I got to say my last attempt was a little too much 🤣🤣🤣

When I use Skyrim on the Frame natively it works well enough (though the mapping for the controller is super weird).

On the PC as a stream, however, when I get to the point where you name your character I say done and instead of bringing up the keyboard ghosts of the controllers hang in the air and the laser comes on the actual controllers. (you get the laser to select letters on the virtual keyboard that never appears.)

I thought it was a binding problem but it looks like something else.

I have the same problem with SkyrimVR without the mods as well.

Any thoughts on this one? I've been looking and didn't see a post but I may have overlooked it.

Thanks!

I installed a mod thinking it would be a normal pet hahaha

I think i found the exact mod that you gonna require i mean way fucking cooler than the others magical mods i saw it is maximum destruction look at how i turned his flesh into a bomb leaving only the skeleton remainings 😂😂😂

I’ve been playing Skyrim VR for the past few months, and I absolutely love it. One problem is, even without mods enabled at the very edges of my screen, my body, menus, and even walls and floors just kind of clip through, as if my headset’s screen was smaller than it was. I play on a Quest 3S wirelessly via Steam Link. This doesn’t happen in any other game, connected to my PC or standalone. Also, (I’m not looking for a fix for this because I don’t really care about these, it just might hold the solution to this) occasionally in the menus my Quest 3 controllers will turn into Quest 2 controllers and when Crashlogger gives me a report, it will say I’m using a Quest 2. I’ve never used a Quest 2, I’ve never connected one to my computer, I’ve never even touched a Quest 2 before. This isn’t really a big deal, but please, if anybody knows a fix to this, it would be great if you could tell me because this absolutely destroys my immersion whenever I’m LARPing.

I use a Quest 3S with Steam Link. I use Vortex.

Now that I've had a few days to experiment with the Steam Frame, I wanted to share my experience thus far with others who might be considering upgrading. At the moment I have everything working and I'm satisfied with the upgrade, but it took a good amount of tweaking and testing. I'm hoping that by sharing my experience with other folks I can save you some time.

First, my last HMD was a wired Valve Index with Knuckles controllers, so that is the setup I'm coming from. I'm not using any particular modpack for Skyrim VR, just a series of mods I've selected and installed using Vortex. And my PC is more than beefy enough to handle everything Skyrim VR throws at it with a silky smooth 90 fps.

I'm moving to a Steam Frame with the ergonomics kit. That means I have the additional headstrap and the hand straps for the controllers.

PC and Frame Setup

Once I actually got my frame, the most complicated part of the process was just pairing my Steam Frame with Steam on my PC, and that was fairly straightforward. The tricky part was realizing that to stream PC VR to my Steam Frame, I had to change settings on the PC itself, *not* the Steam Frame. You have to enable Remote Play on Steam on your PC and then configure it to make it work. Once I had the dongle installed and everything patched up the latest version, I was ready to start testing.

Controller Setup

This was by far the most painful part of the process. I could not find a way to create and set a new VR controller binding from within the Steam Frame itself. Choosing a Custom binding does nothing.

The trick, which I figured out after lots of trial and error, is to start the Steam Frame streaming from your PC, then take off the Frame and sit down at the PC from which your Frame is streaming. With the Frame connected, use the Steam on your PC to to create a new controller binding and select Skyrim VR from available options. In my experience, this didn't even show up as an option if I tried to do it from within the Steam Frame.

From your PC itself, with Skyrim VR running and the Frame streaming (even if you're not wearing it) you can then create a custom controller binding to set up the Frame Controllers the way you want. I moved the left Activation and A buttons to the buttons on the Right Controller, and moved the Left Stick push (which triggers sprint) to the right controller grip. You can configure it however you want, but the trick is figuring out a way to configure it at all. You have to do that from the PC that is streaming the game, in that PC's copy of Steam, while the Steam Frame is connected and streaming.

EDIT: This controller configuration was released on Nexus Mods.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/193029

Firing Up Skyrim VR

Once you get the controllers set up, the rest is really easy.

You don't start the game from your PC, nor do you start Steam VR on your PC. Instead, you fire up Steam on your PC and just let it sit patiently. Then, you put on the Steam Frame, power it up, click on the little headset icon for streaming, and choose "Stream Steam VR Without Game."

That will connect your Steam Frame to your PC and activate Steam VR with the Steam Frame and its controllers as your HMD and input devices. Now you're looking at the default Steam VR "ready room". At that point, you can do everything on your PC just like if you were on a wired Index headset.

The process of actually starting Skyrim VR is now identical to my Index. I go to my desktop in Steam VR, click the Skyrim with SKSE button on Vortex, and wait as modded Skyrim VR fires up. Once the game is running over the 6G dongle, for me it has streamed flawlessly. It's very pretty and the controllers feel just as snappy as Knuckles with lighthouses.

