How i made my Skyrim run great

[ulfricuk]

How i made my skyrim run great is i on my PC (Alienware X51) is i did the following.

 

1,Use Game Booster

 

2, (If your using steam) When in the game and your character is on the screen press alt and tab, this will take you to desktop, once there go into task manager, click the processes tab and find steam.exe click on it and then click end process, then click on applications tab click skyrim and then click switch to, this will fix a couple of things. ... (NOTE!) When you go back into the game and your mouse cursor is on the screen, pressalt and tab again, then click on the skyrim exe thats on your toolbar, click around the lower part of the screen until your mouse cursor does not appear on the screen, then go into task manager click on skyrim and then switch to and your all set this will take you back into the game with now mouse cursor, just the game cursor will be visible. (always keep task manager open on tool bar)

 

3, Disable shadows do the following this will stop the game from studdering while in game play.

 

IF you go into your SkyrimPrefs.ini in my documents and make the following changes, it disables all shadows.

 

fShadowDistance=0.0000

fInteriorShadowDistance=0.0000

fShadowLODStartFade=0.0000

 

Do this to the skyrimprefs.ini thats in my documents/mygames/skyrim and also in your skyrim folder where the game is installed, in there you will see another folder called skyrim click it and in there you will find skyrimprefs.ini

 

 

 

 

 

I hope this sorts it for you like it did for me, happy gaming.

[Georgiegril]

I'm glad this worked for you! Just a note, shadow rendering is handled by the CPU in skyrim, rather than the GPU, so your way of improving performance through disabling shadows would be more appropriate for someone with a slow processor or limited RAM. Someone who has the opposite setup, lots of processor power/memory, but a lower end graphics card, may not see the results that you enjoy.

[BugNexus]

fInteriorShadowDistance=0.0000

Doing this will make your interiors very dark cause the Lights won't appear too.

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@Georgiegril I have a 2GB RAM, Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz @ 3.21GHz and shadows make difference in FPS, so I guess it uses GPU cause my GPU sucks hard - GeForce 8400GS

Edited August 22, 2012 by BugNexus