surg23 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) I tried googling for your Graphics card specs, and the only model i could find was an ATI- HD3300, not Nvidia and supposedly is an on-board GPU with only128mb video memory. If this is correct, that definitely explains your long load times. I know you specified that you weren't upgrading your GPU, but that seems like the only thing that needs upgrading. Skyrim is optimized pretty well, and should load in under 5 seconds on even medium spec machines, providing it can load it's textures into memory efficiently, which you appear to lack. Edited January 6, 2012 by surg23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elof Valantor Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) I tried googling for your Graphics card specs, and the only model i could find was an ATI- HD3300, not Nvidia and supposedly is an on-board GPU with only128mb video memory. If this is correct, that definitely explains your long load times. I know you specified that you weren't upgrading your GPU, but that seems like the only thing that needs upgrading. Skyrim is optimized pretty well, and should load in under 5 seconds on even medium spec machines, providing it can load it's textures into memory efficiently, which you appear to lack. I found that too. Radeon HD 3300. That's definitely where most of the problem is. The 128mb is only DDR3 (modern cards have GDDR5), and for any other memory it needs it's using your main RAM. Skyrim needs at least 256mb and I wouldn't be surprised if it needs the 512mb the minimum requirements ask for. To clarify, GDDR5 is faster than DDR3, and modern cards have massive bandwidth internally for doing stuff with memory. By needing to use main RAM for graphics you slow everything down. The motherboard doesn't have the same bandwidth as a modern graphic card. If your HDD is full that will also slow things down. If it's a 5,400rpm drive that's even worse. What's your FPS in game? What settings do you play on? You have got ATI video drivers installed (and not NVidia ones)? Edited January 6, 2012 by Elof Valantor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justy311 Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Try lowering the resolution. I dropped mine down and it seemed to fix a lot of my loading problems. I still have a bit of a load when I first start up the game (which seems to be from altered textures etc because when I remove my textures it loads faster.) Other then that I have no problems now, just that original load and they the rest are a few seconds - 15 seconds at most. It was a huge difference from the minutes it took before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skrypto Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Stop using FXAA injector, if you are not using one, then I suggest lowering your shadow, and or AA settings. Other than that, you might need to adjust your ini files if you had changed anything in them, or restore the vanilla backups of them as a last resort. If nothing else works, it may be something about your system that is causing such long loading times. Your PC in comparison to mine is a tad bit better except for the 8gb of ram, so I don't see why you are getting such long loading times. The only time I had a problem with loading times is when I used FXAA injectors, and once I removed them etc etc everything ran smooth again. Anyways best of luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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