The EASIEST and BEST Skyrim VR Mod List - FUS Installation Guide

[@VirtualPandaVR]

FUS has removed all ENBs from their modlist. More info in their Discord. Wanna try my personal modlist? You can download it here: www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/95028 It is designed to be the most immersive and beautiful Skyrim VR experience possible (or at least will be when it is fully finished), but it is not performance friendly. Meant for people (me) who have a 3090 or higher.

[@ALPHAGROUND1]

Great vid man its been helping me a lot finally built my dream pc and I've had a standalone quest for a year now ill finally be able to put to some good use and record a Skyrim VR playthrough!! only one question if I may what do you use for recording in VR?

[@VirtualPandaVR]

@@ALPHAGROUND1 absolutely. Please do! Just know this list in this comment is still very early and probably has a TON of bugs.

[@El_Deen]

Hey dude! I was wondering how many fps you average with this modlist on that 3090. I got a similar card.

[@VirtualPandaVR]

@@El_Deen with mine, I get 80 to 90 depending on the spot. I could get more with DLSS, but I don't like how it looks.

[@typicalweeb773]

Hello! Do you use the same recommended bindings as in the video for your own modpack as well? Thank you!

[@EzaleaGraves]

"One-click install!" *Lists 30 minutes of prep work before the one click*

[@hulksmashxyz4022]

It took me three days of messing up and downloading mods

[@ICE0124]

ikr right, i had to create a new user on windows and re download the game 3 times and double check my file paths because wabbajack kept giving me errors about every little thing before he mentions that i will have to sit there for 6 hours clicking a button over and over again or i have to pay 10 dollars to install a modpack that i dont even know if its going to install correctly the first time because wabbajack doesnt want to work. Then i see another 25 minutes of tinkering and extra mods i need to install and do just to play Skyrim? Yes it is one click to put you into this hell of troubleshooting. tldr: i gave up

[@GeoffreyBronson]

Bro 30 minutes is one click in regards to modding.

[@corpsman]

WOW. Can't wait to try this out. I bought Skyrim VR a while ago, but I struggle with getting everything right. I don't usually comment but man I wanted to personally thank you for this guide!! Really appreciate it!

[@Michael_________]

Finally got to play modded Skyrim VR - this is literally the only tutorial that has worked for me.

[@noway5266]

You are doing God's work. I was so intimidated by the tedious process of modding skyrim vr. You really broke it down and made it easily digestible with simple to follow instructions.

[@briananderson1246]

The good god that you speak of is not Good or G❤️‍🔥d 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@CryptoKnightYT]

@@briananderson1246 What does this even mean 😭

[@johnappleseed7790]

@@briananderson1246 shut up 😂

[@TheCangar]

Hey, thank you for this video, great work! I'm glad you liked it and the intention of providing a straightforward vanilla plus experience is working out. We will link to this in our guides now :) That being said we do recommend the enhancer enb now, it is a fantastic option and the performance version is also very easy on the GPU. It works very well together with glamur reshade as well.

[@VirtualPandaVR]

Thanks for making such a great modlist 😁

[@lukspuck53]

FUS installed without any ENBS and in the Downloads category it enbseries has a warning "The content of does not look valid, any idea on how to fix that? ty

[@TheCangar]

@@VirtualPandaVR maybe you want to make a pinned post about this?

[@VirtualPandaVR]

@TheCangar just saw the announcement, was thinking the same thing

[@TheCangar]

@@VirtualPandaVR funny I mentioned dis cord and my comment got removed 🤐

[@tiggerdyret]

This was a god send and made me want to try out wabbajack. I've been modding for years in a pretty hardcore level, but this time I just didn't want to go jump through all the hoops yet again and end up breaking my modlist yet again. The fact that the FUS list is all setup in MO with instruction and what is actually going on with the mod list made me want to use it as a starting point for my next build.

[@kushkong1339]

Finally got in. I went to riverwood to see If I can even run the mod. and my god it took my breath away. I mean it literally Stole my breath. It was clear. It was colorful. The godrays were shining over the mountain. the water was immaculate. It just left me crouching in the street in complete awe.

