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Before you get started installing or playing Living Skyrim, it’s important to note a few things:
Info boxes (ℹ️) give extra details or images about guide steps.
Important notices (⚠️) highlight steps you should be very careful with.
Warnings (🛑) tell you critical steps that you must not miss. If you ignore these, you might face big problems.
Ensure you have the following requirements:
FG's Specs | |
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CPU | Ryzen 9 3900X |
GPU | RTX 3080 10GB |
RAM | 32GB |
Storage | 2TB NVMe |
Above you'll find the specifications for the computer that the modlist was built on, which is ForgottenGlory's personal desktop computer. The list runs acceptably to ForgottenGlory on that hardware. Why don't we have recommended hardware listed? Mostly, it's for our own collective sanity. If we listed recommended hardware and estimated performance and then someone comes in and gets a different experience, then to them, what we've advertised isn't what they experienced. The simple truth of the matter is that everyone's performance and expectations for performance are different, and we simply can't account for all possibilities. To one person, 50FPS might be perfectly acceptable while to another it's completely unacceptable.
Ultimately, you'll have to try the list and see if the performance meets your expectations. If it doesn't, you'll need to make your own tweaks and experiment to figure out what works best on your specific hardware and software configuration.
Not a must, but speeds up mod download and installation.
First you need to update and run Skyrim. This ensures that the files necessary for Living Skyrim exist for the installation.
🛑 Make sure Skyrim: Special Edition is the latest version (1.6.1170) in Steam. If you’ve manually downgraded the game or haven’t updated yet, use Steam’s “Verify Game Files” feature to update the game.
⚠️ Make sure Skyrim’s language is set to English. (Right-click > Properties > Language)
We’ll now setup the folders needed for the installation to proceed smoothly.
🛑 There are some restrictions on install location.
You CANNOT place these folders in:
- Program Files or Program Files (x86), or their subfolders;
- the Users folder, or its subfolders;
- the Steam folder, or its subfolders;
- the Skyrim folder, or its subfolders;
- the Desktop folder, or its subfolders;
- the Documents folder, or its subfolders;
- any folders with non-English characters;
- any cloud storage folders (e.g. Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.);
- inside one another (e.g.[install drive]\Wabbajack\Living Skyrim.
)
Next you will need to log into Nexus in order to be able to download and install the list.
Start by opening Wabbajack by double clicking the "Wabbajack.exe".
Once you're done and logged in you can exit this page and go back to the main menu by clicking the "Home" icon in the top left.