Lower Rez Mods?for lower systems?

[AGreatNinja]

hey guys cold use some help here...im currently borrowing skyrim from my friend and using his steam whevever hes not on...cuz my computer is old and sucks so it can barley run skyrim...are there any mods to further reduce the quality of things n such like turning off the sky or something...anything like those would help greatly... someday ill have a modern computer...someday....

 

my specs are...

 

Vista

Single core 2.0 GHZ(its a laptop so i run it on high proformence 90% of the time its down to a 2 minute battery life...its like 5 years old)

1.9 GBs of Ram(with a 1Gig paging file and a flash drive with 530MB of boosting)

and a mobile video card with 753 MB of w/e its probably the best thing on here

 

and also i know its a major major part of the game but if i disabled in game sounds would that reduce the lag problems as such as well?

[Rennn]

You can try getting rid of music, but I wouldn't get rid of sound effects. I know in Morrowind (because, believe it or not, it was a pc-killer when it released) turning off the music could improve fps. I know there's also at least one low-rez texture mod already, and you could probably turn off a lot of effects, or at least decrease them greatly, in the .ini if you find a tweak guide. Shadows kill fps, so if you could decrease the range even more and lower their resolution below the default minimum, you could really help your framerate.

 

In addition, it'd help to open the console (type ~) and type pcb. It'll clear the cells you have stored in RAM and will improve your fps temporarily (until you enter a couple more buildings, then it's time to repeat the command). I also reccomend checking your video card control panel and seeing if you have Antialiasing or Anisotropic Filtering turned on. If you have them turned on, then turn them off. You may also have the option of lowering texture quality or mipmap quality in your video card control panel, which would help the framerate.

 

Finally, I believe I saw a mod a couple weeks ago that removed fog from the game. That should boost your fps a lot in large dungeons or basically whenever you used to see mist. Since your pc is also cpu limited, you may also want to look into Game Booster and run that in the background when you play Skyrim. It'll make sure nothing unecessary is clogging your cpu as you play games.

[AGreatNinja]

You can try getting rid of music, but I wouldn't get rid of sound effects. I know in Morrowind (because, believe it or not, it was a pc-killer when it released) turning off the music could improve fps. I know there's also at least one low-rez texture mod already, and you could probably turn off a lot of effects, or at least decrease them greatly, in the .ini if you find a tweak guide. Shadows kill fps, so if you could decrease the range even more and lower their resolution below the default minimum, you could really help your framerate.

 

In addition, it'd help to open the console (type ~) and type pcb. It'll clear the cells you have stored in RAM and will improve your fps temporarily (until you enter a couple more buildings, then it's time to repeat the command). I also reccomend checking your video card control panel and seeing if you have Antialiasing or Anisotropic Filtering turned on. If you have them turned on, then turn them off. You may also have the option of lowering texture quality or mipmap quality in your video card control panel, which would help the framerate.

 

Finally, I believe I saw a mod a couple weeks ago that removed fog from the game. That should boost your fps a lot in large dungeons or basically whenever you used to see mist. Since your pc is also cpu limited, you may also want to look into Game Booster and run that in the background when you play Skyrim. It'll make sure nothing unecessary is clogging your cpu as you play games.

 

alright well i couldnt find any of the mods so id greatly appreciate it if ud point me in the right direction...also ill be sure to disable music and i lowered basically everything in my .ini to 1 and the game seamed to look the same so maybe i did something wrong...

 

ty though

though shalt not bump.

[Rennn]

I'm pretty sure you tweaked the wrong .ini, then. There are harder to find ones, but nevermind about that. I have a link that'll fix it. It's strange though; old mods seem to be disappearing from the Nexus. I'll see what I can find.

 

Here are some good links:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=736

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=809 (just use this to edit your .ini)

 

I'll try to update as I find new ones.