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?

[SubRosa]

As I understand it, that is the only way to buy LE this days. Wow, that is dirt cheap! Tell us how works out. If you can play it without Steam, then I might buy a copy from there too.

But it looks like you have to download the game itself from Steam. It explains how under the Activation tab. So my guess is that you need to have Steam in order to play it as well.

[Renee]

But it looks like you have to download the game itself from Steam. It explains how under the Activation tab. So my guess is that you need to have Steam in order to play it as well.

Ugh.

Well I've got the game itself on the Anthology disc. Hopefully I can install it from disc, and then use CDKeys to activate it. We'll find out soon enough.

EDIt: Steam is needed for activation. Well that sucks. Haven't tried installing from disc, but that's just going to lead to Steam as well.

Maybe though, once I install the game I won't need to put it into Steam's folder path. But I'll still need to install Steam. Anyway, I'll let y'all know.


This post has been edited by Renee: Sep 24 2024, 10:08 PM