Released for quite some time (for the gaming industry - after all, everything in the world is quite individual), this game is still very popular among gamers. And the longer the game exists, the more you want to see changes in it - this is natural. Now all kinds of mods are invented by the players themselves, which makes the process of updating the game incredibly fast and varied. What mods you will not find on the Internet! These are incredibly open costumes of young ladies, and frankly frightening robes of harsh warriors. You can meet chic dresses for weddings or suits of any characters transferred to the game. Not only clothes, but also weapons and other items undergo constant modernization. And sometimes in the world of Skyrim you can meet characters or objects that should not be there. Although ... the latter, perhaps, is completely unnecessary. However, be that as it may, to diversify the life of your character, you can easily. And partly, this is what fascinates this sphere of the acclaimed series of games - Skyrim (5). How to install the mod? How to diversify a game so beloved?
How to install mods on Skyrim?
In fact, the process is not so complicated. Before you figure out how to install mods on Skyrim, decide what kind of add-on you want to get. After all, there are a great many mods now, and over time there are more and more of them.
So, we assume that you have decided. How to install mods on Skyrim? What is the sequence of actions? Well, for starters ...
Where to install mods for Skyrim?
To get started, find the add-on that you already had your eye on, and download the archive. After a successful download, unzip it and go to the folder into which, in fact, the add-on was unpacked. Locate the esp file in this folder. Have you found? If yes, then copy it to the game folder (it, in turn, was assigned during the installation of the game itself), and also copy the above file to the Data folder, which is located in the same game folder. Now you just have to attach the esp file.
Most of the work is done, but it's too early to relax. Now you need to install the retextures from the same unpacked archive. They are an important part of the game, if you want the quality of the graphics to be at the highest level, without any “jumps”.
So, go back to the folder into which the archive was unpacked, and find there the folders signed as Texture and Meshes. Copy them to the Data folder that you already know, and when a dialog box appears asking about replacing files, no doubt click "Yes, for all." Congratulations, done! As you can see, there’s nothing complicated about installing mods on Skyrim. Although there may be some hitches.
If you have problems with the launcher
Launcher - this, if you take the example of online games, the launch of the game itself. That is the window where you need to enter your login and password, and after that the game itself starts. So, if your launcher for some reason does not see the files copied to the game folder, try the following: open drive C, then “Users”, then “Username”, then open Documents - My Games, and finally Skyrim-SkyrimPrefs.ini. In the [Launcher] section (it is at the very bottom) add the line: bEnableFileSelection = 1. These steps should help solve this problem.