Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Performance Thread

I guessing this is because additional lightsources causes more shadows to be rendered, and shadows are by far the most taxing part of the engine. I'd say turn shadows from ultra to high and see if there are any improvements.

 

tried that didnt help so I lowered it to medium still no change.. also seem to be getting fair bit of coiling noise from my gpu :S is there anyways to fix the lag from the ini?

 

I've got a Force 16F2-012 on the way with a 2670QM and gtx570. If I want to run it at 1080p, what sort of performance should I expect if the 570 is overclocked?

 

Ultra settings, 30 to 60fps, depending on location.

All mobile CPUs are badly bottlenecked though, even an overclocked 2920XM.

 

My 740qm is holding me back in the cities. Outside it is smooth but when I go into whiterun or riften my fps gets very low.

 

No problem here in Whiterun with my X9000 at 3.8Ghz. Well since the game only uses 2 cores and not 4 a higher clocked X9000 runs the game better than a low clocked Core I7 depending of course GPU, but the game is more CPU limited than GPU limited. The game loves high clocked CPU´s.

Too bad the game don´t utilize quad core CPU´s. I have a Core I7 2600k at 4.2GHz and yes going from 3.8 Ghz to 4.2 yields more frames per second on my desktop computer.

But no bigger problems at all running the game on my XPS M1730 in all high settings with smooth framerate and all sliders maxed.

 

Cant say my i7 2720QM has dissapointed me yet, but it is probably the weakest link when playing im Skyrim.
But Bethesda said a patch would arrive after Thanksgiving so maybe 5 days from now?

 

I miss my X9000.

 

What performance can I expect with the specification listed in my signature?

 

High at 1080p. The 555M is going to be your biggest weakness if you are going Bethsoft-level Ultra.

 

I just hope Bethesda fixes the CPU issues.

This game is not CPU heavy. All the testing and benchmarking shows this game even if can put load on 4 cores, only 1 core is stressed, the other 3 are nearly parked. It's only running on two threads. A single core highly clocked will do better than a lower clocked quad.

Even on Intel, which has 8 logical cores, this game will only put load on 4 logical cores, which means running the game with HT off will likely provide better performance.

I truly believe if Bethesda didn't design a game as if it was released in 2006 with DX11 rendering and proper CPU multi-threading, take advantage of all 8 threads, we'd all be seeing better performance. This is just ridiculous. Bethesda should get consultation from DICE to fix this. At least DICE knows how to make a game use current hardware.

 

It's more or less a spit shined fallout/obilvion engine. The lighting and particle system is FAR superior but it's still an old engine that isn't really designed to be pushed further than how bethesda ships the game, which is a shame becuase once you tweak the visuals to the point at which it taxes even high end systems, it looks glorious.

 

OC gpu on 760 core 1040 mem.1600/900 res.4 aa,16af all setting at max expext shadows they are on high,ultra shadows kill my frame rates without no visual diference.No fxaa(too blury),and with some ini file twiks i get 30-40 fps,very palyable.But sometimes i have very strange issues(for my luck not very often) with preformance,game start to lagg very bad and the fps drop to 18-20 on the places that i get usualy 30-40 fps,i was thinking taht was something to do with the clock,but even when i played with no oc or litlle the issiu is still there.Somethimes the issiu goes on the other directions the fps hit 60 on the less demanding places(caves, dungeons) and the game start to feel like fast forward,like you play doom on modern pc.Fast and unpalyble.Very strange.