LostDonkey
Member
Seems weird. I haven't changed any other setting, TAA is set to on, but i BW mode the image quality is far superior to fullscreen for me.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PC performance thread
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Seems weird. I haven't changed any other setting, TAA is set to on, but i BW mode the image quality is far superior to fullscreen for me.
LostDonkey
Member
A deer just fell from the sky.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Just another confirmation that physics break with an uncapped fps (at least with iVSyncPresentInterval at 0):
https://youtu.be/jn1ODoUuNU4
https://youtu.be/jn1ODoUuNU4
So weird the different accounts on AMD GPUs, a guy with a 270 ran Ultra at 60, I can't get locked 60 on lowest on a 280X. Sure it could be my FX6300, but usage on the CPU goes way up when the GPU isn't being 99% load'd.
Pls patch, pls driver. PLs smthRicerocket
Member
LOL.
I can imagine someone in their excitement wanting to give Skyrim a try and starting off with this. Bethesda please.
Sword Of Doom
Member
I feel like I'm fresh installing nvidia drivers twice a week at this point
Ha, sigh.
VisceralBowl
Member
Does this have super drops like Fallout 4 does for some?
3570k 4.2GHz
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
980TI
In Fallout 4 I had to cap the framerate at 30 because it was dropping below 60 so often, even at medium shadow quality + distance
3570k 4.2GHz
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
980TI
In Fallout 4 I had to cap the framerate at 30 because it was dropping below 60 so often, even at medium shadow quality + distance
Sword Of Doom
Member
I always use DDU and do a fresh install but it's really becoming a hassle with how often nvidia is updating their drivers
It looks like the farthest I can push the framerate without triggering that instance in my video is 100 fps. Anything above that, and...yeah. Not sure if 100 fps is safe across the board though.
BossDarkseid
Member
Since i turned vSync off in the ini my performance has been about 90-100+fpsish. same gpu, but a 5820k cpu + at 1440p.
Also can someone point me to where in the Nvidia Control Panel i limited Skyrim's fps to 60? I feel like after staring at computers all day I now am unable to see something blindingly obvious
In my experience you only really need to do DDU if you notice something is obviously wrong, most of the time I just install over the old ones without issue. Only time I had an issue was when my GPU was stuck at video watching clocks of 850mhz forever
Since i turned vSync off in the ini my performance has been about 90-100+fpsish. same gpu, but a 5820k cpu + at 1440p.
Also can someone point me to where in the Nvidia Control Panel i limited Skyrim's fps to 60? I feel like after staring at computers all day I now am unable to see something blindingly obvious
Easy thing to do, Download Riva Statistics Tuner (comes with MSI Afterburner) and use that to cap the framreate.
BossDarkseid
Member
Cheers. I'll get on that. I find the physics glitches hilarious but they could break something later on so I don't want to risk it.
Cheers, I'll update my PC perf. threads shortly.
Slackbladder
Member
Bethesda has once again earned the title of Most Incompetent Developer in the Western World.
So downloaded a mod and the game has to do a shuffle of the load order. This goes on for 5 minutes plus with no change (for a tiny mod no less). So I close the game down and now, even though it says it's running and shows in task manager it doesn't show up at all. Verified integrity, deleted mods and prefs and redownloaded. Nothing. I guess a reinstall is needed which I cant do at the moment because it's on my work laptop.
Add to that the game is still full of the exact same bugs as before (followers disappearing for example) and you know what, it's all pretty shit. But I got it for free so at least it's free shit. Feel bad for someone who bought this and is having to face this kind of crap though.
Anyway, congrats to Bethesda for cementing their record of technically worthless software releases.
So downloaded a mod and the game has to do a shuffle of the load order. This goes on for 5 minutes plus with no change (for a tiny mod no less). So I close the game down and now, even though it says it's running and shows in task manager it doesn't show up at all. Verified integrity, deleted mods and prefs and redownloaded. Nothing. I guess a reinstall is needed which I cant do at the moment because it's on my work laptop.
Add to that the game is still full of the exact same bugs as before (followers disappearing for example) and you know what, it's all pretty shit. But I got it for free so at least it's free shit. Feel bad for someone who bought this and is having to face this kind of crap though.
Anyway, congrats to Bethesda for cementing their record of technically worthless software releases.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Will try that cause it's getting tedious
Tranqueris
Banned
Looks like Skyrim is doing the same bullshit Fallout 4 did where it completely fucks over my controller settings when I launch the game.
NotDigital
Neo Member
Thanks for posting this! I was having the exact same issue and this fixed it. I just finished playing for 3 hours straight with no crashes.
What a bizarre reason for the crashes!
Dick Justice
Banned
Won't ever be release ready. Tannin (the guy who made it) got hired by Nexus to make a new mod manager for them instead. So Mod Organizer is pretty much dead now. Better hope Nexus' redesign is half as good.
I checked the mod reddit and Bethesda responded saying they'll have a fix for the audio ready next week
Fix for audio as in people get to download all audio again?
I assume fix means bringing quality parity across all 3 platforms. Or at least bringing the sound quality up. If you're annoyed about download size, I suggest you direct your anger at the upscaled textures that take almost twice as much space (4 to 7gB) without offering any increase in quality whatsoever
. It's the audio files themselves that are shit, so obviously a fix would result in downloading new audio. Wouldn't surprise me if all they did was put the old audio files from vanilla Skyrim into SSE tho, leaving us with shitty music and voice overs still.I assume fix means bringing quality parity across all 3 platforms. Or at least bringing the sound quality up. If you're annoyed about download size, I suggest you direct your anger at the upscaled textures that take almost twice as much space (4 to 7gB) without offering any increase in quality whatsoever
Was just wondering what other fix there even could be for fixing compressed audio. They kinda have to make users redownload all audio files in their larger, uncompressed, form. I'm personally yet to download SSE at all as I wait release issues to pass. Reading performance threads is just kinda fun as shows quite a bit about state of PC ports.
