I’m genuinely this desperate. I’m a working dad going to college, I just started double classes, and I’ve just spent all of my free time for the last 4 days trying to figure out how to get modded Skyrim to run on my computer. I’m not good at this, nothing I do works, and all I want is to relax and do something fun for myself.

I’ll PayPal the money, it’s not much but it’s literally twice what I paid for Skyrim itself. I’m just so desperate to have something comfortable and newish.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    15 hours ago

    Just spitballing, but most of modding skyrim is just loading .esm and .esp files in the right order.

    You may be able to get the modlist downloaded, load order sorted (and any merged patches made if those are still a thing) in a Windows VM, then shift the files and load order list over to Linux so you’re just struggling with Linux compatibility to run instead of also with the setup of the mods.

    As far as I know, that’s the reccomended way to handle modding for a lot of games running on linux through compat layer stuff.

    As far as mods themselves, I’d pick one of the more popular packs on nexus or wabbajack that appeals to you and doesn’t seem to have a lot of complaints about bugs in the comments.

    Modding has multiple hurdles. Getting the tools set up, getting the game set up, selecting and installing the mods, working out compatibility issues, and making sure everything runs at the end. By sticking with a popular modpack, you cut out selecting the mods and having to figure out getting them working together yourself. By using a Windows VM for initial setup, you cut out most of the struggles of getting the tools working on Linux. Hopefully that would cut the challenges down to a managable level.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      15 hours ago

      I have looked into this, unfortunately I was just as lost trying to learn how to set up and run a VM that it just felt like a detour on a road to nowhere. I genuinely can’t stress how desperate I am to be offering the whole of my fun money for the month and the entire safety of my computer to maybe get a chance to play a game.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Yeah… Mostly…

      But if you wanna install new models it gets weird. Every time I have installed a new model or replaced models, I run into major headaches with crashes and dependency issues that take a while to figure out. They never “just work.”

      And that’s using the Nexus Mod Manager on Windows! Don’t get me started on how fucked shit is if you wanna do it manually or on an OS other than Windows.