Essential Mods?

[Calmf]

So, I did some research, see some people commenting, but sadly I got very different information, from what I read I am not sure what is outdated or not, I read that this game is awful without mods, I bought it recently, so what is the best way to get into it?

(I don't mind if it is a complete overhaul, I played a lot of skyrim without of VR already)

What are the really essential mods for VR?

I also downloaded Wabbajack is any of the modpacks playable as is? If so, can I get a recomendation?

Or if not, can I get some modlist recommendations? I don't mind downloading mod by mod on nexus or somewhere else if necessary, I really don't want to spend much time researching about it

[deckerdave1973]

I am playing the mad god overhaul vr for wabbajack. It turned out to be 1400 mods and about 180gb downloaded. It set up the skse, sorted mods in mo2 into catagories, and generated lods all automatically.

I have a few brownface issues with dudes(especially in bruma), and random children spawning without clothes(the kid next to them will have clothes), but it mostly works.

It brings my 4090 to its knees, and says it requires at least 32gb of ram but does it ever look awsome! I just got out of blackreach, and I already want to go back.

I tried vanilla before I did this, and as good as it was, I could only go 15 min before I was ready to puke. Took me 4 tries to get through the opening dungeon in helgen and into riverwood. After installing the modpack, I can go till either I have to pee, or the game crashes......sometimes both.

I would look into a few of the different wabbajacks and try one that you think will run on your computer......For me it was a good learning experience, but the next time I put together a loadlist, I am going to do it myself, like I do i regular skyrim. Honestly I do not even know what all is in there. I come across places that I've never seen before, and have to google it to see what mod it is from, and if I should even go in there yet.haha

One plus was that it downloaded and installed over 1400 mods, while I had a shower and made and ate dinner.

That feature alone is hard to beat!!

[SwineyPTSD]

yggdrasil is also fantastic

[Calmf]

my main concern is about the VR aspects, like I said, I don't really mind if it is an overhaul or not, looking for one that is VR immersive and more QOL I guess, but wow, I wasn't expecting something requiring that much ram for skyrim... here is my setup

Meta quest 3 (will be playing on cable)
24 GB Ram
RTX 3060 TI

[SwineyPTSD]

YGGDRASIL VR is very immersive it has all the mods vrik hiccs etc but 3060ti could be critical i dont know, u gonna have to play with reprojection for sure.

id also recommend chim A.I. setup but not with a 3060, maybe if u ran it on another computer it needs 4gbvram alone if you want a decent tts service like xtts.

[Calmf]

Originally posted by SwineyPTSD:

YGGDRASIL VR is very immersive it has all the mods vrik hiccs etc but 3060ti could be critical i dont know, u gonna have to play with reprojection for sure.

id also recommend chim A.I. setup but not with a 3060, maybe if u ran it on another computer it needs 4gbvram alone if you want a decent tts service like xtts.

hmm but is the vram the issue? because 3060 Ti has 8 GB vram

[SwineyPTSD]

8gb is not gonna cover it if u wanna run the AI tts locally however you can just play without chim mod its not even in the modlist i was just suggesting it because u wanted immersion

[BookerGrimm]

I'm using FUS and it has four profiles, each using more mods, but all are really decent and are great looking and fun to play.

[Anothuor]

vrik, higgs, planck, engine fixes vr, sprint jump vr

[NWAH]

https://youtu.be/cu3i8s-H5qw?si=c8RWBZE7mI1wTsTz

[SwineyPTSD]

lol vanilla is complete garbage and so are your tips this is the biggest bs i have read in a while lmao

[Utarefson]

Originally posted by NWAH:

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So much effort and good will wasted on such a bad product.

OP, go mod it.

[Chii[FIN]]

modlists, if not, I´d say dont bother

[Tryler]

Originally posted by NWAH:

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I didn't spend 100 hours setting up mods. I'm playing it straight vanilla and it's still amazing. You just have to get your settings just right so it's not blurry. A quick fire of must dos; make sure you're using direct movement and smooth turning, de-select Fov filter for turning and moving, de-select dynamic resolution, select temporal AA.
Also do yourself a favor and play seated. You can adjust your height in the settings to make you as tall seated as if your were standing. Trust me you will be spending countless hours in this one, you might as well be comfy. You can basically just google how to get it to run without blur and there are tons of guides. The big one for me was going into my Nvidia control panel and making antialiasing x16, I also turned on a vr specific setting.
If you don't mind being just a pair of floating hands and weapons (basically all other VR games), there's pretty much no need for all the mods. I've done both and while there is a difference, the standard vanilla is WAY less hassle and you can also keep your saves.
(Again, you can make the game 100x more enjoyable and play with little to no blur without downloading a single thing other than the base game. Yes just the steam game, no mods, no reshaped, nothing!) (Disclaimer you're not going to have clean visuals if you can't run the game with settings maxed out, you probably need a little over the recommend specs. You can go to canyourunit (just google canyourunit) and follow the queues to find out if your system is capable. Once you no life this, you can play morrowind in vr but sorry that one needs a mods just google openMW vr. I youtubed a tutorial and had it running in less than 10 mins.
Good luck out there!
(P.S. you will need to mess with SteamVR's settings. NEVER render over 100%. Don't be afraid to turn the refresh rate down to 72 or 80, it will get blurry by the system having to refresh plus basically stream the visuals to your headset, so lowering it actually makes it less blurry. I got the game to look clean as glass by going into the steam link settings and in video encoder, I switched it to manual and maxed it out.)
(P.S.S. make the changes slowly and remember what you do as you tweak the steam vr settings. If you make a change and then steamvr crashes, you were too bold. Go back in and change the setting back.)

I've been playing SkyrimVR through SteamVR running the FUS modlist. I have a 3060ti, and a WMR (Samsung Odyssey+) headset. Is there anything I can do to make my experience run better? I'm going to turn the resolution down to 100% from 135%, but if there is anything else I could do that would be appreciated. I hear people running their game through OpenXR or open composite, does that apply to me? Am I able to do that?

[MajorPat]

I make use of a 2070, these are just the most important mods of my modlist, so this should run just swimmingly for you.

Core, must haves:
- SKSEVR
- Engine Fixes VR
- USSEP + VR Patch
- VRIK
- HIGGS
- PLANCK
- SkyrimVRTools
- SkyUI
- VR Address Library
- 3D Sound thingy
- VR FPS Stabilizer

For good lighting and graphics get:
(based this off of habie147's modlist, looks the same, just without enb)
- ELFX - Enhancer, Weathers, Exteriors, Interiors
- Sharper Eye Reshade
- SMIM
- Skyland AIO
- Skyland Bits and Bobs
- RW2
- Enhanced Water for RW2
- SkyVRaan

Some nice immersion mods:
- Dear Diary SkyUI Replacer
- Spell Wheel VR
- Wrist Art Revamp
- Weapon Throw VR
- Haptic Skyrim VR
- SkyVoice
- Dragonborn Speaks Naturally
- Touch Gesture VR
- Mantella
- Sailable Ships VR
- Conduit
- Simple Realistic Archery
- Campfire

[n i k o]

any booba mod recommendations?