XANDER CAGE
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Linearskillz said:
Thank you!
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Performance discussion
- Thread starter LiquidMetal14
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Thank you!
Lol, there is hotkeying in this game!
http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/m8tnk/guide_how_to_use_18_hotkeys_for_items_and_spells/
http://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/m8tnk/guide_how_to_use_18_hotkeys_for_items_and_spells/
LiquidMetal14
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Confirming the shadow fix via ini
Settings
fShadowDistance=1000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=8192
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=8192
No other ini edits yet, working on getting RadeonPro to work.
No performance hit. I disabled the frame counter but only after these shots too :/
Settings
fShadowDistance=1000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=8192
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=8192
No other ini edits yet, working on getting RadeonPro to work.
No performance hit. I disabled the frame counter but only after these shots too :/
TheOctagon
Member
Well, I deleted my ini and let the game rebuilt it - I swear it wasn't 1,500 lines long before! - but the LEVEL UP thing is still there, even when starting a new game. I'm going to assume it's some Scaleform issue, though I'm not sure it's a common enough issue to get patched any time soon.
LiquidMetal14
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I can't get RadeonPro to start, odd issue, W7x64. Anyone use ATI Tray tools?
TheOctagon
Member
Okay, the 'LEVEL UP' thing is a resolution issue. I tried dropping down to 1080p and it went away. Back up to 2160p and it's back on-screen again.
Just discovered another problem, though. I can't get the Favourites menu to pop up.
Just discovered another problem, though. I can't get the Favourites menu to pop up.
Angelus Errare
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LiquidMetal14 said:
LiquidMetal14
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I also downloaded ATI Tray Tools and started using 8x SSAA, don't know if that's what anyone else used but I took 2 more shots.
Again, no frame rate hit. But I also can't tell if anyone else can see any edge AA cause that's enabled via the profile too.
This first shot is either a glitch or lol worthy what the hell kind of shit is this. One rock is nice, the other is N64 mode!
Again, no frame rate hit. But I also can't tell if anyone else can see any edge AA cause that's enabled via the profile too.
This first shot is either a glitch or lol worthy what the hell kind of shit is this. One rock is nice, the other is N64 mode!
DennisK4 said:
Why don't you have Steam on your SSD. Then use this to move the unwanted games on the shitty hard-drives.
http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover
LiquidMetal14
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You mean you want me to check something like a more distant shot?Corky said:
Gonna try it in another area, back in 10 minutes hopefully.
LiquidMetal14
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How do you set that in ATI Tray tools?Kyaw said:
Join the steam chat or add me as it's quicker.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Are any Gamebryo games multithreaded? I know in oblivion the .ini settings for multithreading basically did nothing.
LiquidMetal14
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Ok gonna go try something out now.
That probably just means that windows is re-scheduling the thread across different cores.KKRT00 said:
See above._tetsuo_ said:
Of course there is. It actually works really well with spells, since you can easily get to dual-casting a particular spell by hitting its hot key twice.KKRT00 said:
Gareth Bale
Member
Varna said:
If it's blue and icy inside then that's it. There's a wolf next to a body and then another wolf round the corner. The game would always crash for me when you round the corner and the next wolf loads.
edit: It's a known issue apparently. The game crashes when the Icewolf appears. The solution is to run the game in windowed mode just for that bit.
LiquidMetal14
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Yeah, I think the first time the SSAA I got FR's in the teens. Was not working so I went back to MSAA and FR is normal. Corky shadows aren't drawn from far. I have to tweak that in the ini in a sec then I'm off to take some shots. It has like a ring around me like the detection is low. So when I move across I see this circle around me that renders the shadows there, weird.
bananaman1234
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LiquidMetal14 said:
I can confirm that, going above 4096 doesn't seem to make a difference. My settings now are 4096 and distance 2000 interior / 4000 exterior. Outside of a few corner cases I've been really happy with that.
I have a new suggestion for people with good systems that feel like the game should perform better:
If you have more than 8GB of RAM, try disabling your page file.
I have a new suggestion for people with good systems that feel like the game should perform better:
If you have more than 8GB of RAM, try disabling your page file.
LiquidMetal14
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I took my interior down just now. I put it up to 8000 and got sporadic jumps from further shadows loading or something. The view distance was far but I'm going back in with it at 1000.JaseC said:
Sutton Dagger
Member
As some people are claiming a 30-60% CPU usage, can we expect a patch to utilise the CPU better and thus get an increase in frames by like 1/3?
catapult37
Member
Can anyone tell me what AMD's lag time tends to be on official Crossfire support? For instance, are Rage users still waiting, or did they release a driver update finally?
