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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PC performance thread
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What are the most vram demanding settings?
Nostremitus
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Game runs around 50 fps on average at 3440x1440p
970 gigabyte g1
i5-4670k at 4.5 ghz
8gb ram
I hadn't actually played skyrim because I kept putting it off so I thought with the remaster Id finally play it since I'm kinda lazy when it comes to mods but boy outside of the lighting the game really does look kinda underwhelming. I had the original skyrim set up with some mods that I compiled years ago. Yes I'm one of those people who mods shit and then doesn't play them. Even with year old mods the original looked better but what I really liked was that it performed noticeably better as well. So i decided to say fuck it and mod the crap out of the original and even though enb brings me to an average of 30 fps I think I'll just play the original modded at 30 fps rather then wait for the special edition to get better support. Hell even with the game modded but no ENB installed I still have better performance over the remastered version. Besides with mods my performance will likely drop down even lower in performance anyways. I would of liked to have compared the 2 in screen shots but of course the remastered edition doesn't properly support ultrawide and i can't take screen shots in game or even tab out. So instead I'll just leave this end result of what i went with instead over the remaster.
I was about to ask how you got the game to play well with 21:9... but then I finished reading...
blankempathy
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haha yea just for shits and giggles I really wanted some screen shots of the new version so i reduced the resolution to 2560x1440 and i can't get it to work properly. It won't launch in full screen with black bars at that resolution. It completely greys out the option and won't allow me to choose full screen. If I launch it in window borderless the game positions itself to the left and leaves the right side of my desktop showing with no black bars. Tried window mode no without the borderless option and it crashed. Fucking Bethesda I swear. And I still can't get screen shots because I can't get any of the steam overlay functions to work when the games running.
Cute Dragon Here
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I'm happy that people are finally coming around to the idea that well-implemented TAA is a good thing.
Too bad it doesn't work for VR
Out of curiosity, what about VR precludes using TAA? Me thinks it might have something to do with inter-frame dependency judging from what it is...
I'm not sure. I might go ahead and check how much VRAM it uses on my completely unmodded Skyrim and see how things change, first with resolution tests, then by preset to see if there's a pattern to it.
Edit: at 1080p, flipping between presets appear to have not much effect on VRAM usage.
Low takes about 1567 MB
Medium takes about 1748 MB
High takes about 1769 MB
Ultra takes about 2063 MB
Educated guess says that Medium turning on all effects accounts for the VRAM increase from Low to Medium, and 64-bit render targets explain High to Ultra. As expected, distance settings appear to not matter.
I used a vanilla save in the middle of Riverwood, in the noon, but not during any sort of flight. This appears to be a pretty good indicator of general performance.
Going to check out 720p. Makes for an interesting comparison.
What does this do?
Cute Dragon Here
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This issue should be officially fixed as soon as Bethesda pushes out an update. The severe sound quality loss was a mistake.
Yes. Bethesda doesn't allow mods to contain unedited files. Or something along those lines. Don't worry though, they said they'd have an official fix ready for this week.
Having issues with controller support using an Xbox One controller with the wireless adapter. Skyrim obviously recognizes the controller and throws up controller prompt but won't read any controller inputs. I have slight navigation with the keyboard, but it won't recognize the mouse. Anyone have any ideas?
dreamer3kx
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i5 6500
16 gigs ram
500 gig ssd
GTC 1060 6 gig
Constant 60 fps on ultra everything @ 1080
Looks great, especially at night wondering forest, feels good to play this again, never finished when first released but played a bunch.
16 gigs ram
500 gig ssd
GTC 1060 6 gig
Constant 60 fps on ultra everything @ 1080
Looks great, especially at night wondering forest, feels good to play this again, never finished when first released but played a bunch.
its whats recomended by step etc and being mentioned on the reddit thread about the ini's too.
in other news it seems we have a new ugrids in this version
the new setting is uLargeRefLODGridSize=11 (the default value located in skyrimprefs)
over at step they are talking bout it and heres whats been found
default value uLargeRefLODGridSize=11
uLargeRefLODGridSize=21
JaseC: Kaffeemann posted a workaround for the crushed blacks. Might wanna add it to OP
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222313111&postcount=1614
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222313111&postcount=1614
Quoting myself, since I got a new video card today!
i5-3570K
8GB RAM
GTX 1060 6GB
Everything on, everything ultra. Definitely running at 60 fps, super smooth now.
Ta, added.
Edit: GameGPU has published a benchmark article. The author even took the time to retest vanilla Skyrim:
The article features more data, such as system RAM and VRAM usage.
DukeLongfellow
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Not very tech savvy and I have far from the best computer in the world:
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) X4 760K Quad Core Processor
Video Card AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
RAM 8.0 GB
The following, however, allows to play most of the games 2-3 years or older high-ultra without much problem and I'm okay with that as there are a lot of decent games to play. I only got into PC gaming some one or two years ago. OG Skyrim was on Ultra without a hitch, installed some graphic mods that dipped my FPS to around 30-45 but that was a willing sacrifice on my part.
Special Edition though is making me scratch my head. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised that my settings set to low but what I am surprised about is that no matter what I set (aside from Ultra), whether it be High or Low, Godrays On or Off, AA High or low, my FPS is ALWAYS 23-30. Nothing affects it much and I'm trying to figure out what to do to get to at least a stable 30 but still keep at least a workable aesthetic.
