rhowington Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Just wanted to tell everybody I upgraded my ASUS ROG laptop to Windows 8.1 today. One of the glitches was I had to remove my second hard drive. After that, the installation took about 50 minutes. I started Skyrim through SKSE an it ran flawlessly. I hope every upgrader has as good experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garon Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 Wait. That's it? You can't leave us hanging like that. You said, "works better than 8". Gameplay, or just OS stuff? I heard they were making big changes to the display driver model. Any performance changes or things like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhowington Posted October 18, 2013 Author Share Posted October 18, 2013 Performance of Windows is smoother and launches slightly quicker. Gameplay doesn't change except (and it may be my imagination) it seems to me the latest Nvidia drivers 327.23 seem to be better optimized. I played for several hours using E ENB and had no lockups or CTDs. Outdoors between Dragon Bridge and Falkreath 40-50 fps. Bathing Beauties Suite, lowest was 25 but mostly around 30-40 fps. I haven't had any problems with NMM, SKSE, or my optimized skyrimprefs. I am not a reviewer but from my experience today, I am happy with the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrahistan Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) NMM works fine with windows 8.1 for me but skyrim did not launch at all exept in windowed mode. But i got it fixed by:-uninstalling all mods-deleting all files in skyrim directory exept folders-deleting old ini files in documents/my games/skyrim-redownload per repair option from steam-started launcher setting up fullscreen with the resolution going with my monitor now it runs without a problem better than with win8 with a decent increased framerate Edited October 19, 2013 by thrahistan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoogerMac Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 (edited) What video card(s) are y'all using? Which drivers? I tried different Nvidia drivers and none of them would recognize my SLI setup in Windows 8.1. The same drivers recognized everything in Windows 8. Edited October 20, 2013 by BoogerMac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhowington Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 My ROG laptop has a 3gb 670m graphics card and, as I said in a previous post, I use Nvidia 327.23 drivers. I did not have the problem as thrahistan, my Skyrim launched after the update without a problem but, like him, the performance is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrahistan Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I use the XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB with newest catalyst and driversnow i tweaked the ini files and it runs even better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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