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The best Solitude mods, merged together into a single plugin, with multiple fixes, tweaks and enhancements.

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| LE | SSE | Added Content | Files Guide 


ENHANCED SOLITUDE


For a capital city, vanilla Solitude is underwhelming. Solitude Docks aren't much better either.  Mods can fix this, but bringing them all together under one roof is no easy task. However, I've been busy, and finally have a version of the Capital I'm proud to share.  This is my vision of Solitude, and IMO it’s the best Solitude overhaul to date. It’s huge, it’s gorgeous and it Just Works TM.

I've overhauled the city using the best Solitude Mods I could find, and Enhanced Solitude uses the excellent Solitude Reborn as it’s base, an outstanding piece of work by CaptainSwoop, Brytag and Reindeer51, who deserve special credit. That mod alone has thousands of man hrs involved in its construction and adds an amazing amount of content. Just look at it’s description.
  
Combine that with all the other mods I’ve introduced and Enhanced Solitude comprises an insane amount of work, worthy of a DLC, but it’s here, free, for everyone! This is because it’s a community project. A modding community unlike any other, which is absolutely worth defending and fostering as It is this very community which made all of this possible. There's a reason it's the most modded game in existence. Let's keep it that way!


Another major part of the mod is individual building re-textures for all of Solitude. The textures are selected to reflect the owners circumstances, the buildings age and its location. This adds real diversity to the city and feels unique. I have also made a vanilla version of this texture overhaul, which doesn't require anything else except the vanilla game.

I have made an optional mod called Enhanced Ships of Solitude. This lightweight mod places new ship models in and around Solitude docks. The mod also includes new UltraHD Ship Lods plus other updates to vanilla ship lods, which need DynDOLOD to work.

Finally, a note on versions. This mod is a hungry beast. On Classic, its sub 30FPS in some spots. It's still perfectly playable though and whilst I have optimized this mod, it really shines in SSE. Therefore SSE will see the focus of this mod’s development.

If you need better performance and increased FPS, you can utilise Frame Gen - e.g. this Steam app (Lossless Scaling) . LS doubles (can triple) frames and im getting 45 avg FPS in Enhanced Soilitude, running alongside 3.5k mods. LS works with old hardware, ENB and does FG and Scaling seperately. Try it out and refund it if it's not for you, but for me, it's like Skyrim finally got the drawcall issue fixed. LS allows me to run the full ES and ESD combo plus Kainalten, Serenity, Priory Of The Cape avg 45 FPS in exteriors, which is perfectly playable.


FEATURES
  • Huge amount of content from the Nexus best modders
  • New market area with stalls, merchants and shiny stuff for sale
  • Several player homes including the excellent “The Rookery” by Elianora
  • Swinging glass lanterns including hand picked stained glass versions, like the witch version, for The Rookery...
  • Illuminated Blue Palace Courtyard with updated lighting
  • New buildings, statics, and much more  
  • Many new shops with custom items
  • New ship models for the docks
  • New restaurant available to purchase
  • New individual building textures for each building
  • New escape routes for Vittoria's Wedding Quest
  • Updated Navmesh, AI packages, FaceGeom and too many other fixes I can't remember.
  • Overhauled lighting for v2


COMPATIBILITY INFORMATION: 
Enhanced Solitude SSE is compatible with AE.

Enhanced Solitude already contains the following mods.  If you have those mods in your game, you will have to disable them, because Enhanced Solitude already contains them. 

Mods which edit Solitude City are likely INCOMPATIBLE with Enhanced Solitude
Mods which edit Solitude Docks should be COMPATIBLE with Enhanced Solitude
Mods which edit Solitude Docks should be COMPATIBLE with the Enhanced Ship module

Lanterns Of Skyrim II is COMPATIBLE
Better Docks is COMPATIBLE
ELFX is COMPATIBLE
Blowing in the Wind is COMPATIBLE
Immersive Citizens AI Overhaul is COMPATIBLE by following Load Order Rules
Serenity is COMPATIBLE with K747 Patch (LE - Ask for details)
Solitude Skyway is COMPATIBLE 
Proudspire Manor mods are COMPATIBLE 
Palaces and Castles Enhanced is COMPATIBLE
Kainalten Keep is COMPATIBLE
The Great City of Solitude is COMPATIBLE
Realistic Solitude Arch is COMPATIBLE
TPOS2 is COMPATIBLE

This information from LOSII modpage is incorrect
Lantern Workers is compatible with Enhanced Solitude and Enhanced Solitude Docks with this patch


Another Skyrim Solitude is NOT COMPATIBLE
Towns and Villages Enhanced - Solitude is NOT-COMPATIBLE

PATCHES AVAILABLE
SEE STICKY POST FOR MORE INFO


INSTALLATION:
Suggested Load Order


Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp
Enhanced Solitude.esp (esm)
Enhanced Solitude Docks.esp (esm) (optional)
Other Mods
Other ES Patches
ES Terrain Patch at the bottom, after any other mods that edit terrain, like Water For ENB, grass mods etc
Dont forget to update your grass cache


SPECIAL THANKS:
I owe a very special thanks to Dunc001, ElSopa and MrNeverLost, a group of guys who have supported me throughout and provided a continuous stream of knowledge, artwork, fixes, files, links, laughs, lots of laughs, in fact some of the funniest stuff I've had the fortune to enjoy, and keeping me sane when life tries otherwise...basically ensuring these mods actually made it.

Thanks guys for everything!


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