MacSuibhne
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Thanks for the reply.
What about Loot? Do I need it?
In paragraph one of your reply you say "Both of which are extremely simple to install..." but before you said that you had only mentioned one mod by name SMIM. So that confused me a little??
Also, did I read somewhere that SMIM can cause problems?
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I think I may have posted this in the wrong forum, yesterday...hoping for a better response today...
So...I have my rig upgraded--8GBddr3 sram, i7 870 quad core, Gigabyte Radeon 280x Windforce--3GBvram.
Of course, I want to add a few mods...and I have bookmarked a number of tutorials and so forth in preparation for adding mods.
But I'm innately conservative...I want to add mods slowly and probably not too many. I am not interested, at least at this time, in armour mods or mods that change the gameplay to give me more or less of an advantage.
I am interested in visual enhancements--trees, water, etc. Immersion.
So...what I'm looking for is a short list of mods for mod newbies that will blow my socks off but not put a strain on my system or cause CDT's and glitches. AND, which I don't have to be a wizard to install and configure. And oh, BTW, that will be compatible with Dragonborn and perhaps a few non-glitch-y mods that add quests ("I've been everywhere, man").
I have NNM and the Nexus Unofficial patch.
I know...this has probably been asked many times before but I appreciate your patience.
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So...I have my rig upgraded--8GBddr3 sram, i7 870 quad core, Gigabyte Radeon 280x Windforce--3GBvram.
Of course, I want to add a few mods...and I have bookmarked a number of tutorials and so forth in preparation for adding mods.
But I'm innately conservative...I want to add mods slowly and probably not too many. I am not interested, at least at this time, in armour mods or mods that change the gameplay to give me more or less of an advantage.
I am interested in visual enhancements--trees, water, etc. Immersion.
So...what I'm looking for is a short list of mods for mod newbies that will blow my socks off but not put a strain on my system or cause CDT's and glitches. AND, which I don't have to be a wizard to install and configure. And oh, BTW, that will be compatible with Dragonborn and perhaps a few non-glitch-y mods that add quests ("I've been everywhere, man").
I have NNM and the Nexus Unofficial patch.
I know...this has probably been asked many times before but I appreciate your patience.
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https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?board=9.0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forums/graphics-cards.16/
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/forum-33.html
The last one is best for getting some quick answers to simple questions. For more detailed information hit guru3d or techpowerup.
Well, I pulled the trigger...hoping for the best.
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Well you can cripple her ambition to be Jarl by not doing the imperial side of the war. Fighting for Ulfric will hurt Maven's Imperial allies.
I took the Stormcloak side (proudly) and Maven's still Jarl of the Rift.
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I read that standard r9 280x throttles when it hits around 90 degrees (slows down till it gets down to proper temperature). In your place I would check technical forums for this exact model, since you will find more radeon owners to consult there.
90 celsius, right?
What technical forums are you referring to?
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I don't know if these are glitchs or not but I am assuming they're "features."
I have a skill level of 100 in heavy armour and archery. Now it seems that I cannot improve or apply perks to that skill. Is this a glitch or what?
Also I am offered the option to go "Legendary" on those skills. If I do, does that mean I start over and all my individual skills...like Fists of Steel (?), lost?
Additionally, I am beginning to see caves and dungeons that I know I have visited and even cleared showing up black on my map. Brucca's Redoubt and Chillwind Depths are two that just recently went from white markers on the map to black.
No mods except NMM and the unofficial update.
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is 78 degrees Celsius (172 degrees Fahrenheit) hot for a gaming card? I was talking to a person who owns a Gigabyte R9 280x (three fans) and he cited that temp when he was running at 98%.
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but where do I find Requiem or Skyre...so that I can read the author's description? I see mods for bits of Requiem but not the original mod/overhaul itself.
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I see a whole slew of mods for Requiem but I don't know what it is...?
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About two years ago I stopped playing Skyrim and deleted everything except my save games from my hard drive.
While I was playing Skyrim I had little or no problem with it. Never installed any mods and didn't try to push the game or performance beyond what my computer could handle.
Just last month I decided to get back into it and reinstalled everything on the same box...and, as before, let the game/steam configure my settings. Steam updated the game and then I installed NMM and the unofficial update. And then I picked up where I left off in the game.
Since then I have been experiencing random CDT's,although not frequently.
Nothing in my hardware has changed. And I run a pretty tight ship/clean computer. I don't remember any CDT's when I was playing before...in fact, I didn't even know what a CDT was until just recently
Except for the unofficial update/patch, I don't have any mods installed and am running Skyrim on low to medium setting.
Anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?
