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SkyRem Home: Information about the SkyRem Guide. Preparation: Start here to ensure proper installation, settings, and Tools are setup. How Tos: Reference guides for utilizing tools. Core Guide: This section focuses on Stability, Performance, Mechanics, and Content mods. Extended Guide: This section focuses on Aesthetic mods. Conclusion: The final steps to complete, including in-game MCM Setup prior to starting your journey. Discord: Discord Channel for all things SkyRem (Guide and Mods). Patreon: Support SkyRem development via Patreon. PayPal: Support with a one-time donation via PayPal. Trello: See guide development progress on Trello.
INTRODUCTION[edit | edit source]
Skyrim Roleplay Enhancement Modifications What is SkyRem? Yes - SkyRem is an acronym (if you have happened to delve in to any of my mods, this is probably very apparent). This began with the desire to tweak character creation and development; just a little. And has grown into currently two (so far) series of mods in which I continue to develop, and now a guide as I work on putting everything together. My goal is the ultimate roleplay experience with Skyrim. Skyrim alone is a great game... made phenomenal by the modding community. This, along with my few mods, is my attempt to give back to that community, or at least contribute in some way.
There are great guides available already, with different focuses, different objectives, etc. After countless hours of using other guides, adding, subtracting, altering... this guide is my "finished product" based on my priorities listed below. While I say "finished product", I mean finished to the point that it will result in a good play-through. Of course, it will then be time to update the guide as new and improved mods and more exciting content becomes available.
As the name suggests, this guide is designed for roleplay. This is not a difficulty or beautification focused mod guide by design. However, one could argue that difficulty is incorporated simply by the nature of the roleplay focus and modifications. Beautification - I will include under an Extended Guide section as I do use quite a few of these, though they do not add to the spirit of the guide itself.
SkyRem Mod Guide Priorities:
- Stability
- Performance
- Mechanics
- Content
- Aesthetics
SYSTEM INFO[edit | edit source]
| DrPharmDawg's Rig | Spec |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASUS® G751JY |
| CPU | Intel® Core i7 4710HQ @2.50GHz |
| GPU | Nvidia® GeForce GTX 980M 4GB GDDR5 |
| System RAM | 24 GBs |
| Operating System | Windows 10 64-bit |
| Monitor Resolution | 1920x1080 |
GUIDE INFO[edit | edit source]
The guide is divided in to several parts:
- Preparation: You must spend some time on the front-end preparing your setup.
- How To: There are a number of tools and techniques needed to properly mod. This page will help you navigate those processes.
- Core Guide: This is the bulk of the guide in terms of playing.
- Extended Guide: This is more of a Mod List (vs a Mod Guide - there is a difference) containing the Aesthetic mods I use.
- Conclusion: There are final steps needed to "make it all work" together. This can be found here, along with MCM setup in-game.
Mod Legend[edit | edit source]
When using the Core or Extended Guide, I use the following template:
Mod Name & Link[edit | edit source]
- Author of Mod
- Version used by SkyRem Guide
- Tags (See Guide Info below)
FILES: File(s) to Download and Install
About: Information about the Mod. This is taken directly from the Nexus description.
Install: Any additional installation instructions. I recommend reading through the Mod completely prior to downloading and installing said Mod. If a FOMOD is included, it will follow this Install section.
There are also instances of this template that direct you to take steps outside of installing mods. Sorting, Testing, and Merging are a few examples.
Mod Tags[edit | edit source]
Following the Author and Version, there is a bullet with Tags. The different Tags I use are described below. Each mod will have at least either a Core tag or an Opt tag at the very minimum. Many will have additional tags to highlight steps needed either during the download or install process, or signify post-install instructions.
Dark colored Tags with White lettering indicate download and/or installation needs (required, optional, and/or BSA extraction).
Light colored Tags with Black lettering indicate post-installation needs (optimizing meshes, ESLifying, merging, and/or porting).
- TOOL: Tool utilized during the modding process. Not actually a Mod. Required for proper guide installation.
- CORE: Mods that are Core to the concept of the guide, and/or required for use of patches provided for guide.
- : Mods that are Optional. Recommended, but the guide will still work without them (including the patches).
- BSA: During installation, select YES to extracting the BSA.
- : Run the Asset Optimizer to properly convert the meshes for use with SSE.
- ESL: Plugin (ESP) can safely be tagged as an ESL using SSEEdit.
- : Plugin will be included in Merging via zEdit.
- PORT: Mod needs to be completely converted from LE to SSE.
PREPARATION[edit | edit source]
You must start here. Under no circumstances should you skip this section.
You may already have everything set-up, but look through the Preparation section anyway just to be sure.
HOW TO[edit | edit source]
Information regarding the processes required by the SkyRem Guide can be found here. This includes Sorting, Merging, Patching, Optimizing, Extracting (BSAs), etc.
If you are new to any of these, after a couple of goes at it you will likely no longer need a reference.
CORE GUIDE[edit | edit source]
The Core of the guide itself. This section includes the mods that handle the Stability, Performance, Mechanics, and Content (top four of the five priorities).
Once you have completed the Preparation, move on to the Core Guide. Mods marked Core in the Core guide... that's two markings of Core... must be installed in order to get the full effect of the SkyRem Guide (not to mention, I cannot offer much support otherwise). Optional (Opt) mods on the other hand can be skipped if you so desire. The other big difference between Core and Opt here - patches provided via the Nexus Skyrim Guide page will assume 100% on the Core Mods, and 0% on the Optional Mods. If you skip a Core Mod(s), the patches provided may not work.
EXTENDED GUIDE[edit | edit source]
The Extended Guide contains only simple Beautification mods. Textures and Meshes, which for the most part can be added and removed simply mid-game with no consequences. My rig is able to handle the Core Guide with no issue. I recommend trying the game out with just Core, then use the Extended Guide per your system abilities. The Extended Guide is not an all-or-nothing, and can easily be tailored to what you want. Maybe you just cannot play without a mod to make that mushroom look more appealing, but never even noticed just how horrible that gourd texture looks. No problem - use/skip the mods in the section at your leisure.
