Another Good Computer, Low Skyrim Problem

[screamin4urlife]

My computer:

 

HD Radeon 5450

AMD Anthlon II X3 440 Processor (3.00 GHz)

4GB of Ram

64bit Windows

 

I've tried everything, performance .dlls, playing just vanilla, even removing shadows entirely. But no matter what I do, I always have to play low setting for Skyrim.

I have all my drivers up to date, and overclocking to near maximum.

 

I'm running Skyrim with:

 

Updated to 1.5.26

No shadows

Simple lighting

Text/Mesh/EverythingElse is low quality and threaded

Running at 1280x768 fullscreen

Only necessary background programs (windows explorer, antivirus etc)

 

With everything above, I hover around 25 fps, rarely hitting 30. And no, I don't play with my fps meter on, just to test what it's at.

Normally I'd blame my ram and gpu, but I have friends with same stats running at least 30 fps on medium/high. I was wondering if anyone knows if it's my computer's parts? Or the way I have Skyrim set up? I'll gladly take any help I can get :D

Edited June 11, 2012 by screamin4urlife

[Illiad86]

The 5450 is a pretty low end card. It's meant for general Internet/business type computers. How much do you have it overclocked?

 

But, you could try disabling your AV while you are playing it. AV programs use quite a bit of RAM and Skyrim needs a decent amount so it's not so choppy.

[samadchaz]

wonder why you call that "decent" rig? 5450 doesn't even match for gt440. you need middle-level card to play (not just run)

[Vecna6667]

That graphics card is not a good card. According to the following link, it can only handle low to medium settings:

 

http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:System_Requirements

[FMod]

You need an upgrade. My post here addresses the same issue from another poster:

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/697822-skyrim-problems/page__view__findpost__p__5534089

 

Basically there's no way you'll get acceptable performance out of 5450.

[Rennn]

I used to have a 5400 series (I never checked which one), and it was terrible. It could barely play Oblivion on low-medium settings. The others here are probably correct; the problem is the 5450.