The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Performance discussion

Minsc said:
Saw this mentioned earlier, not sure if it does what you want or not.
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Like seriously, this is the second time I'm changing something in the .ini-file and I notice NO DIFFERENCE as if it's not working. It's the "SkyrimPrefs"-file right?

Just played though another 5 minutes, this sensitivity is straight up unplayable... gotta find a solution for that too, but to do that, my fucking .ini needs to work! Is it something I find through Steam, maybe?
 
Teknoman said:
Wow Skyrim defaulted to Ultra high settings for me after detecting my setup. Was not expecting that.
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What kind of setup are you running? It seems to me like anything at a 570 or below gets defaulted to "high."


Chairhome said:
Not sure if this is a common problem or already been mentioned, but my auto detected settings were terrible, after playing around with settings, I get a good 60fps, with only a few minor drops. I tested out some more settings, and found that setting shadow detail to high destroyed my frame rate. It went from 60 to 8. After setting it back to medium, it went back up to 60. Really strange to me.
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I've always found shadows to be a FPS killer in a lot of games.
 
Arpeggio23 said:
Every time I start the game, I see the Bethesda logo and then the Skyrim logo, and then the game crashes. Every time. I have tried Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings. I have tried playing in a window. I have set my AA and AF on my card (ATI Radeon HD 5770) to Application Managed. Please help.
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Reinstall the game.

Reinstall Windows.

It's the only way to be sure. Installing windows takes like 2 hours total, now.
 
derder said:
Reinstall the game.

Reinstall Windows.

It's the only way to be sure. Installing windows takes like 2 hours total, now.
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Installing Windows takes far less than that on my machine, but you have to install programs too, plus you'd have to re-acquire Skyrim from Steam, which would be time consuming.


woober said:
6950 and I got defaulted to ultra high.
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Now I feel like I made a mistake getting a 560Ti only a month ago :(
 
maybe your sounds settings in windows are 48khz or 24bit, try changing to 44khz and 16 bit
could solve the crash to deksotp
 
Why is the horizontal mouse sensitivity like 100 times higher than the vertical? Any way I can change that? I litteraly have to move my mouse all along my laptop's length to take a look at the damn sky. I swear to god this is the last time I buy a Bethesda game at launch.
 
Arpeggio23 said:
Every time I start the game, I see the Bethesda logo and then the Skyrim logo, and then the game crashes. Every time. I have tried Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings. I have tried playing in a window. I have set my AA and AF on my card (ATI Radeon HD 5770) to Application Managed. Please help.
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Try restarting your PC. It happened to me, but relaunching the game fixed it.
 
First one to post link to the inevitable High Res Texture Pack wins a biscuit.

But seriously the game looks fine.

Main problems are:

1) Low res textures. Can easily be fixed by modding.

2) Low res shadows. Anyone?




 
DennisK4 said:
Just started and the game doesn't look that bad
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Well most peoples screens don't look like this either. What settings? There's no way to improve shadow res or softness yet afaik.
 
Reporting performance:

i7 2ghz quad mobile
6770m

at 1600x900 (panel native res) it runs below 30fps
at 13XXx7XX (still 16:9) it runs at high averaring 40 something fps, occasional dips to 30 something, hitting 60 some other times.
 
How are you guys changing the FOV in an INI file? I've put fdefaultfov=90 in every singe INI file (testing one at a time) and it NEVER works for me. The only thing I can get to "take" is if I do the console command in-game. I feel like a crazy person here...

Which INI file exactly needs the line? There's at least 2 INI files under the Skyrim folder under DOCUMENTS > MY GAMES, and also under the Steamapps > Common subfolders.

What line exactly needs added and where? This feels like the twilight zone. :-/

Thanks much in advance for the info.
 
I ran it last night with my GTX 460, it had really pixelated textures and looked like I was playing HL1. Did a driver update, and that fixed the problem, it looks really good on Ultra.
 
Anabuhabkuss said:
Fuck! I bet turning tripple off in ati catalyst will remove any problems im having.
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The triple buffering option in the CCC won't do shit for you either way. That option only makes a difference to OpenGL games. Skyrim is DX9.
 
Bitmap Frogs said:
Reporting performance:

i7 2ghz quad mobile
6770m

at 1600x900 (panel native res) it runs below 30fps
at 13XXx7XX (still 16:9) it runs at high averaring 40 something fps, occasional dips to 30 something, hitting 60 some other times.
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Have you tried OCing that i7? From the Tom's benchmarks it seems like CPU clock speed has a significant impact on performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-benchmark,3074-9.html
 
Whoever asked, the uGrids setting does indeed mess with your saves. Basically, you can only go up from whatever the value was when you saved. So, if you saved with a value of 7, the save will still work with 9 but won't with 5. If you then go to 9, you can't reload at 7, and so on.

