Starting Skyrim on PC Options

[Renee]

Yes, it looks like it's finally happening. It's raining and lovely outside, and is supposed to do so all through Sundas. I mean Sunday. And I am going to maybe start Skyrim on PC tomorrow.

So what I want to do here is to collect any advice the community here at Chorrol feels like contributing. For instance: I still want to install my game outside of Program Files, right? That sort of advice. I have heard that modding Skyrim is different from Oblivion.

What's the best (easiest, actually) mod manager to use? That's a good place to start. OBMM isn't as fancy as Wrye Bash, for instance, but I still use OBMM most of all because it does what I need it to do. And so I am assuming Skyrim also has several mod managers to try using, right?

I'm pretty excited about my first character. I already know a lot about him, since he is based on a character one of my friends from high school (1980s, lol) created. The only tricky thing is this character will be Asian, and I'm going to want some Asian face-tweaking mod, because I could never create this guy with vanilla tools on Xbox (yes, I tried). Anybody know a mod that adds some Asian elements to faces?

[Renee]

Renee G... Necromode.... ACTIVATE!!!

Getting that nip in the air lately and it's making me think of Skyrim. But my hard drive was installed a month ago, and Skyrim isn't on it. Now I have the chance of starting over but I'm dreading Steam. I just don't want to deal with Steam's nonsensical mess of folder paths and occasional game-stopping glitches.

I see Skyrim is on GoG, thank the Gods. Has anyone had experience taking a Steam-based Skyrim, all saves from former games made while playing the game thru Steam, and swapping to Grand Old Games?

Original edition btw, not SE.



This post has been edited by Renee: Sep 22 2024, 08:03 PM