Computer Upgrade for Skyrim Mods?

[Desolrit]

Hello!

I bought Skyrim about a month ago and spent a week's worth of my spare time modding it out perfectly. Now after 40+ hours played I've decided the memory leaks and shuttering is discouraging me from playing as often as I'd like. I've tried numerous tweaks but I think I've just maxed out my computer. I was thinking about upgrading some components (except GPU) and wondered if anyone knows what I should be looking for?

 

My current build;

-Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz

-12GB (6x2GB) Corsair RAM DDR3

-Evga 570 1280mb vram (4gb approx. total memory according to dxdiag)

-Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio

-Some crappy 19" screen

-Win7 64bit

 

Thanks

(NB: Skyrim on max settings and without mods runs perfectly on my machine)

Edited August 4, 2012 by Desolrit

[Illiad86]

Your computer is pretty nice. I guess the only thing I would suggest is a sound card. It'll help a tiny bit with the stuttering, but not by very much. You could also overclock your CPU up to 3GHz or 3.5GHz. You'll see a nice jump in performance if you do :)

 

What mods do you have installed? Mods or not, Skyrim needs a lot of bugs fixed.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Illiad86

[Desolrit]

Your computer is pretty nice. I guess the only thing I would suggest is a sound card. It'll help a tiny bit with the stuttering, but not by very much. You could also overclock your CPU up to 3GHz or 3.5GHz. You'll see a nice jump in performance if you do :)

 

What mods do you have installed? Mods or not, Skyrim needs a lot of bugs fixed.

Oh I actually have a Creative Sound Blaster Card, left that out. :P

I've never been too keen to overclock, mainly because I've never done it and I don't think my 550 psu could handle it.

I have loads of mods, but I want to keep them all. :)

[Illiad86]

You should have enough power to overclock to at least 3GHz. You will see quite an increase in performance. But yeah, I don't recommend overclocking unless you know how to. I couldn't really tell you how to overclock an Intel chip either, I haven't used them since the Pentium 4s were around lol.

 

Even if you were using some crazy texture mods, I don't see why it would stutter with that graphics card. But like I said, mods or not, Skyrim needs a lot of work done on it. There's so many bugs, broken quests, etc.

[Vagrant0]

You shouldn't be having any problems with that hardware other than possibly some delayed reactions from NPCs in busy places...

 

You might want to take a look at what else you have running in the background while playing since these can impact performance.

 

The other thing which might come to mind is regarding any sort of post-processing or visual enhancement mods. Some of these may not be working well with your videocard. If it were an ATI card, I would be pointing towards the bad driver releases, but I suppose there could be other issues with the drivers or how you have things setup.

[Aegrus]

I can run Skyrim on ultra with no stutter and a considerably worse pc than your- I don't think your hardware is the problem. Perhaps consider capping your frame rate? The creation engine is awful for stutter. Edited August 4, 2012 by Aegrus

[Erik005]

Do you have the latest drivers for the 570?

 

This might be the problem the latest divers for my gtx 580 gave me troubles in skyrim and new vegas