Is the compressed audio related to the audio panning problems I'm having? When talking to an NPC the voice is soft when looking straight at them, proper volume when I look right, and almost inaudible if I look left. I thought it might be some surround effect I needed to disable but there's nothing like that in the options.
CertifiedFP
Member
So any verdict on why this runs poorly on newer PCs? I'm seeing reports of PCs several magnitudes stronger than mine with 1070's/1080's and far better CPUs than the FX6300 struggling to reach 60, whilst my PC has been able to play at a perfect 72FPS without any dips on Ultra in all scenarios I've tested it in.
Are we having another Akiba Strip /w GTX 970 scenario here?
Are we having another Akiba Strip /w GTX 970 scenario here?
Strife In a Teacup
Member
I've tried everything and still can't get past the launcher. Updated nvidia drivers, updated windows, re-installed game, reinstalled vc redistributables, run program as admin checked, compatibility for windows 7, all kinds of things I've heard. Nothing gets past the launcher.
Every other game I have works fine still, including Fallout 4. Guess I just have to wait for the SKSE for the Special Edition to come out or something. Almost seems like my problems are related to having the previous normal Skyrim installed with mods. I've removed all references of it and it still doesn't work. Oh well.
Edit : i7 4770k, 16 gigs of ram, Geforce 1060 6gig btw.
Every other game I have works fine still, including Fallout 4. Guess I just have to wait for the SKSE for the Special Edition to come out or something. Almost seems like my problems are related to having the previous normal Skyrim installed with mods. I've removed all references of it and it still doesn't work. Oh well.
Edit : i7 4770k, 16 gigs of ram, Geforce 1060 6gig btw.
LostDonkey
Member
Who says it runs poorly on newer pc's?
I have a 6700k 1070 16gb ddr4 build and it runs locked 60 1440p absolutely maxed out, and 4k only drops into the mid 50's in towns.
I don't think the FPS issues are related to CPUs at all, like you said, the FX6300 seems to have zero issues with the game, nice core utilization and all, it's more GPU related. Like for me, GPU usage is at 99% at all times almost, regardless of settings, only on the lowest possible does it go down to 70%, which brings core utilization way up along with the framerate.
What GPU are you running btw, I'm on a 280X, same CPU
Plenty of people with specs similar to yours mentioning dips to the mid 40s. It's really weird. I wonder if this ends up being a "restart your PC once" kind of errors.
Ordinator and Apocalypse Magic got SSE mod pages earlier. There was even a port of SkyUI 2.2 but it got taken down by moderation (god the vanilla UI is terrible).
Glad I got it before it was removed, since the author has no plans to port. Now to wait for the gameplay overhauls.
texhnolyze
Banned
Wow, they took it down so fast.
CertifiedFP
Member
I don't think the FPS issues are related to CPUs at all, like you said, the FX6300 seems to have zero issues with the game, nice core utilization and all, it's more GPU related. Like for me, GPU usage is at 99% at all times almost, regardless of settings, only on the lowest possible does it go down to 70%, which brings core utilization way up along with the framerate.
What GPU are you running btw, I'm on a 280X, same CPU
970.
Nothing there.
They really couldn't have done a little bit of work on the cows?
Cute Dragon Here
Member
The audio panning is a bit quirky even in the original
The best fit settings to prevent the look from obviously missing effects on a GTX 760M (slightly worse than a GTX 750) at 1080p 30 FPS seems to be medium preset, then set God rays to low, and turn off all checkbox options except SSAO and Lens Flares. I appear to be staying just above 30 FPS in a pretty busy part of Riverwood.
I can't imagine a time when this won't make me laugh. Priceless.
Soodanim
Gold Member
The usual suspects would be shadows, AO and God rays. They also have some of the biggest impacts visually, though
FunkyDealer
Banned
Why should I disable double buffer v-sync, as mentioned in the OP? Does it improve framerate or something?
Bl@de
Member
Yeah, I couldn't get over a drawbridge in the second dungeon. Just stuck and then warped around the air. Had to cap it to 60. It feels ... rough and meh compared to 100fps
BossDarkseid
Member
Yeah, I couldn't get over a drawbridge in the second dungeon. Just stuck and then warped around the air. Had to cap it to 60. It feels ... rough and meh compared to 100fps
This sounds bizzare but its true. I went from 100+fps with physics glitches to a locked 60 and its obviously still smooth but it somehow feels comparatively sluggish >_> first world problems and all that.
FunkyDealer
Banned
Yeah, I couldn't get over a drawbridge in the second dungeon. Just stuck and then warped around the air. Had to cap it to 60. It feels ... rough and meh compared to 100fps
Cap it at 30 for a while and go back to 60. ;-)
Looks perfectly fine, like the Skyrim I remember playing five years ago.
The way double-buffer vsync works is that it caps the framerate to your refresh rate and divides the former if it drops. So, for instance, if you have a 60Hz monitor, the game will be capped at 60fps (60/1) and drop to 30fps (60/2) if 60fps cannot be maintained, and again to 20fps (60/3) if 30fps cannot be maintained, and so on. Many people instead prefer triple buffering, which can be enabled by way of running the game in a borderless window, as it's refresh rate-independent.
Anyone else's controller vibration screwy on PC? It seems like with magic at least that instead of matching the visuals the vibration runs on for like ~3 seconds after I stop casting. Even if you just tap say Flames long enough for it to start casting, it will vibrate for 3 seconds.