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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PC performance thread
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Stranger In The Alps
Member
Same here on a 6600k and R9 390.
FloatingDivider
Member
It's generally not worth it because the physics in bethesda titles are locked to the framerate and exceeding 60 generally causes them to speed up to differing degrees depending on framerate. I don't know if there'll be game breaking bugs though.
Yeah, but the PC version of Fallout 4 was backed by Nvidia GameWorks from the beginning, so I doubt they will bother in this case. But I wouldn't mind being wrong, it would be nice to have.
Also, I just tested the existing HBAO+ flag for the original game on this version; it didn't work.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Dropping godrays and shadows to medium really gave it a nice boost on my Nvidia 960. Opening scene was hovering around 50fps or more instead of the 40-45, and once in the village, it was mostly 60fps. Once out into Skyrim, except for a little bit in the beginning outside the cave when I started walking towards the trail towards Riverwood, it was a pretty stable 60fps. Not bad at all.
bananafactory
Banned
What should I be using - fullscreen or borderless window?
Borderless window is the easy route to triple buffering, but as the game's physics engine doesn't properly support framerates above 60fps, it's not much of an advantage in this case unless you're jumping between 30fps and 60fps as a result of double-buffer vsync, which is enabled by default.
Yeah please let me know, thanks.
I had to OC my i6700k to 4.4Ghz to get constant 60.
6700k, n1080, 16gb, game installed on SSD. All settings maxed.
You're definitely getting better performance than most here. What is different I wonder?
NOTE: game is running off a secondary SSD, my D drive. I've read about odd bugs sometimes with Skyrim being installed to anything other than the C drive. Makes no sense, but this is Bethesda. So I wonder, would moving the game to my C drive matter?
Apoleptica
Banned
I'm running the game on a 1070 and 6700k with g-sync enabled and get drops and fluctuations from 110 fps to like 9 fps constantly. Will try turning gsync off and turning my monitor refresh rate down to 60 fps, but I hope this issue gets patched.
edit: turning gsync off and setting refresh rate of my monitor to 60 fps gives smooth performance. After playing for like 20 minutes I remember again how boring this game is lol.
edit: turning gsync off and setting refresh rate of my monitor to 60 fps gives smooth performance. After playing for like 20 minutes I remember again how boring this game is lol.
CertifiedFP
Member
FX6300 (5GHz OC, Hyper 212 Evo cooler)
GTX970 (Stock settings, except fan curves adjusted to compensate for recent drivers crippling default curves)
8GB RAM (Forgot the speed *shrug*)
Ultra settings, except for God Rays and Shadow Distance turned down. Several mods installed, such as Open Cities.
Perfect 72FPS without issues no matter what was going on as far as my benchmarking has reached. I don't know what's going on with other people.
That said, I'm going back to 'NillaRim. All my favorite mods like Requiem require SKSE, and can't be configured without SkyUI. Someone call me back when all the overhauls that matter get ported, in addition to SKSE and SkyUI or a viable alternative that swoops in to take its place since the SkyUI team decided to abandon ship because we said "No." to Paid Mods.
GTX970 (Stock settings, except fan curves adjusted to compensate for recent drivers crippling default curves)
8GB RAM (Forgot the speed *shrug*)
Ultra settings, except for God Rays and Shadow Distance turned down. Several mods installed, such as Open Cities.
Perfect 72FPS without issues no matter what was going on as far as my benchmarking has reached. I don't know what's going on with other people.
That said, I'm going back to 'NillaRim. All my favorite mods like Requiem require SKSE, and can't be configured without SkyUI. Someone call me back when all the overhauls that matter get ported, in addition to SKSE and SkyUI or a viable alternative that swoops in to take its place since the SkyUI team decided to abandon ship because we said "No." to Paid Mods.
ss_lemonade
Member
Off to a great start, the launcher and game itself ran off of the intel igpu, resulting in 8fps on ultra lol. You need to force the 970m to run here. Anyway, from my 5 minutes worth of testing, the initial caravan scene hovers between 40-50fps on ultra at 1080p, then improving a bit once you reach the village. Seems to be pretty good for the 970 and it looks like a good 60fps is doable with a few adjustments.
