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?

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Just curious, but why not go with Anniversary or SE?

[Renee]

Just curious, but why not go with Anniversary or SE?

Good question. Because they are unknowns to me. Skyrim often includes two separate versions of mods: one for LE and the other for SE; sometimes an LE version is not available yet an SE is, and other times LE is available but the mod author didn't bother with SE. This implies there's a difference between each version, right? Or wrong? For sure, I can't just unzip the archives in my Downloads > Skyrim folder to build an SE game, since they're all for LE.

I mean, maybe it's not hard at all to bridge that gap. But I'd rather go with what's familiar. Especially since all my saves are based on LE modifications.

Thanks for question, by the way.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Just curious, but why not go with Anniversary or SE?

Good question. Because they are unknowns to me. Skyrim often includes two separate versions of mods: one for LE and the other for SE; sometimes an LE version is not available yet an SE is, and other times LE is available but the mod author didn't bother with SE. This implies there's a difference between each version, right? Or wrong? For sure, I can't just unzip the archives in my Downloads > Skyrim folder to build an SE game, since they're all for LE.

I mean, maybe it's not hard at all to bridge that gap. But I'd rather go with what's familiar. Especially since all my saves are based on LE modifications.

Thanks for question, by the way.

Ok makes sense. As I said, just curious!