The ethos of Dragon Rising is simple – to fix bugs, improve the UI, and enhance the visuals of Skyrim in a performance-friendly way. Additional gameplay and AI mods do a lot of work to improve the experience of playing vanilla Skyrim, without moving far away from the game Bethesda created. You won’t find new quests, new lands, new creatures, or new mechanics here. Think of it as Skyrim Plus. Everything that’s great about the game, enhanced or tweaked for maximum enjoyment for the player.
My ethos for mod guides in general is to keep it simple. All of these mods can be downloaded with a single click from the Skyrim Special Edition Nexus, and while Mod Organizer is not fully featured for Skyrim Special Edition yet, it works well enough that I am comfortable using it for this guide, and all that will follow.
Another important aspect to me is keeping it performance friendly. Dragon Rising has 100 .esp files, and I’m able to run it on 1080p with high settings (shadows dropped to 1k) at between 30-40 fps. That might not sound like much, but my system specs are as follows:
- Intel i5-4210M 2.6GHZ
- Nvidia Geforce GTX 850M
- 8GB Ram
So this mod list will run on damn near anything. If you can run the vanilla game, you can run Dragon Rising. So why don’t we get started?
Note: Dragon Rising assumes that the user has set up a stable base for modding, either through the Before The Storm guide or their own initiative. If you have not done so, please consider reading and completing Before The Storm.
Last update: December 31st 2017 (History)
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