asmcint Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 AMD Athlon II X4 645 @3.1 GHz(plan to upgrade eventually, but for now it's fine)Sapphire Dual-X OC Radeon R9 2704 GB of DDR3 RAM(plan to upgrade sooner than the CPU) Obviously I'm not going to be able to do too much, but I should be able to get better visuals than the base game at ultra. Anyone got any recommendations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boombro Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 If you turned off AA and AF, set your shadows to low you may get something.I'm more worried about your cpu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmcint Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 If you turned off AA and AF, set your shadows to low you may get something.I'm more worried about your cpu.Why are you worried about the CPU? Sure, it's not much compared to what I could get if I had $120 on-hand, but it's well within the recommended requirements for the game, which only call for a quad-core CPU, regardless of clock speed. Honestly, I'm just looking to get a little extra detail, some better spec mapping, and better-looking water. If there are any good mods that take care of that, just let me know, and once I get everything onto my new motherboard I'll try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRoseOfThorns Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Why are you worried about the CPU? Because skyrim engine is badly optimized and heavily dependant on cpu for everything. With graphic and gameplay mods you may find not only your fps fall low, but also your game script latency going beyond recommended values. That being said avoid mods adding too many new meshes. You can try: Pure Waters + WaterfallsTamriel Reloaded (without grass esp) And yes, you should upgrade your ram first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjVoodoow57 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) My pc is the lamest on the planet and its soo embarrassing im not even going to put my specs up to be ridiculed YET im enjoying the game as its sooo addictive and quite possibly still the best rpg out right now and looks to hold that title for a whileim only running these mods and get no lag or crashes ( well 1 or 2 ) hi res textures - Ultra Lighting - Quality maps with roads im using Steam and Nexus Mods and none have conflicted yet Edited January 31, 2015 by DjVoodoow57 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmcint Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Why are you worried about the CPU? Because skyrim engine is badly optimized and heavily dependant on cpu for everything. With graphic and gameplay mods you may find not only your fps fall low, but also your game script latency going beyond recommended values. That being said avoid mods adding too many new meshes. You can try: Pure Waters + WaterfallsTamriel Reloaded (without grass esp) And yes, you should upgrade your ram first. ...Okay, look. I am looking for improvements for my build as it currently is. Furthermore, I think you'd be surprised at just how well this CPU performs, even with poorly optimized piles of crap. Now then, if you're done disparaging my CPU(which really isn't that much worse than some FX series chips), I have a question. Does Tamriel Reloaded provide better-looking spec maps to match the more detailed textures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRoseOfThorns Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Why are you worried about the CPU? Because skyrim engine is badly optimized and heavily dependant on cpu for everything. With graphic and gameplay mods you may find not only your fps fall low, but also your game script latency going beyond recommended values. That being said avoid mods adding too many new meshes. You can try: Pure Waters + WaterfallsTamriel Reloaded (without grass esp) And yes, you should upgrade your ram first. ...Now then, if you're done disparaging my CPU(which really isn't that much worse than some FX series chips), I have a question. Does Tamriel Reloaded provide better-looking spec maps to match the more detailed textures? You're going balistic for no reason. I suggest you re-read my post again. You asked why you should be worried about your cpu and I gave you the anwser and tip what to avoid. It's pretty easy to go overboard with mods no matter how good your cpu is. If you don't like hearing it, don't ask. I don't know why you are so worried about specular maps for enviroment, unless everything with spec map reflects too much light with lightning overhauls. The ones you should be worried about are normal maps (especially if you don't intend running parallax). I would say the best ones you can find on nexus are from amidianborn packs. Tamriel Reloaded is just very performance friendly and covers almost everything when it comes to landscape and building textures. More ram always comes handy. It certainly will prevent you running out of memory > CDTs, when you fancy yourself adding more quest, npc's and other gameplay and graphics changing mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmcint Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 (edited) Why are you worried about the CPU? Because skyrim engine is badly optimized and heavily dependant on cpu for everything. With graphic and gameplay mods you may find not only your fps fall low, but also your game script latency going beyond recommended values. That being said avoid mods adding too many new meshes. You can try: Pure Waters + WaterfallsTamriel Reloaded (without grass esp) And yes, you should upgrade your ram first. ...Now then, if you're done disparaging my CPU(which really isn't that much worse than some FX series chips), I have a question. Does Tamriel Reloaded provide better-looking spec maps to match the more detailed textures? You're going balistic for no reason. I suggest you re-read my post again. You asked why you should be worried about your cpu and I gave you the anwser and tip what to avoid. It's pretty easy to go overboard with mods no matter how good your cpu is. If you don't like hearing it, don't ask. I don't know why you are so worried about specular maps for enviroment, unless everything with spec map reflects too much light with lightning overhauls. The ones you should be worried about are normal maps (especially if you don't intend running parallax). I would say the best ones you can find on nexus are from amidianborn packs. Tamriel Reloaded is just very performance friendly and covers almost everything when it comes to landscape and building textures. More ram always comes handy. It certainly will prevent you running out of memory > CDTs, when you fancy yourself adding more quest, npc's and other gameplay and graphics changing mods. I'm wanting better spec maps specifically because the base game's reflections with regards to metal leave something to be desired in my opinion. In any case, I'm not planning to go overboard with mods, I just want a few little graphical touchups. Just like with non-immersive gameplay enhancements, going overboard with graphics mods tends to take away the charm of the game for me(at least it has in the YouTube videos I've seen, especially when people use ENB RealVision). Edited February 1, 2015 by asmcint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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