The performance sucks and there seems to be a huge issue with Crossfire. With Crossfire enabled I get framerates in the teens, I didn't think it'd be worse even if it's not supported. Even with it running on single 6970 it randomly chugs even when looking at rock faces and walls. This is also on a stock 2600K with 16 GB of RAM. I don't understand.
Sutton Dagger
Member
Durante said:
For a complete noob, how do I do this and what can I expect with 12gb of ram?
Betta Lines
Member
Why is this still in the OP?
As I said above, I think it's pretty likely that the game is actually mostly single threaded and people are seeing ~30% across multiple cores because Windows is rescheduling the thread. (Yeah, it sometimes does that, I have no idea why, it certainly isn't very cache friendly)Sutton Dagger said:
LiquidMetal14
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Alright, I'm still getting just a couple of random dips which seem to be due to be like more map or shadows are loading but these settings here render the shadows further and when I don't get the weird drop, the game is as it was before, frame rate wise.
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1
fInteriorShadowDistance=8000.0000
fShadowDistance=6000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
Notice the difference in the first shot with the tree's not loading but I moved up another 10 feet or so and then you can see the shadows come into view. I personally would not suggest tinkering any farther as the dips are more frequent. I may have to go lower on the shadowdistance but as I said, the drops were less frequent and my FR was as it was before. I want to go back and tinker more as I want to see if the odd drops can be stopped.
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1
fInteriorShadowDistance=8000.0000
fShadowDistance=6000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
Notice the difference in the first shot with the tree's not loading but I moved up another 10 feet or so and then you can see the shadows come into view. I personally would not suggest tinkering any farther as the dips are more frequent. I may have to go lower on the shadowdistance but as I said, the drops were less frequent and my FR was as it was before. I want to go back and tinker more as I want to see if the odd drops can be stopped.
Really? I thought I edited that out. I see it, it was part of Durante's guide and I didn't notice he had that in there. I definitely edited that out of my original fixes/tips section so I will edit that out of there for now.Pazuzu9 said:
neoism
Member
so guys this is my prefs file is there anything wrong with it....
Also I have a i5 2.7 R5870 8gb... not one crash but I still get popin a little ... but anything else I could change or is it ok.
aslo two bugs that are driving me crazy... is I changed my shout to X so if I want to drop an item I have to change it back to RB..... I like sprint on RB..
And the fov Is there a fix or does it just reset everytime you load... I have to type fov 90 alot...
Also I have a i5 2.7 R5870 8gb... not one crash but I still get popin a little ... but anything else I could change or is it ok.
aslo two bugs that are driving me crazy... is I changed my shout to X so if I want to drop an item I have to change it back to RB..... I like sprint on RB..
And the fov Is there a fix or does it just reset everytime you load... I have to type fov 90 alot...
Code:
[General]
fBrightLightColorB=1.0000
fBrightLightColorG=1.0000
fBrightLightColorR=1.0000
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=1
iRadialBlurLevel=1
[Display]
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3
fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000
fShadowDistance=4000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
iShadowSplitCount=2
iMaxAnisotropy=16
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=3600.0000
fGamma=0.8800
fDecalLOD2=1500.0000
fDecalLOD1=1000.0000
fSpecularLODStartFade=2000.0000
fShadowLODStartFade=700.0000
fLightLODStartFade=4000.0000
iTexMipMapMinimum=0
iTexMipMapSkip=0
iWaterMultiSamples=1
iMultiSample=1
iShadowMode=3
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=720
iSize W=1280
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=992048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=992844.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=10000000.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=10000000.0000
iScreenShotIndex=2
bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
bMainZPrepass=0
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=10
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=30
bFloatPointRenderTarget=0
sD3DDevice="ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series"
bFXAAEnabled=1
iShadowMapResolution=2048
fShadowBiasScale=0.2500
iShadowMaskQuarter=4
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3
iAdapter=0
iPresentInterval=0
iShadowFilter=3
bTransparencyMultisampling=0
bDrawShadows=1
[Grass]
b30GrassVS=1
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=700.0000
[MAIN]
bGamepadEnable=1
bCrosshairEnabled=1
fHUDOpacity=1.0000
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnTravel=0
bSaveOnWait=1
bSaveOnRest=1
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
[GamePlay]
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
iDifficulty=1
[Interface]
bDialogueSubtitles=1
bGeneralSubtitles=1
bShowCompass=1
[Controls]
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.9000
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0125
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bInvertYValues=0
bGamePadRumble=1
bMouseAcceleration=1
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=750
[SaveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=5.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=5.0000
fVal7=1.0000
uID7=0
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=0
