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.
Currently trying to mod Skyrim on Linux myself. I’ve got it to work now but it was a pain. I’m using MO2, it was really janky for a bit and still acts up a lot. I’m at the point now of always having MO2 open even if I’m not playing Skyrim, because closing and reopening it causes issues for me. Have you had any luck since posting this? I’m in the same boat as you, just a couple steps ahead, so I might be able to help out a little.
The easiest way to mod Skyrim on Linux is to install a modlist with a tool called Jackify. See my other comment for a guide. Downloading modlists will cost one month’s subscription fee to Nexus Mods, but it saves a lot of time and effort.
Mods typically have very limited scope: they often do only one small thing. And they have dependencies, and the dependencies might have dependencies. To install a mod, you need to install all the dependencies, and then you need to set them up correctly. You’ll end up reading a novel’s worth of install instructions and spending hours upon hours of your time for all of that.
Using Jackify configures the Wine/Proton prefix so that the modlist, Skyrim and ModOrganizer2 works more or less correctly. Modlists can contain hundreds of mods, and all you need to do is pay the subscription fee and Jackify takes care of the rest.
So jackify may have actually been a better option than the one I settled on as it seemed to work entirely out of the box. The only reason I didn’t use it WA’s because I’m desperately trying to play LotDB and the only packs with it were huge day long downloads that i didn’t want to commit to only to find out it didn’t work.
I’m no stranger to modding Skyrim, I did it a ton on windows and Xbox, it’s just MO2 specifically that I’m having issues with. I don’t mind learning mod dependencies and such, I’m used to that stuff.
That being said, I appreciate your comment and I’ll look into it a bit more. I’ve never considered mod packs before, because why waste the money if I can do it myself? But I’m in a similar situation as OP now (newborn plus work, considering school again) so maybe it’ll be worth the cost to have some free time back.
I’d say the main reason to spend the money is simply the sheer number of mods available. For example, say you want to improve the graphics to bring it closer to today’s graphical quality. How many mods do you need to install? You need mods for models, textures, animations, and you need them for characters, enemies, animals, buildings, terrains, etc. Then you also need ENB or Community Shaders, and all the required mods. That’s easily tens or hundreds of mods just to make the game look prettier. Are you going to investigate what all mods you should install, and then download, install and configure everything one by one? With a modlist, that’s 10 euros and one click, and you get more than just prettier graphics.
Fair enough. I don’t usually bother with graphics mods, I tend to stick with gameplay mods, which aren’t that hard to configure correctly. But if I decide to give Skyrim a fresh coat of paint I’ll definitely look into mod packs more.
Yeah, Nexus launching collections was actually an amazing boon to the modding community. I have ~1200 mods running on my Skyrim, and it was a one-click (okay, maybe two or three?) install that only cost the one month of Nexus Premium subscription. The hardest part was simply waiting the ~60 minutes for all of the mods to automatically download and install. But that’s also on the Windows side of my machine, because I didn’t want to deal with trying to mod it on Linux. I know MO2 and Jackify can replicate the same concept, but I haven’t personally tried it.
Hey, come check for my edit here some time in the next 24 hours. I managed to get something to actually work and I’m going to lay out a tutorial for it.
Maybe add [SOLVED] or something to the post title so that others know you found a working solution.
Looking forward to the update.
It’s been edited, hope it helps the next poor soul!
Glad to hear you got it to a working state!