[@NUNYA-c7g]

Dude you're the friggin BEST! I have been LOVING this! Stealth Archer is scary AF! I've been in Bleakfalls for over and hour just creeping. I have to literally psych myself up before I go around each corner. The Draugr are scary AF! This is the MOST immersed I've ever been in any experience yet in my life! Thank you so much!

[@TheKingWolf32]

Also I appreciate you taking your time with this video, had some company while clicking download 400 times lol

[@richardfoxx5118]

I dont usually sub just off one vid. BUT! I have never seen someone so detailed and helpful! Thank you!

[@RIP123]

Your content is so underrated. I can't wait for the mod list even though it might never materialize, i look forward to it!

[@chockydoe]

There's a lot of thought and dedication that went into this video, and that's much appreciated especially with newer mod categories. Thanks for the info!

[@JeeliBeeli]

Just got my Quest 3 on friday and was wondering about Skyrim VR. This made me pull the trigger, great video

[@forgotten893]

I wanted to get that as well! AV1 is an amazing encoder. Can lower the bitrate to 50Mbps and have the same quality as HVEC/H.264 at 75 Mbps. Less Wi-Fi interference!

[@jaflob6610]

Took me forever and I felt like my pulling my hair out. Got it kinda working (struggling to learn controls and get used to VR, more a user error lol) and im so happy! Thank you sir

[@adamnbomb247]

Thank you! I was struggling with mods using Vortex and this is actually playable. Appreciate the thorough guide!

[@Loganator4551]

17:38 Btw, I thought I'd might mention you can minimize the amount of steps by clicking the shortcut button below the run button in Mod Organizer and send it to your desktop. Otherwise, awesome video!

[@samson143vr]

Sweet! Been wanting to get into Skyrim VR but all that modding was intimidating. Thanks for making this vid!

[@Hansgunther-wr4rl]

3D parallax is working well - it's amazing ! Thank you so much for FUS !!!!

[@ChodyRay]

I tried getting Skyrim VR going and it just went black, no matter how much I tried tinkering with stuff. I did the first few steps of your video up to the point to where you have to load the game for the first time, and my game actually loaded. I love you so much 😂

[@yqisq6966]

Getting rid of the shout button is such a good idea! In my old non-vr playthrough I rarely used shouts...

[@electricboogie8920]

I really appreciate this video! Almost got overwhelmed trying to start my first mod playthrough

[@jumbojimbo706]

I had such a nightmare modding fallout vr, I don’t think I’m mentally prepared to go through that again

[@MonsterGains96]

wanted to add a comment that this video really helped me set up mods on skyrim and I would have been lost without it. Thanks so much mr. panda

[@bluebell1]

This is an awesome tutorial! Thank you so much! I’ve had the game for a while and haven’t played it because it needed mods! This seems reasonable for beginners! You rock!

[@aslightlyangryman1617]

This was stressful as hell when i tried it alone. Thanks for the help.

[@kylecarter5802]

Thanks so much for this video. I got Skyrim VR set up yesterday and I'm pretty sure I'd have given up without your help.

[@noblesquashy]

1:42 I've been stuck on this saying for 10 minutes now. Also, thanks for the great mod list!

[@legastronomo]

your video is insane, i don't have words to explain how helpful this video is, tysm!

[@AngelGomez-lh8pu]

" its just a one click easy installation " *makes a 30 minute tutorial video because it is definitely not just one click installation*

[@Nithian]

Took me 2 days cause of constant crashes but I finally got it working and boy is it awesome! Awesome tutorial

[@Raiinsoup]

What caused the crash for you?

[@Nithian]

@@Raiinsoup it was multiple things but biggest problems for me was when the installation had failed and i retried it, it must of duplicateed some files somewhere because I had files in my overwrite folder so it would crash on launch. That required me to do a fresh install of skyrim and completely redownload the mod. The 2nd issue was that I didnt download the .net runtime that this video mentions because I just assumed I had it ( I did not).

