The best Skyrim Special Edition mods exist thanks to the resilience of this 2016 remaster. What made it an essential upgrade is that the 64-bit version remains stable even under a heavy mod load. Skyrim's strict limit of 255 ESP (Elder Scrolls Plugin) files, with the DLC taking up several of those slots before mods even get started, can be bypassed thanks to version 1.5's introduction of ESL (Elder Scrolls Light plugin) files. Mods formatted as ESL files no longer count toward that limit, letting us go hog-wild with them.
Oldrim Modding
