The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Performance discussion
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Alright, I cant seem to run this game at a good resolution. it doesnt have the option to play it at 1280x768 and thats what I use on my TV. Strait up 720p makes the image get cut off of the sides. Its a 720p tv wtf? the steam pop ups on the bottom right only show about a quarter of the square. Anyway I can set a custom resolution?
bananaman1234
Unconfirmed Member
Maybe I haven't played long enough but fDefaultWorldFoV=xx seems to work in place of fdefaultfov=XX. Test it out.
I have a similar system (i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz, 6950 2GB, 1080p) and I'm getting 45-60 outdoors and a steady 60 FPS indoors. What kind of Anti-aliasing and Shadow Detail are you using? I'm using MSAA and have Shadow Detail on High (everything else maxed). Try them out.CabbageRed said:
I tried using Adaptive MSAA but the textures flickered and SSAA just got my frame-rate below 30 constantly.
Seriously considering double dipping on this (360 atm). Can anyone with the following spec (or something close to it) tell me how the game runs at 1680x1050? I won't be using AA.
E8500 @ default 3.0
4gb ram
ATI HD4850
W7 64
I have no problems running F3 and NV nearly maxxed out.
E8500 @ default 3.0
4gb ram
ATI HD4850
W7 64
I have no problems running F3 and NV nearly maxxed out.
Futurevoid
Member
Played some more and hit the outdoor areas. I'm getting a pretty solid 60fps until I reach a town. In the town, it runs fine but the approach to the first town (Riverton?) dropped me to 42 and jumped back up to 60. I then did some exploring all the way up the mountain to that temple area and it never dropped below 60. It only seems to drop whenever I approach a town.
Mind you I haven't played long but I walked around for a good 40 minutes outside of that town area and it never dropped below 55.
Oh and are you supposed to get some kind "effect" when you go under water? It looked like I was walking on the ground with the water line above me when I did.
Mind you I haven't played long but I walked around for a good 40 minutes outside of that town area and it never dropped below 55.
Oh and are you supposed to get some kind "effect" when you go under water? It looked like I was walking on the ground with the water line above me when I did.
To add to the uGrid setting comparisons.
Default:
9:
11:
9 is the sweet spot for my rig. Going to 11 brings my framerate down to 24 standing still and when I run around, it drops into the teens. (I have my FPS capped at 30.)
Still need to run around in the world some more to make sure 9 is stable.
Default:
9:
11:
9 is the sweet spot for my rig. Going to 11 brings my framerate down to 24 standing still and when I run around, it drops into the teens. (I have my FPS capped at 30.)
Still need to run around in the world some more to make sure 9 is stable.
CabbageRed
Member
Skirn said:
Tried MSAA and it helps, but then I'm using MSAA.
I'll play around with AA options some more, though.TheOctagon
Member
Kyaw said:
Just bear in mind that forcing SSAO through drivers will always cause problems with certain types of fog - just the kind Skyrim is full of. Might be worth waiting for a bespoke solution like an ENB or Graphics Extender mod.
Hawk269
Member
Corky said:Could be very location dependent. Took these comparison screens and the game went from 60 to 45. But again, I can't wait for working drivers.
Default :
11
Corky or anyone...can we get a post that shows where to do this latest trick. Is it just adding some lines to the .ini file. If so, what lines and where do I insert them?
There is so many things being added and people testing, that I dont want to fuck anything up.
Hawk269 said:
First make backups of files you change.
Find skyrim.ini ( should be in my documents/my games /skyrim
add
[General]
sLanguage=ENGLISH
uGridsToLoad=11
uInterior Cell Buffer=32
uExterior Cell Buffer=204
iPreloadSizeLimit=262144000
the uGridsToLoad variable seem to be odd numbers, so it's 5,7,9,11 etc.
Use this to give the game more ram access ( if needed? )
Also careful while saving and all. If you go into the game with let's say the variable 11, and then change back to 9 and load up the same game it'll crash ( at least it did for me ). So do what I did and use a clean "default settings" save that you load into to see the differences but make sure you don't save over that file.
I'm just going by stuff I've learned the past hour or so so take all this at face value.
E8500 3.16 GHz, ~3.25 GB, GTX260... running mostly just fine in 1920x1080 on the auto-detected High settings. Some areas are 60 FPS, others 30, occasional dips below that, but I haven't really measured any numbers. Haven't tried lowering settings to Medium, runs well enough and I just want to play the gamespirity said:
It depends of resolution You set really ;pNymerio said:
I've got 1280x1024 so with 2x2 i need to set 2560x2048, but performance is ok on i5 2500k, GTX 560.
