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That's probably what I'll do eventually. Thanks for all the help, I mean it. Thanks! âby "bottlelneck" you mean the MoBo?

That's what I thought, but then I saw this: Gamers Nexus: http://www.gamersnex...-impact-on-gpus Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardw...2/pcie-x16.html It made me question the necessity in a new MoBo. I mean, yeah sure, a new MoBo is always a good idea (CPU's this days, like, mine is 4930k [3.7Gh~] and today you have 4970k [4.4~ I think]) but entirely for Skyrim? You think that changing the port will make such a big change on my performance? 'cause on that video it said like 1% of better performance (in general, of course).

I'm from Israel (let the hate begin, lol) Building gaming machines for a living sounds AWESOME! So jealous. Thanks for the tip, really helps! Let's just say that I'm a really spoiled brat that wants to play Skyrim SE like so: My Argonian knight fights a dragon and a bear in the most heavily textured forest with fire everywhere, in a snowy-rainy weather in ultra settings... And still get 60 FPS. 'cause like, in old Skyrim I could do that (vanilla textures of course. I don't install them things 'cause I don't know how to uninstall them later). So you also think 1070 could do the trick? I'm starting to get more confidence about investing in one. If you say it's more than enough... I just want the game to perform at best, and with my R9 290X it's not good enough. currently I'm playing on medium and even then I get 55 FPS more often then one wants.

Yeah I think you can take all that post and put it in a Skyrim lore book lol. And yes - the card is x16 while my mother board is x8 only. Oh no it doesn't have anything to do with crossfire, just to eliminate that possibility right ahead before anyone asks. Thanks for you advice, it helps a lot :smile: EDIT: Almost forgot to ask: 70-80 FPS everywhere, including heavy-loaded screens (such as heavy snow \ woods etc.)? Also where I live I can get it from the brands Asus, MSI, EVGA and Gigabyte. I think MSI is a good choice, right? A bit new in Nvidia cards.

