Skyrim SE not recognizing rtx 2080 ti

[BeowulfNorthWind]

I just upgraded to a msi 2080 ti gaming x trio gpu. Skyrim won't recognize the gpu and globally sets to graphics to low. I had a evga 1080 sc gpu that worked fine with Skyrim SE. I obviouslycan manually set the graphics and the game loads at a whopping 6fps on ultra settings with this $1300 graphics card. I'm guessing this is either a driver issue or Bethesda may need an update to the game for the new rtx lineup?

 

Anyone have any ideas as to whats going on?

[3aq]

have you tested out other games of similar release year? if those games run at ultra, then it is probably just detection issue, if it's not then most likely you gotta find and update all your drives and libraries.

[williaal2]

Interesting, Skyrim does not recognise my gtx1050 laptop, thankfully it runs sse at 60fps on med/high.

[jones177]

I use a RTX 2080 ti to run the game and I am having no issues with it.

 

Skyrim and Skyrim SE run better than ever at 4k resolution.

 

Back when the 1000 series came out I had lots of problems like stutter a low frame rate. It took 6 months of driver updates to fix the issues.

 

With the RTX card all I had to do was update ENB and all is well.

What the card doses best in the game is not bog down when there is a lot going on. My GTX 1080 ti did bog down so it was a good upgrade.

 

Here is some info on my setup.

 

CPU = i7 8086k overclock to 5ghz on all cores.

GPU = EVGA 2080 ti XC Gaming.

Game on = 1tb SSD

 

SkyrimPrefs.ini

 

[Display]
fShadowDistance=10000.0000
iNumFocusShadow=4
fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000
ffocusShadowMapDoubleEveryXUnit=450.0000
iShadowMapResolution=4096
bDeferredShadows=1
bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
fShadowBiasScale=2
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=0
iShadowFilter=0
fDynamicDOFBlurMultiplier=0.4500
fProjectedUVNormalDetailTilingScale=0.8000
fProjectedUVDiffuseNormalTilingScale=0.2000
bEnableProjecteUVDiffuseNormals=1
bUseTAA=1
bIndEnable=0
bSAO_CS_Enable=0
bToggleSparkles=1
bSAOEnable=0
bScreenSpaceReflectionEnabled=1
bIBLFEnable=0
bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget=1
iSaveGameScreenShotHeighWSt=192
iSaveGameScreenShotWidthWS=320
iSaveGameScreenShotHeight=192
iSaveGameScreenShotWidth=256
iShadowMaskQuarter=4
bVolumetricLightingEnable=1
iVolumetricLightingQuality=2
bEnableImprovedSnow=1
fLightLODStartFade=3500.0000
bFXAAEnabled=0
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=9999999.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=999999.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=999999.0000
fGamma=0.6000
iPresentInterval=0
bBorderless=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=2160
iSize W=3840
iScreenShotIndex=73
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bUsePrecipitationOcclusion=1
bDrawLandShadows=0
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=25
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=100
iAdapter=0
uBookRatio=2
bForceCreateTarget=0
iReflectionResolutionDivider=2
iVSyncPresentInterval=0
iNumSplits=2
[imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=0
bLensFlare=0
bUseBlurShader=0
[General]
fLightingOutputColourClampPostSpec=1.0000
fLightingOutputColourClampPostEnv=1.0000
fLightingOutputColourClampPostLit=1.0000
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
uLargeRefLODGridSize=11
[MAIN]
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
bGamepadEnable=1
bCrosshairEnabled=1
fHUDOpacity=0.7500
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnTravel=1
bSaveOnWait=1
bSaveOnRest=1
[interface]
fMouseCursorSpeed=1.0000
bDialogueSubtitles=0
bGeneralSubtitles=0
bShowCompass=1
[GamePlay]
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
iDifficulty=2
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0125
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=0.6667
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bInvertYValues=0
bGamePadRumble=1
bUseKinect=0
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=6000
[saveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=10.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
fVal7=0.8000
uID7=222106009
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=220654332
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=220654333
fVal4=1.0000
uID4=220654334
fVal3=0.0000
uID3=466532
fVal2=1.0000
uID2=554685
fVal1=1.0000
uID1=1007612
fVal0=1.0000
uID0=94881
[Clouds]
fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000
fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000
fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000
fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000
[Water]
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterDepth=1
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=75000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=250000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=90000.0000
fBlockLevel0Distance=60000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.5000
bShowLODInEditor=1
[NavMesh]
fObstacleAlpha=0.5000
fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000
fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500
fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000
fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500
fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000
fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000
fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500
fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000
fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000
fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000
fEdgeThickness=10.0000
fPointSize=2.5000
[Trees]
bRenderSkinnedTrees=1
uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=40
[Grass]
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000
[Decals]
bSkinnedDecals=1
bDecals=1
uMaxSkinDecals=100
uMaxDecals=1000
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=100
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=25
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=30.0000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=10.0000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=15.0000
[Launcher]
sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti"
uLastAspectRatio=1
[bethesda.net]
uPersistentUuidData3=1047481753
uPersistentUuidData2=2504822292
uPersistentUuidData1=1991393656
uPersistentUuidData0=46325006

