Skyrim VR: Vanilla vs Mods

[Astra]

I'm about to install Skyrim VR for the first time. I got a RTX 2080 and my question is simple.
Should I bother with modding or just play the game as it is with maybe some quality of life immersive mods.

Mainly I was hoping to find someone who could help me with like basic mods that just improve the immersive aspect of the game without risking the stable 90 fps of the Vive. (I hope to find someone who can do a little bit of hand holding with these mods..)

If there are mods that improve graphics without sacrificing stable framerate then all the better but I don't mind playing in vanilla graphics.

[Paulo]

Well I use modmanager 2 which worked very well up until the latest update, since then the index controllers have just seized to function as normal I could teleport is all.

[Preddi]

Go to reddit /skyrimVR/. They have several tutorials for different 'packs' depending how many mods you want and how strong your compooter is.

Get the VORTEX mod manager from Nexus.

Any mod for Skyrim Special Edition on the Nexus page will work with Skyrim VR other than, like, four of them---and those are stickied on the subreddit.

Please, please get mods. Game is...sort of a bland mess without them.
And if you are going to use the Index, you need mods to support the controllers for it.

[Astra]

Originally posted by Stoned Preddi:

Go to reddit /skyrimVR/. They have several tutorials for different 'packs' depending how many mods you want and how strong your compooter is.

Get the VORTEX mod manager from Nexus.

Any mod for Skyrim Special Edition on the Nexus page will work with Skyrim VR other than, like, four of them---and those are stickied on the subreddit.

Please, please get mods. Game is...sort of a bland mess without them.
And if you are going to use the Index, you need mods to support the controllers for it.

The issue is I don't want to slow down the game to point where it looks/plays nice if I stutter or drop 30+ frames every few moments.

No guide is specific how big the framerate impact is when it comes to the mods. Not even "low or heavy" aside from ENB stuff..

[Preddi]

Originally posted by Andy:

Originally posted by Stoned Preddi:

Go to reddit /skyrimVR/. They have several tutorials for different 'packs' depending how many mods you want and how strong your compooter is.

Get the VORTEX mod manager from Nexus.

Any mod for Skyrim Special Edition on the Nexus page will work with Skyrim VR other than, like, four of them---and those are stickied on the subreddit.

Please, please get mods. Game is...sort of a bland mess without them.
And if you are going to use the Index, you need mods to support the controllers for it.

The issue is I don't want to slow down the game to point where it looks/plays nice if I stutter or drop 30+ frames every few moments.

No guide is specific how big the framerate impact is when it comes to the mods. Not even "low or heavy" aside from ENB stuff..

The game was released in what, like 2011? I have a $1000 laptop with a GTX 1060 and it runs Skyrim with the 'basic' mod pack from reddit at 200% super sampling with 0 lag.
Performance is hard to impact as long as you have a VR ready computer.

I don't use ENB for the VR version, but one of the guides mentioned ENB drops frame-rates pretty hard for some reason, so keep that in mind.

[SilentBoy741]

Think about it this way: You already have the plain-vanilla Skyrim VR, so just boot it up and try it. If you find your self wandering around thinking "This needs something", then look for some mods. If the game looks fine the way it is, just enjoy it.

[Sven]

Do you have to do anything special or do you just need to download the special addition mods? Does vortex take care of it?

[playoftheyear]

i ran into problems, as first time trying to mod this game. It is the Skyrim script extender that is needed to have certain desirable mods,I think you have to install that yourself because Vortex won't. SO I got it working but I needed the SkyUI and -- whatever! I really think you have to have them installed in order - so I am going to try it again as my SkyUI isn't working correctly probably because I didn't know how to install the script extender correctly first, then I did find out how and now I have to uninstall and then reinstall ...ad infinitum..fun