wats6831 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I'm actually having pretty good performance with the game on my rig but not as good as I would expect considering I have a 230 mb/sec SSD, 8 GB of RAM and a 2 GB overclocked 6970 and I'm only gaming at 1920x1080. At this point I'm not really interested in mods like LAA, especially since we're forced to use Steam. But I was wondering if anyone had found a good tweak guide yet for performance tweaks to the .ini and perfs? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wats6831 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 Is this some sort of taboo subject or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinael Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 The best tweak guide I've found so far is here: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 It is mostly about improving graphics rather than performance, but it does take performance into account and there's some pretty good discussion in the comments. Just out of curiosity, why does using Steam make you not want to use the LAA mod? I've been using it and it seems to have improved my performance quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wats6831 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) The best tweak guide I've found so far is here: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 It is mostly about improving graphics rather than performance, but it does take performance into account and there's some pretty good discussion in the comments. Just out of curiosity, why does using Steam make you not want to use the LAA mod? I've been using it and it seems to have improved my performance quite a bit. Because modifying files that Steam uses can cause it to break your game. Also, using FXAA as some guides suggest (along with LAA) can corrupt your saved games and you need to use those mods and then start over a new game. I'm leery of Steam in general and leery of modding with Steam specifically. Mostly just because it's different and i'm not used to it yet. I was a hard core Oblivion and Fallout 3 mod user hashing my own patches and what not so I'm probably going to wait a while before doing weird system altering things with Skyrim. I mostly want to limit what I do to .ini tweaks and specific non-installed performance tweaks. I appreciate your input on LAA though and I may try it. Does anyone know if these ini tweaks do anything WITHOUT having LAA installed? -Open the original "Skyrim.ini" with a txt editorand add those lines under [Papyrus]: iMinMemoryPageSize=100000iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000 *This will allow Skyrim to use more memory, and therefore run smoother. -Save, exit. Thanks. Edited November 19, 2011 by wats6831 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinael Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I hadn't heard that those mods could corrupt saves, so I just tried uninstalling them both and my save loaded with no problem. Of course that doesn't mean it couldn't happen for some people. Also, if it helps, Steam only runs the launcher, not the exe, which is what the LAA edits. The post-processing injector doesn't edit any files, it just adds some. I don't know if those ini edits would work without the LAA edit. I don't really know much about those kind of technical aspects, so unfortunately I can only tell you my personal experience, but hopefully it helps a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xaliqen Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) Because modifying files that Steam uses can cause it to break your game. Also, using FXAA as some guides suggest (along with LAA) can corrupt your saved games and you need to use those mods and then start over a new game. I'm leery of Steam in general and leery of modding with Steam specifically. Mostly just because it's different and i'm not used to it yet. I was a hard core Oblivion and Fallout 3 mod user hashing my own patches and what not so I'm probably going to wait a while before doing weird system altering things with Skyrim. I mostly want to limit what I do to .ini tweaks and specific non-installed performance tweaks. I appreciate your input on LAA though and I may try it. I've been using mods with the Steam version of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas pretty much since the day each of them were available. I wouldn't worry about using mods with Steam, it's really not that different. I'd turn off the Steam Cloud sync, but, other than that, have fun modding. I apply large address aware patches to every new game release on Steam without problems, so I wouldn't worry about that either. There are a bunch of tweaks listed here. There's even a Skyrim ini generator here. As always, make sure to back up your ini file before replacing or editing and know that some of these tweaks are bound to be experimental. Edited November 20, 2011 by xaliqen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismgtis Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I do mean this legitimately when I say it: stop using Steam and start buying games elsewhere. You'll experience a lot less issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xaliqen Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I do mean this legitimately when I say it: stop using Steam and start buying games elsewhere. You'll experience a lot less issues. Since I don't experience issues in the first place, it would be difficult to experience less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wats6831 Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 I do mean this legitimately when I say it: stop using Steam and start buying games elsewhere. You'll experience a lot less issues. 1. I agree with you. 2. I'm not having any issues. 3. There was no other choice with this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wats6831 Posted November 20, 2011 Author Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) Because modifying files that Steam uses can cause it to break your game. Also, using FXAA as some guides suggest (along with LAA) can corrupt your saved games and you need to use those mods and then start over a new game. I'm leery of Steam in general and leery of modding with Steam specifically. Mostly just because it's different and i'm not used to it yet. I was a hard core Oblivion and Fallout 3 mod user hashing my own patches and what not so I'm probably going to wait a while before doing weird system altering things with Skyrim. I mostly want to limit what I do to .ini tweaks and specific non-installed performance tweaks. I appreciate your input on LAA though and I may try it. I've been using mods with the Steam version of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas pretty much since the day each of them were available. I wouldn't worry about using mods with Steam, it's really not that different. I'd turn off the Steam Cloud sync, but, other than that, have fun modding. I apply large address aware patches to every new game release on Steam without problems, so I wouldn't worry about that either. There are a bunch of tweaks listed here. There's even a Skyrim ini generator here. As always, make sure to back up your ini file before replacing or editing and know that some of these tweaks are bound to be experimental. I don't see how there can't help but be issues. Steam is fundamentally different from the way we've been modding games. This is going to be especially true when people start writing unofficial patches. Steam is not going to like it when we start running stand alone .exe's that modify game files adding ESMs/ESPs wholesale etc. I'm sure there will be a work around and it will hopefully all work fine together but for the time being I'm going to wait on the more involved mods and stick to maybe just texture replacement type stuff. As for backing up .ini and saves: I learned a long time ago to back up my .ini's, saves and my whole data folder. Thank you for your input and the links! Edited November 20, 2011 by wats6831 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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