Skyrim Bad perfomance

[Narzoloco]

I need some advice, I don't know enough about computers to solve this problem myself.

I have a very bad perfomance of Skyrim on my computer, I've tried any quality configuration and still the game won't run smooth. Maybe my computer is not enough for this game, but it should be ok on a normal quality. I've tried other games and I had the same problem but Skyrim is the most annoying.

I'm using

AMD FX 4100 Quad Core 3,60 GHz

8,00 Gb RAM

ATI RADEON HD 6870

Windows 7 32 bits.

 

Thank you for your help and for reading my poor english.

[RitualBlack]

With a 6870 and your processor you should be running it just fine on high settings. I don't believe a 32 bit OS can use more than 4GB installed memory (maybe win7 is different, I don't know). Check your system properties to see how much memory you have installed because it is possible that you are only getting 2gb of ram (assuming you have a 2gb video card). Also check to make sure all of your drivers are up to date/ do a clean driver install. If it displays full memory than the OS probably isn't the problem but your system shouldn't have any problems.

 

See this article http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258528-30-explained for more on 32/64 bit operating systems.

[Dan3345]

With a 6870 and your processor you should be running it just fine on high settings. I don't believe a 32 bit OS can use more than 4GB installed memory (maybe win7 is different, I don't know). Check your system properties to see how much memory you have installed because it is possible that you are only getting 2gb of ram (assuming you have a 2gb video card). Also check to make sure all of your drivers are up to date/ do a clean driver install. If it displays full memory than the OS probably isn't the problem but your system shouldn't have any problems.

 

See this article http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/258528-30-explained for more on 32/64 bit operating systems.

Yeah no, a 32bit OS cannot use any more than 3.5gb of RAM. Having 8gb's is completely useless Im afraid, unless you upgrade to 64bit.

[FMod]

Actually a 32-bit OS can use more than 4GB of RAM. But it has to be either Linux, Unix, or a server version of Windows. The restriction for home users is partially artificial; for instance, XP Pro and XP Pro SP1 support PAE up to 32 GB of RAM (IIRC).

 

If you have 8GB and a 32-bit OS, you can use the 4 hidden GB for a ramdrive. Look up Vsuite Ramdisk Free.

 

 

edit: I think Microsoft doesn't charge you for upgrading 32-bit Win7 to 64-bit. So that's the thing to do. You can use your key with the 64-bit version. I won't go into detail about how exactly to do it, you can find that elsewhere, or ask a friend.

Edited February 22, 2012 by FMod

[Dan3345]

Actually a 32-bit OS can use more than 4GB of RAM. But it has to be either Linux, Unix, or a server version of Windows. The restriction for home users is partially artificial; for instance, XP Pro and XP Pro SP1 support PAE up to 32 GB of RAM (IIRC).

 

If you have 8GB and a 32-bit OS, you can use the 4 hidden GB for a ramdrive. Look up Vsuite Ramdisk Free.

 

 

edit: I think Microsoft doesn't charge you for upgrading 32-bit Win7 to 64-bit. So that's the thing to do. You can use your key with the 64-bit version. I won't go into detail about how exactly to do it, you can find that elsewhere, or ask a friend.

yeah no he can use the same key as many times as he wants granted its on the same machine. The problem is if he hasn't got windows 7 on disk he will have to buy it anyways. Good thing it comes with both 32 bit and 64 bit. Bad thing is it will set him back 130-200 dollars.