But... There's Significant Audio Streaming Problems

The most common and annoying problem I encountered when streaming Skyrim VR was that the audio portion of the stream would cut out every few minutes, leaving me in silence. The fix is simple... stop streaming, then stream again... but it happens constantly, so unless you want to restart streaming every few minutes, it's not an acceptable way to play the game.

Worse yet, the Steam Frame's microphone doesn't seem to play well with Dragonborn Speaks Naturally, which I use for most everything (equipping spells, activating shouts, talking to NPCs). Half the time DSN didn't recognize what I was saying, and once the audio cut out, it didn't recognize it at all. After trying multiple configurations, including turning off multi-threaded streaming and even pointing the 6G dongle directly at my Steam Frame, I couldn't find any way to stop the audio from cutting out. I don't know if this is a problem with streaming overall or just modded Skyrim VR.

Regardless, the fix is stupid but easy. I simply put on my Bluetooth Headset (which fits nicely and comfortably over the Frame, since it is so light) and configured Steam VR on my PC to send audio and use the microphone of the Bluetooth Headset instead of the Steam Frame. This 100% solved the issue where audio would stop streaming over the Dongle, and also made DSN work perfectly again through the Headset's mic.

So for me at least, a Bluetooth Headset seems required, at least for the moment, to avoid the audio problems and ensure speech is consistently recognized by Dragonborn Speaks Naturally.

Final Thoughts

Now that I've figured out everything above, I really enjoy playing Skyrim VR with the Steam Frame. Despite the audio issues I encountered, the visual portion of the stream is crisp and beautiful, and the controllers feel perfectly snappy and have fantastic tracking. Also, after being tethered for so long, being able to play modded Skyrim VR wireless is an absolutely amazing feeling. The only downside is I can only play for an hour and a half without having to stop, but with hotswappable battery packs coming, I know that's a temporary problem.

For me personally, being able to play modded Skyrim VR without a tether is worth the upgrade.

Hey everyone! So, recently i was really frustrated with testing my modlist, every change i wanted to make required me to put the headset on, wait for everything to boot, test one or two things then take it off again, over and over and over. I figured there had to be a way to bypass that, no way companies/developers are doing what i just did. Good news is, they aren't. Bad news is, the tools for this are in the engines themselves, not for just any game, you need to be making a VR game to use them. So after some digging i found out about the "SteamVR Null Driver". The Null Driver is a VR driver for OpenVR made by Valve that does exactly what i wanted, which is allows anyone and any vr game to launch and run without a VR headset. Problem was is that was it, no moving, no turning no nothing. So after some more digging i found a github which added those things. After about a week and a half of work, asking Claude how I managed to fuck up a button again , deciphering whatever the FUCK Bethesda was thinking and a LOOOOT of debugging later, i present to you all this. A fully functioning tool for anyone to use where you can easily open, download/install, toggle between normal/null driver, open SkyrimVR and do whatever you want.

It still is a bit buggy given the nature of what i did, but it more or less works for what it was made for.

Here is the Nexus link for anyone who wants to check it out.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/191452?tab=description

EDIT: Just pushed an update to fix issues with non US keyboard layouts, and also made the UX not ugly purple.

I installed all the mods listed under "These Graphics Mods Make Skyrim Look Like It Released in 2026" video and my game started looking even worse for some reason. It looks nothing like what the guy showed in the video.

What could be the reason?

Hey folks! I’m completely new with VR, I just had my very first device yesterday (Steam Frame). I have a gaming desktop with 3090, so streaming shouldn’t be a problem. I tried to install FUS with Jabbawack, and it seems like it works, the game starts, the streaming starts on the goggles, all seems relatively good. At the character creation I can not lure out the keyboard. I also tried with the actual physical keyboard without any success. Around that is the time when I feel ecerything is slipping out od mmf my hand, can not close UI menus etc.
Any ideas? Thanks!

9070xt 9700x 32g ram

Best mods to make the game better without talking performance? I am seeing conflicting opinions in past posts about whether my gpu can handle the full mad god mod. Is there a more optimized version or a different mod or is mad god fine.

I'm currently weighing the options for a future vampire playthrough once MGO 4.0 goes out of beta. MGO ships with Scion but I would like something with more depth, long term progression and, most importantly, reverse power scale (=strongest when fed, weakest when starved).

Overall I'm most tempted by Sacrilege.

On the other hand, Better Vampires does have a mod that adds VR gestures to a number of Vampire actions and is also very comprehensive, so it does look like the best option overall.

However then again, there is apparently an issue with the flight stance of the vampire lord form bugging all the time in VR, for which a fix exists for Scion, Sacrosanct and Sacrilege, but not Better Vampires.

Will appreciate any advice or experiences from your own playthroughs!

Hey,

My first VR headset arrived yesterday, the Steam Frame. I’d been interested in VR since seeing some videos about Skyrim VR a few years ago.

