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.

  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    This may not entirely help you if you don’t have a Windows drive (I dual boot when needed, especially for modding my games easily on Windows and then moving the files over to Linux after testing it works in Windows) but:

    • Log into Windoze
    • Install your game if it isn’t (Quick Tip: If you do have Windows and Linux on separate drives, you don’t have to download the entire game again. Drag the game over to the correct folders you would have on Windows, then go to download the game. It will see the files and fetch anything you still need)
    • Run the game at least once to make sure your files are created and whatnot (SkyrimPrefs.ini or whatever it is called)
    • once at the main menu, download any of the anniversary edition stuff if you have them
    • Use Nexus Mods modding tool Vortex and use a Collection (NOTE: If you do not have a Premium account, you can use any other program like Mod Organizer 2 or whatever if you want, I have only ever used Vortex, sorry. :/ )
    • Let the mod managers do their thing
    • Once all the mods from the Collection/s are installed, start the game on Windows and make sure you can get in game at least (Not all mods/Collections are created equally!)
    • Log back into Linux and use your preferred File Manager program to go into your Windows drive (Mine is called basic something, I’m away from my computer right now) and move the whole game folder over to your proper Linux folder for your Steam games
    • Test
    • Hopefully profit?