Quality Settings

[Darylem]

When I first started SSE, it detected my video card and set at low quality settings. Since I was able to play standard skyrim on ultra settings, this surprised me. I found that if I changed to a higher setting, it was basically unplayable. Then a couple of days ago, I got another message that it was detecting my video settings and it set them to ultra. Worked fine, no problems now on ultra settings. Any idea what happened? I have an nvidia gforce gtrx 980M video card,

[L3s7ing]

The game probably detected your intel onboard chip first. However, why afterward your 980M got detected I don't know ^^ I would say maybe through a driver or game update.

Since everything works now, there shouldn't be a problem anymore.

If something like that happens again you can look into the SkyrimPrefs.ini and manually set your right graphics device.

 

Edit:

It should look like that:

[Launcher]

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M"

Edited November 26, 2016 by L3s7ing

[Darylem]

Thanks, it just seemed a bit odd. There was a game update and may have been a driver update in the background.