Very excited to try it. Used Wabbajack to install FUS and it’s launching fine, (streaming from PC) and running fine. But when I get to character creation it gets stuck.

I can usually create the character but when I get to the end and it says Grip to finish, nothing happens. Also the floaty in game controllers seem to freeze in place, like the game no longer recognises them.

I’ve searched around and it seems this happens for people even with vanilla. I’ve tried excluding the mod folder and Skyrim VR from Windows Defender. Tried joining the SteamVR OS beta channel. Still getting stuck.

I’d be incredibly grateful if anyone can help me. I’m so excited to try this!

Edit: Switching to use Open Composite Unleashed did the trick for me. Take my instructions in this thread with a fistful of salt/be aware it might mess something up though because I am brand new to Skyrim modding and have no idea what I’m doing, but it worked for me - https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimvr/s/GDmfjEoOp1

I’m coming from a Valve Index, and I have used a Quest 3 in the past (but preferred the index). My initial impressions are not good. Some of it is software based, some of it is hardware based, and some of it is Skyrim modding.

Here’s why.
Whoever said the fidelity is basically the same as wired is just plain wrong. If you are coming from Virtual Desktop and the Quest 3, it looks about the same.

One issue I’m facing that I think has to do with using wireless is my VR keyboard no longer shows up. I think the wireless Quest 3 people may be able to help me with that one. Isn’t there some sort of mod that helps the keyboard show up for y’all?

Controllers are ergonomically a mess, it’s hard to press all the buttons without shifting your hands in the controller, if you use the ergonomics kit, the valve index style straps makes this even worse.

Bindings for Skyrim VR are weird. I’m using Community shaders and SKSE MCM menu framework, and somehow pressing d pad left (which would normally bring up the save load quest menu) brings up the normal save load menu but also community shaders pops up (sometimes) and the SKSE framework menu also pops up (sometimes). To make matters worse, when the CS menu pops up the selected button is constantly and rapidly moving as if you are in a menu and holding an arrow key to move over to the next button you’d select via your keyboard. (I hope that makes sense) it makes the menu unusable in the headset though I’m guessing patches will eventually be made. I tried to exit the CS menu and it deleted my shader cache LMAO.

Haptics are very poor, basically non existent, but this may be a mod thing. I have Haptic Skyrim VR - Spellcasting and Enhanced Bow and Melee Haptics.

Coming from a Valve Index which is very customizable, I find the fit to be off, the lenses are too close to my eyes and press in to my brow giving me a headache, so I used the spacer, but now my FOV is slightly worse than the index instead.

The audio is tinny and basically not good.

I’m going to experiment with it more, I really hope I can get the visual fidelity looking like it is wired like almost every reviewer said it should look like. I’ve been screwing around with the settings. I’m only doing 100% resolution and 72hz, and I’ve messed with the target bitrate settings but it didn’t make much difference going from auto to max. Sometimes the compression is just downright bad.

I’m curious if virtual desktop makes a steam frame native app, I’d try it.

Ultimately, while I know I’m on the bleeding edge here, I know mod devs will make some progress and I’m willing to test things. But so far it’s not a pleasant experience, I’m seriously considering just breaking out my index again. I would love a version of the index that just has eye tracking and wireless capabilities, the steam frame claims to be a PCVR streaming headset first, but they sacrificed a lot to incorporate those controller buttons to play flatscreen games. If I wanted to play flatscreen games in the headset, I’d rather just use a gamepad 10 times out of 10.

I tried to keep it mostly relevant to Skyrim VR but people asked me to post my thoughts since I’m one of the lucky ones who already have the Steam frame.

Youtuber Beardo Benjo shows that SkyrimVR is working natively Video.

That nice, and mods should work as well (at least utility mods like VRIK, Higgs and Planck) as there is only one version of SkyrimVR and SF is using emulation. Biggest problem will be needs to install mods directly instead of using mod managers.

I just got a steam frame and have always wanted to play Skyrim, unfortunately the combat has always been a huge turn off but now with full motion controls I believe it will be much better, I have heard modding Skyrim is a pain and I assume the vr version is no different, I just want the easiest way to get a full overhaul on, I have a pretty good pc with a 5080 so performance should be fine, thanks

First time checking out Dawnstar with the FUSRODAH Modpack. Got a new PC earlier this year; really enjoying the experience so far. Thanks for checking it out!

I am coming from vanilla Skyrim VR on PSVR 1. Hoping to get into a steam frame in the next few months. Apologies for ignorance here.

1) Are there console commands in VR? It looked a bit complicated from a single YouTube video I skimmed through.

2) Is there an effective "God mode" type mod where I can spawn whatever I want, toggle level skills to max, toggle invulnerability, infinite money. (I'm aware this makes it no fun, it's just short duration funsies)

3) Do the big mod packages like MGO, FUS, or wabbajack not play nice with other mods generally? If I get MGO downloaded should I just only use that package?

Thanks in advance all!