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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC Performance discussion
- Thread starter LiquidMetal14
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The SLI profile was included with the previous beta release.
People keep saying that but my 285.79 drivers do no give me the benefits of SLI, the framerate is the same , sometimes even better, with 1 560 ti as it is with two 560 tis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLC_qg7D9A&feature=feedu
God dammit Bethesda, just change Your engine already ;\
God dammit Bethesda, just change Your engine already ;\
frontieruk
Member
Man, AMD's driver numbering and releases is starting to become a real clusterfuck or is that just me? They have the normal drivers, then they have those occasional driver fixes, then they even have driver iterations of the same driver marked by the letters and THEN they even have preview drivers. They even have SEPARATE CF PROFILES :|
LiquidMetal14
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LiquidMetal14
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Not much better looking or not at all BUT no weird stuttering and smooth grid loading. Yes Bethesda, take heed!
Those are from last week.
Yeah I did some more testing, a few areas will make it drop in the 20s. The Thieves Guild area seems to make it chug a bit. I had occasional drops into the low 20s in some battles so I switched to Low settings (still looks pretty good) and I get around 30-40fps just running around.
LiquidMetal14
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Found my worst area so far in the game. In Markath as you come out of the underground or whatever that area the Jarl is in, just sit there with that waterfall on the left. It's dipped to 29 there. And the dumb part is that there's not a lot of rendering like a vista like view. There's rock in front of me about 30 yards away and it prevents the game from rendering a more distant view. I can view the town from my house and gets better frames.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Yeah that's definitely one of the worst ones.
Kermit The Frog
Banned
PC GAF: Educate me on which AO method I should go for. I'm running a GTX 470 OC at 1080p BTW.
zephervack
Member
Wow that was quite a quest, finally found why while my setup can achieve 60fps+ in dungeons and in the fields, whenever I entered any town it would dip to 25fps,
Wasnt the shadows, its the LOD for objects and NPC, there are 3 lines at the end of the SkyrimPrefs.
Changing them from this:
LOD Fade out for Multi-Actors 7.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Items 6.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Objects 7.5
To this:
LOD Fade out for Multi-Actors 4.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Items 3.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Objects 4.5
Saw my FPS going up from 25fps to 45fps in towns, so much better, of course the problem is that you dont see people until you are really close to them
Wasnt the shadows, its the LOD for objects and NPC, there are 3 lines at the end of the SkyrimPrefs.
Changing them from this:
LOD Fade out for Multi-Actors 7.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Items 6.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Objects 7.5
To this:
LOD Fade out for Multi-Actors 4.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Items 3.5
LOD Fade out for Multi-Objects 4.5
Saw my FPS going up from 25fps to 45fps in towns, so much better, of course the problem is that you dont see people until you are really close to them
POM, lighting, shadows, reflections and some foliage interaction [bugged though
], quite nice upgrade just from one developer You mean Fallout 3/Skyrim/Performance etc. in the Nvidia Inspector?
If so, the Skyrim/Fallout 3 ones are the best looking but underwater they look like shit and in very misty/foggy areas they look like shit. No way you can run high quality well (don't know anyone who can). However, there is minimal difference between the three quality settings. Th COD6 AO is better in misty areas but not as good in normal areas.
Kermit The Frog
Banned
Yes that's what I meant. Which one is the best choice then in terms of impact/quality? Also, I heard about FC2 AO, is that any good?
I posted some comparison shots a few pages back.
You'll just have to try it out to see how your system handles it. Far Cry 2 doesn't look as good as Fallout 3/Skyrim. However, it's slightly less taxing. I recommend you try COD6 at quality level, Far Cry 2 and performance level and Skyrim at performance level and then picking the one you want.
Most of them look the same. I tried the COD ones, L4D ones, AC, RE5 and a load of others. Performance was very close.
LiquidMetal14
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That's the entirety of it? No more optimizations for PC or higher RAM fix? I can't believe that's it. I know there are some quest breaks but there has to be more for PC.
Yeah, I'm getting that quite regularly now. I thought the 4gb memory thing was gonna fix it but turns out it doesn't make a difference for me. Hard to really immerse yourself in the game when you're expecting to ctd at any moment. Sigh.
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1374
Heh, Dead Thrall summoning level cap removed. That should be fun to play with. Horribly overpowered of course, but it isn't like Dremora Lords aren't anyway.
Heh, Dead Thrall summoning level cap removed. That should be fun to play with. Horribly overpowered of course, but it isn't like Dremora Lords aren't anyway.
