Ultimate Skyrim Graphics and Visual Overhaul | Skyrim 2023 Modlist

How to make Skyrim look AMAZING with mods. A Skyrim visual and graphic overhaul in 2023.

Landscapes:
Skyland AIO
Terrain Complex Parallax Collection - These are the terrains I specifically use:
Vivid Landscapes - Complex Parallax Occlusion Snow
Northern Ice
Water for ENB
Rally's Water Foam
Skyrim 3D Rocks
8K Night Skies - Stars and Galaxies - Cathedral Concept

Trees:
Traverse the Ulvenwald - 3.1 - Trees and Forests of Skyrim (recommended)
Or a mixture of 3 different tree mods together
Happy Little Trees (pines only)
Blubbos Tree Replacer for Reach
Aspens Ablaze
Rudy HQ - Falling Leaves and Needles SE

Grass and other flora:
QW's Grass Patch 2 - Origins of Forest - Cathedral - Folkvangr
Nature of the Wildlands - Forest Debris Only
Cathedral 3D Plants

Architecture:
Skurkbro's Retexture Project AIO
We only want the architecture, dungeon and misc files - NOT the landscape one
WiZkiD Parallax Farmhouses
Northern Farmhouses
Northern Roads
Glorious Doors of Skyrim (GDOS) SE

Lighting:
Lux
Lux Orbis
Embers XD

ENB and Weather
Berserkyr ENB
NAT.ENB III (Only install the weather plugin)
ENB Complex Grass - Patch Compendium for various grass mods
Install all four patches in this order
Cathedral 3D pine grass
Origin of forest
Folkvangr
QWs Grass patch 2
Parallax Occlusion Mapping by Boris Vorontsov
Under [EFFECT] in your enbseries config file -
EnableTerrainParallax=false
EnableComplexParallax=true
EnableTerrainBlending=true
EnableComplexParallaxShadows=true
EnableComplexTerrainParallax=true
EnableComplexTerrainParallaxShadows=true

Misc mods:
Better Chests
Ancient Pottery
Rally's Objects Modpage

Dyndolod
Also tutorial videos
Aspens Ablaze Addon
QWs Grass Patch 2 pre cache

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:17 Landscapes
04:22 Trees
06:20 Grass + Other Flora
07:51 Architecture
10:51 Lighting
12:02 ENB + Weather
12:41 ENB Addons
13:45 Misc Objects
14:47 Dyndolod

[EnglishAndFilm]

A fantastic run down or visual improvements. Clear, to-the-point, and very useful.

[gabrielcrespo]

Hey, just wanted to thank for all the amazing job covering Skyrim. Your good taste for mostly lore friendly mods have really shaped my game to become a much better experience.

[nickthetoycollector]

I have added many mods to Skyrim, a few you have mentioned here as well. It is absolutely incredible how gorgeous the game is today. The modding community are very talented. I will say that many of the mods are rather complicated to enable, so many hoops to go through, and even then, sometimes they do not work properly. It is still a delight to play through the game with all of the enchancements though.

[julius]

I think the Wizkid farmhouse textures (even without parallax) and Northern Farmhouse combo is so good I got rid of all my town overhauls. It looks so, so good. Love your content!

[ChibChibbles]

You know there's a lot of love when, with some mods, you need the best graphics card on the market to run a 12 year old game. Not only that but it has mods to cover everything from low end pc's all the way up. Thank you modders! I just started modding like a week ago. So, also, thank you to the youtubers who have tutorials on this stuff. You've allowed someone who's horrible with computers to have a great looking skyrim.

[jackrauser]

You should have make a tutorial to how install everything

[denniswade]

Another well-presented video! Gives a great looking game without being overcomplicated!
This is a lesson that I and most likely all of us learn as we mod: "try to keep it as simple as possible"!
When i started to mod, I used so many mods to achieve a result that could have been done with a smaller list,
giving me a more stable game and room for more mods in other categories.
What you present here is a very good choice of mods that make a great looking game to start with.

[oever]

Awesome list! love the vanilla to modded comparisons

[Unstable.]

A buddy of mine just asked me to help him start modding Skyrim.. he want to make it pretty! I wasn’t sure where to start, but now I do! Lol Thanks for making this super easy with an outstandingly beautiful outcome. You’re the bomb!

[caniwasteallyourtimeherein]

you sound like Nadeking, it actually fits this kind of calm video. I really appreciate the list!

[Sunvaar]

tysm. you got my skyrim look amazing without getting my modlist messy and myself overwhelmed.

[XeroGamingYT]

Thanks for your hardwork man, these mods were so complex to understand especially the AIO mods like omnibus but you broke down everything into pieces and made us understand everything so easily!

[connorofaolain]

Damn, I just got your ENB comparison recommended which kinda made me wanna do yet another playthrough and now you upload a perfect mod list, too. Thank you so much buddy <3

[Vult_Ira]

Man this was beautifully ❤ made. Definitely going do this, thanks Soft.

[passiondry]

Hello, yesterday I couldn't write you a comment, thank you very much for this incredible compilation of mods, it takes a lot of work to have to be looking in pages, downloading them, solving errors, checking for patches, trying each installation option and finally verifying that the game doesn't crashe!, I loved it, a like and thanks!

[aether]

Wonderful looking list. Thanks for sharing!

[paultapping]

exactly the video I was looking for, wonderful stuff!

[E_DE]

Thank you. I have been trying to build a nordic-looking load order for a while. Appreciate you making it easier.

[byronic]

That´s what I would call User friendly provided mod list with a noiccce showcase. Long time ago that I last modded Skyrim by myself without Wabbajack. But your pretty list here leet me think about investing some extra time for a good old handmade experience. :D

[MrDizbuster]

Thank You very much!.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm new on Skyrim Anniversary and I watched your video many times and now I have a beautiful modded Games. I think you have by far the best approach to modding, with detailed technical explanations in a calm voice, very easy to follow. I downloaded your mod list and chose about 80 mods not having a very powerful computer (gtx 1660 6GB Ryzen 5500 16 Giga Ram). Your video on improving technical performance was also very helpful. I can hold an average of 35 FPS. I think it took me around 45 hours to mod the game but it was absolutely fun to see every aspect slowly improve. I think the most important leap in quality was given by ENB Bersekier and parallax stuff. The water and rocks are amazing not to mention Lux Origin of Forest plus Folkvangr and Cathedral flowers gave amazing realism and beauty. On NPC I tried Interesting characters and DiBella Blessing that you didn't put but I'm only at the beginning and I can't judge. I'm thinking to buy a radeon 6600 8GB, Do you think I can increase the frame rate?