Today we will tell you how to install SKSE on Skyrim. Skyrim Script Extender is a third-party plugin for PC. This is one of the main and necessary tools that allows you to update, modify and create mods. Modifications are edits of program codes taken from the game for a more personalized setting. If you want to change Skyrim directly on your computer, this can only be done after installing SKSE. Next, we will describe in detail how to use the specified tool.
Getting
So, we move on to a step-by-step solution to the question of how to install the SKSE mod on Skyrim. First of all, download the tool we need. You can get SKSE on the developer's portal. We choose not the “installer”, but the “7z archive”. Self-installer sometimes causes problems. Most often, the process runs more smoothly if all of its steps go independently. Next, to solve the issue of how to install SKSE on Skyrim, download and install 7-Zip. This is a free archiving program. It opens files in 7z format. It can also be obtained for free on the developer's portal.
Unpacking
We proceed to the next step in resolving the issue of how to install SKSE on Skyrim, and unpack the files of the resulting archive with the modification. To do this, after installing 7-Zip, right-click on the archive. In the menu that appears, select the item 7-Zip, and then “Extract”. A directory with unpacked files will be created in the same directory. Next, to solve the issue of how to install SKSE on Skyrim, we find the directory with the game. Skyrim works with Steam, so we search in the folder of this tool. We will follow the standard path, if the installation of the game was carried out in manual mode, it may differ from that described. Open drive C. Go to the Program Files directory. Go to the Steam folder. Next, open the steammapps, common and skyrim directories. We go to the folder that contains the extracted files. We do this in a separate window.As a result, we get two separate simultaneously open directories: Skyrim and SKSE.