This is no longer relevant for recent SSD drives. Some SSD drive managers can/used to disable paging on non-system SSD drives to prevent too much writing to occur. This is to ensure that proper paging is done. Otherwise, set a custom size for the drive it's currently on and increases the maximum size to be at least 20GB.
Download the premade CreationKitCustom.ini here.There are a few edits that need to be made before you can use the CK to port mods. Select "Yes" in the "Script Source Extraction" box.After completion of the installation, click on "Play".Select "Creation Kit: Skyrim" and select "Install".In the left pane, expand options to show "All Games" via >.Run the Launcher and sign in (create an account if you don't have one).
While you won’t be building new mods in this guide, you will be importing mods originally designed for Skyrim LE, and the Creation Kit will allow you to re-save (and thus, update) them to work with Skyrim SE. ini, and the “default” configuration generates when the tool runs for the first time. Much like with Skyrim itself, the Creation Kit doesn’t ship with a pre-configured. It has been available in one form or another through the release of the last several Fallout and Elder Scrolls games and is invaluable if you have any interest in working with mods for modern Bethesda games.īeyond allowing users to build their own completely original mods, the Creation Kit (or CK) can tweak and change things throughout both mods and official content in ways not possible through other tools. The Creation Kit is the official Bethesda tool for creating and editing mods. Rather than detail this procedure, we recommend reading this article for details on how to do so. In the event that it still updates, it is possible to roll back to an earlier version.
Since we will be launching Skyrim via MO2 and the SKSE launcher, no trigger event will occur and your Skyrim install will remain in the same state as it currently is until you force the update yourself.
In the menu that appears, click on Properties.In STEAM, right click on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition.In order to prevent STEAM from updating these files, it is required that you make the following selections: This means that SKSE (and a bunch of mods that use it) will no longer function. As such, attention to detail is crucial if you want to end up with a properly-working game.īethesda regularly (roughly every three months) updates some of the base Skyrim files in support of their Creation Club content. These patches are necessary to make several hundred mods play together nicely. Files downloaded from the "Optional Files" and "Miscellaneous Files" sections should be treated as main files and installed as separate mods in MO2.This is accomplished by entering the same name for the update file that you gave its parent, then selecting the Merge option when prompted.
These individual downloads should be handled according to the following guidelines unless otherwise specified: Many mods contain multiple parts or several downloads. Please, for Talos' sake, read the Nexus description of every mod you install. You should expect these errors, at least until I tell you to run LOOT, as they are due to how drastically this guide changes the game. If you choose to disregard this warning, you will see many errors in LOOT.