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I've been searching far and wide to get the most out of my notebook. Seems the new drivers NVIDA posted recently does not work with my system for what ever reason, despite having specific mention of compatibility with my card. Game run fine (with tweaks below) until it heats up and when the fan goes into overdrive I experience lag.

 

First, I guess I'll give the run down on my "budget" notebook.

 

ASUS UL80Jt with Window Integrated GPU and an NVIDA 310M. An Intell Core i3 CPU U 330 @ 1.20 GHZ Quad Core. (believe this processor is factor overclocked @ 2.13Ghz from the factory) 4GB of ram. Windows 64bit. 1Gig of dedicated DDR3 VRAM.

 

 

Next, I'll list what I've modified.

 

Installed a FPS limiter. (limited to 25FPS, which is surprisingly not real different than a fresh boot of the game runs with out it.)

 

Memory limit increase - fix lagging

 

VSYNC disabled

 

Shadows have been lowered dramatically.

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You should be running this much better than I. Have you disabled V-Sync? This can make massive gains in FPS. It's under the iPresentInterval=1 setting in the ini file. Set it to 0 to disable it. Have you tried the d3d9.dll fix? That would be my second guess. You have twice the video ram I have, and a better processor.

 

For the drivers, laptop makers typically contact Nvidia and ATI and blacklist drivers (I'm assuming you tried installing them, and the install failed, saying it wasn't compatible?). They want to put out their own driver updates - which they rarely end up doing. It's a legal thing, however. What you can do is modify the drivers; see here.

 

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/nvmodtool.php

 

Follow the steps and you'll be able to install the new drivers. I recommend, for safety's sake, to keep a download of the original drivers on hand - and, to follow a simple process so you don't end up with a worse situation than before. Namely, download and install driver sweeper (you can, of course, uninstall it afterwards). Uninstall the Nvidia drivers, reboot the computer, run driver sweeper, and check the 'Nvidia - Display' portion. Analyze and clean out any remnant driver files. Reboot the computer again, install the new drivers via the mobility modder instructions, and reboot again - you're done. :)

 

If you are STILL having troubles after the .dll fix, and new drivers - the next thing I'd try is the reduced texture pack on the nexus. Turn down settings more from there, and a last resort case is disabling shadows like I have done. However, you should be able to run quite smoothly at at least low settings without any major configuration.

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You should be running this much better than I. Have you disabled V-Sync? This can make massive gains in FPS. It's under the iPresentInterval=1 setting in the ini file. Set it to 0 to disable it. Have you tried the d3d9.dll fix? That would be my second guess. You have twice the video ram I have, and a better processor.

 

For the drivers, laptop makers typically contact Nvidia and ATI and blacklist drivers (I'm assuming you tried installing them, and the install failed, saying it wasn't compatible?). They want to put out their own driver updates - which they rarely end up doing. It's a legal thing, however. What you can do is modify the drivers; see here.

 

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/nvmodtool.php

 

Follow the steps and you'll be able to install the new drivers. I recommend, for safety's sake, to keep a download of the original drivers on hand - and, to follow a simple process so you don't end up with a worse situation than before. Namely, download and install driver sweeper (you can, of course, uninstall it afterwards). Uninstall the Nvidia drivers, reboot the computer, run driver sweeper, and check the 'Nvidia - Display' portion. Analyze and clean out any remnant driver files. Reboot the computer again, install the new drivers via the mobility modder instructions, and reboot again - you're done. :)

 

If you are STILL having troubles after the .dll fix, and new drivers - the next thing I'd try is the reduced texture pack on the nexus. Turn down settings more from there, and a last resort case is disabling shadows like I have done. However, you should be able to run quite smoothly at at least low settings without any major configuration.

 

VSYNC Done......thought I had it in OP.

 

 

d3d9.dll fix gives me a black screen.

 

Shadows have been lowered dramatically.

 

I can get the drivers installed correctly that NVIDA drops, but when rebooting my computer freezes after log in before I get to desk top. Here is a log of my driver problems.. Again, I've correctly and successively INSTALLED the driver. However, my computer does not work once they are Installed.

 

I should also say when my fan goes into overdriver and the game lags sound gets distorted with static.

 

I can not find the reduced textures file you speak of.

 

Edit: found the textures

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Well, if all that fails.. I can't really help ya much. I'm not all the fluent on nvidia stuff, I've generally used ATI. From what it looks like it looks like a lack of compatibility, but it seems like you got it working? If so, I hope it's good. Otherwise, it could just be issues with the hardware.

 

When you play the game, how do you play? I have overheating issues if the fan gets covered, primarily from cloth, carpeted, those types of surfaces. Just stretching for ideas here. Can't give you much more to try.

 

If the fan goes into overdrive from overheating, and there's static in the sound, it sounds like much more of an issue than just graphics and the system not handling it.

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Well, if all that fails.. I can't really help ya much. I'm not all the fluent on nvidia stuff, I've generally used ATI. From what it looks like it looks like a lack of compatibility, but it seems like you got it working? If so, I hope it's good. Otherwise, it could just be issues with the hardware.

 

When you play the game, how do you play? I have overheating issues if the fan gets covered, primarily from cloth, carpeted, those types of surfaces. Just stretching for ideas here. Can't give you much more to try.

 

If the fan goes into overdrive from overheating, and there's static in the sound, it sounds like much more of an issue than just graphics and the system not handling it.

 

I'm sure its a Skyrim related issue. My computer would shut down if heat was really an issue. I think it has more to do with my processors than my GPU.

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The reduced textures made no change. Same problem. I'm becoming more convinced its a processor related issue. I rather dejected. If a console processor can handle this game, why the hell cant my quad core overclocked ones do it.

 

I have 4G of ram, anyone think adding some more RAM would help performance?

 

 

Also, can I adjust these any more? Not sure what to change them too:

 

http://skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=170

 

[Papyrus]

iMinMemoryPageSize=100000

iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000

iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000

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It's likely the processor from what it seems like. It really is a 1.2 GHZ processor, even quad core, each processor isn't that fast. The turbo-boost overclock isn't supposed to be used for extended periods of time, afaik. But I can't give any more definite answers. I've no idea what would reduce processor load.
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