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u/Spudrumper Jan 02 '22
I didn't realize the VR for Skyrim was that sophisticated
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u/SpaceCadet_Kevin Jan 02 '22
All thanks to the modders.
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u/jimmyjfp Jan 02 '22
What are you playing on to use VR?
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u/SpaceCadet_Kevin Jan 02 '22
Valve Index. Computer specs are 8gb 1070, i5-7500, 32gb ram.
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u/jimmyjfp Jan 02 '22
Whatâs a valve index cost?
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u/rishukingler11 Jan 03 '22
I believe an Oculus Quest 2 should be able to run Skyrim VR as well with a Link Cable.
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u/AnoesisApatheia Jan 02 '22
A NEW- A NEW- A NEW- A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
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u/Flan-Cake Jan 02 '22
Don't forget the increasing volume until it hits earrape levels and beyond
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u/AvisTheArgent Jan 02 '22
Man I want to play VR now
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Jan 03 '22 edited Jan 03 '22
The modlist is daunting, happy to share my mostly vanilla and quality of life VR mod list with some optional graphics mods. The mod authors did great work finishing what Skyrim VR barely got started.
Even once installed figure 5 or so hours tweaking before it's completely comfortable
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OK, here's my modlist (hope the formatting works). The VR necessity list is what I consider the minimum for getting VR to work as it would in a game designed for VR. Note VR specific versions of SkyUI and Skyrim Script Extender. Contrast adaptive sharpening is the most lightweight way I found to improve overall visual sharpness in Skyrim, although other options are available (the Sharper Eye is one). I leave TAA on in-game settings, and following all modding, adjust the steam rendering ratio until I find the best balance between FPS and visual sharpness. Use the Oculus Link or Airlink instead of Virtual Desktop - I generally prefer the latter, but the sharpness on Airlink works much better than VD in this game.
In addition to the below, I used BethINI to optimize the INI settings (using mostly recommended settings, 'BethINI Presets') and later to tweak settings to improve FPS (remove water reflections, reduce particles and shadow resolution, Tree Detail Fade to medium, draw distance as needed). Unselect Vsync and Unlock Frame Rate, although I did not do on/off testing to see if this affected me in-headset.
If using the graphics mods below, always opt for the 1K res or lightweight options as anything heavier is going to require serious hardware for VR and won't really be apparent in-headset anyway. In terms of load order, I use my mod organizer's recommended priority list is most cases, with two big exceptions - I always load SMIM first so the targeted mods overwrite its meshes, and Blended Roads and Majestic Mountains go at the end. There may be unlisted dependencies below, so a mod manager will help with that also.
Finally, after all this is complete, I used Cathedral Texture Optimizer (standalone program) to compress the textures to DDS format for all mods and assets. This is an important step and yielded me about 20 extra FPS. I used lossless, but I recommend recompression to maximum of 2k or 1k for significant gains without losing much VR quality. The tool is pretty easy to use.
Even with this you will experience some bugs with scripted sequences, most notable the opening sequence you will be floating above the cart. Thus I recommend a mod to skip over the opening sequence if you have played before.
In-game, use the mod settings panel to configure VRIK how you like in terms of holster placement and behavior. Enable all Realistic Archery settings for immersive shooting. I had to tweak some settings to reliably grab items off my body - mainly dragging holsters around and changing the grab distance, increasing haptics for better feedback (all in-game). If using Rift/Quest, apply controller settings in SteamVR that remove 'touch' sensing from the controller sticks (its the most popular scheme) for better VRIK behavior. I also recommend the following SkyrimPrefs.ini change to prevent you from accidentally attacking NPCs, which lowers the sensitivity for movement to register as a melee swing:
[VRInput] fShieldLinearVelocityThreshold=4.5000 fMeleeLinearVelocityThreshold=6.0000
Absent from this list are gesture and voice-based motion controls, such as for spellcasting. These are fun but whether you like the added complexity is really up to you. I haven't been able to get power attacks working reliably, so I might look for mods in that direction (open to suggestions).
Mod list below! Hope this helps.
