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(11-12-2011, 02:06 PM)[SS] Starscream Wrote: [ -> ]After looking at some videos, this game reminds me a lot of the Fallout games, Ill find out exactly how much very soon.

Too bad that they didn't put some cool rocket launchers or gauss rifles in SkyRim like an easter egg
Then it would have reminded me of Fallout a lot more.

(11-12-2011, 10:54 AM)Dumachum Wrote: [ -> ]30fps outdoors, 50-60 indoors with a i5, 4GB, HD 4570m @ High settings and 720p.

see, that makes my rig prob have troubles with it (at last!)
ive been playing recent games on max settings(AA and shit not included cause i really dont need it cause i dont see the difference in high resolutions) in 1080p and they play fine @ 60fps (rage,deus ex,DNF etc etc). so ye

Trust me daco if you lower the settings you'll have no problem at all, and there is so little difference between the settings besides draw distances and texture quality (which can be raised separately without any performance hit). The main difference between the settings (at least the only truly noticeable difference) is the draw distances. With max settings the mountains 5 miles in the distance will be rendered with the same quality as everything else, which will completely destroy your performance.

Images of graphics settings for reference:

im really tempted to get my ass of this chair and go get the game, but i really dont have the money nor would i prob play the game much

I've discovered so much in this last hour. This game is great but it does reek of consolitis.

Enabling ambient occlusion on nvidia cards (warning, it has a HUGE performance hit and should only be used on high end graphics cards):


TRSSAA can also be enabled with nvidia inspector and adds a lot to this game visually but has a huge performance hit (as you would expect).

From reddit:

Quote:Borrowed from "Dead man posting" on the Something awful forums, All credit goes to him. Reposted here for Reddits pleasure:
How do I fix the crash to desktop?
-Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sound
-In the Playback tab, right click on Speakers (or whatever has a green tick next to it), then click Properties
-In the advanced tab on this new window, select 24 bit, 44100Hz (Studio Quality) in the drop down menu

How do I fix some sound issues, such as hearing static during NPC dialogue?
-Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Sound
-In the Playback tab, right click on Speakers (or whatever has a green tick next to it), then click Properties
-In the advanced tab on this new window, select 24 bit, 44100Hz (Studio Quality) in the drop down menu

How do I disable the smooth mouse settings?
-Go to your Steam Directory -> steamapps -> common -> skyrim -> Skyrim
-Create a backup of the SkyrimPrefs.ini file
-Open the file, then scroll down to where it says [Controls] and find bMouseAcceleration=1
-Change to bMouseAcceleration=0
-Save, exit, and play

How do I fix the vsync ("laggy mouse") problem?
-Go to your Steam Directory -> steamapps -> common -> skyrim -> Skyrim
-Create a backup of the SkyrimPrefs.ini file
-Open the file, then scroll down to where it says [Display]
-Add to the bottom of the section iPresentInterval=0
-Save, exit, and play

How do I change the FOV?
-Go to your My Documents -> My Games -> Skyrim -> skyrim
-Create a backup of the skyrim.ini file
-Open the file, then scroll down to where it says [General]
-At the bottom of this section, add fdefaultfov=XX (where XX is the FOV value you want to change to)
-Save, exit, and play
EDIT: After much discussion in the thread, it would appear the above FOV command does not stick, and will revert to 70 on Fast-Travel. Try the console command "Fov xx" (~ for console, xx for an fov number)

Vsync is enabled by default and cannot be disabled from the in game settings, you need to modify the ini file.

Details about the bTreesReceiveShadows and bDrawLandShadows settings (these two settings are not enabled even if you select ultra settings despite the fact that they make the game look A LOT better in some spots and have virtually no performance hit what so ever): http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1255692-skyrim-pc-ini-and-console-tweaks/

Tweaking x and y mouse sensitivity separately:

Quote:At the end of your Documents/My Games/Skyrim/Skyrim.ini file, add:
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingYScale=0.0200
fMouseHeadingXScale=0.0200
You may have to tweak the numbers until you discover what works for you.

The y sensitivity scales with your framerate (no I'm not kidding, I told you it reeked of consolitis) and is usually much lower than the x sensitivity.

