#load order

Otin Shatter-Shield. My all time favorite play through of Skyrim. Now that it’s been years of playing, I enjoy using anything and not worrying about how my build is. If I feel like using destruction magic or two handed , I do. If I want to dump perks into alteration, I will. It’s been more fun not doing a standard stealth archer or two handed tank. The creative and hardworking mod makers have helped this game become timeless and endless.

Mods:

Ruby ENB, Obsidian Weathers, Skjoldur (the bear mount), SAM body, Geralt Ursine Armor (Was on Vector Plus by someone named Kreis I think? It was taken down I believe), community overlays for SAM (tattoos), Bodyslide outfit studio (to make armor fit correctly), Moonlight Tales (werewolf and werebear overhaul), and Ragnir’s extra vanilla hairstyles.

And yes, I do have cheat mods on here, cause I have no patience for smithing.

My Personal mod list, Load Order and other settings for Skyrim SE

Ya girl finna be writing stuff here on the current state of my Commonwealth

The Brotherhood was a threat to the Institute, as they actively worked against them. The Institute struck first, and the Prydwen fell.

Flair, an ex-courser Paladin, turns to the Minutemen.

Cynthia continues her work as a courser for the Institute. Synths now stalk Diamond City's streets and monitor everything in the Commonwealth.

07/02/2022

My dragonborn is an Argonian mage who practises fire based destruction magic, they’re also a werewolf.

They like to go on adventures and raid lots of dungeons, because of this my load order mostly focuses on quality of life, spells and combat, animals, monsters and dungeons.

I’m fine with sacrificing texture and mesh mods if it helps my game perform better. I also have a lot of space left so if I do remove stuff I’ll probably add the forgotten city or Inigo 

Mods I can’t live without are in italics.

Master Files

USSEP (if the mods I have aren’t USSEP dependent or have a non USSEP patch let me know because I wanna ditch this mod now that I’ve found out how actually pointless it is)

Campfire

Wyrmstooth

Realistic Water Two Resources (happy to uninstall)

Foundations

Frostfall

Cheat Room (gonna replace with Sheogorath’s Cheat menu once I do a proper playthrough)

Kontrol

Menus, user interface, font changes

60 FPS Interface (All-in-One) (apparently this is one of the only FPS mods that’s actually good)

Font Overhaul - Natural Typeface font

SkyHUD - Oblivion Preset - Pastel Markers 

Wet and Cold: Optimised Textures (I’m not sure why I put this here)

Pure Craftables

Wearable Lanterns (might remove)

Ars Metallica

Game Mechanics

iNeed - Food, Water, and Sleep

I Like Food: A Food Improvement Mod

Hearthfire multiple adoptions

Wear Multiple Rings

Imperious 

Perk Overhauls

Growl

Ordinator

Perk Points and More Gold for Bounties

Magic Additions and Overhauls

Conduit

Elemental Archery

Complete Forbidden Magic Spell

Jormungandr Dragon

Nithhogg Dragon (Might not keep)

Apocalypse 

Item and Loot Leveled Lists

Warm Drinks SSE 

Dynamic Dungeon Loot

MisterB’s Unique Loot - Barrels and Sacks

Enemy NPC Leveled Lists

Cloaks and Capes

Bandolier

Face Masks of Skyrim

Summermyst

Better Creature Loot

HUNT Troll Skulls - Light Edition

HUNT Dragon Skulls

Audio

2021 Reverb and Ambiance Overhaul

Skyrim Music 2 By Organic View

Sounds of Skyrim - The Wilds (I wanna know if the Optimised version that is anti USSEP will still work even if you have USSEP)

Talkative Dragons

Immersive Sounds - Compendium

Skyrim Player Re-Voiced - Young Argonian Female

Weather/Atmosphere

Vivid Weathers Definitive Edition

Grass Mods

Unique Grasses (happy to remove if it’ll mess up my framerate and stuff, tho this mod is very lightweight)

Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods

Skin Mesh and Textures

XP32 Maximum Skeleton +  Realistic Ragdolls and Force

Belt-Fastened Quivers (dunno if this is compatable but I wanna also add visible favourite gear)

Idles and Animation 

Movement and Behaviours Enhanced 2.0 (I’m worried about this having the same glitch with Growl that it does with Moonlight Tales, gonna have to test. Also when I begin a game the dodge animation doesn’t work even when I’ve gone through the settings but it seems to fix itself eventually)

(Super Fast) Immersive Animated Looting (happy to remove if it’s gonna cause issues)

General Mesh and Textures 

New Haven Robes and Clothing Overhaul (I’ve found a version that just does mage robes which would be beneficial for me because that’s all I want from this mod, but I’m not sure about how good that port is)

Enhanced Blood Textures LITE

Mari’s Mountain Flowers

Mari’s Nirn Root (Happy to remove if it’ll save messing up my frame rate in any way)

Deadly Spell Impacts

SMIM Essentials (Happy to remove if it’ll help my frame rate and stuff)

LucidAP’s High Poly Project (version 5.3) (Happy to remove, also I used to use the old one that was only 70MB’s but I heard somewhere that somethings up with it, if anyone knows if it’s safe to use I’ll probably go back to using it instead of this)