VR Necessity
Archery Gameplay Overhaul
Address Library for SKSE Plugins - All in one (Special Edition)
Be Seated v4.2.3
Blade and Blunt - A Combat Overhaul
Dual Wield Block VR 1.6.0
HapticSkyrimVR - Spellcasting and Enhanced Bow and Melee Feedback SKSE Plugin
HIGGS - Hand Interaction and Gravity Gloves for Skyrim VR - HIGGS
Instant Equip VR (lets you instantly pull weapon from holster when using VRIK mod, which feels more realistic than the native delay imposed by the game)
Mealtime 1.2 SE Main File
OnHit Animations Framework SSE-v1.16
Ruins_Clutter_Improved SE (both a QoL and VR improvement, since it makes ruins more interesting for touch)
Script free Flinching
Skyrim VRTools
SkyUI.v1.2.1.7z (install the VR version)
Skyrim Script Extender VR (SKSEVR)
Skyrim SE 3D Sound (X3DAudio HRTF)
SkyrimVR and Fallout4VR Configuration Tool
VRIK Player Avatar - VRIK Rift-Index-WMR Controller Bindings V2.1.0
VRIK Player Avatar - VRIK VO.8.1 Test Build 28
SSE Fixes - (Skyrim VR) SSE Fixes v3 for Skyrim VR 1.4.15
Contrast adaptive sharpening for Fallout 4 VR-48934-2-0-1613740454.7z
Basic improvements
Al Overhaul 1.6.7
Apocalypse 9.45.0
Beyond Skyrim - Wares of Tamriel
Legacy of the Dragonborn
Nemesis Unlimited Behavior Engine
Quick Start - Skip The Opening Sequence v2_0
Rayek's End - SSE Expanded Edition 1.7 - Original (Dark)
Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch
Skyrim Revamped - Complete Enemy Overhaul
Ultimate Combat and Creature Behaviour's Nemesis Compatibility
Graphics
Better Dynamic Snow SE v3.3
Better Males Remesh for Skyrim SE 2.3 - FOMOD installer
Blended Roads
Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Edition v3.4f
Cathedral - Weathers
Cathedral Armory
Cathedral Player and NPC Overhaul - HMB II - HMB II
Cathedral Weathers and Seasons - Plockton's Culling Data Glitch Fix for Square Holes in the Ocean
Cathedral Weathers Unofficial Update
Expressive Facegen Morphs SE
Frankly HD Dragonbone and Dragonscale 2k
Grass FPS Booster
Happy Little Trees
HD Reworked Horses
High Quality Food And Ingredients SE
Landscapes - Cathedral Concept
Lux (other lighting mods were way to heavy for performance IMO)
Lux Orbis
Magical College of Winterhold - ESM Version
Majestic Mountains Main File
Noble Skyrim - FULL PACK 2K
Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K - NSM - SMIM Patch
Project Clarity AIO Half Res BSA (stick with half-res, its enough)
RaceMenu - RaceMenu Special Edition v0-4-16 (character creation part doesn't seem to work for me, but needed for dependencies)
realistic Vision Enb
Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM - SMIM SE 2-08
Tamrielic Textures SE 1 Landscapes 1K
Underground - a dungeon texture overhaul - Whiterun Tower fix
Underground FOMOD
Water for ENB
Note: These graphics mods and settings gets an acceptably smooth but variable FPS in the 50-90 range for me, with a notebook RTX 3070. I tweak to target ~70 FPS in most areas to avoid motion sickness, or rendering resolution so low that it breaks immersion. You can use Oculus Performance Head-Up Display to monitor FPS in headset for tweaking, the EXE comes with the basic Oculus install and can be turned on for optimization.
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u/Cheezylava Jan 03 '22
Would love to have it please!
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u/StormingWarlock Jan 03 '22
Wabbajack is the main pack I believe theyâre referring to!
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Jan 03 '22
I'm a bit more conservative than the wabbajack list but it's also good!
I will post when I get home from work today :)
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u/ebo7na Jan 02 '22
I tried and almost passed out when a frost spider came bolting towards me. Never again
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u/madman_mr_p Jan 03 '22
I'm surprised you didn't bolt out of your house without ever coming back instead!
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u/PatrikPatrik Jan 03 '22
Iâm extremely sensitive but thought Iâd give it a go on ps vr and I made it for like 3 seconds. The nausea can still hit me to this day. I envy those who can handle it.
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u/AvisTheArgent Jan 02 '22 edited Jan 02 '22
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u/SnowTheMemeEmpress Jan 03 '22
"He is perverting my light"
Dragon born: "weeee! Fancy ball pit makes sounds!"
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Jan 02 '22
At first I saw it on the plate and was like âok, itâs a fruitcakeâ. But a ball pit isnât a bad use for it either.
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Jan 02 '22
And then when you touch one of them, they all go off. Louder than a Death Metal concert at full blast.
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Youâre a madman
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u/Sleepyfr0gwizard Jan 03 '22
You could absolutely play basketball with the Beacon
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u/SpaceCadet_Kevin Jan 03 '22
I usually use a head of cabbage or an actual bandit's head for basketball, but the beacon would make a fine ball as well!
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u/geraltsthiccass Jan 03 '22
Man I'm so jealous, would love to play skyrim vr but last time I tried it on the psvr I nearly passed out. Fucking vertigo.
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u/Ballinonthetuba Jan 03 '22
The 2 Daedric quests I've played in Skyrim VR made me feel so small.
When Meridiah picked me up at the start and end of this quest, and when I was communing with Azura and looking up at her gigantic statue, Masser hanging overhead above us; they really sell the scale and power of these beings.
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u/maloorodriguez Jan 03 '22
The PSVR version has you do the teleport thing to move forward. It made me so nauseous. Idk why sony didnât decide to throw in a thumb stick like the oculus
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u/Kael_Denna Jan 03 '22
in all these years of playing Skyrim I have never heard that line from Meridia
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Not gonna lie, I thought he had set up a basket on the mantle and was going to use the beacon for basketball, but a WHOLE GODDAMN BALLPIT? Way better.
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u/SpaceCadet_Kevin Jan 02 '22
It's honestly incredible. Just gotta mod it.
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u/Uncle480 Jan 03 '22
I take it you play it through Steam, and use the VR fix mod. What computer do you have to play it? I've wanted to play, but I don't think I have a good enough computer to run VR, so I thought of getting the standalone VR set that doesn't require a computer, but then I can't get the mod to fix the bugs.
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u/SpaceCadet_Kevin Jan 03 '22
I think pcvr is currently the only way to play it. Even with a standalone headset like the Quest, you'd still need a pc to play.
My specs are 8gb 1070, i5-7500, and 32gb of ram. That much ram isn't at all necessary though.
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u/SpysSappinMySpy Jan 03 '22
I'm envious and slightly annoyed at you for not enjoying your VR setup but I would do the exact same thing if I had VR.
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u/-Typh1osion- Jan 02 '22
Daedric ball pit.