TL;DR Let me start from the beginning. I have a pretty good PC (specs attached in a file). Back in 2014 when I first built this rig, vanilla Skyrim ran as smooth as a baby's behind. My only limit was the amount of mods that I decided to put... which weren't that much. Never liked them 2k texture mods, more like Climates of Tamriel\Convenient Horses\SkyUI type. The game was fun, I finished it like several times (two-handed Nordic warrior, Wood Elf assassin-thief, Dark Elf assassin-mage, Breton Destruction\Alteration mage. Last one was reeaaalllly OPed as hell). Now moving forward to December 2016: I decided to play once again and this time to try an Argonian... But in special edition. Joyous and excited, I started playing. Not surprising, the game was full-o'-bugs (and not the chitin-dropping type) so I decided to lay it to rest. Each month since then I would play for like an hour, just going from one place to another, maybe looting a cave or something I don't know. Today. This week I decided to return fully to the game. It seems I didn't remember it so well, cause the game was stuttering 48-58 FPS in ultra (mostly 52FPS). High settings works fine, but only indoors: a cave, a dungeon, a room, inside-cities [like Whiterun, Solitude, Windhelm]. but outdoors it still stuttering at about 41-55 outdoors: Open cities [like Falkreath, Winterhold, Morthal], Heavily textured woods [parts of the Falkreath hold and parts of the Rift], heavily snowy places [basically almost the entire north except maybe for solitude and place near Windhelm if I remember] etc. I discovered a lot of things changed, including that tweak with the FPS limit (changing the value of v-sync in skyrimpref.ini didn't work). Long story short, the performance is not pleasing even in high settings. Also forgot to mention that I lowered "depth of field" all the way down. Now I just play on medium to get 60 FPS most of the time. My only drops are about to 55 FPS in those mentioned places and in some of the battles (especially ones that involve more than one NPC). I think my hardware should be able to confront Skyrim special edition smoothly even on ultra settings. It shouldn't be so difficult. Bethesda recommended AMD R9 290 GPU while mine is R9 290X, the better one. My software even came with a Wattman installed, so I tried tweaking a bit with it... and still nothing changed. So I thought to myself... maybe my hardware is old? maybe it's time to do something about it? Thus I decided to research around the internet and tried to get a definite answer to two questions: 1. What options do I have exactly? 2. What will be the best option for me? Answering them questions: 1. Buying of course. But what exactly? I realized I can buy indeed a new GPU. In my research I decided that GTX 1080 Ti would be a great leap from my R9 290X. There are a few versions of this, and the MSI Aero one is the best I can offer to myself based on price\performance (it makes sense from where I live). Then I discovered there's another option... Buy another R9 290X secondhand\firsthand, and crossfire it. It would be much cheaper, and hopefully, get the results for Skyrim SE that I desire. The only problem... most forum threads that I find about crossfire and Skyrim SE are divided. Tom's Hardware - crossfire\SLI vs single card: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3071174/sli-crossfire-single-card.html Skyrim issues and troubleshooting with crossfire on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5aghz5/any_luck_with_crossfire_in_skyrim_special_edition/ Skyrim great performance using R9 295X in reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5c2cgf/psa_skyrim_special_edition_fixed_crossfire/ A Mod by Gutfux "AMD Crossfire Fix" on Nexus Mods: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2805/? Skyrim SE with SLI using GTX 1080 Ti [Nvidia's counterpart for Crossfire] on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDTumR5nNn4&t=182s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5BcETYyxvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVxdbaDxUo 2. Finally... What is the best option for me? I intend to spend up to 950$ and not a cent more. Where I live, the GTX 1080 Ti costs 902.55$ My version of R9 290X costs about 564.98$ though I can get it secondhand for 254.24$ which is significantly cheaper. Either way, the true questions being asked here are: Will buying GTX 1080 Ti really will be much more different than what I have now? If I run some harsh tests how will it perform? Will the FPS crumble when I walk through the woods or in rain, and only perform Ultra smoothly in nice sunny days inside a room? Because, what if I spent 900$ on a GPU and got about the same results as my previous GPU? Would crossfire offer me good enough results? Does it even work properly with Skyrim SE? I wish for your consultation. What do you think is the best thing of the above that I can do in order to run Skyrim SE on 60FPS 1920x1080? Yeah also forgot to mention a few technical details: * R9 290X connects via PCI Express x16 while my motherboard connection-slot is PCI Express x8. At first I thought it might be a major fault until I researched around it a bit, and it shouldn't be an issue. Here are two sources for you enjoyment: Gamers Nexus: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2129772/pcie-x16.html * Also my monitor is BENQ RL2455HM 24" â1920x1080 connected via DVI. --- For those who didn't really read the whole thing: What should I do so I can play Skyrim SE with 60FPS 1920x1080? Upgrade myself with GTX 1080 Ti or settle for crossfire R9 290X (I already own one)? Thanks for anyone who reads and\or comment here. Everything will help me at this point. --- * Attached DxDiag report. * Attached Mods list (installed and managed via Nexus Mod Manager). Also Mods organized via LOOT, cleaned (except for Skyrim.esm, Dawnguard.esm, Hearthfire.esm, Dragonborn.esm because that causes game issues such as crashes at certain points and some graphical issues like missing texture etc.) * Crimson (attached GPU driver reports 1+2). * Skyrim Special Edition version 1.4.2.0.8

I think 4K looks amazing. I have a friend who uses wide screen. It's really cool and you can see a lot. Still, I like the sharp image. Might be just me.

