If you currently play The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim on a PC there's even more good news for you regarding the upcoming Special. Well as it turns out, all your old Skyrim saves should be 100 compatible with the Special Edition. Skyrim Special Edition PC 'should' be compatible with old saves. That means that, seemingly, your old save files don’t transfer. Speaking on Twitter, Bethesda’s Pete Hines confirmed as much, also noting that cross platform save file transfers will not work (if anyone actually expected that to happen, that is). Everyone that owns The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, and all of its DLC, gets the Skyrim Special Edition totally free on Steam.It isn’t a replacement either, the Special Edition installs to a new folder. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition v1.3.9 ENGLISH Fixed Files 2 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition v1.3.9 ENGLISH Fixed Files 1 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition v1.3. To all those of you who have spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours playing Skyrim on your Xbox 360 or PS3, here’s some bad news that you may not necesarily have seen coming- the console versions of The Elder Scrolls Skyrim: Special Edition, which is the remaster of Bethesda’s bestselling classic RPG, will not be supporting your older save files.