Hello teksyndicate community! I recently build my first pc, and was lucky enough to participate on steam winter sale(which by the way IS as awesome as make it sound). Amoungs otherS i grabed Skyrim, for the obvious reasons
I've seen the thread on HOW to mod skyrim, but i just want to know until where i can mod it. So if you could tell me that i would appreciate it, and while we're at it could you also recommend your favorite mods.
Skyrim, especially modded, is pretty CPU intensive. Turn down the shadows if you're going to use graphics mod and DON'T use Bethesda buggy-ass 'HD' texture pack and you'll be fine with lots of mods.
Grab 2k textures for everything you can find, aMidianBorn book of silence retextures for anything you'd like, ultimate HD fire effects are sexy, Skyrim Flora overhaul, Enhanced lights and FX or Realistic lighting overhaul any ENB that you can either tune down or up to your liking.
I'm running a similar system with a 1GB 7850 OC-d, and I'm running all that I've mentioned + more at 1080p with playable framerates. It can be done!