With shadows on High its 40-50 outside, on low 50-60. The lowest i've got was in Necromancer's dungeon and it got down to 27, but stayed most of the time over 30. Its really strange that closed spaces without any geometry and that can be culled heavily are more performance hog than outside areas. There is something bugged in their engine.
Whats funny that in Oblivion it was other way around [in F3 and NV too]
CabbageRed
Member
ATI CF users with RadeonPro installed: forcing Oblivion's profile seems to yield an extra 5-10fps for me. Anyone else give it a shot?
Also noticing that 4xSSAA beats 8xMSAA in terms of performance, although I'd imagine that Vram plays a large role.
Also noticing that 4xSSAA beats 8xMSAA in terms of performance, although I'd imagine that Vram plays a large role.
Firebrand said:E8500 3.16 GHz, ~3.25 GB, GTX260... running mostly just fine in 1920x1080 on the auto-detected High settings. Some areas are 60 FPS, others 30, occasional dips below that, but I haven't really measured any numbers. Haven't tried lowering settings to Medium, runs well enough and I just want to play the game
Sounds great! Thanks for the speedy reply
Gareth Bale
Member
Sigh, and now it's frozen. I stopped for half an hour after the last crash to desktop, and I'd literally being playing for 5 minutes when it froze. First time it's frozen on me like this, but I'm going to call it a night.
TheOctagon
Member
Kyaw said:
I have to admit I'm going to up the contrast slightly when doing shots of this game. Someone'll be along with a mod soon enough to let you do the same through imagespace effects.
zephervack
Member
With a XBOX 360 controller how do you pick stuff up and move around, i cant find it, i want to put buckets on peoples heads.
TheOctagon
Member
Corky said:
It's just these kinds of things that give uGrids a bad name, sadly. The problem seems to have rectified itself on my install, though. No idea how. I have increased every LOD var in the config files by a factor of about 10, though, so maybe it's a shadow fade exponent thing or something.
zephervack said:
hold A
TheOctagon said:
interesting, cheers. I too have increased most of the LOD variables, but oh well I'm not too bothered with it atm. What I'd rather fix now is SLI so I can actually have good framerates with ugrid.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I just started the game up and I'm getting some constant audio buzzing in the background. Goes away when I'm in the esc menu, but persists while playing. Checked the last few pages and found nothing about it, anyone know what's up?
FloppyDelux
Member
thos look nice....TheOctagon said:Dropbox's face has been visited too many times.
Have two:
CabbageRed
Member
Further look at RadeonPro:
Without the Oblivion profile, GPU usage was ~40-50%. With the Oblivion profile, it is now 60-70%.
Update: Have now seen both cores at 90%.
Without the Oblivion profile, GPU usage was ~40-50%. With the Oblivion profile, it is now 60-70%.
Update: Have now seen both cores at 90%.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
So, I downloaded the game from Steam and I have three ini files, the two in the My Games folder and another one in the Steam folder.
Which one am I supposed to modify?
Which one am I supposed to modify?
Crossfire users try alt-tabbing out of the game and then back. When I do this I go from disappointing performance to the completely buttery smooth performance I expect. The downside is this gets reset after every save so I have to alt-tab frequently, but it's better than trying to play with a poor framerate.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Yeah, I gave that a shot and I was still getting it. Oddly enough I had to mute my Line-In to get it to stop, so I managed to fix it in any case.JoeBoy101 said:
catapult37
Member
man, I am seeing some nasty texture / geometry issues in the opening scene. If i slowly look down toward the ground, the whole ground switches between 3 texture layers, back again if i look up. entire world objects (ie a banner on a pole) will pop in and out as I look around. there's an event during the intro that causes a lot of post-processing effects / blur, and i don't believe they got properly removed cause my vision stayed messed up a long time. and one time, a dude had a transparent torso.
2500k 4.7 ghz
2x 6950s
4 GB RAM
WTF Bethesda? I'm giving this game a rest until they sort some shit out. Back to Uncharted.
Edit: frame rate is quite good though at 1080p...
2500k 4.7 ghz
2x 6950s
4 GB RAM
WTF Bethesda? I'm giving this game a rest until they sort some shit out. Back to Uncharted.
Edit: frame rate is quite good though at 1080p...
BigBlackGamer
Member
running a i7 930 oc'd to 3.8ghz and GTX 580 Lightning oc'd and the game drops to 30-35 fps in some spots. everything is maxed to the highest possible level minus FXAA.
undercoverb0ss
Member
catapult37 said:
Make sure your driver is updated and force the oblivion crossfire profile with Radeon Pro and you will be fine.
Mt Heart Attack
Member
All right thanks. I read in in the OP but I wasn't sure that applied to Steam users as well.KKRT00 said:
I also finally managed to sync horizontal and vertical mouse sensitivity, things are starting to look much better here.