Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Gizmo's Re-defined Dungeons is also a must have. SuperbDarevix's Snow & Rocks HD. Mainly for his mountain and cave textures which are outstandingALaaa's Realistic Colors and real Nights 1.6. The best lighting mod on the nexus by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuDux Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Dunno if it'll help, but there's the mods I've used. It's a list from last Saturday, and I've added a few since then, but that's most of them: Warning, very large image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesapien Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Texture mods don't do much for me. I often just go back to the originals. But to each their own. Lighting is a whole other thing. I'm all about using the enbseries with my own settings. With this you can control pretty much every aspect of lighting in the game and add higher quality lighting not available in the vanilla, such as ambient occlusion, my favorite. AO will give you the most dramatic improvement in adding realism because it allows objects close to one another to darken or illuminate each other using indirect (reflected) light as well as parts of objects doing this to other parts of the same object. It also allows you to use and adjust subsurface scattering on the skin of characters, so skin interacts with light more like real skin instead of looking like dead people with no layers. Oh, and it even includes a line for adding a color palette if you want to make the colors cooler or warmer or give it a tone of your own and the "color" palette can even be grey-scale so no colors are changed, just their intensities. Way awesome for someone who finds lighting more important than any other changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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