#1 here may help:
If I hadn’t gotten for free after playing the hell out of the original Skyrim with all my lovely free mods I’d be livid.
Appreciate the thought, already tried it to no avail, along with reinstalling it. Looking at the Steam forums it doesn’t seem I’m alone. If I find a fix that actually works I’ll post it.
Holy jumping shitballs I got it to work, kinda.
In the game’s directory in steam /steamapps/common/Skyrim special edition, shift and right click then click ‘Open command prompt here’, then ‘start SkyrimSE.exe’ . Had to set SkyrimSE in compatibility for Windows 7 and keep having black screen about 90% of the time, thing is janky as fuck.
Even got it to load up a modded save! For graphical comparison me and the Mrs. in Special (the top) and regular (but modded to its eyeballs) Skyrim, Special does look a bit softer round the edges it has to be said.
Obviously different above ground. I have to say however, at least with the PC high res texture pack they releases a few years ago installed, dungeon delving doesn’t look much different from the vanilla to the remaster.
Yeah very little change.
Once more mods make it over though it should be the definitive version on PC thanks to the 64 bit executable.
It won’t ever be definitive if you can’t run SKSE on it. It will barely be playable - doesn’t SkyUI require SKSE?
Older versions of SkyUI (2.x?) will work on SkyrimSE without SKSE, although they display a big error message (but only while you have your inventory open, so it doesn’t actually get in the way).
Which mod gives you the open face helmets? I like that one.
I was playing it ok last night. It mostly looked better, but I had forgotten how ugly the faces were without face improving mods.
There’s a lot of mods already available, though, including the essential Unofficial Bug Fixing patch. You have to make a Bethesda account to get them though (and they are thus, presumably, curated), but I already had one to play the Elder Scrolls Legends card game beta.
I didn’t need to do anything to get this added to my Steam library. I’m downloading it now, and I’ll mess around with it. It occurred to me that as much as I like continuing to grind my Legendary character for more levels I don’t need, I’d also kind of enjoy scrambling in the dirt again. That’s how they get me.
Waiting on a few more mods on the Nexus before jumping in.
Hate that everyone is caked in dirt, looks ugly as sin, and that my towns are barren of trees and foliage.
Also the base UI was designed by monkeys.
It’s being ported as we speak.
For PC at least. I know it won’t work for PS4, but I’m not sure about Xbox one.
So, almost as soon as the Special Edition comes out, the unofficial bug fix is also out. Did they have so little that needed changed? No official fixes to any of that stuff?
Anyhow, I’ve started up with a similar character again. I once again come to the dilemma of whether I’ll start out in support of the Empire or the Stormcloaks. I’ve generally sided with the Stormcloaks just because the Imperials were about to execute me out of mere expedience, since I was clearly not a Stormcloak. I’ve never finished the game, so I don’t know which faction best serves my personal animosity against the Thalmors. As I understand it, the Imperials knuckle under to the Thalmors and suppress Talos worship. But the Stormcloaks are being used by the Thalmors to undermine Imperial control so that the Thalmors themselves can take control of the region, which is not going to be any less repressive.
Besides raiding their compound to rescue a prisoner, and pumping up my pickpocket skill so I can strip any Thalmor I find naked, I don’t know what you’re eventually going to get to do to screw with those bastards. Any suggestions?
Just kill 'em. You can kill them, right? I’m sure if all their agents start winding up dead, they’ll (out of the scope of Skyrim) start reconsidering their plans. At least, that’s how I would work with it. But then, I did a run of Dishonored where I killed everything that moved.
Feedback from PS4…
Looks and plays beautiful, loading is fast, no crashes. Mods have started trickling into the library, it’s already much more fun with expanded spell lists, rebalanced difficulties, other tweaks, especially the one to turn off vampire encounters inside of towns killing of the NPCs.
My only complaint is that the mods library aren’t separate across PS4 accounts, it’s apparently possible for your mods to get turned on/off by other PS4 users games in their game and screw up your save games.
Sneaked up on a sleeping dragon and emptied his chest right under his nose. He woke up and I took a mad dash down the mountain like Daffy Duck from the genie. 
I’m starting to see a shift in player attitudes on other forums and I wonder if it will be reflected here as well. When it first came out I saw a lot of “eh, it looks better than vanilla Skyrim, but much worse than my ENB setup. Not worth it without mods/SKSE.” Lately though, I’ve seen people starting to warm up to it… “well, it does run much smoother than the old Skyrim, and I guess a lot of my mods weren’t really essential…”
Are you guys starting to warm up to Skyrim SE, or are there still missing mods that you can’t play without? I’ve been too busy with work to start a playthrough, but hope to do so soon :D. I did fire it up for about half an hour, and the noticeable lack of mountain z-fighting producing a light show in the background is going to make it very difficult to go back to my Oldrim setup.
I’m getting sucked in again, to be honest, although the only thing that’s currently keeping me away is the thought of having to climb the thousand steps and do the dull tutorial at the top again. I could just not do it, I suppose, but it unlocks a load of shouts and the dragons.
I never played with anything more than Steam Workshop mods before anyway, so I don’t miss SkyUI or anything.
I got the SE for free, so there was no decision to be made. The main issue with it is that old mods need to be upgraded to be compatible with it. Right now, there are some decent mods, but some of my old favorites are currently absent. I did start playing it again, but there isn’t enough of a difference between it and the original to justify buying it if you are a pc player who already has the original game.
I got drawn back in, and by the Nine I am going to actually follow the main story this time. I just got done with a couple of rounds of making Smithing, Alchemy and Enchanting legendary. Went through the Dawnguard storyline so the goddamned vampires would stop showing up and murdering merchants. I may also want to do the Dragonborn DLC while I’m at it. Then, right back to the main storyline.