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Found cause of fps loss with 1.5 update


IanEG

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Ever since updating to 1.5 I have suffered a big performance drop, going from a steady 60fps down to 45 in places. At first I thought it was the grass shaders but i tracked the problem down to the Textures/terrain/objects folder where Beth added a objects dds file. When I removed said file my performance returned to normal. I'm not sure what it does but its not worth 15fps!

 

Hope this is useful to someone.

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That file that you removed was for the new terrain that the patch added. Pretty much it just allowed for a smoother transition of the LOD when in a snowy area.
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The patch also added grass shadows, which will hurt some framerates. I'm not sure if you can turn them off, though presumably there's a way in the .ini.

As for myself, I'm likeing the patch so far. I got minimal framerate loss, grass shadows, smoother LOD, and so far few bugs since I ironed them out during the beta. At first my shadows were wonky, but something I did fixed it.

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Added? Where? How? I didn't get that update. Were excatly did you find this file?

 

Do you have steam?

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Yes. Yes I do.

 

Then just update skyrim in steam. It's the most recent patch, so skyrim should be updated to it right away.

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Yes. Yes I do.

 

Then just update skyrim in steam. It's the most recent patch, so skyrim should be updated to it right away.

You obviously missed the point. I had already updated to the 1.5 patch, however, what I didn't recive was this random file the the OP said was part of the update. What I asked was clarification on were precisley he found this file new file. Thanks anyway.

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You obviously missed the point. I had already updated to the 1.5 patch, however, what I didn't recive was this random file the the OP said was part of the update. What I asked was clarification on were precisley he found this file new file. Thanks anyway.

 

Ok, I see what you mean now. Did you ever locate the file from the directory path that the OP posted? I haven't really noticed much of a change with the terrain other than it being less blocky than before. And it seems that it loads in farther away, making it look like a much smoother transition into a new region.

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