If you ever fiddled with uGrids in Skyrim you surely know what they are already, but I'll summarise quickly in case you blindly used some tool to do it for you without fully understanding what was happening. I'm going to cover uGrids first, because it might well be the only issue you face, and will spare you from the more complicated savegame editing I had to do. One was a heavy reliance on SKSE-based mods, which by and large are far more problematic for Skyrim SE than ones simply loaded directly by the game. It turned out that I had two separate problems.

The bad news is that it took me bloody ages to get it working, but the extra good news is that, by telling you what I did, you should be able to achieve it far more quickly. In the meantime, it's a lottery as to whether your saves will work. (However, third party attempts have got some of its features working already, so there is hope yet).

In time, more mods will be rejiggered to work 100% comfortably with the Special Edition, and that will, in theory, iron out quite a few of the savegame incompatibilities - although it may be some time before popular mod loader SKSE gets ported, and the creators of the damn-near essential user interface mod SkyUI say they have no current plans to adapt it. Some folk have been lucky and gotten away with nothing more than a missing content warning message, but others have been completely locked out, usually in the form of a crash to desktop when Skyrim Special Edition tries to load the save. However, if you ran Skyrim with mods, there is a very strong likelihood that the saves will not work. Here's how you can do it too.Īs we noted last week, the Skyrim Special Edition will load up Skyrim saves, via the simple act of copying the files from My Documents - My Games - Skyrim - Saves to My Documents - My Games - Skyrim Special Edition - Saves. It has been a long and tiresome job, but I have achieved it.

But, for reasons that are part bloody-mindedness and part wincing at the prospect of having to redo so much armour crafting from the start, I have been absolutely determined to get my old saves and characters working in last week's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. I cannot in good conscience pretend to recall what my motivations were the last time I played it - what quests I cared about, what guild or weapon or house I was pursuing. My most recent Skyrim save is three years old.

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