Help needed with Skyrim Special Edition

[WarTherapy]

Sooooooooooo.

when SE first appeared, I was excited to learn that skyrim would now both look better, and run more smoothly. knowing some of the worst flaws were ironed out (the memory leak for instance, and the alt tab cursor too) made me very interested. and the fact that I got it for free further caught my interest. but with there being so few mods at the time, I decided to stick with normal skyrim until things changed.

 

it's been a year.

 

I ended up going f*#@ IT and deleting... well, everything. I uninstalled old skyrim. I deleted all my saves. I uninstalled all mods, and then removed them from my HDD and deleted everything. and just like that, 40 GB of disk space opened up. wowie. requiestat en pace, my dear 244 mod list that somehow only crashed every 4 hours and worked like a charm.

 

so.

 

I go all hyped up to start modding Skyrim SE... and... Mod Organizer doesn't recognize it.

 

bummer.

 

in all honesty, I'm unsure of how skyrim SE even works now. there's Bethesda.net, and a whole mod menu in the launcher itself. yet mod organizer supposedly covers Skyrim SE, except it can't locate the game for me. SKSE seems to still not be out - I don't know, and I really could use a few pointers here - while somehow the mods that I think require it (Wildcat, LiveAnotherLife, etcetera) seem to -not- have SKSE in its prerequisites when I try to download them.

 

if there's any Skyrim SE modder willing to get me back in the loop and explain this, I would be really, really thankful.

[Jeir]

Can't help with MO (nor NMM) as I've never used it; only Wrye Bash/Smash and manual. As far as I'm aware, all work on those mod managers ceased some time ago, so there wont be any updates/bug fixes. Apparently NMM does work a little better with SSE if mod comments are anything to go by, and I know Bash does as I've been using it.

 

SKSE64 was released a while back. 'Current SE build 2.0.4' etc. It's just still in Alpha.