A tweak for you all to try

[Vainlash]

I've been playing a lot with the Skyrim.ini and Prefs latley, and I found something strange. For my tests I am using a fresh install of Skyrim, maxed out settings and my fps is at permantaly 60 (Adaptive vsync thx nvidia). Ofc with it off it soars over 100 but whatever.

 

I downloaded 1 mod and 1 mod only, Dat Grass. Which is the biggest fps hitter ever. Standing outside Whiterun in the massive open fields, I barely get 32 fps. Now, in the Skyrim.Prefs under the section [Grass], you will see this;

 

[Grass]
b30GrassVS=1
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000

 

Now, on the 2 lines that are set at 7000, set them to 22000. Yes, twenty two thousand instead, you would think with this fps killing mod, expendaing by 5 times the amount I'd get 15 fps. Nope, once I loaded, standing in the exact same place, I lost 1 fps.

 

1.

 

1 !

 

And the game looks fantastic, along with distant terrain and an actual grass mod that ain't an fps killer like Flora, I don't get how but I only lost 1 fps. So you guys try it and see if I'm not the only one.

 

My specs btw;

i5 3570k

4GB Kingston HyperX RAM

EVGA GTX 660

 

 

 

[DeathWishFK]

I just tried it out and I experienced no fps drop!

This is great! I actually did notice a difference in game and with little to no effect on fps there's no reason not to keep it :)

Screenshot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/7ca37a2c976351a80a092fe8b2c46d90/tumblr_mwg5o6NH0a1shnh0so1_1280.jpg

 

My Specs:

amd-fx 8150

16gb corsair vengence

radeon 6950 2gb

[screendrop]

Nice tweak, although I believe certain grasses are simply rendered as a LOD at a certain range, have you tried the Ugrid tweak?