Avrie05 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Hi all, I've been playing multiple characters purely vanilla (Yea I know ... seriously ;-) for several thousand hours, and finally got around to discovering Nexus and looking into all of the mods for textures, meshes, lighting ... Etc. I only installed all of the unofficial patches two days ago ... I feel like such a NUB! I'm totally stoked for the Frostfall 3.0 release, and have seriously planned to do a complete wipe and virgin re-installation with Usleep when it's released. (Now that I've seen the bug fixes.) Anyway, I installed the HighRes-Texture pack, HD 2K textures, Pure Waters, SMIM ... Along with SkyUI, SKSE, I-HUD, and A quality world map. (Along with the current NMM, and Loot of course) I modified the load order to basically reflect the read-me for the unofficial patches, then ran Loot. System ran fine, and with very little performance degradation. I decided to look into lighting and installed Real lighting overhaul ... Then I ran loot again. I was amazed at the transformation, though everything was much darker than I expected. However there was a noticeable performance hit, The mouse to movement lag was very pronounced. Not one to panic, and looking to understand the nature of the enemy, I installed the performance monitor, linked it to SKSE. (Then rebooted my PC and made coffee ... I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night ;-) and disabled RLO / re-ran Loot one last time. I ran TESV from the Perf-Mon and was shocked to find out that my frame rate without RLO (Which I thought was OK) was under 30, and basically my GPU was running at 99% most of the time. with RLO installed I'm under 20. Dug under the hood and found my HP EliteBook 8770W (8 Gig, Quad I5) only has 1 Gig dedicated to the AMD FirePro M4000 video card. I'm so stoked to play again from the beginning in an epic total immersion environment, and I know my 3 year old laptop is just not going to be able to handle what I want to do, no matter how lite I run, or how perfect my optimization. I've looked at several of the alien-ware laptops (I absolutely need to stay mobile with my job) and the new MSI GT series. Both had good and bad comments so I'm reaching out to the community for Recommendations, Opinions, Warnings ... Etc. I prefer to ask the real experts. My planned foray into hardcore immersion modding ... Frostfall 3.0 of courseWet and coldwinter is comingfootprintssplash of rainrealistic needs and diseasesCloaks of SkyrimRLOPurityCCO and I'll probably do the cooking and alchemy overhauls as well I'm still choosing my flora/fauna mods ... Etc. and I'm probably going to keep my character vanilla as far as weapons and armor for now. and sick as it might seem for a fully modded game I am planning on playing as a purest with fast travel disabled. This thread is mainly about the hardware, but like I said, opinions are welcome. Thanks to all in advance. :geek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpm22112 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 HiI recommend getting a custom laptop then you can have it built to your specifications and tailored to your needs. Have a look at scan computers http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/pro-gaming they built my PC and I highly recommend them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrie05 Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks ... I'll look into it. I've designed / built serious high end desktops, but never a laptop before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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