[@ssheeessh]

Im going to look into this more tomorrow. 358 mods is insane lol. I cant imagine more than 50 of them are good, but i do appreciate how good this tutorial was. V.R.I.K, H.I.G.G.S, and those gestures you showed off already make the game leagues better. Then for flavor, Immersive smithing and mining, Enb/reshade and those runes during spellcasts. ( personally i like Apocalypse in vanilla! Just dont use the ones that are cheats lol.) So yeah idk how they got a number like 358. My best modded experience ever was 106 on Oblivion and even that was kinda overkill. Happy New Year🎉

[@VirtualPandaVR]

My personal list is at over 1200. The number can get pretty high when you start including retextures and other small improvements to the overall look

[@akaricodane401]

u are tweaking and obviously very new to modding this is not alot at all

[@ssheeessh]

@@akaricodane401 Been modding for almost 10 years now. But hey I'm sure you know more since you're on the same guide video as I am. You're tweaking if you need that many mods to enjoy the game lol. I took over 100 out of FUS day one. All these modpacks are outdated as of 3 weeks ago anyways.

[@ShadowMentor]

what happened 3 weeks ago that made them all outdated?@@ssheeessh

[@peternsysu]

Thanks a lot. A few things to point out. 1. Have to get nexus premium account, or wabbajack cannot continue from installation step 7 of 14. 2. mod organiser needs to be updated to latest version (2.5.0) or game crashes on first time start.

[@studid55]

Fuck Nexus mods, all my hommies hate nexus

[@studiototheleft]

had this video open while in game, super helpful if not necessary for a first time setup! ty!

[@DeclanMoon]

Fantastic video - thankyou so much for the straightforward info, can't wait to jump in.

[@streetphone4619]

Wow! GREAT VIDEO! You earned a Like in the first few minutes. So thorough and clearly explained it's hard to imagine you left any possible sticking point unmentioned. At the end when you mentioned how some people spend more time installing and testing mods than they do playing... lol... All I can say it's THAT'S ME! In years past I definitely let the FOMO get to me. Now though, while I'd never play any version of Skyrim without mods that correct or remove really annoying "features," I'm much more measured in my approach and expect to, finally, actually get past the beginning of the main quest line lol. A few tips for anyone reading this. In lieu of a performance hitting ENB or ReShade give the simple mod Imaginator a try. It adds a MCM entry but you don't need that. Use the spell Summon Imaginator Helper and a guy will appear in front of you. Talk to him and select the Presets dialogue. Then, if you like bright, brilliant colors like the old Technicolor movies - Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments and such - try the Holy Hell preset. When it's sunny out it looks FANTASTIC! Realistic AI Detection is great. The author, now deceased (apparently), developed RAID Weathers specifically for that mod and spent over a thousand hours play testing it. Other weather and or lighting mods don't necessarily help or hinder detection - or so he said. Me I don't know but I just installed both. I'm a sneaky guy.

[@lawnmowergirl]

Nice! Thank you. I've been wanting to dive in but everyone talks about it but leaves info out. Thank you!

[@CadithTrimir]

I LOVE YOU!!! tried a lot but menu in black. ill try this. Im glad you played it in vr like this, i hope you have a lot of fun. thank you brother

[@Kimchi_97]

"MCM menu" bothered me more than it should, but otherwise I highly appreciate the detail you go into in this video. I recently got back into VR after Blade & Sorcery got it's 1.0 release and I felt myself itching to play some Skyrim, this was exactly the kind of video I was looking for!

[@dylanarcher827]

Something VERY IMPORTANT - when you install Mod Organizer, it takes control of your SkyrimVR save games. They are no longer backed up on Steam, or in Documents/mygames - Mod Organizer keeps them stored internally. This means that if you break the game with mods and delete/rebuild, when you delete the mod organizer folder it deletes all your savegames. There is an option in Mod Organizer that will copy the internally stored savegames to the normal savegame location on your hard drive, and once they are copied over steam will now back them up to the cloud.

[@brockgan8941]

Hey I can't find this setting could you point me in the right direction? Thanks for the head up

[@snizzern4530]

@@brockgan8941 (morgan freeman voice) but he never did

[@GigaJazx]

I’m now ready to go to Skyrim THANK YOUUU

[@michaeljustmichaelrandomnumber]

You instantly made it into my top 20 favorite humans. Thanks so much!