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) X4 760K Quad Core Processor
Video Card AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
RAM 8.0 GB
The following, however, allows to play most of the games 2-3 years or older high-ultra without much problem and I'm okay with that as there are a lot of decent games to play. I only got into PC gaming some one or two years ago. OG Skyrim was on Ultra without a hitch, installed some graphic mods that dipped my FPS to around 30-45 but that was a willing sacrifice on my part.
Special Edition though is making me scratch my head. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised that my settings set to low but what I am surprised about is that no matter what I set (aside from Ultra), whether it be High or Low, Godrays On or Off, AA High or low, my FPS is ALWAYS 23-30. Nothing affects it much and I'm trying to figure out what to do to get to at least a stable 30 but still keep at least a workable aesthetic.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
Can you grab MSI Afterburner and turn on the OSD options to show CPU and GPU usage, as well as clock speeds? Need to know if it's a CPU limit, GPU limit, or things just not running at full speed for some reason.
The CPU isn't the fastest part, but it shouldn't really perform worse than a 4-core, early FX at all. Something seems to be amiss if changing graphics presets do nothing to the performance.
How much VRAM do you have on your video card? You should have at least 2 GB, and no matter what, 1.5 GB is the absolute minimum.
And... Get new drivers. Very important for AMD + AMD on CPU limited games. This is one of them.
Cheers for the tip.
I fixed my black crush problems by going into the Nvidia control panel and changing the display color format to YcbCr444 instead of RGB. At the bottom of the "Adjust desktop color settings menu.
Sanic
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RX 480 paired with a 6600k, ultra preset.
I get fairly severe framerate dips when looking in certain directions out in the wilderness. Disabled the in-game vsync but my FPS still appears to be cut in half. Not sure if it's an issue with capping my framerate to 60 from within Radeon settings.
I get fairly severe framerate dips when looking in certain directions out in the wilderness. Disabled the in-game vsync but my FPS still appears to be cut in half. Not sure if it's an issue with capping my framerate to 60 from within Radeon settings.
VistraNorrez
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Cute Dragon Here
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Out of curiosity, what does 64-bit tender targets exactly mean in the context of this game? It doesn't seem to be something that causes performance to tank on GeForce video cards that I've heard is intentionally limited in FP64. Does it do something else or doesn't rely (much) on FP64?
It's a 64 bit exe, it has nothing to do with the game rendering.
Mainly it means it can address more than 4gb of memory which allows for more complicated/extensive modding
Cute Dragon Here
Member
Ta, added.
Edit: GameGPU has published a benchmark article. The author even took the time to retest vanilla Skyrim
The article features more data, such as system RAM and VRAM usage.
What is going on with those 1080 benchmarks for the SE. I was looking forward to playing at 4k60 but I guess that isn't happening
Cute Dragon Here
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What is going on with those 1080 benchmarks for the SE. I was looking forward to playing at 4k60 but I guess that isn't happening
The new engine graphics at work?
What is going on with those 1080 benchmarks for the SE. I was looking forward to playing at 4k60 but I guess that isn't happening
You could turn a few settings down. You don't need God rays or shadows on full.
What is going on with those 1080 benchmarks for the SE. I was looking forward to playing at 4k60 but I guess that isn't happening
Just lower godrays and shadow quality. Stuff looks the same basically if you lower them and they take a huge performance hit.
Just turn down some settings like shadow distance and quality or god rays, no big deal. I'm happily playing at 4k60 on my TV and it looks great.What is going on with those 1080 benchmarks for the SE. I was looking forward to playing at 4k60 but I guess that isn't happening
Assuming you have a copy of original Skyrim, you can do it yourself.
Instructions here
You can find a BSA extractor over on Nexus
Cheers, added.
Damn wtf how is it just that easy?
demented waffle
Member
Woohoo. Disabling v sync in the .ini files got rid of my dips to 30.
Game runs pretty damn smooth again.
Game runs pretty damn smooth again.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
That reminds me... does the game behave differently on GeForce vs Radeon cards when frames start to miss 16.7 ms while vertical sync is turned on? Seems like on my laptop the game just tries to do it as fast as it can even with vertical sync turned on.
demented waffle
Member
nvm
Initially was really disappointed in the performance on my laptop. Defaulted to low settings, mediocre framerate, flickering on character models.
Then I googled it, and it turns out it defaulted to my integrated graphics card (for some reason). Switched it over in the NVIDIA control panel, and voila! Defaulted to high settings, much better framerate, no flickering. Running like a champ.
Then I googled it, and it turns out it defaulted to my integrated graphics card (for some reason). Switched it over in the NVIDIA control panel, and voila! Defaulted to high settings, much better framerate, no flickering. Running like a champ.
Bethesda just pushed a beta branch for the game (v 1.1.51). You can opt in just as usual on Steam.
Changelog:
https://bethesda.net/en/devnote/4a5...r-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition-1-1-update
Changelog:
https://bethesda.net/en/devnote/4a5...r-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-edition-1-1-update
The Lamonster
Member
Yes, been waiting for this.
I think I'll keep waiting for a solid Nvidia driver, though. Hopefully the next one is stable.
I think I'll keep waiting for a solid Nvidia driver, though. Hopefully the next one is stable.
The sound BSA went from 500mb to 1.5gb with the update. Seems about right for the original files I think.
I wish they would fix 21:9. I'm using a mod but it's not perfect.
Edit: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1721/? <- that mod if anyone is interested, and if you want to add it to the OP, JaseC?
Edit: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1721/? <- that mod if anyone is interested, and if you want to add it to the OP, JaseC?
Ta, done.