Current indication is that the “special edition” is little more than a 64-bit compile and some new shaders. Porting the mods may very well be no more effort than opening them and saving them again with the Creation Kit.

Chances are the hardest part will be the script extender.

Yeah, yeah got it separate game. Still i insist in my other points.

https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/742200753520050176

The 64bit Remastered Version CAN’T operate overtop of the original Skyrim. It is its own program, 100%!

Frankly, i don’t see you getting compatible versions of Falskaar, Moonpath To Elsweyr, Helgen Reborn etc etc etc anytime soon. Those people have moved on. As did i, after a 1000 hours of playtime in Skyrim. Instead of replaying Skyrim i highly suggest playing The Witcher 3 (with both expansions) which is even better!

True. I cannot link my sources (and I don’t remember how I got there, to be honest), which is why I am unsure and post it as such. But I do remember them mentioning that it will be a separate installation.

There will be a new creation kit to go with the new remastered version of Skyrim.

As a counter-argument to your suggestion that one not get the new version, many of the effects that the mods bring will be incorporated into the new official version, so there will be less difficulty and conflicts with getting them configured. Second, and more importantly, old skyrim runs on a 32-bit executable. New skyrim runs on a 64-bit executable, and will have a lot more ram to play with.

I’m a crazy person and will happily play Skyrim all over again (for like the 5th time), but I do sincerely hope that SkyUI, Convenient Horses, and Deadly dragons get ported over. Okay, and maybe that flaming horse mod, because that thing is just cool.

First he never said he was sure (“sources… sounds like…”). Read his post again. You seem pretty sure on the other hand, and i believe you. Kudos to Bethesda for the new version, but the modded Skyrim overall is a much better experience thank you very much. So, as i said, If you just bought Skyrim do yourself a favor, do not install the new version prefer the modded one!

But like he just wrote, you won’t have any problems because it will show up as a separate product both in Steam and NMM. So you’re whining about a nonexistent problem.

Many mods change Skyrims’ map, graphics and mechanics, some times dramatically (SkyUI, quest mods, unofficial patches etc) because of SKSE. So if we have two separate installations okay, but if your Skyrim remastered in installed above your current installation boy you are in for some problems!

From other sources, it sounds like the remastered version of Skyrim will be a game independent of the original. That means that while the mods may or may not work with the new version, it should not affect your original Skyrim installation.