Finally got skyrim running at 60fps most of the time! [Story/Experience]

[zax141]

So recently I've been on a crusade to get all my 245ish esp mods + my 200-odd texture mods running while keeping above 40 fps which is what I consider playable...

but there's a twist, I play at 21:9 3440x1440p. meaning that I was already pushing my system with all my mods at 1080p but throwing the game to 3440p really pushed it to the limit

 

Now then onto my orginal system I had when I started this almost 5 month in the making modded skyrim.

I had a pretty beefy system, I thought it would have been MORE than enough for skyrim at 3440p.

the specs are as follows:

 

 

 

i7 4790k OC'd to 4.7ghz

16gb CL9 2400mhz ram

TWO GTX 980's in SLI

WD Blue 1TB - for skyrim and other games.

corsair force 250gb SSD - for OS.

 

 

 

Now lets talk about this:

 

At times while playing skyrim I was easily capping my 16gb ram with chrome, causing huge fps drops every now and again.

When in heavily scripted scenes the i7 4790k was really pushing it to its limits, making the game unplayable at times.

The motherboard's PCIe slots were too close together, so my sli 980's were OVERHEATING, causing massive issue which I did not experience in any other game.

And the WD Blue is honestly the worst drive I've ever played skyrim on, loading times were 10s minutes, not seconds but minutes, and in some area's (leaving dragons reach) they got up to 17minutes.

 

so what did I do?

I sacrificed, I droped a lot of my texture mods down to their performance versions, I got rid of quite a few of my normally "needed" script heavy mods, and I dropped out a decent ENB.

my computer just couldn't do it, after all that I was still dropping frames.

I ended up not playing for a few weeks, and really all that time I was itching to play me some more modded skyrim, I legitimately got cold sweats from it XD.

 

in the end I my motherboard shorted, so it FINALLY gave me a reason to upgrade (which I needed for other things not just skyrim)

I said I'm going to go balls to the wall on this, and over a month and a half I saved up 2 grand. (which isn't as hard as a lot of kids say it is, being only 15 I don't need to pay for rent or a mortgage and any income doesn't normally get taxed)

 

I went with the X99 Chipset on this:

a I7 6800k OC'd to 4.2ghz

64gb of CL14 2400mhz DDR4 Ram

used my classic gtx 980's in sli (which did not overheat this time btw)

And I threw a 512gb ssd in there JUST for skyrim.

 

Now lets talk about this one!

Honestly after 2 weeks of getting the game setup with all my mods (no performance versions I wanted a real test of my new system),

I was shocked, the performance increase was insane.

 

I could play at high 40s mid 50s most of the time, the script lag was basically completely gone, and the crashes, oh my the crashes.

It is so rock stable, I was crashing every 17-25 minutes on the old setup, I've crashed twice in the 11 hours I've just played.

 

I am honestly extremely impressed/shocked at the performance increase for just upgrading the platform and not the gpu's.

 

anyway, thank you for reading this.

it has been a amazing journey doing all this hardware upgrading and stuff, and I'm kinda sad its ending but happy to be running skyrim again (just finished a DLC).

 

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[HalloweenWeed]

I've been getting 60FPS (@1920 x 1200) the vast majority of the time ever since March 2011 with my settings all on High, HD patch DLC (since it came out), and even with my 50 mods installed, with a Radeon HD 7870 (X-fire off). And I always have my distance sliders all the way pegged (max). Well actually I used to have a 5850 first (X-fire did not work properly with Skyrim), and no HD DLC, and still had 60FPS most of the time with those settings. Upgraded to the 7870 sometime in late 2011 or 2102 around the time of the HD DLC.

 

So Skyrim must like AMD cards.

Edited September 8, 2016 by HalloweenWeed

[zax141]

I've been getting 60FPS (@1920 x 1200) the vast majority of the time ever since March 2011 with my settings all on High, HD patch DLC (since it came out), and even with my 50 mods installed, with a Radeon HD 7870 (X-fire off). And I always have my distance sliders all the way pegged (max). Well actually I used to have a 5850 first (X-fire did not work properly with Skyrim), and no HD DLC, and still had 60FPS most of the time with those settings. Upgraded to the 7870 sometime in late 2011 or 2102 around the time of the HD DLC.

 

So Skyrim must like AMD cards.

if thats the case I do have a pair of r9 290's in my sisters rig.