My (terrible) Experience with Skyrim so far

matteumayo · Nov 13, 2011

So yesterday I bought Skyrim, and let it download over night, after seeing it at a friend's place on the 360.

It looked pretty good on the xbox, constant fps, no problems. My roommate with a slightly worse PC was running it fine with a constant 45-55 fps, on ultra except without AA.

So today I start it up, all ultra except for shadows on High, and AA off.

I got about 25 FPS on the carriage ride, looking both ways.

After getting off, looking straight forward I got 35 fps, to the right 60, and to the left 20-25.

So I figured, oh well, better turn down the settings then, for better performance.

So I did, pretty much all medium, forced VSync off, turned draw distances to minimum, and no anisotropic filtering.

The exact same thing happened. 35 fps forward, 25 to the left, 60 to the right. :confused:

So I figured, screw it, and just played the game. I get to this part where I'm following this guy through a door, walk towards the door, and boom the game crashes. My save's corrupted, and I'm pretty peeved about all this. :banghead:

Anybody know anything that could help my situation?

xBruce88x · Nov 13, 2011

if lowering setting didnt help then id say its the cpu. those athlons are sensitive to heat... mine got hot once and after that would crash any time it got to 130f. so check ur cpu temps. also double check ur sata connections and make sure theyre tight. since i replaced my athlon with this phenom ive had no probs... i used to have perf issues like urs all the time... but yea check temps

matteumayo · Nov 13, 2011

xBruce88x said:
if lowering setting didnt help then id say its the cpu. those athlons are sensitive to heat... mine got hot once and after that would crash any time it got to 130f. so check ur cpu temps. also double check ur sata connections and make sure theyre tight. since i replaced my athlon with this phenom ive had no probs... i used to have perf issues like urs all the time... but yea check temps

I forgot to change my System Specs, my bad. I've recently (a few months ago) upgraded to a 955 BE.

Are those temps okay? I haven't OC'd it or anything.

lilhasselhoffer · Nov 13, 2011

As others have said, it's a Bethesda game.

Fallout 3 had a slew of stability issues, that were only fixed later by some fan made mods and heavy heavy patching.

If your current system is unstable I'd recommend you check out the official thread in this forum: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2454744#post2454744

Otherwise, wait for the patch train.

matteumayo · Nov 13, 2011

Well if anyone finds anything before me, please post it here! I'll keep searching for fixes.

xBruce88x · Nov 13, 2011

whats the spu temp at full load?

hellrazor · Nov 16, 2011

Did you lower the textures to medium too? I've noticed that my card really hates low-res textures (all the filtering, I guess) - it could be that it gained some performance from everything on medium, but lost a bit over the texture resolution.

JATownes · Nov 16, 2011

Off topic, but your RAM timings look really low for running 1333Mhz. Just thought I would point that out.

stinger608 · Nov 16, 2011

Not sure if this will help or not, but there was a recent article over at Maximum PC dealing with a ton of tweaks to better performance, FPS, and crashing issues.

Note that Maximum PC did in fact give credit where credit was due :pimp:

Skyrim tweaks at Maximum PC!

Hope this helps you and anyone else having issues :toast:

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Keyboard	SteelSeries Apex 100 / virtual
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System Name	derp
Processor	Athlon II X4 2.8GHz
Motherboard	ASROCK (exact model number not readily available)
Cooling	Lots of fans?
Memory	4gb DDR3 G-Skill
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 1gb 5850 hd
Storage	650gb Seagate
Display(s)	Westington 19" 1440x900
Case	Some Cooler Master case
Power Supply	hec ORION 585w
Software	Windows 7 64-bit

System Name	derp
Processor	Athlon II X4 2.8GHz
Motherboard	ASROCK (exact model number not readily available)
Cooling	Lots of fans?
Memory	4gb DDR3 G-Skill
Video Card(s)	PowerColor 1gb 5850 hd
Storage	650gb Seagate
Display(s)	Westington 19" 1440x900
Case	Some Cooler Master case
Power Supply	hec ORION 585w
Software	Windows 7 64-bit

System Name	Old Gateway / Steam Deck OLED LE
Processor	i5 4440 3.1ghz / Jupiter 4c 8t
Motherboard	Gateway / Valve
Cooling	Eh it doesn't thermal throttle
Memory	2x 8GB JEDEC 1600mhz DDR3 / 16gb DDR5 6400
Video Card(s)	RX 560D 4GB / Navi II 8CU
Storage	240gb 2.5 SSD / 1TB nvme
Display(s)	Dell @ 1280*1024 75hz / 800p OLED
Case	Gateway / Valve LE
Audio Device(s)	Gateway Diamond Audio EMC2.0-USB 5375U ($15 a long ass time ago), Valve
Power Supply	380w oem / 65w valve USB-C
Mouse	Purple Walmart special, 1600dpi. Black desk mat
Keyboard	SteelSeries Apex 100 / virtual
VR HMD	Lmao
Software	Windows 10 / Steam OS
Benchmark Scores	It can run Crysis (Original), Doom 2016, and Halo MCC. SD LE 45fps

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