{"id":21502,"date":"2011-12-02T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=21502"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:54:38","slug":"how-to-install-skyrim-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-install-skyrim-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Skyrim mods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want to improve or change Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/strong><\/a> on PC<\/strong>? Here’s how to install a mod<\/strong> in Bethesda’s huge role-playing epic:<\/p>\n

1:<\/strong> Choose your mod and download it<\/strong>. There are tons of mods on offer; for this guide example I’m going to install an enhanced night sky, called Enhanced Night Skyrim. This adds an attractive colored galaxy effect at night. You can find a range of Mods at Skyrimnexus<\/a>, and a good selection here at Softonic too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2:<\/strong> Unzip, or expand your file<\/strong>. Almost all mods are offered in compressed form, either ZIP or RAR files. We use free app IZArc<\/a><\/strong> to decompress files. To open a compressed file, simply right click, and choose ‘Open with IZArc’. Open the target folder and leave it.<\/p>\n

3:<\/strong> Open your Skyrim folder<\/strong>. You have to move your mods in here, so lets find it now. Open Windows Explorer, double click your hard drive (C:), then open the folder Program Files (x86)<\/strong>, then Steam<\/strong>, then steamapps<\/strong>, then common<\/strong>, then skyrim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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4:<\/strong> Move your mod file<\/strong>. Finally, we’re here! Now, simply drag the mod folder\u00a0 – in this case it’s called textures<\/strong> – into the folder called ‘Data<\/strong>‘ in skyrim. That’s it! When you next run Skyrim, you’ll see your mod has taken effect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you want to improve or change Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on PC? Here’s how to install a mod in Bethesda’s huge role-playing epic: 1: Choose your mod and download it. There are tons of mods on offer; for this guide example I’m going to install an enhanced night sky, called Enhanced Night Skyrim. This … Continue reading “How to install Skyrim mods”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[1090,1095,1085,1102,1080,1086],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-ps4","tag-rpg","tag-windows","tag-xbox-one"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333992,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions\/333992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}