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Revision as of 20:59, 12 February 2023
This page is for the Special Edition. For the original game, see The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. For the VR version, see The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR.
Key points
- Free to those who owned the original game and all its DLC on or before October 28, 2016.[2]
- Remastered version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Improvements include higher-quality textures, built-in modding, engine optimization, full 64-bit support and a variety of new graphical and lighting effects.
- Lacks Steam Workshop support.
- A significant number of graphics options are missing from the launcher's graphics option menu. The number of tweakable options in the config files has also been significantly reduced.
General information
- Official forums
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Version differences
- The Anniversary Edition includes the Anniversary Upgrade.
Monetization
Microtransactions
- The Creation Club feature is not available on the GOG.com version. On GOG.com, Creation Club content can only be accessed via the Anniversary Edition.[3]
Type |
Notes |
Cosmetic
| New outfits, mounts, pets, decorations, and material skins can be purchased with Creation Club Credits.[4] |
Currency
| Creation Club Credits are a real money purchase that can be exchanged for exclusive content created by Bethesda and outside development partners.[4] Creation Club Credits can also be spent on Fallout 4 content.[5][6] |
Infinite spend
| Creation Club Credits can be purchased repeatedly without a practical limit.[6] |
Unlock
| New types of gameplay (like Survival Mode), abilities, locations, enemies, companions, and items can be purchased with Creation Club Credits.[4] |
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Anniversary Edition Upgrade |
Part of the Anniversary Edition.
- Breaks mods.
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Modify configuration file[7]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
Skyrim.ini .
- Go to the
[General] section.
- Add the following line
sIntroSequence= .
- Save your changes.
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Patches
- Community-created patches which fix many issues which otherwise remain unresolved in the official patches, such as quest bugs, rendering issues, and subtitle coding errors.
- Replaces the game's audio files with the higher-quality files found in PlayStation 4 version.
- Supports languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Russian.
- Fixes multiple bugs, including CTD-inducing ones, in Skyrim game engine.
- Requires SKSE64 and Address Library for SKSE Plugins.
- Repacks and recompresses all textures to have less artifacts, remove poor bicubic upscaling and improve performance.
- An automated patcher to downgrade Skyrim from the new Anniversary Edition version to the previous Special Edition version, without redistributing files or requiring any sort of complexity.
- Allows to use mods made for the older version, without losing access to the new content, that was introduced by the Anniversary Edition.
- BethINI (pronounced "Bethany") is an attempt to restore decency to the INI configuration files for games created by Bethesda, while optimizing your game settings for optimal graphical fidelity and performance.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
- Save data from the original game can be copied and used with Special Edition;[8] however, save files that are using mods may not work.[9]
Video
Launcher graphics settings.
Launcher advanced graphics settings.
In-game general settings.
Manually set resolution in SkyrimPrefs.ini[10]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
SkyrimPrefs.ini .
- Change
iSize H and iSize W to the display resolution's height and width respectively.
Notes
- Changing options in the launcher may undo this edit.
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Manually set borderless fullscreen windowed in SkyrimPrefs.ini[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
SkyrimPrefs.ini .
- Change
bBorderless=1 and make sure bFull Screen=0 .
- Save and close the file.
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Disable Vsync[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
SkyrimPrefs.ini .
- Change
iVSyncPresentInterval=1 to iVSyncPresentInterval=0 to disable Vsync.
- Save and close the file.
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SMAA Anti-Aliasing with ReShade
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- Download ReShade and install it into your Skyrim SE game folder
- Enable the built-in SMAA shader in ReShade's in-game menu
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- Havok physics do not function correctly past 60 FPS by default.[11]
- These tweaks allow playing the game at high frame rates without the known physics problems that occur. It is possible this fix will negatively affect scripts and cause unforeseen issues. Use at your own risk.
Automatically fix high FPS physics[12]
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- This method has the advantage of preventing FPS drops caused by the game not being able to achieve the target FPS.
- Install SKSE64.
- Install SSE Display Tweaks.
Notes
- The plugin will automatically edit
iPresentInterval to an appropriate value for the current FPS.
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Remove 60 FPS cap and correct physics[13][14]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
Skyrim.ini .
- Under section
[Display] add line bLockFrameRate=0 to remove 60 FPS cap.
- Add the section
[HAVOK] and under it add line fMaxTime=(1 / your monitor's refresh rate) to correct the physics, i.e. for a 144 Hz monitor you would add fMaxTime=0.0069 .
- See Run the game at screen refresh rate to run the game at above 60 Hz refresh rate.
- See Vertical sync (Vsync) to disable Vsync if you want FPS to exceed your monitor's refresh rate.
