nlove13

Yeah, it re-detected the video settings and it is displaying the correct video adapter, but its still not working. And the .dll file is nowhere to be found in the directory. I've found that if I use alt-control-delete to open the task manager the game will load immediately after doing so, but I'm still encountering awful framerates. Thanks for the reply though.

After attempting to install a couple mods intended to improve performance, and then deleting them as they only made them worse (I even deleted the d3d9.dll file), whenever I start Skyrim the initial loading screen takes nearly three minutes. And then once the game is loaded, the framerate is terrible. Any suggestions? The only solution that I could find was to delete d3d9.dll, but that hasn't worked.