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Wow! Again, you make the point! I guess the 280x is the way to go.
I'm looking at a Sapphire card--3GB 384 but I don't know what a "reference cooler' is. Is that just saying that if the card is from a reputable maker the cooler will be OK, even good?
I'm not doing any overclocking.
thanks...
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So, I guess the question not answered...the elephant in the room...is whether the gtx 760 4GB 256 is better, worse, or comparable to the 280x 3GB 384?
And still do the Radeons run hot and loud? I've seen conflicting results...supposedly with a current or new bios they don't have the heat of noise problems.
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This may be an unfair comparison, but I am looking at an Nvidia760 4gb 256 bit and a Radeon 280 3GB 384 bit. Both are about the same price--right in my range/budget..
Which of these two cards is gonna give me the better value for running Skyrim at 1280 X 1084 (native and max resolution on my monitor) and a few mods dealing mostly with textures--water, foliage, etc.. Looking for a more realistic, immersive experience.
I also want to play Wolfenstein the New order...if for no other reason than to return to my gaming roots.
I have always had Nvidia cards but the specs on the Radeon are inviting...yet I have heard that the Radeons run hot and loud.
Thoughts?
All comments welcome...
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My local computer shop--manned by hardcore gamers--told me to day that two NVidia 512 mb GeForce 9800 GT's linked in SLI would work just as well as a 4 GB at 256 or even higher. (mind you they can't come up with two 9800's simply because they're not being made anymore but...)
And with a slew of texture mods.
I don't know...not that tech savvy...just thought I would throw that out there for possible comment.
Oh my... There's so many misconceptions in this topic I don't even know where to start :pinch:
First of all that local shopkeeper is trying to sell concept he believes in and not what is best for his customer. Don't even think about 512mb vram card in this era if you plan on playing new games in high resolution on high settings. 9800 gt sli would be great for old games (~8 years), but not for this or next gen gaming. In addition Nvidia announced that legacy cards (9800 gt including) support ends this year. What it means is no more driver updates. The old ones may have been polished, but you won't get any performance boost updates for new games in the future (not that you would want to play them on this card).
Now what you should not do is mix VRAM with Memory Interface Width. VRAM is what caps your resolution and textures size. The higher it is and the more effects you use, the more VRAM your gpu eats. In some cases your game will crash when you run out of it, but most of the time your game starts to chop when you hit the limit or your fps get cut down. Now most modern games will try to adapt to your video memory size and with 1920x1080p / 1920x1200 resolution (on ultra settings) 3gb is sufficient in modern non moded games as of now (this may change in next 2 years). All video cards nowdays are gddr5 type, which means their VRAM will perform similar (note: just vram, not the card itself). I heard rumors that 3gb cards are easier to overclock than 6gb, but that is no concern for average gamer. I would choose 2gb card for gaming on high setting and 3gb for ultra. The only exception is Skyrim, the only game that you can overmod to the point where it needs more than 3gb at 1080p. However even if you won't get restricted by vram, you will still need more computing power than a single card can offer, with such set up. Hence I would stick to 3gb option.
I see sometimes people trying to convince other they can substitute GDDR5 VRAM with DDR3 RAM and DDR3 RAM with Hard Drive memory. No, just no.... Any conversion like that cuts down your machine performance tremendously. For instance Pagefile assigns certain hard drive space as ram just so application won't crash when you're for example Alt+Tab'ing to desktop, but the process itself will be slow. I recommend 8gb ram with 64 bit system, for those that don't use professional programs or those that don't use their ram as disk. The windows itself uses ~1.5gb and most games will use from 2 to 3gb. Always buy two identical sticks (like 2x4gb) for dual channel to avoid complication or performance lost. What can help with fps is getting any ram that is faster than 1333mghz, IF you have Hasswell processor (1600mghz CL7, 1800mghz CL8, 2133mghz CL9 or 2400mghz CL10).
The biggest impact on gpu performance (when not capped by VRAM) will have it's actual clocks speed, bus width and Cuda Cores amount and architecture (old Fermi cards Cuda are not same as new Kelper gtx Cuda). You could look on the internet for algorithms to see how those specs multiply. The easiest way to compare cards is to check for review sites where they post Memory Bandwith. For example standard gtx 780 ti can output 336000 MB/sec while gtx 760 will 192256 MB/sec (75% less). However it does not mean you will get 75% fps less, it means it's 75% less effective at computing and the difference ingame will depend on application itself. Here is Nvidia benchmark based on Titanfall:
As you see the difference is about 50%.
