For the first time in almost 3000 hours of playing Skyrim I added an ENB, lol. I could never really play it before with a heavily visually modded setup because my laptop just couldn't handle it. Especially after the second GPU burned out.
But now I have a 1080Ti and a beast of a PC, I thought "Okay, let's see how far you can push it." I don't play the special edition yet because I don't feel the modding scene is far enough along to really get my teeth into it. And it doesn't have the Enhanced Camera mod. I can't play without that. So I'm still using "Oldrim".
So... I got myself every 2k and 4k texture I could get my hands on (even a few 8k ones), HDT physics, flaura and fauna overhauls, weather and lighting overhauls and the most demanding ENB I could find. As well as several script-heavy survival/realism mods, and a few quest mods. Dumped them all in there and figured the game would run at a crawl. I was wrong, lol. The new GPU is amazing. I have to turn the framerate limiter on in the ENB because otherwise it tries to play the game at like 260 fps and everything just goes a bit crazy.
The GPU just opens one eye, looks around a bit bored, and goes back to sleep, lol. It doesn't seem to matter what I do to it, I can barely even get the fans to come on. And the same is true using VorpX to play it in VR. It's totally transformed the game for me now, it looks amazing.
I've also been playing around with a couple of really cool mods. One gives your character a voice, a bit like the Fallout 4 protagonist, which is pretty cool. There are different voice packs you can add, one of which is Ciri from The Witcher 3. The other one is a tool which uses a script in TES5Edit to allow you to give any NPC the appearance and/or inventory of any other NPC, even modded ones, without having to mess around in the Creation Kit. So I've got a ton of modded followers and have been playing around changing people's looks, lol.
Turning Isran into Serana and vice versa was kind of interesting, lol.
