That’s where the modding community comes in. There are a ton of custom-made extras out there that can give TES5 a much-needed facelift. One Skyrim fan modded the game so much it looks almost like real life, and there are just as many gameplay mods and bug fixes as there are ways to improve the visuals. Of course, as the graphics become higher in fidelity, the game requires more juice to cope with the severe increase in details. In some cases, the most modern GPUs become a necessity to combat any potential loss of frames.
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That’s what the YouTube channel Digital Dreams has done in this instance. Their latest video shows footage from an “ultra modded” version of Skyrim, which looks absolutely fantastic. Utilizing the Elysium Remastered mod, which overhauls the game’s visuals, as well as the aforementioned RTX 4000 series graphics card, it not only looks outstanding as the player moves about this slice of Tamriel, but also plays well, running at 60 fps with 4K visuals.
Nvidia revealed its RTX 4090 GPU in September, with the product becoming available recently. It represents the next generation in graphical hardware, with its biggest rival AMD hot on its heels. Whether this footage of Skyrim running on the new card is doing a lot for the framerate cannot be certain, but it’s not going to make things worse. In general, the video shows that an 11-year-old game can be modded so much that it can look and feel like a brand-new release.
Digital Dreams is known for releasing videos of this ilk. Recently, they showed what The Witcher 3 looks like with an RTX 4090, with the game also coming with a slew of modifications installed. Evidently, the channel is proud of being able to get hold of some new tech and is only too keen to show it off. It remains to be seen whether Skyrim can possibly look any better with the help of additional visual mods and some even better hardware that could come in the future.
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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