SiddiusBlack Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Hi there, today i become my new AMD HD 7950 Card and the first thing i tested was skyrim, the game i played mostly in the last months. In a scene where i have before 25 FPS i now have 54 FPS, so far so good but the textures are a lot lower as before (not as low as the original was but lower as it was before with the gtx 570). I have the serious HD landscape textures and the textures don't look as good as it looked before. I have re-installed the textures but no effect. This is the first time i have an amd card since 5 years, is it possible that the card looks so much bad against nvidia or maybe have i do something wrong? In the Catalyst Control Center i can change texture quality in the catalyst A.I. from quality to high quality, but that have no effect. Hope someone have an idea whats wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooker75 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) The installer tuned things for your Nvidia card when you installed Skyrim. Hit the Options link on Skyrim's launcher and make sure your new card is selected, then play around with the "High" "Ultra" buttons and advanced options. I'm sure there's a way to make it retune the settings like the installer did, but I have no idea how it would work. Edited February 3, 2012 by Rooker75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosisab Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) I'm not sure how much performance you got with the replacing but that huge increase points the specs were lowered, the reason you are seeing inferior textures. Setting them (as pointed by Rooker75) is the first step but you may want to give some specific tweaks a try to get the max of your hardware with the lesser possible loss in performance. This link will help in this, does not matter it is from Nvidia, it is still valid for AMD/ATI cards with minor adaptations like in the card control panel functions. Edited February 3, 2012 by nosisab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddiusBlack Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 Hi, did you mean the Skyrim Launcher? That i have done now but no change. Or did you mean the Nexus Mod Manager or maybe the ENB Series Mod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I am assuming that you allowed the Skyrim installer to regenerate a new Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPreferences.ini. If not, do it first. (Just erase both files and restart the game) Then make a back up of that before starting on tweaking. The Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPreferences.ini files have some settings that are GPU specific and will need to be fine tuned differently from AMD to Nvidia. Most tutorials I have seen on tweaking are Nvidia specific (Maybe because I have an Nvidia card? :tongue:) so you will have to search for one that is more attuned to your AMD card. Some settings that make a lot of improvement on an Nvidia will have little or no(or even negative) results on an AMD card. Sometimes you will just have to try it and see what happens. Some good locations for testing FPS are Markarth and the top of the stairs in Whiterun. Make a save in each location at around noon game time (for the worst possible FPS) and use those saves to test each change you make. If your change makes a noticeable difference there it will be even better in other places. Be sure to document what you do so you can undo it if needed. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Good answers so far, but also try turning the mipmap quality to high in your Catalyst Control Center. It may already be high, but check at least. Accidentally having that on low messed up Oblivion for me when I had an AMD card. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddiusBlack Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Ok, i all installed completly new and install only the landscape textures, but the problem is still there :( I using this mod:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2146 with my nvidia gtx570 the textures look exactly as seen on the after screens, now not really anymore. They look with the amd card as a mixed from before and after :( Good answers so far, but also try turning the mipmap quality to high in your Catalyst Control Center. It may already be high, but check at least. Accidentally having that on low messed up Oblivion for me when I had an AMD card. :)Don't found this setting in my ccc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 (edited) I know AMD loses some quality when they optimize, but I didn't think it was this noticeable. Could that be what this is? Edited February 4, 2012 by Rennn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiddiusBlack Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Got it, it was the Super Sampling AA combined with an ENB Setting that makes the textures gorgeous. The problem was to find an ENB for AMD that works, the old one i used are not working anymore with the AMD Cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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