2024 IMMERSIVE SKYRIM LOAD ORDER | AE + XSX

Hello everyone! This is my newest load order, built to enhance the original game’s art style/atmosphere. I mainly focus on improving the graphics, gameplay, and rpg elements.

I have been playing my current save for 50 hours, and experienced 0 crashes + smooth frames all the way through. I have had minor drops in heavy areas like falkreath and morthal, but that’s to be expected.
This load order has only been tested on the XSX, I cannot guarantee that it will run well on an older console.
Some of the mods in here (such as armor, homes, followers etc.) are specifically for my current playthrough as a forsworn character. They can easily be dropped for other things.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - World/Environment
4:28 - Interiors
5:27 - NPCs
6:47 - 3rd Person
7:29 - Combat
9:43 - Load Order

DISPLAY/CONFIG SETTINGS:
NAT - Disable NAT torch, disable extra skylight, disable wetness shader, disable NAT interiors, disable sunlight variations, keep the climate set at natural and atmospheric, set Black&White to 25%, and set the nights to 100% brighter.
DISPLAY ENHANCEMENTS - Brightness down one, contrast up one.
R.A.S.S - Turn off the wetness shader.
DMH SKEEVERS - Choose default Skeevers. For interiors, turn the brightness, saturation, and contrast to 1. Make sure to sync your normal and dungeon interiors. Turn softening to .20 (hit the plus option once). Set the snow fix to 5.
COMMAND FOV - Set FOV to 95-100 and leave arms at 115. Make sure to do this AFTER setting the Skeever’s settings, or else the skeever’s FOV will try to override this one, and it can get weird.
DYNAMIC TIMESCALE - Set base timescale to 12.
BRETON ELF EARS - Set probability to 100%.

QUIRKS/ISSUES:
For whatever reason, a few of the braziers in Windhelm have the embers misplaced. I have no idea what causes this, and upon first look it’s like “oh fuck” but tbh I actually found it way easier to ignore than I thought I would. It probably has something to do with Better Embers, but the textures are so nice that I don’t really care too much.
If you want to play as a werewolf… don’t 😍😍 (Feeding doesn’t work and you can’t manually switch out of beast form, you have to wait for the game to change you. I think it’s an issue between growl/gdb, but I haven’t looked into it fully yet).