[delgathar]

Just dropping this here for the next person that googles the answer and gets this page. I get the same message, "Your video hardware was not identified. Video settings have been set to low quality."

 

Contrary to what the message says, the game DID detect my hardware. At the end of my skyrimPrefs.ini there is the line.

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080"

 

So it actually did detect. So what I did was manually click the ultra button. Then I went into the prefs and manually changed my resolution to 2560x1080. Borderless=1

Then tried to play the game and it worked.

 

So if you get the message, "Your video card was not identified." Don't give up, check your skyrimprefs.ini. It might be detected after all. You might have to manually set the resolution and quality level.

[IfIHadATail007]

I know this is a bit tombstoned, but I wanted to add that with almost all of the new, higher-ended GPUs, Skyrim's algorithm is no longer capable "officially" detecting the hardware when you use the initial launcher function. It does indeed list your hardware in SkyrimPrefs.ini, but the GUI itself doesn't seem to have the intelligence to handle the specifics. I know that almost everyone on here wants to manually adjust settings since that's how we've always done that kind of thing with Skyrim/SSE, but I thought I'd point out that EVERYTHING that the launcher does can now be handled more easily than manual and most granularly than through the launcher's advanced settings via NVidia's GeForce Experience utility. I've quit using the launcher altogether since it's klewdgy AF, and I can tweak a lot more settings for SSE using GeForce Exp and the NVidia Control Panel (especially vSync stuff). Just and FYI for you NVidia players out there.

[speedynl]

both sse & fo4 set everyting on low, when i remove the ini files, although mine 1660 ti show in the ini files after starting/closing launcher(both don't say don't reconice card)

just hit ultra edit the options/ini's and all is fine

 

its just the launcher that don't reconice the newer cards, both games run fine with them (remember both are old already and beth will never update the exe's so they reconice the newest cards

[Vexxxoid]

Yea, I'm using an RTX 2080 myself. Not the TI but still, a beast of a card that Skyrim thinks should be at low settings. Obviously that's a problem.

I didn't have RTX 2080 in my Skyrim prefs, but when I launch the game, it appears to be running fine on Ultra settings.

Hopefully this doesn't cause any issues a week from now when I finally finish modding the game.

[RealEmcee]

Just dropping this here for the next person that googles the answer and gets this page. I get the same message, "Your video hardware was not identified. Video settings have been set to low quality."

 

Contrary to what the message says, the game DID detect my hardware. At the end of my skyrimPrefs.ini there is the line.

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080"

 

So it actually did detect. So what I did was manually click the ultra button. Then I went into the prefs and manually changed my resolution to 2560x1080. Borderless=1

Then tried to play the game and it worked.

 

So if you get the message, "Your video card was not identified." Don't give up, check your skyrimprefs.ini. It might be detected after all. You might have to manually set the resolution and quality level.

 

Edit: This solved my issue. Thanks!

[bundesengel]

same problem. But easy to fix with geforce experience. Do the videosettings for the game via experience and all is good