How To Update Skyrim Mods To Special Edition

A patch for Skyrim Anniversary Edition is here to fix black screens and break your mods

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A patch for Skyrim means different things to dissimilar people. For some the reaction is "Oh skilful, this should set up that result I've been having." For many others information technology'south "Oh no, this is gonna suspension admittedly everything."

Today'due south patch for Skyrim, version one.6.323, is mostly to address the black screen upshot occuring when some players tried to launch the game or load modded saves. Just the aforementioned patch may current of air up sidelining your mods, just like the Skyrim Anniversary Edition did when it launched on Nov 11.

The problem is, since Skyrim Anniversary Edition isn't a split entity to Skyrim Special Edition, only is instead an "upgrade," that means if an Ceremony Edition result is patched, that patch is too applied to the Special Edition. And whatsoever Skyrim patch means some mods volition accept compatibility issues until they're updated for the new version. So even if you didn't buy the Anniversary Edition upgrade, today's patch might bust your mods. Over again.

Reaction to today'southward patch is pretty mixed, with many players not wanting the update at all considering once again it renders the ever-important Skyrim Script Extender, incompatible with the new version—until SKSE gets updated again, which will hopefully be soon. At to the lowest degree a few people stated it does actually fix the blackness screen issue, then that'south a plus.

If y'all desire to play Skyrim Special Edition without applying the patch (presuming you've already prepare Steam to not update Skyrim automatically), you tin launch information technology through Skyrim Script Extender or through Nexus Mods Vortex launcher with the "don't update automatically" setting selected. Or if you desire to avoid this mess altogether and "downgrade" Skyrim Special Edition back to version 1.v.97, at that place's a modernistic for that. And yes, the mod's been updated today and should work with Skyrim version 1.6.323.

What a pain in the ass all of this is, huh? This probably would have been much easier if SAE and SSE were only two entirely unlike games (as Rockstar recently discovered). The patch notes are brief, but hither they are:

Stock-still a trouble preventing some doors in Rielle from opening properly.
Fixed an outcome where Russian and Smoothen notes were non displaying text properly.
Stock-still an issue where German language and French players were given incorrect menu text when leveling upwards.
Stock-still an outcome where players were experiencing a "black screen" and upon launching.

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