Awesome Potions Simplified

SeeEnchantments (Conduit is apparenly not compatible with a mod similar to this one but I did a little testing and it seems ok with this, a little choppy looking but not too bad, gonna do some more testing)

LeanWolf’s Better Shaped Weapons

Better-Shaped Bows of the Heavens

Practical Armours

Improved Closedfaced Helmets

Better Claws and Gauntlets (there’s another version that’s smaller in file size, but I dunno if that port is any good or not)

Apex Werewolf- Glowing Eyes

Royal Armory - New Artifacts

Unique Uniques

NPC AI

Run for your Lives

More Tavern Idles (not sure if this is in the right spot)

Realistic Conversations

GET No More Dead Merchants

NPC/PC Immersion  (the section that’s probably gonna cause the most problems lol)

Genesis Unleashed 2.1 for Dungeons (Happy to remove this if it’ll cause problems along with my others mods)

Boss Encounters of Skyrim (also happy to remove if it’s gonna cause problems)

Prismatic Insects of Skyrim

Mihail’s Crows 1k

Bison of Skyrim

Aurochs and Wild Horses (I will remove this one if I have to)

Xbox Animal Overhaul (I was considering just installing separate mods that add the same animals so I don’t keep all the ones I can do without, but it just takes up too many slots)

Fire Golem - Mihail Monsters 

Flame Turmoils - Mihail Monsters

Crystal Golem (literally have this one only becuase of that one scene in that Slimecicle video)

Sea of Spirits - XBox Edition (I use the updated port that doesn’t add any locations)

Vampire Beasts - Mihail Animals

Ice Titans - Mihail Monsters

Giantesses - Mihail Monsters (happy to uninstall, added this one mostly for my test playthrough to see how they look)

Lesser Werewolves - Mihail Monsters 

Gargoyle Overhaul - Mihail Monsters

Dwarven Colossus 

Beast Skeletons 

Diverse Dragons Collection

NPC/PC Facial Modifications

Superior Lore-Friendly Hair (happy to remove if this will cause problems)

Beast Hair Horn Beard and Brow 2

Interior Lighting/Decorating

Relighting Skyrim by NovakDalton and JawZ (This mod is supposed to be above ELE which is why it’s here)

ELE Interior Lighting Overhaul

CLARALUX SSE (I have this one for the lanterns, this does similar light bulb changes to Relighting Skyrim so I’m wondering if this mod makes that one redundant to my load order)

Light Multiple Exterior Edits

Divine Forests (happy to uninstall if it’ll cause problems)

Happy Little Trees (happy to uninstall, however with this and Unique Grasses I am impressed at how little it affected my frame rate when I was doing some tests)

Mihail’s Mummified Animals

Mihail’s Animal Bones

Mystic Condenser 

Mihail’s Undead of Skyrim (been told this goes here because it adds some ruins and bones here and there)

4thUnknown’s AiO (I think this adds landscape stuff to but I’m probably wrong on that)

The Notice Board (should I replace this with Missives??)

Single Area Edits

Leaf Rest

Magical College of Winterhold

Orange Moon

Yellow King

Multiple Area Edits

Skyrim Sewers

The Midden: Expanded

EasierRider’s Dungeon Pack

Depths of Skyrim

Bridges of Skyrim

Unique Items Added to Locations

A Trove of Treasures

Legendary Rings

Combat Mods

Wolves of the North

Immersive Movement

Wildcat

Realistic AI Detection

Realistic Wildlife Behavior 

Immersive Movement - Wildcat patch

Unique Follower Mods

Convenient Horses

Lucien

Kaidan 2

Quest Mods

Arcanum - A New Age of Magic (I use one that’s 258 MB in size, it adds quests and dungeons which is why I put it here)

The Grand Paladin (Might not Keep)

Map Mods

Bottom LO

Realistic Water 2 (Happy to uninstall)

Alternate Start (happy to try alternative mods that are similar)

Relationship Dialogue Overhaul

RDO - USSEP Patch

Sounds of Skyrim the wilds and Vivid Weathers patch

Realistic Water 2 - i Need Patch

Realistic Water Two & Wyrmstooth patch

Apocalypse - Ordinator Compatibility patch

Violense - A Killmove Mod

My load order for 2019.

As with previous posts, items with 0 are either merged in the Bashed patch or optional mods like the Family Ties starts.

Big change this year - I went over my previous list and tried several times to edit out mods I rarely used or previously thought were essential and turned out were not. This is a painful process to be ready for an eventual switch to Skyrim Special Edition (the less mods I have, the less I will have to find a conversion for). Still, I went from 254 mods down to about 235.

Another big change was to switch to a new ENB mod. As much as I liked the random snow effects of Snowfall, switching to Suki's Preset- NLVA brought a huge jump in stability of the game. I don't know if it was Snowfall, or ELFX or a mix of both, but after trimming the list and switching ENB I am now able to play for a few hours without any CTD, which was extremely rare before.

For other performance improvements, I cannot recommend enough this guide - Stability Performance Optimization ENB Configuration