MaggieMicala Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 I recently decided to make the switch to PC gaming. After buying the Skyrim Legendary Edition on my laptop, I soon decided to switch to my desktop because the laptop was getting so hot. I had already tried out several mods, mostly A Song of Ice and Fire related, but I figured I'd just re-install it on my HP Pavillion desktop. It's far from a gaming desktop, with an integrated Radeon HD 4200 video card and a quad core AMD Phenom processor. It also has 6 GB of DDR3 RAM, which I understand is fine for gaming.After installing the game, I soon ran into the infinite load time issue. The smoke moved, the Tips rolled by, and the picture rotated slowly. I thought my save games might be corrupt, so I uninstalled all my mods, deleted my saves, and tried again. No luck. I tried deleteing the Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files, hoping something might change, but still nothing. I uninstalled the game and downloaded it again. Still no luck. I switched to Windowed mode instead of full-screen, and it finally loaded a new game, but it was extremely laggy even on the lowest settings. I updated my drivers, hoping this would be a quick fix, but instead it caused more problems. Now the character models are all full of triangular holes, and the lighting is just crazy. I've got AMD Vision Control Center installed after updating my drivers, but I don't really know what to do with it.As someone with almost no PC gaming experience, I'm completely lost at this point. Searching forums turned up plenty of "fixes," but none of them really helped. I'm hoping one of you can point out some newbie error I'm making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salawow Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Well, playing skyrim in acceptable conditions with an integrated radeon hd4200 would be pretty hard, even at lowest graphic setting and low resolution.. personaly i think issues here is all caused by that "not-suitable-at-all-for-gaming" video card.. Sorry, that may be a pretty rough welcome to PC gaming :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaggieMicala Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 Well, I guess I'll just give it a great big f*ck it for the time being. It has been pretty frustrating, but I suppose it would be worthwhile to invest in a higher end desktop in the near future. Especially considering the current Xbox One garbage. Regardless, I appreciate your two cents and I hope to find other kind people to assist me in my future Skyrim troubles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salawow Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Yeah, it would be worthwile, at least in my opinion. The last console i had was a N64.. been a 100% PC gamer since, and there is absolutely nothing that could make me turn back.. skyrim mods possibilities on PC are one amount a hundred reasons. Anyway, i realy don't want to start one of those debate here. Putting "PC" and "console" in the same sentense usualy never do anything good... I don't know the full spec of your PC, but the fact that it's a branded PC, with "6gb ddr3 ram" tells me that the CPU probably doesn't suck that much (alot of time those mid-price branded desktop PC comes with alot of ram, a decent cpu, and an poor integrated video card that still has a good name with a number that mean nothing to most proples.. names and numbers sells).. so putting a 150-200$ video card on it could be a decent solution (assuming the PSU can power it, and the case is not one of those small case that nothing "else" fits in it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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