Mods for Skyrim

RealVision ENB or Skyrim HD - 2K Textures, maybe .. ?
explore around with the mods i guess, everyone has their own preferences

Skyrim is a good game, but mods are what make it excellent. Now, I haven't played it for ages because the game started crashing because I have so many mods on and I'm too lazy to start figuring it out one by one and have other games to play. I would recommend googling for lists about best mods and so on.

What I myself recommend, if you want you can download HD textures pack which combines if I remember right 3 different HD mods to bring the best of each one out. The downloads are huge though, so you may want to reconsider if you have slow internet. But the one absolute thing needed is ENB. It makes your game run smoother and improves graphics a ton with different effects, specifically lighting, while being really light for your system. You can either set up your own setting for ENB or download a user made profile from a mod site, there are so many of them that it's certain you'll find something that you like.

There are many good gameplay mods, but it all really depends on what you like; you have hardcore mods like having to eat and keep yourself warm and then there are things that e.g. improve the perk trees. As said I haven't played for ages so I don't have anything special to mention.

Have fun playing!

Climates Of Tamriel - Weather - Lighting - Audio
Static Mesh Improvement Mod
Skyrim Flora Overhaul
WATER - Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux
Enhanced Lights and FX

SkyUI
Categorized Favorites Menu
A Quality World Map - With Roads

To download use the Nexus Mod Manager

Posh Mudcrabs is a must have mod for me.

most endorsed files non adult
and yes get the NMM
and get boss it optimizes the load order of your mods

So if I get NMM and the mods from this Nexus website, they'll work on the Steam version of Skyrim?

ENB for graphics:
http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:ENB

Mod Organizer to manage mods:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1334/?

Then STEP to mod Skyrim in general:
http://wiki.step-project.com/Main_Page

This is a good list..

for the love of all what is made for PC... please, install SKSE and SkyUI... the base inventory menu system for skyrim is bad... really bad, wrong in all possible ways.
Steam Workshop version
Nexus Version
check the description to install SKSE (this thing is a script extension for the game, you WILL NEED IT for most mods)
the steam workshop link has a tutorial to install it.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/06/26/skyrim-looks-better-than-ever-in-this-new-realvision-enb-showcase-video/

SkyUI
Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux
Realistic Lighting

Requiem

hi, I posted a similar post here on steamgifts not too long ago(when i just started with skyrim) and found some great information.
Hope ths helps clicky