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Would the solution proposed by @DoubleYou work installing Enderal instead of the original SSE and overwrite the skyrim.exe and bink dll? Looks like there may be some concerns as this may not be a stable solution (https://stepmodifications.org/wiki/User:Hishutup/Unofficial_Enderal_Port)? I also saw that others have allowed for two instances: one SSE one AE (https://stepmodifications.org/forum/topic/16204-prepare-for-the-skyrim-10th-anniversary-edition/?tab=comments#comment-252119). Is this still the preferred method to resolve my issue in the post above? Which method provides more stability? There was also a discussion about obtaining a skyrim physical disk and using that for the base install. I was not smart enough to backup my entire skyrim folder so I want to install skyrim as close to pre anniversary as possible so I can do so and prevent having to go through this again. Thank you for any help!

Hi. So how would we go through the process once all the depot files are downloaded? I've deleted all Skyrim data to start fresh as AE overwrote SE. I initially created a SkyrimSE folder outside the Steam client (reinstalling that from scratch), and proceeded to install MO2, LOOT, SKSE, etc. However, SSEedit was not able to identify Skyrim. When logging into steam Skyrim is, of course, showing not installed. However, if I install, I imagine it will install AE again. I ask because when I had installed SE previously, I needed to select "play" to at least allow Skyrim to config graphics settings. This allows Steam to "launch" game main page so I can go to settings and then exit without actually loading the game. Then I can run SKSE. Do I still have to install Skyrim from Steam and then overwrite everything with the depot download? I imagine that would still leave some extra files that are AE based. Thank you for your help.