Dungeonfighter123 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Hi all,I know there are a lot of CPU tests toward skyrim.But still I want to ask people who have upgrade their CPU and feel the difference.I really want to improve my start-up time of skyrim.With so many texture mods I have, the startup time is really a pain in the a**. Here is my rig:amd x4 9558g ramm5pro 128g ssd7850 2g oc I just recently change to 7850 and kinda regret that I didn't go for better lol.Is there anyone here with similar rig and just uprade CPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomriis Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Hi dungeonfighter 123. What is the clock speed of your cpu and can it be overclocked?. Skyrim is not that cpu intensive as many other games,And my best advice is to install it on a ssd disk (which you probably did already) should shorten load times quite a bit. How many mods are you running and what is long loading times for you ?? I got a laptop with a I7 3940XM (3,9 ghz) overclocked to 4,3 which is a very rare feat for laptop cpus + 2 nvidia 675m gpus in sli and are nottroubled at all, Of course when entering interior/exterior cells for the first time after boot takes a few seconds, you cant really expect the game to load in a few seconds, By all means it has to load a lot of plugins. in my case it takes about 6-8 seconds to get in-game, 4-6 seconds exit/entering things first time after that max 2 seconds loading screens. running it on ultra high/ w.high-res texture packs/realistic lighting overhaul and about 110 other mods. imagine running this on ps3 or xbox360 ha ha SCARRRY :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I'm on a 965 BE @ Stock 3.4GHz and a 7850. You won't experience faster loading times in ANYTHING by upgrading the CPU. Hard drives have, for a long time now, been the absolutely slowest component in the PC. Even if you upgrade to a pci-ex16 SSD, you will not hit the CPU bottleneck before the storage bottleneck. If Skyrim is not on an SSD, try defragging it. It could also just be that you've got it chock full of stuff, and the game just isn't coping; it is programmed for hardware from 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeonfighter123 Posted October 2, 2013 Author Share Posted October 2, 2013 I am now having 12gb mods with ENB, and of course most of it are texture mods.My startup time is almost 30 secs for god's sake.6-8 to get ingame is impossible for me lol. i didn't oc my cpu.ENB and those textures really hit my performance worthly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Yup. Only thing you can do is raid or make use of symbolic links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldphart Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I'm on a 965 BE @ Stock 3.4GHz and a 7850. You won't experience faster loading times in ANYTHING by upgrading the CPU. Hard drives have, for a long time now, been the absolutely slowest component in the PC. Even if you upgrade to a pci-ex16 SSD, you will not hit the CPU bottleneck before the storage bottleneck. If Skyrim is not on an SSD, try defragging it. It could also just be that you've got it chock full of stuff, and the game just isn't coping; it is programmed for hardware from 2006. The bottleneck could be the disk interface. Skyrim was glacially slow on my old (2010) computer, even with an Intel SSD. That was a Gigabyte Opteron-equipped MB with 8 GB. With my new Asus ROG / Core i7-4770 / 32GB / Samsung SSD 840 pro it is fast even with all the best textures I can find. An EVGA GTX 770 takes care of framerates at 2560x1440, but the load times are probably due to faster SATA-ports on the motherboard and a 5% bus overclock. As a bonus the whole thing runs much cooler than my old system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeonfighter123 Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 my motherboard is sata3 already.I think it might due to the problem my 7850 2g is not powerful enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 my motherboard is sata3 already.I think it might due to the problem my 7850 2g is not powerful enough. For the last time; your GPU has NOTHING to do with load times. What you're experiencing is normal for 12GBs of mods. The engine is not made to accommodate an extra 12GB; it was made for around 6GB, not 18GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhowington Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Folks, please listen to FiftyTifty, he has given you the answer.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dungeonfighter123 Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 Okay..Perhaps another option is put whole skyrim in ram lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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