It does affect your performance, but after playing the game both with it installed and uninstalled, I figured I could live without it.

It adds tons of new weathers to the game which make it automatically look not boring.Įnhanced Lights and FX [is entirely optional here. Feel free to use it if you desire.įirst is Vivid Weathers [It has a small FPS drop depending on your specs, but nothing noticeable. I had some small issues in the past with it. At all.Īlso, you may be familiar with the 'I can't believe it's not ENB' mod. This is where the really interesting stuff is happening.Īs you may expect (if you have past modding experience) theres all sorts of ENB mods, even performance friendly ones, but Im not going to be using any. HDT Physics Extensions [and Realistic Ragdolls and Force [are a requirement for a few nice small physics mods which make the game feel more realistic and more epic (and no, we're not talking about boobs) XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended [is pretty much a requirement for any animation mods. RaceMenu [gives character customization options similar to oblivion's and much, much more. Basically you can configure a mod's features in-game. The following mod is SkyUI [Not only does it make the interface better looking and more intuitive, but it also has the Mod Configuration Menu which tons of mods make use of. It's a must-have even if you wanna play vanilla Skyrim. Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch [fixes most if not all of the game's bugs.

You can watch MxR's video which goes more into detail. Next up, the modding tool I recommend is Mod Organizer [It has tons of nice features which most if not all other mod organizers don't have. I dont need to go into detail about what it does. It's pretty much a requirement for tons of mods. In this section Ill be talking about some basic mods which everyone should have on their Skyrim installation when they start modding.

Skyrim performance mods for low end pc