Muraki88 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Hello everyone! I am aware that Skyrim now can use more than 2gb of RAM, however I only have 4gb RAM, which means only about 3 is useable right? I am trying to get high resolution textures to work, but unfortunately they seem to be causing CTDs when I apply them. This didn't happen until I applied Highres facemaps for males, but now when I remove it I am crashing upon fast travel to Riften. Do I need more RAM or a better graphics card? My system specs are: Windows 7 32 bit4gb RAMAMD Athlon IIx4 640Geforce GTS 450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MShoap13 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Try the steps detailed in this post. Keep in mind that the game uses an algorithm to determine which mip map size of a texture to use when displaying objects so, unless you're on a 2560x1600 screen, 2k textures are more or less overkill. And 4k textures are way overkill. They're just eating exponentially more RAM than a 1k version would without any visual improvement. Look for 1k/512 versions of texture replacers to save system resources. Also, you may want to try setting processor affinity to cores 0&2 or cores 1&3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muraki88 Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Okay thanks I will try that. How do I set my processor affinity to a different core? Sorry for being nooby about this! Could I just confirm if adding RAM by updating to windows 7 64 would help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MShoap13 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Start the game then open the task manager (ctrl+alt+del). Go to the Processes tab and find TESV.exe, right click on it and choose set affinity. You'll have to do this every time you play unfortunately. There's a .bat file out there that does this automatically, but it doesn't work if you launch the game through skse. Going from 32 bit Windows to 64 bit Windows requires a reformat and reinstallation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muraki88 Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Haha yeah I know enough about pc's to know I'd need to do a clean install if I were to update to 64bit :D. What I'm asking is, would more RAM help to limit CTDs when using high res textures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MShoap13 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 It's definitely possible. And the more texture replacers you're running at the same time, the better the chances of a 64 bit OS being more stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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