Kermit The Frog
Banned
I'll look for your post later, thanks.
Is there any reason to go for MSAA over FXAA as I thought FXAA was pretty good for a minimal performance hit?
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Those patch details are pretty disappointing. I want them to fix the disappearing textures, purple textures, the buggy quests, and most of all, the random and rampant CTDs.
frontieruk
Member
well we're listing 11.11a in the op
from the link AMD Catalyst 11.11a "Performance Driver" (8.911.1 November 18)
LiquidMetal14
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well we're listing 11.11a in the op
LOL Sorry LOL they are 11.11b on the link for sure though.
I may have accidentally copied the old link in too. Damn, thanks for catching that one.
Mammoth Jones
Member
*Reads Patch Details*
That's it? No PC performance tweaks/fixes/enhancements?
That's an incredibly poor patch considering the issues all three sku's have.
That's it? No PC performance tweaks/fixes/enhancements?
That's an incredibly poor patch considering the issues all three sku's have.
image quality. FXAA is nothing but a filter it does a good job but its still guessing on pixels. MSAA actually uses sub pixel geometry so its accurate. so things in the distance will typically be better with msaa.
FXAA built in is imo pretty terrible it does edge smoothing but it destroys alot of the detail which makes it look sorta like a water color painting with no real definition. however the FXAA injector does a fantastic job.
but ya msaa is too expensive. so unless you can spare gpu cycles fxaa injector should be used.
Are you talking about
just not choosing to be a werewolf?
Then I think it's meant to be that way.
Here you go
Without AO:
With AO (Fallout 3):
Took the screenshot on the highest quality AO.
Without any AO, I get 60-75 fps on average outside. With the smallest AO, I get 45-60.
edit: after playing around, I can see no difference (well minute) between the highest and lowest quality AO. Fallout 3 looks better than Far Cry 2 and Oblivion but the frame rate is a tad worse. Both Far Cry 2 and Oblivion AO look much better than the game without AO. I would stick with the FC2 one if you can't run the F3 one. Enabling V-sync in the nvidia inspector seems to help. At least I get less tearing.
edit 2: Actually, I'm not sure if FC2 is better than Oblivion. It'll be down to personal taste. Here are some comparison shots:
Oblivion AO:
Far Cry 2 AO:
Yea, that sucks.
Speaking of FXAA, these guys did a great comparison on the AA options in Skyrim.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/28/skyrim_amd_crossfirex_performance_iq_review/3
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/28/skyrim_amd_crossfirex_performance_iq_review/3
No, I can't start Purity Of Revenge. There's info out there about it so I know I'm not the only one.
You can use a console command to get rid of them
player.removeitem 0003133b 46
e: there are two entries for Alto Wine, try 000c5349 if needed
NullPointer
Member
I dunno. Patch seems pretty good to me - those seem to be the biggest issues, outside the large address aware exe.
Give me those things with a laa exe and I'd be satisfied for now.
Give me those things with a laa exe and I'd be satisfied for now.
LiquidMetal14
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I'm rather surprised that they aren't even talking to the community about it more. CPU, GPU, RAM issues. I guess the community can fix the game for them.
We aren't asking for them to release an .exe with the LAA flag, we're asking them to fix the fucking CTDs. How they do it is up to them.
As much as I love the game, it's sad that the community has to downright fix it. Improve it? Fine. Fix it? Dammit.
LiquidMetal14
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I hate when I talk to someone and it won't let me back out of the conversation. I can't even pause or TCL my way out. You simply have to alt tab out and close it and restart. That's an issue among others that needs fixing. I did get another one of them dragon corpses rise from the ground. This time I looted it and it had loot like I just killed it though hahaha
alysonwheel
Member
Tried enabling SSAO in the new Nvidia drivers. On both performance and quality it looks pretty nice but I get this weird flickering in some places, and in others it doesn't work at all.
Weird flickering.
Every time that's happened to me so far I've found that if I wait for 45 seconds or more the person I'm talking to gets bored and wanders off. Don't know if that's the same issue though.
Weird flickering.
Every time that's happened to me so far I've found that if I wait for 45 seconds or more the person I'm talking to gets bored and wanders off. Don't know if that's the same issue though.
NullPointer
Member
Why not?
Laziness? Security risk? I honestly have no idea. Seems like it would be a simple change that would help a lot of their PC audience.
LiquidMetal14
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Damn it literally just happened again like 1 minute ago and just quit. I have to leave anyways but lost 10 minutes of game time. I will try that next time.