With the right mods, Skyrim can look like a modern next-gen game. It also helps if you have a beastly PC.
Modder Hodilton has cranked Skyrim Special Edition up to the max with a ton of mods to flex NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 at 4K, and the results are absolutely incredible. Using a RT mod alongside Reshade, Skyrim gets reborn into an insanely detailed RPG that could easily be re-released on today's platforms, and might give us an idea of what The Elder Scrolls 6 could look like on Bethesda's next-gen Creation Engine 2.
It's worth noting this isn't actual native RT support. Hodilton uses Marty McFly's raytracing mod (created by Pascal Gilcher) which only uses screen-space raytracing/ambient occlusion, not the actual second-gen RT cores found in the RTX 3090.
Remember that Microsoft is currently experimenting with DirectML machine learning algorithms to help upscale resolution similar to DLSS and Fidelity FX Super Resolution.
Check below for a list of mods used for this video, but for the RT you'll need to subscribe to Marty McFly's patreon.
Full Mod list
- FNENB - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43998
- TKV6 ENB - https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/i2sfu9/tkv6_enb_download/
- Folkvangr - Grass and Landscape Overhaul - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/44899
- Origins Of Forest - 3D Forest Grass https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/45719
- QW's Grass Patch - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/48689
- The Jedi Trees - (Google)
- Wavy Waters - Water Parallax for ENB https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/25880
- Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/266
- Noble Skyrim Mod HD-2K https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21423
- JK's Skyrim https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6289
- Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/659
- Majestic Mountains https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11052Solitude Expansion
- Skyrim particle patch for ENB http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1499
- Enhanced Lights and FX https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2424
- RUGNAROK - Special Edition - 2K https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5436
- SkySight Skins https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6580
- Enhanced Blood Textures https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2357
- A Quality World Map https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5804
- aMidianBorn Book of Silence - Armors https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24909
- aMidianBorn Book of Silence - Creatures https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24909
- SSELODGen https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66421
- SKSE https://skse.silverlock.org/
- Hi Poly Male Body https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12330
- No Spinning Death Animation https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1432