High Fry Frow
Member
4790k & 980ti, no overclock
16gb ram
ssd
I'm getting juddering and fps dips down in to the territory of 40 about 5-10 times a minute when playing on Ultra preset @ 1440p. It's frankly just not very playable for me right now.
And the lipsync is seemingly worse than the original, like it's locked to 30.
Am I doing something wrong?
16gb ram
ssd
I'm getting juddering and fps dips down in to the territory of 40 about 5-10 times a minute when playing on Ultra preset @ 1440p. It's frankly just not very playable for me right now.
And the lipsync is seemingly worse than the original, like it's locked to 30.
Am I doing something wrong?
EatinOlives
Member
I'm on a GTX 770, which IS obviously an aging card, but I actually had somewhat decent performance (close to 60 fps)
That is, until I went into a mine that had an indoor lake and waterfall, where looking at the waterfall tanked the framerate to an unplayable 15fps.
Bethesda really pulled some shit. Not that I expect my 770 to be flawless, but there's definitely something going on when a game that hovers in 50-60 tanks to 15 when looking at a waterfall.
That is, until I went into a mine that had an indoor lake and waterfall, where looking at the waterfall tanked the framerate to an unplayable 15fps.
Bethesda really pulled some shit. Not that I expect my 770 to be flawless, but there's definitely something going on when a game that hovers in 50-60 tanks to 15 when looking at a waterfall.
Lol, thanks for the heads up. You got a i7 4720hq in your lap ?
I gotta try Skyrim 8fps version
ss_lemonade
Member
Nope, i7 6700hq here but I think you'll be fine with the 4720hq. I believe that even benches slightly higher than my skylake cpu
Ok, thanks!
I did the G-Sync fix mentioned above and changed my options to window + borderless. No issues since.
I was getting a glitch effect during the Bethesda logo at the opening and thought it was intentional. It totally wasn't intentional.
Currently running: i7-4790k, EVGA 1080FTW, 32GB RAM, 165Hz, GSync monitor @ 2560 x 1440. Ultra settings.
I was getting a glitch effect during the Bethesda logo at the opening and thought it was intentional. It totally wasn't intentional.
Currently running: i7-4790k, EVGA 1080FTW, 32GB RAM, 165Hz, GSync monitor @ 2560 x 1440. Ultra settings.
SuperChoco
Member
i5-4690k, RX 480, 16 GB DDR3
Going from the start to Whiterun, it seems to be stable around ~58 fps with the occasional dip into ~45 range with the game fully maxed at 1080p.
Going from the start to Whiterun, it seems to be stable around ~58 fps with the occasional dip into ~45 range with the game fully maxed at 1080p.
Assuming nothing has changed:
- Open Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Skyrim.ini and add bAllowConsole=1 to the General section
- In the same file, add the following to the Display section:
...and do the same with SkyrimPrefs.ini
- Run the game, open the console (~ or your regional equivalent) and enter fov XX followed by refreshini
Would you please upload your profile?
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Well, I think I'm okay with original version + ENB + 10 or so mods that I use.
To get this "Special Edition" I need like one DLC I still haven't bought (useless Hearthfire) and even though it costs me like 80 RUB or something, fuck it, it's not worth it.
To get this "Special Edition" I need like one DLC I still haven't bought (useless Hearthfire) and even though it costs me like 80 RUB or something, fuck it, it's not worth it.
ISee
Member
Could be worth it in the future because of native 64 bit (4+gb ram) and dx11 support. That is if you plan to replay the game of course.
MattPeters
Member
R9-390, i5-6600, 16GB.
Everything on ultra, outside im getting 60-70FPS, indoors 100+
Now to wait for the mods to roll in.
Everything on ultra, outside im getting 60-70FPS, indoors 100+
Now to wait for the mods to roll in.
Bl@de
Member
What kind of problems? If they are not too big, I'd still prefer a slightly buggy 60+fps.
BizzyBum
Member
i7 6800K @ 3.8 GHz
GTX 1080 (slight OC) w/ latest drivers
16GB RAM
Win 10 64-bit
Running it completely maxed out at 4K.
