Have just bought the above with a buncg od DLC

 

Seems to be a big thing for modding this, some make it prettier, some are bug fixes.

 

Is it worth applying some of the popular mods first before I've played it much?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo It may spoil the game for you. Play it first then add mods is my opinion.

+1 to the above, it's a very good game i thought. i had it on the xbox though so no modding for me. the other option is to do what one guy did and try and live a normal life in the game with no questing.

I've been good and not cheated.

 

I did add a blood splatter mod.

The one main one I would add is the horse whistle mod (not sure of the name) - whereby you can always summon your horse irrespective of where you last had it.

I'd chuck the better texture packs and any graphic mods on first if you have a setup that can handle it. They do make a big difference to the look without changing the game.

 

For my second playthrough I added the survival mod(s) which almost made it a whole new game. Having to plan eating, sleeping and building fires/camping is a RPG'ers dream. But does make it a little more involved, some may say tedious.

I'd chuck the better texture packs and any graphic mods on first if you have a setup that can handle it. They do make a big difference to the look without changing the game.

 

For my second playthrough I added the survival mod(s) which almost made it a whole new game. Having to plan eating, sleeping and building fires/camping is a RPG'ers dream. But does make it a little more involved, some may say tedious.

 

 

I've been looking into that but I'm not sure I've got a setup that'll handle it.

 

I've an ATI 6850 with 1Gb video ram which is pretty reasonable but can't can't do the super duper textures. Also I've an i3 which I'm led to believe isn't quite up to the job either.

 

Tried a few graphics mods but so far they've mainly stopped it from starting. The Nexus mod manager makes it relatively easy to pull them out though.

 

I do need to check if I've got the rest of the DLC installed. I bought the legendary pack but can't tell if anything beyond the core game is there.

Edited 17 September, 201411 yr by Aspman

You need a 2gb gfx card and 4GB ram for the high res textures to work well.

My pc has 16GB ram and a 3GB geforce 760 but it ran fairly well on my old 2GB geforce 460 too (I had 8GB ram then).

Obviously you need a 64 bit OS to use more than 4GB of ram

PC has 8Gb Ram and I'm running Win7-64.

 

Not buying a new card for this. Not for a while anyway.