Skyrim Looks like a Completely Different Game Running on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 with Ray Tracing and Over 500 Mods

[Tsing]

Image: Digital Dreams



The fifth installment of Bethesda Game Studios’ Elder Scroll series is nearly ten years old now, but that hasn’t stopped the modding community from flexing its creativity and amping up the visuals of the epic fantasy RPG to such an extent that it could pass for some as a next-gen title.



This was recently demonstrated in a 4K video shared by Digital Dreams, which shows Skyrim running with an insane amount of mods (over 500) that completely overhaul the game’s visuals in myriad ways that include ray tracing, realistic lighting, and beautiful, high-resolution textures.



An ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card was used to run this heavily modded version of Skyrim, but it seems that not even NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce GPU could cope all that well with the demanding package. Most of the scenes seem to be running at under 60 FPS...

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[Denpepe]

Well duh, it looks like a different game, it is a different game, as for the low fps there is a reason the game looked the way it did back then if you wanted it to run a a pc from back then.

Imagine if a couple people who realy new their stuff would compile these mods in 1 or a couple mods iso hundreds, it might actually run somewhat better too.

Not that I know a lot about modding, I used to dabble a bit in build lvlbuilding and some Q2 maps, got bored of that sort of stuff pretty fast.