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=0
fVal4=1.0000
uID4=0
fVal3=1.0000
uID3=94881
fVal2=0.8500
uID2=466532
fVal1=1.0000
uID1=554685
fVal0=0.2000
uID0=1007612
[Clouds]
fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000
fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000
fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000
fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=75000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=250000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=70000.0000
fBlockLevel0Distance=35000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.5000
bShowLODInEditor=0
[NavMesh]
fObstacleAlpha=0.5000
fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000
fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500
fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000
fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500
fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000
fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000
fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500
fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000
fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000
fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000
fEdgeThickness=10.0000
fPointSize=2.5000
[Trees]
bRenderSkinnedTrees=1
uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=20
[Decals]
uMaxDecals=250
bDecals=1
bSkinnedDecals=1
uMaxSkinDecals=50
uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=40
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=14.0000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=15.0000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=15.0000
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
[Launcher]
bEnableFileSelection=1
bShowAllResolutions=1
uLastAspectRatio=3
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=1
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0
[Water]
iWaterReflectHeight=512
iWaterReflectWidth=512
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterDepth=1Basically, with 12 GB you shouldn't have a page file period (even disregarding Skyrim). What you can expect is less disk use, and much faster switching between applications that you haven't opened for a while.Sutton Dagger said:
Regarding Skyrim specifically, I don't know if it will help, it's just one thing that came to my mind when thinking about how my configuration could differ from that of people having problems.
As for how to change it:
Just set it to "none" for all drives, and ignore Windows warning you. (Also ignore my insane volume names)
I'm partially responsible for it getting there in the first place, but I confirmed that it doesn't work 20 or so pages back. Please remove it from the OP!Pazuzu9 said:
TheOctagon
Member
I fixed the problem with the 'LEVEL UP' label. You can just delete the string from the interface localisation file. Removes it from other instances but still worth it.
The problem with not being able to open the favourites menu was me being a dumbass.
Now the game crashes whenever I try and open the map!
The problem with not being able to open the favourites menu was me being a dumbass.
Now the game crashes whenever I try and open the map!
LiquidMetal14
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I skimmed through it again and removed. I just basically reshuffled and knew it was there but missed it. I did edit out the one I have in the tips section but missed yours as I've been doing tons of editing and research. It's fixed now though so thanks to the one who found it!Durante said:
First texture pack out, lol These guys are fast.
LiquidMetal14
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Ok, I went back in and used these settings
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1
fInteriorShadowDistance=8000.0000
fShadowDistance=5000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
iShadowSplitCount=2
No more stutters and shadows render decently far but not into the horizon so I hope some aren't looking for that level. GPU usage is at 99% now with these settings too btw. It was at 50% before any tweaking.
2500k@4.5
6970@950/1450
8GB RAM
W7x64
This one will go in the OP.
I will check interiors in a second. Sorry, I was totally focused on outside areas as we were originally talking about that earlier on the page.
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1
fInteriorShadowDistance=8000.0000
fShadowDistance=5000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
iShadowSplitCount=2
No more stutters and shadows render decently far but not into the horizon so I hope some aren't looking for that level. GPU usage is at 99% now with these settings too btw. It was at 50% before any tweaking.
2500k@4.5
6970@950/1450
8GB RAM
W7x64
This one will go in the OP.
I will check interiors in a second. Sorry, I was totally focused on outside areas as we were originally talking about that earlier on the page.
Looking at those screenshots the original seems much better. It only seems to increase the depth of the normal maps which lead to ugly artifacts and an overly "sharp" look.Wazzim said:
I think real texture packs will take a bit longer.
Yeah, 5000 should be pretty good, I settled on 4000 for outside now but I think I'll increase it slightly.LiquidMetal14 said:
aaaaaaaaaaaa7654
Member
Loos like they just increased the bump map values. Looks a lot worse in my opinion.Wazzim said:
TheOctagon
Member
Wazzim said:
That looks disgusting.
LiquidMetal14
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I'm gonna check out the interior and do some comparison, should be about 20 minutes I hope, or less.Durante said:
Grimm Fandango
Member
This may due to my ignorance on PC technicalities but if the game is barely using the power of high performance CPUs/GPUs, why does the FPS dip? Is it the poor optimization? Is it based on NPCs and stuff?