Let's face it, we are a special set of players with special needs.
1 Monitor is not enough and thus most of us have 3 :D
Skyrim like Oblivion before it has a much greater potential than the vanilla experience in the hands the community and it's modders. WSGF is at the front of this idea with Haydens multi-monitor fix. Without it playing the game in surround would not really even be possible (special note to Helifax's fix as well)
However due to the special circumstances that we play with a higher resolution/fov certain mods that others use may not work well for us. So I would like to put together a little database of the mods we use in multi-monitor mode so that others can come here and get the shortlist of the best mods to use and know what to expect when using them.
Here is the template.
> Mod Name
> Description
> Download Location
> Does the mod have any negative effects in performance or compatibility?
The last field is key, a mod that drops 3fps for a single screen user and uses up an extra 500MB of RAM for textures may cause a 2GB RAM demand and a 25fps loss in multi-monitor. Other mods possibly wont work at all in multi-monitor mode or could break compatibility with Haydens fix. So that is why we need to pool our knowledge together and share our experiences/results.
I'll start us off with the 4 that I use currently (pretty much the standard I think for everybody)
Mod Name: Haydens Skyrim Multi-Monitor Fix
Description: This is the most important tool for surround players fixing the numerous distortions and game errors when trying to play with surround mode.
Download: You should be able to always find the latest version here at WSGF in the games
Detailed Report
Notes: This is a must, without it the game is pretty much not playable. No performance hit detected with mod enabled.
Mod Name: Skyboost (Skyrim Boost)
Description: This is the successor of TESVAL, it free's up CPU resources by fixing a lot of the games native code and thus gives a lot of users a pretty heafty fps increase.
Download: The authors home site: http://alexander.sannybuilder.com/?category=other&altname=skyrim_boost
Notes: Another must have, no reason to not free up some cpu overhead and perhaps get some performance increase out of it.
Mod Name: SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender)
Description: The core working for Skyboost and TESVAL it is needed for those mods and also a foundation for other mods. You will need/want to have this installed as it fixes a lot of stuff with the game.
Download: The authors home site: http://skse.silverlock.org/
Notes: This is needed for other mods to work, so install this and get it working. No performance hit for multi-monitor.
Mod Name: SkyUI
Description: One of the most popular custom UI for the game, it's said to be more "PC orientated" and less "Console" allowing you to see more information on screen at once and its better organized.
Download: This one you will want to get from the
Skyrim Nexus
Notes: I feel this is a much much better UI than stock but yet does not detour far away from the original look. Still not completed but worth using. No performance hit with this mod, works fine in multi-monitor.
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