Great Looking Skyrim With Low End PC!

[jointoperation]

My computer has 4GB of ram, but I can still make the game look pretty great. By getting these mods, YOURE low speck Pc's Skyrim can look good too!
Textures:
The first mod I will recommend is the NobleSkyrim 2k textures, except well the 1k textures.

Next I give you, the aMidianBorn Weapons and Armors mods, the dark(ish) theme will make your weapons and armors match NobleSkyrims textures.

Enhanced Blood Textures is by far one of my favorite mods, and not just graphical! I have used Enhanced Blood Textures for years, and absolutely love it. It doesn't affect your games FPS at all, and the blood adds extra detail and immersion. Using the MCM, it is extremely customisable, and you can even acces killmove settings from there.

Superior Lore Friendly Hair is a mod that I have to put on this list. It not only makes the players vanilla hair look more natural, flowing, and overall great, but for all the NPC's too! Skyrimaguas went through and hand changed the vanilla hair in the game to make it look 10x better, and succeeded. It doesn't look anime, it doesn't look fake, and it doesn't look too dirty. It looks all natural, and good.

Xenius Character Enhancement and Detailed faces mods are next on the list. Not only does it make faces look better, but is compatible with basically all mods!

Next I recommend Final Younger Characters. This mod makes characters look younger, adds better textures, and makes skin a bit more shiny and smooth. Playing as an older character? No worry! Old people still look quite old! But a good old! Like uh, a cool old wizard old, old.

WINDSONG SKYRIM CHARACTER OVERHAUL! Windsong Skyrim Character Overhaul, for me, is a must have. It makes your character, and NPC's, look great. Compatible with the Xenius mods and Final Younger characters. In fact, it fits together perfectly. And makes your game one step closer to looking perfect!

Lighting and ENB:
The next mod is Surreal Lighting, it makes the game have a lighter fantasy feel, and great lighting too! And it will compliment the contrasting darkness of NobleSkyrim and aMidianBorn, making the game look exquisite!

Following Surreal Lighting will be Vividia ENB, I know I know, usually ENB's will kill your performance, especially with low end PC's. But Vividia doesn't! I've been using Vividia for a while now, and my PC only has 4gb's of ram, it's great! It will compliment Surreal lighting and further make your game look great.

Nature and Outdoors:
I recommend Grass On Steroids next. Grass on Steroids is the most taxing mod on this list, but if you have your grass fade settings on medium low, you should be good. You don't realize how much of an impact more, taller, and lush grass has on the looks of your game until you play with Grass On Steroids and vanilla. On vanilla it almost seems like there's no grass at all! But on Grass On Steroids, you get new, lush, beautifull grass that matches each terrain that it's in!
LOD Forrest and Trees, is a mod that overhauls the outdoors to make trees and shrubs look more natural, and makes them appear more. It is a great mod and you will definently notice the difference.

Optional but not quite graphical mods: These mods aren't necessarily graphical mods but they do make the game look cooler! NOTE: For these mods I would get XP32 Maximum skeleton, and Fores New Idles.

First off is Equiping Overhaul. Unlike Dual Sheath Redux, it is easy to install and still has the same impact on your game. It lets you show your enequiped weapons showing on you, all you have to do is favorite them! Staffs for Equiping Overhaul dont show, or dual wield weapons, but i'll go over that next!

With Equiping overhaul, I advise getting HDT Equipment! HDT Equipment lets your weapons move around with physics while on your body, and allows weapons in various different locations on your body, including two swords on your back or a dagger on your thigh! Note that this will require HDT Physics extension, but it's no problem to download.

Next is Cloaks of Skyrim, which adds cloaks/capes for nearly every faction, guard, army, or groups which are custom made and that the NPC's WILL wear, and you can too! This mod is compatible, and even recommended, to use with Wet and Cold.

Speaking of Wet And Cold, it's the next mod on my list! Wet and cold not only adds visible rain dripping off people, camera blur from directly looking at rain or snow, dust effects in Solstheim, and so much more, but cloaks, hoods, facecovers, backpacks, and more that NPC's wear according to weather, climate etc! I have been using it for a long time and love it. It even tries to match the color of cloaks and hoods to the color of the NPC's outfits!

Last but not least, i'd recommend a Quality World Map With Roads, regular or paper. It makes the map look alot clearer, and adds visible roads to the map, as well as waterbodies so you can navigate your way through the forests of Skyrim like a real adventurer, with sense of direction! The paper version is perfect for roleplaying, immersion, or if you just like the looks of it! It is to be noted that the paper map may have bugs, but I use it.

Settings to use!: You may want to adjust your visual settings to match your mods and PC. What I do is first set the resolution to 1366x768. Next click the 'medium button', too adjust the sliders. I then go in and set the textures to medium, (don't worry, NobleSkyrim will make it look good, the medium setting sets things Noble didn't touch to medium, it helps alot.) After that I just set the water reflections off, shadow and decal quantities to the lowest, and move up the Actor Fade to 14.

And that concludes how to make your experience in Skyrim look great and run good, even with a low end PC! I use this list to the number, and my game runs solid, and looks solid. I hope this benifited you, and I'd be glad to answer any questions. If anyone wants to recommend any other lists, I'd gladly obliage!

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damn son thats impressive on that ♥♥♥♥

[Derjyn]

The amount of RAM in your rig isn't going to determine the visual fidelity you can achieve. You could have 64GB of RAM, and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on-board GPU, and not even be able to run the game. It's mainly your GPU, then your CPU, and finally your RAM that all play a part in how good games look, how fast they load, etc.

A for effort, though.

[jointoperation]

Originally posted by Derjyn:

The amount of RAM in your rig isn't going to determine the visual fidelity you can achieve. You could have 64GB of RAM, and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on-board GPU, and not even be able to run the game. It's mainly your GPU, then your CPU, and finally your RAM that all play a part in how good games look, how fast they load, etc.

A for effort, though.

Yeah this post is hella old and i have a new computer, don't really play Skyrim, I prefer Oblivion or Morrowind

[Nica]

Originally posted by Derjyn:

The amount of RAM in your rig isn't going to determine the visual fidelity you can achieve. You could have 64GB of RAM, and a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on-board GPU, and not even be able to run the game. It's mainly your GPU, then your CPU, and finally your RAM that all play a part in how good games look, how fast they load, etc.

A for effort, though.

in the case of skyrim's old utilization of DX9, its first cpu, then gpu. but taking in account all the enb and textures, this does really tank up on my 500mb's of vram on laptop XD. gotta run this with an egpu to get those o-so-precious frames