Outdoors varies but usually around 50-60fps, indoors is a solid 60fps.
The iVsyncpresentinterval to 0 was a lifesaver, anyone with a gsync monitor needs to change that in the ini file. Even though the game runs at 60fps it sometimes is not a smooth fps, seems a bit janky at times.
GTX 1080 (slight OC) w/ latest drivers
16GB RAM
Win 10 64-bit
Running it completely maxed out at 4K.
Outdoors varies but usually around 50-60fps, indoors is a solid 60fps.
The iVsyncpresentinterval to 0 was a lifesaver, anyone with a gsync monitor needs to change that in the ini file. Even though the game runs at 60fps it sometimes is not a smooth fps, seems a bit janky at times.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Nope, I've no desire to play this game again after I finish my first playthrough cuz it's not Morrowind and Morrowind is a much better TES game and will always be my favorite. I've played this game for years after it came out and I couldn't even finish Slyrim with all of it's story DLCs at least onces after 5 years since launch. That should tell you something. It's better that Oblivion, but nothing more, unfortunately.
Perhaps it's something Vsync related? What happens when you turn that off?
It would be quicker and simpler to make your own, surely?
The same method as for ultra-wide in the OP should work.
edit: oh wait, that is ultra-wide, so yeah that will work.
duh!
I did and it performed worse than a single GPU, hence, I asked for yours to eliminate errors.
Which SLI bits did you use? I just copied the one from Fallout 4 (0x080000F5), and the two options from the SLI section (though I don't think they are needed if the compatibility bits are used). That's literally all my custom profile is.
If it still performs poorly with that then the problem must something else unrelated to the profile. I needed to switch from borderless windowed to fullscreen to get it running smoothly, could it be that?
The only thing I have on is G-Sync but using the FO4 sli profile both cards put me down horrendously.
ISee
Member
6700k
GTX 1070
16gb ram
ssd
Seems to be able to run at 2880x1620/60 (-->1080p) so far. Most of the time the GPU isn't even hitting its max. stable boost clock (2050mhz). At least when not recording.
Loading times seem to be faster... or I'm just imagine things
edit: To be honest. The slight TAA blurriness is actually good here. I'll keep it on.
I also did a short performance vanilla vs remaster comparison video on my 1070 @ 1080p (GPU load, fps is capped). The remaster is definitely more demanding, but it's nothing drastic (imo). Did my best to sync stuff up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpNwV9wYcIM
GTX 1070
16gb ram
ssd
Seems to be able to run at 2880x1620/60 (-->1080p) so far. Most of the time the GPU isn't even hitting its max. stable boost clock (2050mhz). At least when not recording.
Loading times seem to be faster... or I'm just imagine things
max settings said:
edit: To be honest. The slight TAA blurriness is actually good here. I'll keep it on.
I also did a short performance vanilla vs remaster comparison video on my 1070 @ 1080p (GPU load, fps is capped). The remaster is definitely more demanding, but it's nothing drastic (imo). Did my best to sync stuff up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpNwV9wYcIM
I've done exactly that with no luck, man I was really excited to return to skyrim in 4k... guess i'm replacing my 980 tis with a single 1080ti whenever they release it.
ambar_hitman
Member
I...I can't even run the launcher.
What are your PC specs?
i7 2600
16GB
960 4GB
Windows 10
I've verified the files but I still can't access the launcher via Steam. My PC is working perfectly.
Running both SkyrimSE.exe and SkyrimSELauncher.exe have the same issue. I can't believe it.
If you pre-loaded, try reinstalling. The game was insta-crashing on me until I reinstalled.
ISee
Member
I...I can't even run the launcher.
Try reinstalling.
I remember reading about some people having the same issue with vanilla and win10. Apparently something can go missing.
Iriscomeback
Member
Runs between 50-60 fps on Ultra 1080p with GTX960 2gb.
Turned the shadows down a bit and now have locked 60.
Turned the shadows down a bit and now have locked 60.
Well god damn. Standard Australian internet means I will not be playing this tonight. *shakes fist at all that are responsible*
Cheers for the advice guys.