Skyrim runs at an almost unplayable fps on a good rig.

[Skurjandan]

To start with I have an MSI GE60 that I bought about 2 years ago. The guts are = Windows 7 premium 64-bit, Intel i7-3610 2.3ghz (3.2ghz with that turbo boost crap), Nvida geforce gtx 660m (2gig), and 8gigs of ram. I realize it may not be the best but it plays most games I throw at it on high/ultra, heck even crisis 2 runs decently smooth. When it comes to Skyrim (and Witcher 2 but that's a whole other beast) it plays at about 15-20fps normally and about 10-15fps with ENB. It has its occasional spikes to around 40fps in uncluttered corners but those are quite few and far between. Yes, I use texture mods among others but I feel it should run them no problem or at least not this poorly. I'm kinda at a loss as to if something is wrong or if I'm just not realizing its an out dated laptop. In any case I will eventually be buying something new when I get home because I doubt this thing will survive the rest of my deployment unscathed. At any rate help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

 

-'Ski

Edited October 3, 2013 by Skurjandan

[Rennn]

ENB will dump a 660m into the 10-20 fps range, easily.

 

Without ENB, I'm surprised at that framerate. Are you running on ultra with a lot of AA? That would probably do it.

Edited October 3, 2013 by Rennn

[Miguelr23]

if you use AA disable it and turn on FXAA so you wont have so low fps

do you run many texture mods?looking at some benchmarks without mods you should play at around 35-40 on ultra

[Skurjandan]

That's unfortunate, I like what ENB brings to the game. @Rennn I have AA disabled through the launcher and at 2 in the ENB ini Without ENB it's set at 4. @ Miguelr23 I haven't had FXAA on. I'll try that. I use the Skyrim HD textures with a few select things from SIMM, most likely the biggest culprit besides ENB itself.

[Georgiegril]

I use SMIM's lower resolution options, without the rocks, and get no fps drop on a much older graphics card.

Do you have Nvidia Inspector? I suggest you try disabling AA and bypassing FXAA for forcing AA in the driver software. I can use 2XQ and 2X sparsegrid for transparency supersampling for better quality than the games 4x AA or FXAA and much less performance hit.

[Rennn]

If you use HD textures for mountains, or SMIM's rock and mountain options, get rid of those immediately. They butcher Skyrim's framerate.

[Rennn]

I can use 2XQ and 2X sparsegrid for transparency supersampling for better quality than the games 4x AA or FXAA and much less performance hit.

 

Do you use a certain compatibility bit? I can't seem to get SGSSAA working at all in Skyrim.

[Georgiegril]

Here is what I have. Also, I have my AA values in my prefs.ini set to zero.

[Rennn]

Here is what I have. Also, I have my AA values in my prefs.ini set to zero.http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_images/underground/attachicon.gifCapture.JPG

 

Thanks, I'll try that.

[Skurjandan]

@Georgiegril I don't have Nvidia inspector, looks handy though. @Rennn I had both mountain and rock textures. I got rid of both and saw a dramatic improvement. Stays at around 30fps in most cases. It still dips and stutters once in a while but I can live with that no problem. Huge thanks for the tips y'all. I'll be cursing at my laptop a lot less now.