It has much (more than twice) less mods. Here's a simple comparison of just some (but not all) effects that SE ENB lacks, open imagine in fullsize. It has graphics - permanent engine limitation towards ENB from DX11 on which SE runs (LE runs on DX9 that has much better ENB support) - which results in vastly less amount of ENB effects and so, directly worse graphics capabilities. This said, it doesn't mean SE will be crashing hard or something - but with medium-to-heavy modded game, you'll have much more headache with it. It is stable when modded (more bugs appeared in SE itself, many SE versions of the mods being ported hastily or not even by mod authors themselves which results in more bugs compared to LE versions of the mods, and lastly, game CC updates which can break some of SKSE-dependand mods - while there is a mod which helps with this issue, solution is sadly not 100%-solving). Skyrim SE is generally worse for modding in compared to LE. However, as I was coming through remasters I ran across this: īefore you start modding your game, consider modding Skyrim LE (Legendary Edition, 'Oldrim'), for which I have the guide with the same structure and features as well. Primarily in that SE removed the RAM cap that LE suffered from, but at the expense of a smaller mod library/collection. So I've always been under the impression that Special Edition was better for modding from a performance and stability standpoint.

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