The way to retrieve your save is to load your save at the setting that works, alt-tab to the desktop, edit and save the skyrim.ini file with the desired lower value, then type refreshini into the game's command console. Then save the game and it'll work with the new value. Skyrim goes frickin' apeshit when you alt-tab, though, so you can also use the setini command from within the game.
 
I solved my problem where the game would drop to 2fps for about 5 seconds then jump up to 60 fps for a minute or two then drop to 2fps for 5-10 seconds constantly problem.

I lowered shadows from "ultra" to "high". Now the game is smooth as butter with everything else cranked as high as it will go, but AA at 4x and AS at 8x.

I really hope they resolve the Ultra shadows bug, because it seems to run just fine framerate wise between the massive slowdowns. Also, these slowdowns will happen if I'm just sitting there staring straight ahead. It's not like I'm moving into heavily shadowed areas.


This is on:

i5 2.66
4 gig RAM
Win7 64
6850 1 gig latest drivers

It helps that I'm running at 1280x720 on my 40" TV though, so I get a big pickup with the lower resolution.

Damn this game looks good at times.
 
Moving to Ultra High still seemed to run 30+ but with some stuttering when looking at sweeping vistas and such. I also didn't see enough of a graphical improvement to really want to play it on that vs. high.
 
Enco said:
580 and I got high I think.
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With my 6950s in crossfire I got defaulted to high. When I disabled crossfire because of the negative scaling it defaulted me to ultra. Seriously wtf at Bethesda.
 
Another thing- my god is the "snow" overlay texture ugly. Some of these rocks look downright ridiculous with that texture on them. It's just solid white with harsh edges. You think they would at least alpha blend the edges of them to give them a softer look.
 
Hawk269 said:
Your joking right? You really think that they have more PC players playing SKyrim than on 360/PS3???

Last night at Gamestop, we had over 200 people waiting for the game. Approx. 120 for the 360 version, 75 or so for the PS3, 5 for the PC. I am not saying this is typical, but if it is any idication, Skyrim is WAY MORE popular on consoles than on the PC.
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America isn't the world.
 
Xdrive05 said:
How are you guys changing the FOV in an INI file? I've put fdefaultfov=90 in every singe INI file (testing one at a time) and it NEVER works for me. The only thing I can get to "take" is if I do the console command in-game. I feel like a crazy person here...

Which INI file exactly needs the line? There's at least 2 INI files under the Skyrim folder under DOCUMENTS > MY GAMES, and also under the Steamapps > Common subfolders.

What line exactly needs added and where? This feels like the twilight zone. :-/

Thanks much in advance for the info.
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Quoting for the new page - hitting scotch to calm down.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Quoting for the new page - hitting scotch to calm down.
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You're that upset over a computer game setting that can be avoided by simply typing something into the console? The answer has been given many times, it's even in the OP. This is embarrassing to read if you're at all serious
 
Anyone getting Steam achievement problems? I just finished
the Bleak Falls Barrow dungeon and turned in the Golden Claw
but did not receive an achievement. Am I suppose to get one after completion? The only command I use was the fov tweak. I did get an achievement for leveling to lvl 5.
 
Does anyone know how to turn off that annoying effect that brightens the screen for a second when look up to the sky and back down? I tried setting bDoHighDynamicRange to zero, but it didn't seem to do anything. Thanks a bunch.
 
isoku said:
Anyone experiencing crash to desktop after the logo should read this: http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1256595-consolidated-potential-fix-thread-co-authordesi/

Needs to be added to the OP imo.
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Actually, I have another one. If you're crashing when starting a new game or it seems to 'hang', turn OFF AA. AA was bringing my FPS down to FPM (frames per minute). Through use of ini and nVidia inspector settings here, I look better than it would default. So just a quick note, turn AA off.

I know its been said, but this fixed my issue.
 
Anabuhabkuss said:
So can ATI users please post what youre doing to get 40+ FPS. How are your catalyst and in game settings set up?

Can we then get some answers posted on OP? This thread is really going nowhere.

And for the life of me, i still dont get what file to i'm lookin for to copy the contents of the mods/patch to. It says to locate the directory ifthe launchfile. Ive done so under steamapps but then i can never find the settings to paste over.
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This is still fresh on our minds. The whole release seems rather sloppy on the tech front. CPU, GPU, and RAM limited by the game. It's a very new release and things are currently being looked into. Give it time.
 
