I'm at my wit's end here. I've tried almost everything possible with no success. HELP. I can't play Skyrim without it lagging horribly, and I can't install any high performance mods or ENBs. I'm using an Alienware 17 laptop running Windows 8.1 with 8 gigs of ram, an Intel core i7-4700MQ, and Nvidia GeForce GTX 765m. When I load up SKSE as administrator (I have to; otherwise, SKSE will give me some error about not loading up properly and my mods won't work.), that screen that comes up displaying "play", "options", "data files", "tech support", and "exit" starts detecting what graphics option I should use. It sets it to low every time and selects my Intel® HD Graphics 4600. As such, I go to options and try to change the Graphics Adapter. However, Nvidia isn't there. It's just Intel. I load up the game and it's lagging and the fps is horrible. So, I close out and go to the Nvidia control panel and tell it to run skse_launcher.exe, Skyrimlauncher.exe AND tesv.exe using "High-performance NVIDIA processor", as it wasn't already. That should help, right? Wrong, it's still using Intel. Alright, now let's try right clicking on the SKSE launcher and selecting "Run with graphics processor" and then "High-performance NVIDIA processor". Still not working. Just to be sure, I try the regular Skyrim launcher, too. No success. I uninstall my Nvidia drivers completely and do a clean install using the latest driver on the Nvidia website. I then try everything I'd done previously. Once again, no success. Next, I uninstall the Nvidia drivers once again and, this time, download the slightly not-as-recent version that was recommended for my computer on the Dell website. Still not working. I try something a little bit different this time; I go to My Document>My Games>Skyrim and change sD3DDevice="Intel® HD Graphics 4600" in SkyrimPrefs.ini to sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M". Still not working. I update the BIOS. Nothing. I call Dell and am stuck on the phone with them for 2 hours as they instruct me to do everything I've already done. The only thing new was to download a benchmark program, which showed that my Nvidia was indeed working, and very well at that. They then came to the conclusion that it was a compatibility issue between Skyrim and Windows 8.1, and that I'd have to downgrade to Windows 8 in order to get Skyrim working. They sent a Windows 8 disk in the mail and it'll be here by Tuesday. I don't feel like it'll work, as I've not read about anyone else having such a problem with Windows 8.1. I found someone with a similar issue and similar computer here (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26803345), and apparently the issue was resolved through getting a new motherboard. Is there anything else I can do? Will downgrading to Windows 8 really do anything? Or, would getting a new motherboard be better? Thanks in advance.