[@yqisq6966]

Thanks bro! Super helpful guide with detailed explanations to all those different options!

[@aaronbarkley539]

This has been an amazing guide, thanks for posting it!

[@jjakji2078]

This guide is CLUTCH. Thanks brother.

[@Dabst3rPlays]

I use another mod list but this helps so much explaining the specific mods so thank you!

[@colinnisbet8811]

I just got the Kat VR and have been trying to get Skyrim to work with it. The Treadmill worked right off the bat, but the modding was hours of work. A lot of people out there are saying Wabbajack makes it idiot-proof but wow, this is not easy. You made a very complicated process as easy as possible, but I'm shocked that people think this process is easy or straightforward.

[@leonieschnieders190]

How did you get it to work? I am considering buying a C2 core, but I would reqlly like to use mods with skyrim

[@Treebsquire]

This is genuinely one of the best guides I've ever seen in my life. Amazing work!

[@BiccMitchum]

very great video bro lots of extra tips and very informative and easy to understand awesome work much appreaciated

[@D3kryption]

Just popping on to say thanks! I was a bit 50/50 to whether or not to do this. I didn't take your advise about buying the monthly and retreated it!! Took me 12 hours to download! -_- but its absolutely 100% worth it. I've not had this much fun playing Skyrim in years. Its so good! Thank you! :D p.s. buy nexus mod manager for the first time. Trust me. Its not worth the time wait.

[@penguinsnoquak681]

i agree i also didnt buy and now none of the mods are categorized so now i have to search through every mod one by one to findthe mods hes talking about

[@LuisMuraour]

Great tutorial! Maybe I will finally play this masterpiece in VR and with mods.

[@waderobinson9218]

Ty so much! Finally got this on Steam summer sale this year and am ready to mod tf up xD

[@domulus]

For anyone thinking about getting this I highly suggest paying for a month of Nexus premium then cancelling it. By using the free version you have to manually click download hundreds of times which really pushes back how long this takes to setup. With premium... boom it was done in around 1.5 to 2 hrs for me.

[@yuibkys3522]

been dooing it manually for about 2 hoours now im sllowly losing mmy sanity

[@aligr3224]

buy some internet mate dafuq. took me 20 mins of downloading at 23mb/s average

[@ssheeessh]

Breh just give them your money lmao this is why we can't have nice things SMH 🤦‍♂️

[@Maou_yusha20]

This did take longer than expected and after messing with the setting a bit my game can atleast run with no frame rate lol but still thank you for this I’ve been wanting to play Skyrimvr with mods cause I saw habie playing it and it seemed so fantasy 😂

[@MrJwyne]

Great video! This helped a lot! Thank you for your time and effort to share this knowledge.

[@nikitanovikov6710]

I legit spent 2 hours installing and clicking 342 times cause premium is unavailable, was still easy cant wait to play it

[@SilentMarrow]

1:44 I haven't heard that one yet. Nice one.

[@WOojerVest3andQuest3onMe]

I just followed your steps and was able to get it working. I was using my Pimax5KSuper headset. Wow, this is a Brand New experience for me. I just have to get me a more powerful PC my i9-11900K and RTX3090 is struggling to run it smoothly. It works just not perfectly. Maybe, I should try it using my Quest 3 or Quest Pro... Maybe it will run better... Thank you for taking the time to make it so darn simple. 😉👌

[@suplexsuarez3384]

9:22 not me, slightly buzzed and staring at the vanilla side like "wow..."

[@VVIDbeats]

one click install 😆 nice tutorial !

[@Niconiik]

the skyrim music in the background just give me more motivation to play this game hahahaha

[@mavericks2k811]

Uncapping the download limit with a premium member ship is worth it, otherwise you'll be spending hours upon hours downloading the larger file size mods in wabbajack. Thanks for the video

[@allgoodnamesaregone0]

Wish it explained WHY Skyrim must be installed in a separate folder. Being in Australia, the internet is slooooooow so after looking into mods after having installed it already (but not even playing once), it's pretty discouraging to know I now must uninstall and potentially do another overnight download to get this thing going. Knowing why the default install location isn't sufficient would at least make me feel a little better.

