Here's our list of the best Skyrim Special Edition mods (opens in new tab) to help you find more, or see what you're missing. If you've got Skyrim through Game Pass, you'll still be able to use Alternate Start-Live Another Life (opens in new tab), A Quality World Map (opens in new tab), Inigo (opens in new tab), and The Forgotten City (opens in new tab). There are still great mods out there that don't require SKSE, however, like those collected at (opens in new tab).
#HOW TO INSTALL SKYRIM SCRIPT EXTENDER WITHOUT STEAM ARCHIVE#
Install Steam and purchase the digital media from the Steam store - Navigate to the Steam website, download the installer, and launch 'SteamSetup.exe' (see first video link above). SKSE install Download from Youll need 7zip (or winrar) to open the file after download and for step 3 Make sure you take the file for your version of the game: Preliminary AE build 2.1.4 (runtime 1.6.342): 7z archive - is for the SE Anniversary Upgrade (This is the version as of this writing these numbers can change with future updates, not the instrctions) 1. So no SkyUI (opens in new tab) or Legacy of the Dragonborn (opens in new tab) then. Purchase the physical Skyrim DVD from a retailer - Run 'Setup.exe,' and follow the on-screen instructions to install Steam and Skyrim (see second video link above). "Windows Store applications are locked down similarly to consoles and do not allow the APIs necessary for script extenders to work." "SKSE cannot support any potential Windows Store release of Skyrim", it says.
According to the SKSE webpage (opens in new tab), it may stay that way. Without SKSE, many of the most popular and ambitious mods won't work. The Game Pass edition of Skyrim Special Edition has a different executable to the Steam release, and is incompatible with the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE).