Best graphic overhaul mods SE?

[Melvin]

Hello dovakhins! I've recently upgraded my pc, can anyone recommend the best current mods for graphic in 1K, immersion and mechanics overhaul? I'd be grateful for advices, i tried Catherdral Landscapes but i feel something is missing. Some lighting etc.

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You can just check the most popular mods on the nexus for graphics. As for what is the 'best', that's highly subjective. There's multiple texture and grass overhauls out there to choose from, for instance. There's also who knows how many enbs that you can pick from.

Now, for immersion, there's quite a lot out there. Probably the most famous is frostfall, which makes it so you can actually freeze to death in Skyrim's climate. There's also more than one mod that makes so you actually have to eat and sleep. iNeed and Realistic Needs and Diseases I think are the most popular. There's also a few bathing mods out there, though they tend to have compatibility issues with city mods since such mods often necessitate adding new buildings and rooms to the game (for obvious reasons). As for mechanics, there's quite a few different combat and perk overhauls out there to choose from. I haven't seen too many that touch on the economic of the game though.

Though if you're looking for overhauls, oldrim offers far more choices. Its surprising how many there are from the early years of this game that were never ported. For instance, if you want a werewolf overhaul, your only choice in SE is Tales of Lycanthropy. In oldrim, you have dozens to choose from. As for ToL, its not really a port, but a new mod that borrows features from multiple oldrim mods (mainly moonlight tales and heart of the beast, if I remember right).

If you want an all-inclusive package though, I would recommend looking up enaision's stuff. He has multiple overhaul mods that are all designed to be inter-compatible! Even individually, his overhauls mods are some of the most famous. Though honestly, his overhauls are more about improving the gameplay rather than improving immersion.

[Drillbo Baggins]

For graphics, I use nyclix enb reshade, enhanced ore veins 2k, rustic windows 2k, trees in cities, leanwolf's better shaped weapons, realistic water two, enhanced lights and fx (patch only I believe), lanterns of skyrim se, skyrim better roads se, a quality world map, jk's skyrim all in one, enhanced vanilla trees, visitants hd night sky SE, SMIM noble skyrim patch, a noble skyrim full pack 2k.

If you download all of those, your game will look very beautiful.

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I have a number of enbs installed. For a while I used photorealistic ENB, which alone makes it look like your game got a major graphics upgrade. Now though, I mostly use 'the dragonborn comes', which tries to imitate the look of the original trailer. Though to me, my main 'enb' is vivid weathers. It allows you to change things like brightness and saturation that is limited to just that one character! This essentially allows you to have a different enb for different characters, without having to go into a menu to change it each time. Honestly, vivid weathers is my favorite graphics overhaul. Oh, and it also has replacers for the night sky, which is nice. My game actually has a very vibrant milky way in it. It looks rather nice.

And yeah, there's realistic water 2. I think that's the only real water mod out there to choose from, so its kinda your only choice. SMIM is also really popular, and it alone makes a world of difference. As for lighting, I think I use Realistic Lighting Overhaul. I also use that texture overhaul that's on the list of 'most popular mods'.

I don't have any grass mods installed though. The one time I did have one installed, it made my game lag really bad and crash constantly. Also, its kinda hard to really differentiate the different grass mods out there. I mean, seriously, they all just change how the grass looks. You really can't tell much of a difference between them.