[@cOoO0o0OoO0Oo0OoO0o]

This. Made me stop trying.

[@Treebreeder]

great guide! very straightforward! its so hard to get your foot in the door starting off but this really helped me setup FUS thank you!, and a thank you to @TheCangar for making this all possible ! cant wait to play:)

[@Rob_Champion]

Coming from Elysium remastered i love skyrim but for me i caj inly play it so much as combat feels dated but i know vr will change this and this is exactly what i need thank you

[@stephenriggs8177]

Very interesting list. I'm a longtime MO2 user (going back to Tannin's original MO days) but I've never seen pseudo root-level content managed by the tool. Very clever! (OK. On further review, it seems that this functionality is enabled through Root Builder, which I'd never run across, before. Sounds like a great innovation!) That's the simplest root directory I've ever seen in even an unmodded Bethesda game. I guess the dummy mods are meant to ensure that the patches work, even if certain mods aren't enabled. (For example, I saw that the dummy file was replaced with a real one, when I enabled Inigo.) I have the feeling that I'll be customizing this pretty extensively, because there are a ton of mods I can't imagine playing without, but this looks like a great way to get started. ... By the way, I've found disabling Immersive Armors was good enough to make the cart ride work correctly. I don't see that one in this list. Sure enough, I float above the cart, during the introduction, but I'm able to create an ugly character and start the game normally, using the FUS list without Lorkhan. (I'll have to add some appearance mods.)

[@emilh2361]

HOLY SHIT this is cumbersome... youre real for making the guide but... damn

[@Rustyshackleford1911]

I hope you finish your mod list and it becomes an official wabbajack list, would be something hella cool for people with 3090’s and up

[@VirtualPandaVR]

It's up on Nexus! Still working on it, but check out the pinned comment

[@eliasreemer3495]

Absolutely amazing video, will be following this guide exactly when I get my headset next week. One thing that I noticed is that the sound of the fire was very different to vanilla when you casted it? Is that part of the modlist? Could I turn that off?

[@sethrule3821]

I would like to add my thanks to the plethora of others in the comments. I’m so not tech savvy in any regard, so modding a game was incredibly daunting to me. But with this guide, as well as a huge thanks to Wabbajack and the modding community, I was playing my modded Skyrim within an hour. So easy, a fool like me didn’t have trouble! Thanks again!

[@SoulBC]

SkyrimVR guy approves Edit: Midwatch, thanks for the mention brother

[@VirtualPandaVR]

From what I understand, esl files work. They just count towards the 255 limit Source reddit. But now you got me second guessing myself... will test later

[@SoulBC]

@@VirtualPandaVR ESP files flagged as ESL will work. ESL files will not in 95% of cases

[@christianfrey7956]

I appreciate the help.. It was always a few hour ordeal me trying to download a bunch of mods and come to find some of them are incompatible.. with this list i was able to get skyrim vr fully modded and the only real time spent was waiting for the 300 or so mods to download (not long)

[@skippychurch2965]

Skyrim vr is my favorite game ever

[@sloggothband]

You may want to mention COMPILING SHADERS will make you Alt+F4 if you don't know it is happening. I wasn't aware until I took off my headset and saw it at the top of the screen. This appears that it'll take 15 minutes !

[@kushkong1339]

Much love my man, I thought that my PC was just rejecting the game with all the mods. After finding your comment I went back and saw the "Compiling shaders" for my self. Waited and got in with GOOD performance. god send comment for anyone else that was in the same boat as me.

[@EarlWagner]

Thanks. I just started considering this a few days ago but felt like too much to research and consider. I'll give this a try. Never played the game. Fallout 4 next?

