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.

  • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I briefly tested Jackify, and it seems to be a great tool. I’m not able to fully test it because I don’t have Nexus Mods subscription. But, I was able to test it with my old Nordic Souls files.

    1. You need Nexus Mods subscription to download modlists.
    2. You most likely want to have Anniversary Edition of Skyrim, otherwise modding will be challenging because many mods requires it.
    3. Launch Skyrim normally, and if you have Anniversary Edition, let it download all Creation Club Content (CC Content). Do not Alt-Tab out of Skyrim, or it will interrupt the download. The game will claim it downloaded everything, but you’ll miss some of the CC Content. If you get any errors about files that have the letters “CC” in them, this is your problem.
    4. Once the CC Content is downloaded, close Skyrim.
    5. Head over to Jackify Releases. Download the latest Jackify.AppImage.
    6. You might need to give it executable permission. You can typically do this by pressing the second mouse button over the icon, go to Properties -> Permissions and look for the option that says executable. Or use chmod +x /path/to/Jackify.AppImage.
    7. Place Jackify.AppImage where ever you want to and launch it.
    8. Go to Modlist Tasks -> Install a Modlist.
    9. Select Skyrim as the game, and pick one of the Modlists. If you are out of ideas, and you have a decent computer, try Nordic Souls. Note, that you cannot combine modlists, but you should be able to install new mods if you want to.
    10. Change install and download directories, so that they have the name of the modlist (create new folders, or what ever).
    11. Under the Nexus API field, there is a link. Click it, scroll to the bottom to Personal API Key section, hit the Request API Key button and copy-paste it to the API Key field. You might want to read the warning on the Nexus site, and decide yourself if you want to trust Jackify. Jackify team is planning to implement a better way to do this, but it is what it is for now.
    12. Click Start Installation button, go brew some coffee, make a dinner, wash your clothes and come back to see if the installation is finished.

    This is as far as I have got so far. Installing Nordic Souls takes quite a long time. Once the installation is complete, you should have an icon somewhere (probably in your Steam library) that will launch your modded Skyrim.

    If you get “too many open files” error, you need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add this line to it: your_username hard nofile 524288 and then relogin, or restart.