So I see you guys are all Skyrim veterans and so you are trying out all sorts of mods.
But I am a total newbie to Skyrim.
Yes, never played it. And I want to.
Please tell me which mods you recommend I get based on this:
1 - I would really like to keep an unaltered, vanilla gameplay experience (so no rebalance mods, no extra npcs mods, no tweaked items, no combat mods, no extra weapons etc).
2 - 60fps at 2560x1080 and minor AA (like FXAA is fine for me, or say the cheapest 4x) no other forced quality settings like Anisotropic or anything really. I have a GTX970 4GB, an i5 6600K (minor overclock cant remember now), 16GB DDR4 and 2x Samsung 850 Evos in Raid0.
3 - I would like visual enhancing mods mostly. Beauty. Eye candy. Textures, lighting etc. But if one of the recommended mods is too taxing on the system I'd gladly let it go. I value smooth fps more than stretching those final 3% of image quality. For instance in Witcher 3 I turned down shadow quality and a notch or two of water quality, because the smoothness was worth it.
Please tell me which mods to install for my first ever playthrough of Skyrim!