Finally back after 4 years....what am I missing?

[ermitaBoy]

HI guys. I have been playing Skyrim Legendary for like 5 years until I stopped around 2016. I haven't back in this forum also for about 4 years too.

 

Back then I must have been running around 300 mods and endured all the bugs and glitches that came with modding Oldrim but learn my way to fix these eventually with the community's help.

But after 4 years I'm a bit rusty on modding the game. Any help to remove the "rust" in my brains would be greatly appreciated.

 

I'm currently downloading Skyrim Special Edition on a newer and better rig than last time I played.

 

So, any easy tips/tutorials to help me back on my feet?

 

thank you all in advance.

[anjenthedog]

Tip 1> Don't install any mods from Skyrim LE or marked as "LE" mods. SE requires SE-compliant mods in almost all cases.

[saurusmaximus]

Good news! With SE, you no longer have to fart around with the memory edits in SKSE/ENBoost that you needed with LE. Otherwise, it's the basically the same routine: use a mod manager, Vortex or MO2 are preferred, NMM still sucks. Gamer Poets YT channel has guides for setting up either one.

 

Also, SE has a new file extension, esl, that allows you to go past the 255 mod limit without merging mods, up to a max of 2048.

 

If you have a mod from your LE days that you absolutely have to have in SSE, it can probably be ported over without too much fuss. CAO makes it fairly easy to get meshes and textures ported over (with a few exceptions), and then you just need to save the .esp in the the CK64 (available on Bethesda's website).

 

And of course if you get stuck, just come back here and ask; just please make sure it is on here, and not the LE forums.