A resourceful Youtuber shows how good Skyrim can still look after more than ten years. To do so, he uses over 1,500 mods and reshade ray tracing.
Skyrim is traditionally modded a lot and with pleasure. A new video now shows what else is graphically possible in the game, which is over ten years old. To achieve this, a Youtuber applied more than 1,500 mods and used the Reshade RTGI filter, which is supposed to simulate ray tracing.
The video comes from the YouTube channel (Digital Dreams), which deals extensively with graphic mods and has many more impressive videos to offer. We particularly liked the Skyrim video, however, because it virtually retreads a beloved classic.
With all the mods, the walk through the game world is even more fun. You can see the video here:
It’s not perfect
It’s not perfect either
Skyrim: Elysium Remastered, as the modders from Digital Dreams call the project. Especially in the battle scenes, you can see the game’s old roots. Opponents seem clumsy and movements unnatural. At least this way we know that we are still dealing with Skyrim.
There is no information about the performance or hardware requirements of the project. However, Digital Dreams lets us know what hardware was used. The system has quite a lot to offer:
- Graphics card: ASUS TUF Geforce RTX 3090
- Processor: Ryzen 9 3900X, 4.5 Ghz
- RAM: Corsair Vengance 32 GByte
- M2 SSD: Samsung Evo 970
- SSD: Crucial MX500 (2 TByte)
- Mainboard: Asus Prime X470 Pro
If you want to recreate the Elysium Remastered mod package yourself on your own PC, you can. The complete mod list including installation instructions can be found on (Github). The reshade filter on the other hand is only available by payment via (Patreon) as used by (Digital Dreams).
Mods give new life to games
The fact that we can change some of our favourite games through mods, and that virtually anyone can contribute to them, opens up many possibilities. Most recently, for example, we really liked a mod for fancier forests in Skyrim
What do you think about mods? Do you like to modify your games or do you prefer to play them the way the developers intended? Feel free to let us know!