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
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The last thing I want to mention is SLI. Two cards in sli mode will duplicate information in their vram and you will not get double vram size of the single gpu. Also there is performance lost with each additional card added to the system. So 2x gpu won't always equal to 200% increase in performance and 3 cards won't output more than 280%. That of course depends on application sli performance, which is kinda bad in old tittles, but it's getting better in newer ones. In worst case scenario you won't see improvement at all if the game was not updated for sli.
Hope that helps!
Some of that went a bit over my head but I understood most of it. And I thank you for taking the time.
So if I may , lets get specific...I have an older motherboard--an Asus P7H55-MLF. That's the delimiter in my quest to upgrade my ssystem...so no Haswell for me.
That said I am looking at an i7 quad core cpu to replace the i5 dual core that is in there.
And of course 8gb sram (2x4) to replace the 4gb.
So the video card is the issue. I need to stay at right around $200.00 for the video card --that's the hard part and I'd welcome suggestions.
Looking at a SAPPHIRE 100364-4GL Radeon R9 270X 4GB GDDR5 (is this PCEe?) or a SAPPHIRE 100352-3L Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 or something like it.
However, I'm not sure about the 3gb why it works or doesn't work, and I've heard iffy things about Radeon video cards.
Again I would welcome any help here.
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Then Skyrim could still only use 3.1GB. Assumed you aren't running multiple RAM-intensive programs in the background while playing Skyrim then your System will use 1-2GB RAM for operating. Do the math and you will see that all this huge amount of RAM will bring you ZERO performance plus. ZERO. Not a single frame!
But these are facts that are widely discussed here on Nexus and that could be find if somebody just searched for it.
Or With 64Gb you could run Skyrim from a 50GB RAM drive and still have free ram.
Besides, who buys 64GB of ram for a gaming PC expecting a game to use that much?
I don't know anyone that would. It would be for bragging rights, simply to max out the motherboard RAM, or for non-gaming programs that could use it.
I still don't know (and haven't seen a definitive answer here) which would be better--a box with large amounts of system ram(16gb) and a minimal amount of vram (2gb)on a wide bus or moderate amounts of system ram (4-8gb) and a relatively large amount of vram (4Gb) on a narrow bus.
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No one?
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I am going to say go with 8 or 16gb SRAM.
I cant provide good help on the bus part of that.
Just for kicks what would you do if you had 64GB SRAM?
Strut a bit? :D
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I don't know much about modding or computers. That's why I asked both at the computer shop and here. "Get a new tech" doesn't help much, I'm afraid.
I still don't know (and haven't seen a definitive answer here) which would be better--a box with large amounts of system ram(16gb) and a minimal amount of vram (2gb)on a wide bus or moderate amounts of system ram (4-8gb) and a relatively large amount of vram (4Gb) on a narrow bus. (Obviously ginormaous amounts of both on a huge bus would be best...but not for my pocketbook.)
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Also I had a shop tech tell me that 3gb of vram was kind of a kludge since there are no 3gb sticks...thoughts?
You should look for a new tech shop!
What's wrong with what he said? Please explain.
So...2G at 384 would be better than 4 GB at 192?
All else being equal, would 16gb of system ram paired with a 2gb 384 bit videocard perform better, as well or less well than 8gb system ram and a video card with 4gb of vram and a 192 it bus?
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Do mods benefit more from high ram...like 16gb or high vram like 3 or 4 gb?
Also I had a shop tech tell me that 3gb of vram was kind of a kludge since there are no 3gb sticks...thoughts?
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I'm a complete newbie when it comes to mods. But I am hoping for some suggestions for mods that will upgrade the look of Skyrim. Detailed foliage that moves with the wind, better textures on stone and wood surfaces. More realistic water. Maybe more foliage and animals in town and cities.
Stuff like that.
i suspect that such mods are the most taxing on ram and vram but those that affect performance the least would be more interesting (to me) than ones that cause hiccups for everyone but experts and those with cutting edge graphic cards. .
Any advice and/or help would be appreciated.
PS I have NMM.
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Well that's what I thought too but the techs said that because of the way the two cards trade off "calls" for graphic processing (or something like that...my interpretation), it doesn't matter too much. That it more than compensates in other words.
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My local computer shop--manned by hardcore gamers--told me to day that two NVidia 512 mb GeForce 9800 GT's linked in SLI would work just as well as a 4 GB at 256 or even higher. (mind you they can't come up with two 9800's simply because they're not being made anymore but...)
And with a slew of texture mods.
I don't know...not that tech savvy...just thought I would throw that out there for possible comment.
THAT question again....
in Skyrim LE
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Thank you, again.
One other question...what about...I hope I get the name right...HD 2K Textures?