How to increase my FPS

[Vainlash]

Hey guys. I am here and open to all suggestions on how to increase my FPS in-game. Indoors is fine, It's straight up 60 fps, I'm sure it's like this on even out dated computers. But outside, it would 'stutter' a little, and my fps is ranging from 25-45 average.

 

Now what I've tried so far, downloaded certain mods such as [skyrim Project Optimization], [Colorful Lights No Shadows], all the [skyrim Performance Plus] mods. I've turned Shadows down, and everything else is about average, except texture quality which is High. But in my AMD control panel, it's on 'Standard', so a balance between performance and high quality. My Anti-Analising is off, but that filtering one is on x4, that lowers my fps by like 1. I've only done 1 thing with the whole Skyrim.ini thing, and that's add a bunch of new lines to add my CPU's or something, other than that I ain't tried to tweak anything else. I am running like 80 mods, but none of them are to increase textures of anything. Just stuff like weapon and armor sets, immersions such as patrols / frostfall, Monster Mod, more wildlife, birds, you know.

 

Anyway my PC specs are;

 

AMD Athlon II, 3.1 Ghz dual core [both cores overclocked to 3.5Ghz]

AMD 6700, [Overclocked to about an extra 80%]

2GB Ram.

 

I'm thinking Ram is my main problem, because while my hardware is a little outdated, they are clocked at good speeds to match more decent ones. I run Skyrim through that attk launcher thing, game booster activated, Tune up utilites active, and this skyrim mod that apperently boosts fps by doing something with windows media or something I don't know.

 

I'm also playing on 1920x1080 which is probably the main problem, too much of a big screen for my pc. But what can I do? I can't lower resolution and play window mode can I? because I heard window mode is more laggy. Man, I cant wait to sell this drum kit of mine, I'm gonna buy a beast of a computer, but until then, what else can I do? :smile:

EDIT 1; Just tried playing in window mode at 1440x900, no difference :/

Edited July 29, 2013 by Vainlash

[Georgiegril]

Your RAM probably is the problem.

RAM is pretty cheap, but if you can't buy more you probably need to go back to vanilla default and no mods, then add any changes one at a time and test your performance after each change.

A lot of mods/tweaks/utilities that claim to improve performance simply don't, and others may work for certain computer set-ups and not others. The only way you will know what is helping, not helping, or hurting is to test them on your specific computer one at at time.

 

A site that you may not have seen that has a lot of helpful infor for lower-end computers, including explanations, is RookieNoob's tweak guide.

But again, anything you try, try one thing at a time, and test.

[fifteenspades]

RAM is your main problem.

 

Download skyrim performance monitor and you will be able to see exactly what is causing you issues.

And you have to know what kinda numbers you can have. like my video card has a 4 gb cap of VRAM. and 4 gb of RAM. so just know your specs

a Quad core Processor would be better, but yours is still just fine for skyrim not super modded.

 

here's what i use to increase performance.

 

1. ENB Boost if you are using a compatible enb

2. Razor Game booster

3. FPS Booster on the nexus

4. Attack Launcher

5. Unpark all your cores

Edited July 31, 2013 by fifteenspades

[dennis20014]

So people are still using ATTK Launcher? After its initial release I rarely see people mention it (in comments mostly, as I don't usually go to forums often).

I thought maybe people stopped cause it didn't do anything

[Shubal]

All those extra patrols, birds, monsters etc. is what is eating up your ram. Spawning things all the time every where. Thin out the spawning herds would help.

 

 

I've used ATTK as an essential tool since it came out.

 

Look for excellently made and optimized 1k textures. There are more than a few gifted texture artists here. I recently got a retex of Whiterun that not only made it incredibly better visually but also gave me a 5fps boost in Whiterun.

Edited August 1, 2013 by Shubal

[nightinglae850]

Does FPS Booster work if you launch the game with SKSE?

[fifteenspades]

Yes, don't launch the game with it though. Just click "Boost my game" at the bottom middle left if using Razor Booster

 

If you are talking about the FPS booster on the nexus. Just open it, will show a cmd prompt type screen, minimize it. and poof you are done.

Yes it works with SKSE.

[insomnia_jt]

I had 2gb RAM on my old pc. Setting texture quality to medium or low reduced all stuttering for me. Also set objects, shadow, item and especially grass visibility to low or even lower.

1440 * 900 resolution helped me too. I could even use Stakado performance zero loss Enb and still play at comfortable 40 fps. Not bad for a 5 year old pc. :)

Edited August 2, 2013 by insomnia_jt