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Input
Audio
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Belarusian |
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Fan translation for Anniversary Edition. Nexus Mods, Google Drive. Work in progress. |
Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Polish |
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Russian |
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Mute on focus lost
Set mute in background[citation needed]
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- Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
- Start the game and press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
- Expand "Window Management" and "Input/Output Behavior".
- Enable "Mute Game" under "Background Behavior".
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VR support
Issues fixed
AMD frame rate stuttering/screen tearing
- Default Skyrim v-sync frequently causes frame rate stuttering. Disabling in-game v-sync causes physics glitches. Enabling frame rate limiting in Crimson causes tearing
Set iVSyncPresentInterval to 0[19]
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- See Vertical sync (Vsync) to disable Vsync.
- Download Fallout 4 ENB v0.307.
- Extract the "WrapperVersion" folder and copy
d3d11.dll , d3dcompiler_46e.dll and ENBlocal.ini into the Skyrim Special Edition installation folder.
- Open
ENBlocal.ini .
- Under LIMITER, change
EnableFPSLimit=true to EnableFPSLimit=false
- Under ENGINE, change
ForceVsync=false to ForceVsync=true .
- Save and close the file.
Notes
- Game will start with a black screen and may take a solid minute or two for the main menu screen to appear.
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No In-game music bug
- Uncommon occurrence wherein in-game music will be disabled somehow, regardless of verifying data files.
[citation needed]
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- Download Bethesda Archive Extractor.
- Extract sounds.bsa found in the Data folder using the Besthesda Archive Extractor
- Manually copy the extracted music files into the Data folder
- Now in-game music will be playing properly again.
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G-Sync frame rate stuttering
- With Nvidia G-Sync enabled frame rate becomes unstable.
Game crashes every 10-15 minutes on Windows 10
Disable the Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service on Windows 10[10]
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- Open the Start menu.
- Type
services.msc and press ↵ Enter.
- Search for
Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service on the list of services, double-click on it.
- Make sure that the service name is
TabletInputService .
- Change
Startup type to Disabled and click the apply button to disable the service from auto-starting.
- Click the stop button.
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Run the game at screen refresh rate
- Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Change maximum refresh rate[21]
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- Download SKSE64 and Monitor Refresh Rate Uncap.
- Copy the contents of the archives to the installation folder.
- Edit
<path-to-game>\Data\SKSE\Plugins\refresh_rate_fix.ini as needed.
- Start the game with
skse64_loader.exe .
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Set screen refresh rate[citation needed]
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- Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
- Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
- Open
<path-to-game>\dxgi.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\SkyrimSE.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the used installation method.
- Change
RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate] .
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Allow pressing Alt+F4 to close the game
Super F4[citation needed]
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- Install Super F4 [2] closes out of any program with Ctrl+Alt+F4.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
Havok |
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Interface |
Scaleform |
3.3.92 |
Cutscenes |
Bink Video |
1.99f |
Mods
- Before installing any mods, SKSE64 and either Vortex or Mod Organizer should be installed.
- Powerful and easy to use mod manager with mod virtualization, in order to keep the installation folder clean.
- Features a configuration editor, the SKSE executable can also be set to be launched through the configurator.
- Required by some mods.
- Required by many mods.
- Required to receive achievements while using mods.
- Not needed if using SSE Engine Fixes.
- SkyUI is required by certain mods in order to tweak and configure them.
- Advanced user interface, optimized for keyboard and mouse usage while being highly customizable.
- Improves performance in almost all interiors.
- Alleviates a bug that causes frame drops.
- Not needed if SSE Engine Fixes is installed.
- A massive project to greatly improve the appearance of countless static 3D models in Skyrim.
- May cause FPS loss.
- This enables 3D sound positioning in-game.
- Adds distant LOD for objects and trees to the game. By combining DynDOLOD with xLODGen users can create drastically enhanced static object LOD + tree LOD and the new, optional dynamic distant object LOD in a few simple steps.
- Can increase or decrease the performance depending on the selected quality.
- SSEEdit is the Skyrim: Special Edition version of xEdit. xEdit is an advanced graphical module viewer/editor and conflict detector.
- xEdit can be used to view, detect conflicts, and edit module files.
- Modifies lighting to remove glitchy shadows while maintaining color and brightness for improved performance and image quality.
- Reduces visuals and removes intrusive particle effect to provide a significant performance boost.
- Uses voice commands.
Continue rendering in the background
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
7 |
8.1, 10 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i5-750 AMD Phenom II X4 945 |
Intel Core i5-2400 AMD FX-8320 |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 AMD Radeon HD 7870 1-2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 AMD Radeon R9 290 3-4 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- ↑ DLSS and FSR versions are not directly set. The mod offers to choose and download DLLs separately. Confirmed to work with DLSS 2.5.1 and FSR 2.1.
References