1. Skyrim Ultra Hd Texture Pack Nexus
2. Skyrim Hd Texture Mod

Over the past few years, Minecraft packs have made a lot of progress. One notable progress is a natural resource pack by developer Laacis2. In the beginning, minecraft packs used to be of low-resolution and relatively straightforward. This made alteration Read more →.

1. Steam Workshop: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. h1An Ultimate Skyrim HD Mod For Those Who Don't Think Skyrim Looks Good Enough!! /h1 I did not make any of these mods.
2. Texture packs won't do much to FPS with interior cells, however when cells are being loaded outdoors it could easily hamper FPS if you're moving quickly however, all higher-resolution texture packs WILL impact loading times (which is what will punch your outdoor FPS), ESPECIALLY the 'HD Skyrim' mod on the nexus right now.

The High-Resolution Texture Pack is an official add-on for Skyrim that replaces many textures throughout the game with versions of a higher resolution. It was made available on February 7, 2012 alongside the Creation Kit and Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1 and is the first downloadable content for the game. The latest update of this pack not only adds support for the latest add-on Dragonborn but also enhances support for two already existing add-ons, Dawnguard and Hearthfire.

The texture pack has not officially been made available for the Special Edition as it is obsolete.

Official Summary[edit]

Experience The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as you've never seen it before with the Skyrim High-Resolution Texture Pack. Make sure your system requirements exceed Skyrim's recommended specs before attempting to install, including Windows Vista or 7 operating system, a minimum of 4GB of system RAM and a DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with at least 1 GB of RAM and the latest drivers.—Steam Description Page

System Requirements[edit]

• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
• Memory: 4GB System RAM
• Video Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher)

Notes[edit]

• Once you've added the add-on to your Steam account, the 4 GB worth of files can be uninstalled by going to Skyrim's page in your Steam library and unchecking its entry in the DLC section. You may still need to delete them manually after perfoming these actions. After doing this, the files will no longer re-download themselves automatically when starting Skyrim.
• It can also be temporarily disabled by opening the Data Files menu from the launcher and unchecking the boxes next to the related files.

Bugs[edit]

• The texture pack can cause several graphical glitches, such as clipping issues and missing textures which are displayed in magenta or black. The three most notable textures affected by this issue are the chopping block, fireplace wood, and Paarthurnax's chin tusk.
  • An update to the DLC in February 2013 fixed these issues.

Overhauling a game with mods can be an intimidating process, but the only thing you really need in order to make Skyrim shine is patience. Since each mod needs to be properly installed and configured, it can take hours to get everything in working order - certain methods of beautifying the game, such as S.T.E.P., or the Skyrim Total Enhancement Project, have been known to take as long as eight to ten hours to fully configure. Rather than force you, dear modder, to spend those precious hours that could be better used actually playing Skyrim, here is our list of the 15 (and then some) best mods to use that will drastically improve your adventurous experience.

You can read about all the mods below, or watch the video above (complete with plenty of heavily-modded Skyrim eye-candy).

Let There be Light

Installing Boris Voronstov's ENBseries modification and configuring it is actually far simpler than one would expect - simply download the necessary files and copy them into your main Skyrim game folder ( if you're using Steam, this is usually C:/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Skyrim ), and then run the game and configure your own personal settings. You can also download a preset created by a member of the community. The one we've used is by Nexus member Opethfeldt, though other excellent choices would be RealVision or Seasons of Skyrim.

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Once you've gotten your ENB set up and have begun installing your other modifications, consider also adding a lighting mod or two (if they're compatible) that will enhance the local light sources in-game - torches, lanters, candles and so on. We're using Enhanced Lights and FX by NM user anamorfus alongside Ultimate HD Fire Effects.

What a Wonderful World

Once you've installed your ENB and preset of choice, then the real work begins. There are hundreds of texture mods and updates for flora, fauna, armor, weapons and more that players can choose to include in their game, but here are our recommendations for must-have mods when trying to make Skyrim look beautiful:

• Skyrim HD: Replaces standard game textures with 2K-4K textures. Lite version includes 1K textures.
• Static Mesh Improvement Mod (SMIM): Updates static textures and meshes (furniture, rubble, buildings, etc)
• Lush Trees and Grass: Updates and greatly improves the quality and fullness of forested areas in Skyrim.
• Grass Field: Replaces most of the ground area textures with 3D grass.

There are many other mods that affect the game world's plant life - Glorious Grasses, SkyRealism and Vurt's Flora Overhaul are all great, but if you can only run two we recommend LT and GF, as they look best during actual gameplay. For quality visuals at a distance, be sure to install one of the many distant LOD (Level Of Detail) mods, such as Enhanced Distant Terrain, HD Enhanced Terrain or the Skyrim Distance Overhaul. Additionally, be sure to install a water mod to ensure you aren't stuck swimming around the boring vanilla rivers - we're using Pure Waters, though the Water and Terrain Enhancement Redux (WATER) is another excellent option.

Beautiful People

The NPCs in standard Skyrim look.. well, a bit off. Giving them a hearty facelift is somewhat of a necessity if you're attempting to update the game graphically - and can be one of the most challenging aspects of your mod configuration. Dozens of plugins and texture packs (some are NSFW) exist to do just this, and many are compatible with other mods. In our configuration, we're using the Xenius Character Enhancement (XCE) mod coupled with No More Blocky Faces, which smooths out the originally pixelated facial textures. We're also using Xenius's Better Beast Races, which overhauls the look of the Argonian and Khajiit characters ( though we also recommend using CoverKhajiits) to improve the nonhuman models. To spruce up the human characters, we've installed Better Females by BellaGail, as well as some various face texture and mesh replacers for the male NPCs, such as Detailed Faces and Beards.

These are far from the only mods out there to be used in the beautification of Skyrim - remember, patience is the only necessary component to making this game look great. Well, patience.. and the literally hundreds, if not thousands, of mods that are at your disposal. For more modding suggestions, game secrets and more, be sure to check out our full Skyrim wiki the next time you visit Tamriel.

Any graphical mods you can't adventure around Skyrim without? Let us know in the comments!

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Jon Ryan spends more time modding Skyrim than actually playing it. Don't be like him - but do follow him on IGN and Twitter.