I know this one is old as hell but I encountered this once again in my Skyrim SE. TL;DR I bought my land in Lakeview Manor, so my log provider was... Half-Moon Mill. As you all well-aware, the mill belongs to Hert & Hern (vampire wood choppers. because OK.) So I made sure Hert allows me to use the mill. I chopped some wood for her and she agreed ("Sure, I can use the break") while she sharpened an axe. I went there, put the log on the rail, and used the lever. The animation kicked-in, eventually the wood ended up on a pile, disappeared... And nope, no 10+ to my pile. So I discovered in Skyrim Wiki that you can do this crazy thing: each time you saw your log, you can run to Hert and ask permission and then it works... BUT EVERY DAMN TIME. So much for solution. I searched and searched and nothing came to mind... So suddenly I noticed - Hern wasn't at the area at all. Not in the house, not in the mill, not mining in the backyard... Nothing. So I checked, and some people say you might kill him by accident via Dark Brotherhood quest. Impossible in my case, since I never joined the Dark Brotherhood. Where did Hern go?! I wandered if he died. Found on the web a way to use the console to check that. No response. So he's just lost, right? Then I just used the command to make him appear next to me (player.placeatme). Nothing happened. Hern is a mystery. Naturally, I just did some restin' (hour or two) in the mill... AND IT WORKED. Hern just returned there. I started to use the mill... STILL NO DAMN LOGS ADDED. Then another idea popped to me - it was night time. I waited 'till morning. Hern himself was positioned in the mill itself. He helped me to saw the logs, and finally I worked around the stupid bug. In Short: In case you're in Half-Moon Mill, make sure both Hert & Hern are there. If not, resurrect him. If lost, wait enough time and he'll be there. Also make sure he's in the mill itself, not in the house or something. Didn't try at night, but I'm not sure it'll work. Hope this helps anybody.

I just want to reply myself. My rig is: Processor: Intel® Core i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.7GHz Memory: 32768MB RAM GPU: AMD Radeon R290X sapphire I can say that SE runs pretty smooth on 70 FPS most times. In specific point (and I mean specific, like, really specific, particular patch of grass or rock or something like that) I get low FPS but it's only a game's issue and not a hardware. And lastly, if you get issues making the game run smooth, you can find help here in the forum :)

Hey shawnnn35, would you please elaborate exactly on what happens when you try to run the game? Does it load the main menu? Do you even get to the launcher? Or is it when you try a new game, or loading a save? Like the rest here mentioned, your specs are superb, so it can't be a hardware issue.

First of all, thank you gabrieeltucker for sharing this. Now, I know you said you tried everything, but it might just be a conflicting mod issue. So maybe you can try and re-organize you mods via LOOT? It's a very easy to use program. It automatically loads your mods after you start it, and then you have a button to sort the list (the one that looks like three stripes?) Anyway, if the matter still doesn't resolve, keep us posted so we'll suggest more ideas.

Hi Degrane and next time you can just save the mods as a list. In case you're not familiar how: in NMM, go to plugins. On the left side you'll see a symbol of a sheet of paper with arrow coming out of. That will export your mod list as a text file. Anyway, those are a lot of mods. There's only one way to find out... you'll have to disable them all. If the problem still persists, it's probably something else. If disabling all the mods made the words on the wall active, then it is a mod. Then the hard work begins, and you have to check them one by one to find out which one's the culprit. ... And also just in case, I'd recommend to use SSEEdit and LOOT just to make sure no mod conflicts with another. You need to see if there are any ITMs (Identical To Master) files in your mods. In order to clean them, download first LOOT and then SSEEdit. You can find a guide right here on how to use SSEEdit.

Hi you might find this interesting: Clean Menu (No Bethesda logo and smoke intro) (optional no sneak eye) Hope this helps!

Just want to enlight what the guy above me mentioned: And yeah, now I get it - you can see the water line, while in the other ones the water doesn't have lines.

That's an improvement already! :) So gladly we erased Open Cities from our list of suspects. And your rig's fine... so who's our culprit? Lately many report of CTD's in southern areas of Skyrim. I myself suffer from CTD in the reath (just a little up from the moth cavern) which I solved by fast-traveling to Whiterun and walked all the way back from the other side - which proved to be OK. But I also found something which I posted on other threads, that might interest you: Keep us posted on any advancement and we'll try to do our best. I agree. In the older game it lowered my FPS to 20-30 near any city (from 60; ridiculous!) and also erased almost all the people in Riften (not joking. I had to follow a guide in YouTube on how to restore them. Unbelievable). Though I really like this mod, I don't like it enough to make it go Catholic all over my hiney.

Hi Maelthras and thank you for sharing! Sounds most important. That actually might be the cause, maybe some bad script (even though you said you cleaned them so...) If you find anything else useful let us know!