[@VirtualPandaVR]

I definitely need to do Fallout 4. Been putting off getting into that until I've done a solid playthrough of Skyrim, which I still haven't done XD

[@BlueyyMC]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Kinda annoying that without premium it is so slow to download the mods but otherwise this is great 10/10 IGN tutorial

[@connorhiggins3751]

how do you know you installed them all

[@zsomborvarga9118]

Cool video, very helpful. Thank you

[@justicegaminginc]

The only problems that I have with Skyrim VR are that I can't just grab a weapon off the ground and use it without first putting it in my inventory, while there is a mod that makes NPCs react to you when you touch them with your hands or whatever item you are hold the rest of the world won't react to you (hands still go through walls and both dynamic and static objects, also weapons don't react with the player and phase through each other) and you can't physically pull levers/pull chains/pull handles/push buttons/open doors

[@Snippyyy]

im sure these mods are coming soon if not already here, id look it up

[@herbo_lario]

Thanks for the video Panda!

[@karlroe]

This is very useful Thank you

[@Jake-vu9mu]

followed this guide to a T and all I got was pixelly and blurry visuals on anything more than 2 feet away

[@xMaRFiNx]

Took me a day to study and setting this from the scratch with minimal modding/vr knowledge but its working, now just to learn controls :D ingame text i bit fuzzy but overall game is looking great. thx. There are some visual moving/warping edges/objects is it normal?

[@manolostyle777]

Thank you! 😁👍🏻👍🏻

[@ChristopherEdwards-d7y]

Great guide. I have followed it exactly and the only thing I want to know is what extra mods I can get away with adding on a 4070. I heard there was a Thor's hammer that you can throw and have it come back to you, but somebody said I needed a better card for that lol. I'm sure I'll figure it out with some trial and error though.

[@Kvitravn.]

So, just for people like me who might of buggered it and wondered why it keeps crashing time and time again, check your drive if you have the space, i ran out of space and it kept failing with no obvious explanation as to why. just a thing to check, you need about 100gb for the current version at the time of this message according to the staff in the discord.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

Useful, thank you very much!

[@23Olgierd23]

I think it should be said in the video to buy the premium BEFORE logging into nexus. Otherwise it's a perfect video!

[@Tattoodealer]

Excellent!

[@CuppyCrossing]

so have you made a perfect mod list yet? also thanks for the tutorial it's the only one that explained it clear enough for my tiny argonian brain

[@dhoye1225]

@VirtualPandaVR love the vids. I used your video on UVRE to get going on Skyrim VR and it was awesome. Do you like this modpack more than the UVRE? If so, any major reason?

[@VirtualPandaVR]

No. I don't. But UVRE isn't available anymore.... which is why I made my own modpack that I believe is better than UVRE (check the pinned comment)

[@MicrobiusBlue]

Thank You 😎

[@pylypturdybekov2319]

Best of the best, love and hug

[@Azurantine81]

Oh wow, I never knew about Full body haptic suits haha, this is so awesome and kind of funny. Just out of curiosity, I heard you mention you like to play seated sometimes, so Skryim VR is completely playable seated?

[@liquidvitriol4363]

Claiming that this is a "one click installation" isnt even an exaggeration. its a flat out lie lol this shit took me most of my day to get running and even now that it is running, every time i start i get a new error code or issue and it crashes after about 3 minutes

[@tukier4239]

Downloaded the modlist, and it just immediatly crashed the moment I started up skyrim VR via Mod Organiser it just send me to the game and then it immediatly turned my screen black and the game crashed on my PC

[@tukier4239]

there wasn't a crash log or anything like that, it just stopped working it may be releted to me using Steam Link on skyrim VR I don't know tho, anyway I uninstalled the modlist because no skyrim VR modlists work for me anyway

[@tukier4239]

been tryin to fix it for a long time but it just doesn't work

[@nyro1994]

Now that's a guide video done right.

[@paldamoeba]

thank you a lot for this video. awesome!!!

[@atyaatdsau13]

I can't find the ENB options anywhere :C . Thanks for the vid tho

[@cartermcmahon9920]

best video out there on this thx

[@OpenSorce]

Great guide, thank you. Sorry if I missed this but you said you use Virtual Desktop. How do launch Skyrim? Did you make a batch file for it or do you use the mod organizer from the Desktop inside VRD?