WildDragonfly Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hi all :) Maybe I'm missing something, but I was wondering if it's possible to lower certain textures while having the rest at high? You see my video driver crashes if I have my textures on high, so I play with them on Medium, but I would like to have certain things retain their quality such as creatures and clothing. The rest like rocks, grass etc I don't care too much about. Thanks ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodfellowGoodspring Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Are you using a onboard video card? I can play on high textures on my card from 2008.. I turn grass rending off most of the time but im sure there's a way to pick which things you want low and high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildDragonfly Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 Are you using a onboard video card? I can play on high textures on my card from 2008.. I turn grass rending off most of the time but im sure there's a way to pick which things you want low and high.Ah I play on a simple Dell Latitude D630 laptop with a Mobile Intel® Express Chipset. I guess that's what it's called anyhow. When I play with high textures I often get the error "igxprd display driver has stopped working normally" and I have to restart my computer. I've found out that downgrading to an older driver is supposed to fix the crashes but when I tried Skyrim's graphics went bonkers. I get the error on medium graphics sometimes too, but not near as intolerable as having to restart my computer several times a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FordPerfect Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 The only thing I can think of is to extract the .dds files you want to be lower resolution, reduce them in size and save them in their proper folder hierarchy in the data/ folder in your skyrim directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildDragonfly Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 The only thing I can think of is to extract the .dds files you want to be lower resolution, reduce them in size and save them in their proper folder hierarchy in the data/ folder in your skyrim directory.Hmm, I never thought of something like that. I'll have to look more into that option. Thanks :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR4Y Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) The only thing I can think of is to extract the .dds files you want to be lower resolution, reduce them in size and save them in their proper folder hierarchy in the data/ folder in your skyrim directory.Hmm, I never thought of something like that. I'll have to look more into that option. Thanks :D That's not exactly a simple option... he's basically talking about retexturing everything that you want lowered. This would entail importing the textures into a format that can be edited, dropping the resolution manually by either retexture or resizing, exporting the files in such a way that Skyrim will know what to do with them... for literally thousands of possible textures. Unless you want to spend a hundred hours or so making a mod that reduces the quality of the game back to that of Oblivion... I think your best option here is to get a graphics card for your laptop. I'm surprised you can even run Skyrim on medium/low settings... let alone AT ALL, considering you don't even meet the minimum system requirements to play the game. Save yourself the hassle and just buy a mobile graphics card and install it... Would you rather spend $50 and be able to actually play the game without problems, or spend 100+ hours retexturing the entire world just for a CHANCE that it MIGHT (probably not) fix your graphics related crashing? EDIT: Also, I SERIOUSLY doubt that downgrading your onboard video driver is going to help, whatsoever. You are most likely being misguided by someone very ill-informed, and are probably doing a lot more harm as opposed to good. Edited January 8, 2012 by PR4Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildDragonfly Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) Thanks for the info, it seems that that option isn't exactly usable. And thanks for the suggestion, but I can't exactly drop 50 $ anything less than important to living. A bit of lag and less than awesome quality isn't going to kill me :) Was just hoping there would be an option to pick and choose which textures can remain at high. Yes I was surprised I could play at all too on my Lap Top. As for downgrading the driver, after googling my issue time and time again, that is the only solution that popped up over more than several message boards. I believe it has to do with the driver getting it self back together after freezing rather than completely crashing and requiring a restart. I'm not into that side of technology so I may be wrong about my terminology on that subject. Edited January 8, 2012 by WildDragonfly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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