Okay, there may be a thread for this or a post somewhere but I didn't check so.. don't yell at me if this has been asked and solved for someone already. :P When I installed Skyrim the game was running like absolute garbage. It was so slow and choppy, even on bare minimal settings. If I set the game to ultra the game looked nicer but still ran like garbage. I didn't know what to do and I don't even remember how I stumbled upon this but I deleted the d3d9.dll file in my Skyrim directory and the game suddenly ran like melted butter on a naked baby's bum. It was weird. No lagging, no choppiness, just completely smooth and quick running game playing. And a few people that I have talked to and gone to for help about this mentioned they don't have a d3d9.dll file in their Skyrim directory, but they did have one in their DirectX10 folder in the dxnt.cab file. So FXAA injector stuff started popping up and I was interested in it so I downloaded a few files from Nexus to try it out. I started with the FXAA Injector installer and went with preset 1. A d3d9.dll file was placed in my Skyrim directory after it finished installing. Sure enough, putting that, along with the rest of the files in one of the mods made the visual changed but once again the game was running like... uhg! Just really, really poorly. I'm still at this dilemma. And it seems to be that its just this bloody d3d9.dll file causing trouble and it's pure rubbish! Does anyone know why this is happening and if there is a way to fix it? I mean I can live without it, I have been since the end of November, but I would like to experience some of these FXAA Injectors goodness if I can. I have even tried installing some of the FXAA mods but deleting the d3d9.dll file then playing, but the visual enhancements don't trigger. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am muchly curious why I am experiencing this issue and what I can do to solve it.