The Official Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim Thread

[Super XP]

Still waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail. With most of my games, I get better performance when I enable "Enable Surface Format Optimization".

[Black Panther]

Originally Posted by LifeOnMars

Really bud? See my earlier post - It has to be said that performance in this game is astounding in comparison to Oblivion. I'm at 1680x1050 with a lowly HD 5770 stock and I'm running Ultra with 16AF 4xFXAA, all sliders ramped up and boxes checked. The only thing I have had to turn down one is Shadows to high else it just becomes a stuttery mess. Locked my FPS to 40fps with DXtory and it is butter smooth woot woot.

The game's graphics are really better than Oblivion but the performance isn't for me. The game's default set my settings on 'high'. I left the sliders like that, reduced AA to zero, put water and shadows on ultra. Normally I get between 35 & 60 fps but today at Riften it was under 20

Only when there are a lot of NPC's though.

I remember Fallout New Vegas was even worse. NPC's brought my frames to 10 or 12.. but then a couple of patches and driver updates later and it's always over 50fps wherever I am.

Originally Posted by pantherx12

if someone wants to message me some screenshots that would be lovely : ]

I've got a couple in my facebook photos if you want to have a look. But game screenshots really end up looking horrible on fb. Nothing like the actual game!

Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

There some alt tab fix around I think. Google it.

I found out that Alt Tab works to get out of the game, but it won't work to get you back in the game. So I Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager, and voila' instead of Task Manager I get the game back!

Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

Who here is running 11.10 on a 6000 series card? I no longer have Mipmap slider in my drivers; just Cat AI. I think deprecated but not sure. Obviously others still have it based on all the screenies in this thread and BP claims it made a difference on her system.

I just updated to 11.1 and my mipmap thingy is still there
I did the complete update (selected 'custom' and made sure everything was ticked)





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Has anyone started Pelagius Quest by the way? It's the one where you have to go to the

Spoiler

Blue Palace and enter Pelagius' quarters

When I reach a specific point in the place of the quest the game freezes. Always. I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del out of it. I can post the screenshot, it's a random corridor no spoilers.



I'd appreciate it if anyone who arrived there tells me if you had problems or not.

[tigger]

I might try uninstalling my driver and re installing, to see if i get the mipmap thing.

[Csokis]

[techtard]

I just awoke from my post launch coma. Played the shit out of the game after it decrypted in Steam.

I get decent performance with my old-ish quad core amd phenom II 940 and radeon 5850. I have everything set to max, tried no AA and 4x AA in game. With 4x AA there are some slowdowns here and there, but overall performance is pretty impressive. With AA off, everything runs a lot smoother, very little slowdown, and the game still looks pretty good.

No crashes yet, no getting stuck anywhere. This game 'just works' on my system.

I am not running in game fps meter so I don't know what kind of frames I'm pulling. But everything feels smooth.

At first I was kinda pissed about the no stats because I'm and old-time RPG gamer. But I got over that pretty quick. Game is fun, crafting is pretty easy(if you can find the mats.) but my non-weapon enchants suck. All I'm getting is like a +1 or +2 on my skill or resistance enchants. Maybe that's because I only have crappy soulstones.

Haven't done a lot of the main quest line, been running around doing side-quests and exploring.
I have killed the my first dragon though, that was pretty fun.

Overall I would say this game is pretty awesome, even though it has some qeird bugs here and there.

Right now the mighty Thane Ulfskegg the Dragonborn is dual-wielding axes and chopping his way through Skyrim and towards glory!

I will now proceed to my second marathon session. See you guys in a few days!

[Delta6326]

Originally Posted by tigger

You can get back in, just click on the icon for it that pops up in the box, not on the task bar, if you know what i mean.

On this i mean-

http://img.techpowerup.org/111112/this.jpg

Still doesn't work i'm going to just keep it out of fullscreen but have 1080p res.

I'm using high settings and im getting around 40+fps thats good enough for me.

[KieranD]

@Black Panther - Compared to that screenshot my game looks a bit sharper and i dont mean the jaggies from no AA but the textures in my game look a bit better. Weird as you run a much higher resolution than me.

Turn the shadows down and see if that makes a difference as in Total War games the shadows require heavy processing, in most games the shadows are like that extra effects on shadows if you can live without turn off.

I run 4 cores so that might be help stabilising the frame rate for me. FPS is steady for me but i was getting transparent textures and even invisible textures for a while, might be my system though and not that game.

[Horrux]

I run 2 GTX 570 in SLI and I have to run it on medium to get decent performance.

[ShiBDiB]

Originally Posted by Csokis

http://thumbnails62.imagebam.com/158...2158944304.jpg

I must be playing too much, I felt bad for the dragon

[LifeOnMars]

Originally Posted by KieranD

@Black Panther - Compared to that screenshot my game looks a bit sharper and i dont mean the jaggies from no AA but the textures in my game look a bit better. Weird as you run a much higher resolution than me.
Turn the shadows down and see if that makes a difference as in Total War games the shadows require heavy processing, in most games the shadows are like that extra effects on shadows if you can live without turn off.

I run 4 cores so that might be help stabilising the frame rate for me. FPS is steady for me but i was getting transparent textures and even invisible textures for a while, might be my system though and not that game.

As far as I know BP is running older drivers, image quality has been improved in recent drivers. Are you running more recent ones?

