Help is my PC good enough to run modded skyrim?

[ModzManiac23]

HELP Ime new to occur gaming and I'm wondering if these specs are okay. Operating system: 8.1 64-bit. Microprocessor:AND A8-6410 APU with Radeon R5 Graphics System Memory:4gb Samsung1600MHz. Graphics Card:AMD Radeon R5 Graphics with current resolution 1366x768 and 2.3k MB of graphics memory. Audio device 1:Realtek High Definition Audio

 

Audio device 2: AMD High Definition Audio Device.

 

 

 

TELL ME WHAT DO I NEED TO UPGRADE IN MY HARDWARE I'M NOT I'M A BUDGET BUT PRICE HAS TO BE REASONABLE.

[L3s7ing]

I would atleast recommend a dedicated gpu and an ram upgrade (another 4GB should be fine).

Your cpu isn't very powerful, which could be a problem with the high single core usage of Skyrim, but maybe a rx 470, 460 or something similar from nvidia would be a good upgrade.

About the cpu performance I'm really not sure, never seen it outside of laptops.

The integrated graphics will surely not bring very good performance.

Would be good to know what kind of modding you want to do (heavy graphics, or gameplay mods and so on).

[ModzManiac23]

Well I'm running atleast 100 mods ranging from gameplay like better vampires mod to the Uchiha clan to HD texture for hair and beards to wanting to use skyrim HD remastered graphics mod combined with project ENB right now I'm using ENB boost and I'm still getting CTD that maybe due to my bad instalation

[iXenite]

I'm assuming your framerate is pretty bad. Is this a laptop? If so - you can't upgrade it. However, even if it was a desktop you'd probably be better off just building a new PC. What is your budget for that sort of thing (in USD)?

[ModzManiac23]

OK I'm using a HP notebook 15 to play skyrim although the I have a PC it's currently still in repair I need a new display and processor

[L3s7ing]

In that case I would wait till your desktop is fully repaired.

Due to the lack of upgrade possibilities for your laptop it wouldn't do much to try upgrading only the ram. No real performance gain.

Your laptop can run modded skyrim, but not with good graphics or any performance heavy mods and with probably very bad performance. So not with good enb and long mid lists, maybe some small mods.

The CTD's probably are cause your apu is overloaded or too stressed and can't comprehend it.

[socalgamer71]

Graphics card is most important like having at least 6GB of vram. I recommend a new GPU like 1080ti if you can afford it.

[L3s7ing]

1080ti ? That's some big gun for Skyrim. Maybe for playing at 2k or 4k, but for 1080p you won't need something like that. Raw gpu power doesn't help very much in a game optimized like Skyrim.

Sure it helps, but just for wanting to mod and play the game a GTX 1080ti is complete overkill. You could easily go with a 1070 or even lower to accomplish that. You can ever push the game so far that you would need more power, but I think a 1080ti just for Skyrim would be wrong. In every other game with proper optimization that card would run "idle" at 1080p.

[iXenite]

Graphics card is most important like having at least 6GB of vram. I recommend a new GPU like 1080ti if you can afford it.

 

This comment shows that you must know very little about PC hardware. The GTX 1080 Ti is a $700+ GPU, and for most people is a complete waste of money. According to Steam, ~45% of people use a 1080p monitor, and ~40%+ game at a variety of even lower resolutions. The GTX 1080 Ti is only justifiable if you game at a bare minimum resolution of 1440p in my opinion.

 

Especially considering the OP wants to play Skyrim, which on Windows 10 cannot even use more than 4GB's of VRAM anyway, ultra high end cards are even more pointless. Plus, the first post in this entire thread literally said that any suggestions must be reasonable when considering the cost.

[ModzManiac23]

I see its only the processor and video card I need to upgrade sound card is good to me it's loud enough