Some more tweaks:

Quote:iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3
It improves the sharpness of the shadows and has a least effect on the performance so you may not see any FPS loss even when you have set it to high. You can set this value ranging from 1 – 3 (Low, Medium, High).

fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=0.0000
It improves tree LOD distance. You can change it to 10000000.0000 if you want to improve the LOD distance or keep it as it is.

fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000
It improves LOD distance of shadows. You can change it to ’1000.0000′.

bTransparencyMultisampling=0
Change it to 1 to enable Transparency MS.

iWaterMultiSamples=0
It improves Water AA sampling. You can change it from 1 to 4 (Low, Medium, High, Ultra). Change it either to improve the eye candy or to improve the performance or find a good balance between two.

bTreesReceiveShadows=0
It improves the tree shadows – You can change it to 1 to enable shadows on trees or keep the shadows disabled if you are looking to squeeze performance out of your machine.

bDrawLandShadows=0
It enables land shadows – You can change it to 1 to enable land shadows. Again, shadows eat a lot of system resources and video card memory, keep it disabled if you are looking to squeeze performance.

fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000
It improves grass distance. Greatly effects performance. I have tested it up to ’400.0000′ – you can tweak it this variable either for graphics or performance.

iWaterReflectHeight=512 / iWaterReflectWidth=512
It improves Water Reflection Resolution, which obviously will use your system resources. You can either keep it as it is, if you want to improve the performance or even lower it. Or change both to 1024 for eye candy.

bMouseAcceleration=1
If you want to disable mouse acceleration, you can change it to 0. You will need to increase the mouse sensitivity in-game when you disable the mouse acceleration.

uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=20
If you are experiencing low textures and other textures related graphics issues, you can tweak this variable to improve texture and skin rendering. You can set this value to 40 to start with. Or keep it as it is, if you are looking to squeeze performance.

Additionally, you can add following ini tweaks at the end of the your SkyrimPrefs.ini file:
bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1 bReflectExplosions=1 iWaterBlurAmount=4 bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=0 bForceHighDetailReflections=1
The above five ini tweaks improve water rendering – Again, you can keep either lower the value or set them as it is, to make water look gorgeous.

fBlockLoadDistanceLow=50000.0000 fBlockLoadDistance=125000.0000 fHighBlockLoadDistanceLow=20000.0000
If you want to improve mesh on long distance in Skyrim, add the above three ini tweaks at the end of the configuration file. These tweaks will improve the mesh distance.
Save the SkyrimPrefs.ini and exit. Start Skyrim and enjoy!

You'll want to set maximum prerendered frames to 0 to reduce stuttering on nvidia cards (and whatever the ati equivalent of that is called as well).

(11-12-2011, 09:19 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Vsync is enabled by default and cannot be disabled from the in game settings, you need to modify the ini file.

that is bad
really
really
REALLY bad

vsync should always be in a pc game's options even if its a console port. why? cause vsync sucks ass

(11-12-2011, 09:25 PM)DacoTaco Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-12-2011, 09:19 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Vsync is enabled by default and cannot be disabled from the in game settings, you need to modify the ini file.

that is bad
really
really
REALLY bad

vsync should always be in a pc game's options even if its a console port. why? cause vsync sucks ass

By habit I have always turned on VSync for the games I play and they have worked fine with no issues.
Why is VSync considered to suck ass?

Thanks for sharing that for the rest NV. What performance do you get?

I highly recommend disabling vsync and mousesmoothing over everything.
Vsync will lock your framerate to 60, and when it gets really intensive and your FPS drops, it'll spazz, and lock you to 30.

But indeed, the mouse is terrible in this game. I usually have around 70fps, but whenever I enter simple places, I get around 200-300FPS and the mouse starts flying all over the place.

Also enabling the tree shadows etc will improve the look of the game a lot.


But the game has bugged me. I can't switch my hand spells anymore. The right is stuck, only the left one changes... Also, the hands seem swapped, right-click = left hand and vice versa...
(I had to switch the bindings to make it natural again, but ingame it obviously states the wrong hands)
If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.

(11-12-2011, 10:26 PM)Garteal Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for sharing that for the rest NV. What performance do you get?

I highly recommend disabling vsync and mousesmoothing over everything.
Vsync will lock your framerate to 60, and when it gets really intensive and your FPS drops, it'll spazz, and lock you to 30.

But indeed, the mouse is terrible in this game. I usually have around 70fps, but whenever I enter simple places, I get around 200-300FPS and the mouse starts flying all over the place.

Also enabling the tree shadows etc will improve the look of the game a lot.


But the game has bugged me. I can't switch my hand spells anymore. The right is stuck, only the left one changes... Also, the hands seem swapped, right-click = left hand and vice versa...
(I had to switch the bindings to make it natural again, but ingame it obviously states the wrong hands)
If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.

So that's what VSync does. I guess I wouldn't even notice a difference if I switched that off.

(11-12-2011, 10:26 PM)Garteal Wrote: [ -> ]I highly recommend disabling vsync and mousesmoothing over everything.
Vsync will lock your framerate to 60, and when it gets really intensive and your FPS drops, it'll spazz, and lock you to 30.

or it'll spaz and always lock you on 30 even if your system can handle 60fps fine
which sucks cause my eyes are used to play games > 30fps meaning its not fluid to me. i hate that.

or imagine a game like unreal tournament which natively runs 60 or more. lock that to 30fps
yeeeeee