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Breakthrough in Skyrim memory usage allows larger scale battles/environments.
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Well that is fantastic news.
No kidding. This dead horse is practically obliterated.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Are there any mods/patches I need before using this mod (besides SKSE)? I heard that there were other memory patches that increased the game's usage closer to 4gb.
Tal Shiar Agent
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The game is still limited to using only 4gb of ram, just now it can use larger chunks at a time (before this it was limited to 256mb chunks).
TetraGenesis
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Hyyyyyyyyypothetically--
If there does end up being a PS4/XB version of Skyrim, could/would Bethesda utilize something similar to this for stability and (in a perfect world) tweaks like improved NPC numbers and such?
I plan on taking advantage of this on PC, but the idea of playing next gen Skyrim on my Vita has me salivating.
If there does end up being a PS4/XB version of Skyrim, could/would Bethesda utilize something similar to this for stability and (in a perfect world) tweaks like improved NPC numbers and such?
I plan on taking advantage of this on PC, but the idea of playing next gen Skyrim on my Vita has me salivating.
Dont the majority of games run on 32-bit?
Really not much need for 64-bit when most games don't need that RAM. Next gen will change that however, and hopefully for real reasons and not just convoluted anti cheating like CoD Ghosts did.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Unfortunately, though many recent games are starting to have 64bit versions. Battlefield 4 I believe.
I just hope that Fallout 4 and TESVI are 64bit and DirectX 11 only, with Mantle support.
For real. I wonder the folks at Bethesda were surprised by how much modders managed to improve their game.
The SkyUI mod was so obvious. I'm wondering why they didn't think of that.
Because they designed their UI for controllers.
Sathsquatch
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I think the combat is actually pretty good with Duel v. 7 (the hardcore version of Duel) and even SkyRe's combat. Neither fixes the animations, but I find them both fun and I certainly did not feel that way about the vanilla game.
This comparison just makes it so much more apparent how great this is.
Blue Ninja
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For those worried that upping the ugrids ruins your savegames, there's a fix out there that allows you to dial back to a lower amount of ugrids and not having to ditch your gamesaves. I tried it during my last playthrough when ugrids 7 kept crashing the game, and it worked perfectly.
(thanks to tVEC at the Nexus forums)
Tried checking another forum and found someone who's tested uGrids:
It seems impressive to go from stable uGrids = 5 to 11.
A generic comparison between 5 to 11 is quite a difference:
So cool. I wonder what's the performance difference between 5 and 11?
Perfect Cha0s
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I doubt it, honestly. I'm not entirely sure about Morrowind (I think it had a big mod following, too), but Oblivion had a similarly massive outpouring of modder support.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Bethesda is very well aware of some of the more PC-centric deficiencies of the game, but simply ships it anyway because they know the modder community will fix it up, and do a better job than they could in the first place.
It doesn't really excuse them being outclassed (IMO) entirely by mods like SkyRe in terms of their game systems, but as for things like SkyUI, they probably knew but just thought the default UI was good enough for the baseline.
Significant. The game gets more and more unstable as you up the ugrids, but here's hoping this breakthrough really helps with my computer's stability. I typically run at 7, but would love to up it to 9. Based on the analysis, getting 11 would be incredible.
Perfect Cha0s
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Yeah, this new memory fix wouldn't change performance, right? It would simply make you less likely to crash while using higer uGrid settings?
I'm betting though it will annihilate a ton of the stuttering I keep getting. I can run FPS-wise very decently with 9 and probably will be able to with 11, but the game starts to stutter quite a bit.
Perfect Cha0s
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Yeah, it should definitely smooth out some of the more ambitious mods. I don't know why I said it probably wouldn't increase performance, general FPS was the term I was looking for. I guess a more accurate way to put it is: this new fix won't suddenly make Skyrim run flawlessly on a potato, but it will help smooth the game out of it you're pushing it with mods and other tweaks.
Blue Ninja
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It depends on the hardware you're running. uGrids at 7 used to make my game unstable as shit back in July, before most of the patches.
I made a video now while changing ugrids on the fly on dragonback. I even got 9 running safely, but yeah, performance wasn't too great anymore.
Blue Ninja
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I played with uGrid 7 since release
As I said, probably depends on the hardware. Not to mention the mods you're using. When rolling with 7, the game would undoubtedly crash at least once every session. Now it never crashes. I'm going to see if 7 is any more stable for me now.
Mr. Wonderful
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Gosh, it's amazing how just seeing those screenshots reminds me how much I love this game. I need to be unemployed. And to not have a social life.
I might go to Grad School for ESVI. :>
I might go to Grad School for ESVI. :>
LiquidMetal14
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Good, looks like I will be using this.
:O
I really want to give this a shot. Not sure if it would work out too well on my Surface Pro 2 though. Maybe I should wait until I get my desktop fixed.
Probably still need a dedicated graphics card, but the difference is dramatic. My framerate has nearly doubled, even with ENB and tons of mods installed. I can't even imagine what this game would be like if Bethesda released a 64bit exe and it could access more memory. Probably mindblowing.
^ Not really, no. But how come you're playing vanilla anyway?
Not many performance-intensive mods then, I take it? Vanilla Skyrim is completely different beast from heavily modded Skyrim.
I played with uGrid 7 since release
Not many performance-intensive mods then, I take it? Vanilla Skyrim is completely different beast from heavily modded Skyrim.
^ Not really, no. But how come you're playing vanilla anyway?
I have a school laptop and my bf won't let me get even a modest $450 PC to mod the game a bit :/
MrTroubleMaker
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or this works as well (you can change the ugrids in game), I use this
Stable uGridsToLoad
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41592/?
SuicidalSteve
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gtx 670 would work well with this?
Dick Justice
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Gonna try this when I get home, hopefully it'll make the framerate more consistent when running ENB. Tends to vary between 45 and 60 in more demanding scenes atm.
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