EDIT - Just saw BP's post and saw she had updated, my bad.

[El_Mayo]

Originally Posted by LifeOnMars

Really bud? See my earlier post - It has to be said that performance in this game is astounding in comparison to Oblivion. I'm at 1680x1050 with a lowly HD 5770 stock and I'm running Ultra with 16AF 4xFXAA, all sliders ramped up and boxes checked. The only thing I have had to turn down one is Shadows to high else it just becomes a stuttery mess. Locked my FPS to 40fps with DXtory and it is butter smooth woot woot.


So let's troubleshoot for you...uninstall the drivers and reboot, use atiman uninstaller and reboot, reinstall drivers (I'm using the 11.10's by the way with no CAPs), update direct x and make sure you install the supplied visual C++ files) If theres no joy then, make sure your cpu and gpu are fine temperature wise. Try clocking your CPU higher or perhaps try disabling two cores.

Keep us posted and I'll try to help.

I saw footage of a 5770 runnin it at high with a similar setup (1055t and 4gb RAM)
so I picked high
it'll play fine every once in a while, then fuck up and be like 20 fps
I've got 11.10 installed, how do I check the Visual C++ files? I doubt it's that buy I wanna try everything

[LifeOnMars]

Originally Posted by El_Mayo

I saw footage of a 5770 runnin it at high with a similar setup (1055t and 4gb RAM)
so I picked high
it'll play fine every once in a while, then fuck up and be like 20 fps
I've got 11.10 installed, how do I check the Visual C++ files? I doubt it's that buy I wanna try everything

go to uninstall a program in control panel and that will show the ones you have installed mate.

What about your CCC settings? Max them out but keep AA and AF as "use application settings" and get rid of any optimisations such as "surface optimisations".

[Asylum]

I heard you can install and run this game without Steam.

Does anyone know how to do it or a link to the info?

[Marineborn]

running ulta everything, with mods on for extra textures, high quality texture mods, high quality face and skin mods, aa and anti maxed 2x6870 no OC 1090 at 3.7 8 gigz of ram... use radeonpro tool with crossfire profile freindly adr d39 about 100+fps inside buildings 40-70fps outside, using a uber config file too game looks absoutly beatifull

[ShiBDiB]

Originally Posted by Asylum

I heard you can install and run this game without Steam.

Does anyone know how to do it or a link to the info?

you can run it without steam by using the exe in the game folder.. but as far as im aware it requires steam to fully install and be patched

[El_Mayo]

Originally Posted by LifeOnMars

go to uninstall a program in control panel and that will show the ones you have installed mate.

What about your CCC settings? Max them out but keep AA and AF as "use application settings" and get rid of any optimisations such as "surface optimisations".

The only thing similar is "Visual Studio 2008 x64 Redistributables"
Guessing I don't have it installed then D:
I'll try that CCC setting tho

[erocker]

Originally Posted by Super XP

Still waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail. With most of my games, I get better performance when I enable "Enable Surface Format Optimization".

It's enabled by default.

Originally Posted by El_Mayo

I saw footage of a 5770 runnin it at high with a similar setup (1055t and 4gb RAM)
so I picked high
it'll play fine every once in a while, then fuck up and be like 20 fps
I've got 11.10 installed, how do I check the Visual C++ files? I doubt it's that buy I wanna try everything

Lower your AA or turn it off.

[El_Mayo]

Originally Posted by erocker

It's enabled by default.



Lower your AA or turn it off.

Yeah just did that, gonna enjoy it now

[Horrux]

Originally Posted by Marineborn

running ulta everything, with mods on for extra textures, high quality texture mods, high quality face and skin mods, aa and anti maxed 2x6870 no OC 1090 at 3.7 8 gigz of ram... use radeonpro tool with crossfire profile freindly adr d39 about 100+fps inside buildings 40-70fps outside, using a uber config file too game looks absoutly beatifull

How are the mods already out? The game came out yesterday...

[El_Mayo]

nah it's still messed


I had a similar problem with CoD4 :/
high clocks, low GPU usage

[LifeOnMars]

Originally Posted by erocker

It's enabled by default.



Lower your AA or turn it off.

He shouldn't have to. I'm running with it and at a higher resolution. El Mayo, that GPU usage looks messed up mate, defective card?

[ViperXTR]

i see some users in lots o places that are b*tching about the consolized interface and such, i actually b*tched about it at first as well just because its different from the previous games or other game. After getting used to it, i tried to replay the game from the beginning with not thinking of it too much and wow, did i missed a lot of experience, and it felt different too since i took a different aproach hehe.

[Marineborn]

Originally Posted by Horrux

How are the mods already out? The game came out yesterday...

here ya go

www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/

theres like 12 texture mods and you can change...the config with high textures and longer view distances, the textures mods especially the superhsharp one and faces make everything look good, really good

oh and the high texture armor mods

[ShogoXT]

I have tree self shadows and land self shadows on. I notice when looking at NPCs even on max settings the shadows seem a bit low res. Does anyone know the specific options for increasing them are?

[El_Mayo]

Originally Posted by LifeOnMars

He shouldn't have to. I'm running with it and at a higher resolution. El Mayo, that GPU usage looks messed up mate, defective card?

I know right! There actually might be something wrong with it

I'll try and RMA (it's XFX)