TheOctagon said:
Whoever asked, the uGrids setting does indeed mess with your saves. Basically, you can only go up from whatever the value was when you saved. So, if you saved with a value of 7, the save will still work with 9 but won't with 5. If you then go to 9, you can't reload at 7, and so on.

The way to retrieve your save is to load your save at the setting that works, alt-tab to the desktop, edit and save the skyrim.ini file with the desired lower value, then type refreshini into the game's command console. Then save the game and it'll work with the new value. Skyrim goes frickin' apeshit when you alt-tab, though, so you can also use the setini command from within the game.
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Can anything bad happen from changing uGrids? I mean...would the only reason I'd ever want to go lower is if I go too high and the performance suffers too much?
 
Could we get some .ini configs posted? Maybe some shots of the differences. If it's not too much of an imposition. I know folks have stated some ini tweaks with examples already but Dennis mentioned he added "all ini tweaks meant to improve quality" and I'm assuming he means the ones post in the OP, but I'm curious as to what else folks have adjusted and the results?
 
How can I activate 2x2 OGSSAA? There is a trick for that or smth? Because just overriding it in nvidia panel or nvidia inspector doesnt seems to works [normal SSAA too].
I have 'BF 3' drivers.
 
Futurevoid said:
Could we get some .ini configs posted? Maybe some shots of the differences. If it's not too much of an imposition. I know folks have stated some ini tweaks with examples already but Dennis mentioned he added "all ini tweaks meant to improve quality" and I'm assuming he means the ones post in the OP, but I'm curious as to what else folks have adjusted and the results?
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Skyrim forums have some info and comparison shots up:
http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1255692-skyrim-pc-ini-and-console-tweaks/
 
Angry Grimace said:
What kind of setup are you running? It seems to me like anything at a 570 or below gets defaulted to "high."



I've always found shadows to be a FPS killer in a lot of games.
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Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz
Radeon 4870 1GB
4GB ram

Getting mostly 60 inside, but 25-40 outside. Going to dial back some of the settings to just high. 1440x900 btw.
 
Ammended a few more things. The OP is a work in progress so please be patient. I've linked the Bethesda forum fix post and a few more links to mods and such. Starting to add a few help posts from here too but I don't want to just fill the OP with a bunch of quotes so be patient.
 
AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 (3,2 GHZ)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
4G Ram (DDr3, I believe)

Well, I've done everything in the OP. I was using high to medium specs (all high, but shadows medium, blur low), with anisotropic x4. Performance was shit. (I guess 15-40 fps, with spikes).

I've installed the newest drivers,anisotropic x 2 , and put everything on high. Now the game runs smooth, I can't complain about the mouse lag, and the fps are 30 at its lowest (exterior while looking at lots of light effects at once) and 60 at its highest (interiors, very stable). I'm quite happy as I don't have any sudden fps drops and at exteriors they usually are 45+ fps!

I also changed some specific options in the nvidia panel: Max number of prerenders = 1, and triple buffer activated, vsync force off. I guess this last 2 ones have worked, but I'm not sure. I'll put those two back and then try changing the prerender thing to default again (I did everything at once).
 
HooYaH said:
Anyone getting Steam achievement problems? I just finished
the Bleak Falls Barrow dungeon and turned in the Golden Claw
but did not receive an achievement. Am I suppose to get one after completion?
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You don't get that achievement for completing the quest you mentioned.
 
Futurevoid said:
Could we get some .ini configs posted? Maybe some shots of the differences. If it's not too much of an imposition. I know folks have stated some ini tweaks with examples already but Dennis mentioned he added "all ini tweaks meant to improve quality" and I'm assuming he means the ones post in the OP, but I'm curious as to what else folks have adjusted and the results?
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Looking into more now. I've been reading a lot, believe me. I'm posting one in the OP in a few minutes.
 
This Alftand dungeon (
the elfen city
) has to be one of the largest, most beautiful and most intimidating dungeons in an Elder Scrolls game ever. Every time I think I'm nearing the end, I unlock a door into an entirely new area that's more complex and challenging than the last. And to think this all started with me simply wanting to hunt down another dragon.

By the way, for those who know the surrounding area well, what are those locked towers about? There's a few of them dotted around, each with a gate I can't open and a lever inside - do they feed back into the main quest somehow?
 
Hmm I probably should have made a backup of my ini files before I made tweaks from the most important tweaks list in OP lol.

Think I should be fine but should I try getting a default ini file just in case?
 
Nelo Ice said:
Hmm I probably should have made a backup of my ini files before I made tweaks from the most important tweaks list in OP lol.

Think I should be fine but should I try getting a default ini file just in case?
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Always back up your ini. Keep it in the same folder if you want and just add BACKUP to the filename.
 
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