Jitansgate Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Anyone know of any OLD but good AMD Drivers to use that doesn't cause Skyrim to Lag Horribly? I got version 12.8 the Latest Drivers but its still pretty Laggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy1123 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This will depend greatly on your GPU. Supposedly, the 12.6 was a good version. After 12.2, I dumped my liking for AMD and moved on to Nvidia. I had nothing but issues and game stopping lag with all manner of beta drivers and inconsistant revisions of their drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 It can't be my CPU because when I first bought the game it Ran Perfectly Fine but after AMD Driver Updates and Steam Updates it started to run Laggy. Skyrim patch 1.6 fixes FPS but even with the patch its still Laggy, so it has to be the AMD Drivers. Processor: AMD Athleon II X4 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginnyfizz Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Never had a problem with AMD drivers myself, never understood why people slam them so. And I would never say "It can't be my CPU". I recently had one die (among other hardware fail) and it wasn't old. Check your hardware. It's easy to blame drivers but that may not be it, sorry to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Never had a problem with AMD drivers myself, never understood why people slam them so. And I would never say "It can't be my CPU". I recently had one die (among other hardware fail) and it wasn't old. Check your hardware. It's easy to blame drivers but that may not be it, sorry to say. Its not my Hardware I have ran Diagnostics and all my other games works perfectly fine except Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuncio Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 CPU and GPU are different. CPU is your, well, Central Processing Unit. It's installed on your motherboard. GPU is your Graphics Processing Unit. It's a chip on your video card. So, what do you have for your GPU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginnyfizz Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I hate to tell you, but I ran diagnostics too and they said all was fine. Suffice it to say, only the GPU and RAM survived, I had to have a new PSU, CPU, MOBO and HDD. Because once my system guy had the beast to the workshop and took it apart, and tested each component, he got a different result from MY diagnostics. Post your full system specs, as it is possible that some of your hardware, even if not failing, is not beefy enough for Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I don't have AMD, but maybe it is your settings and/or graphics mods rather than the drivers. Not sure what you've got, but GPUs can be idiosyncratic, what works great on one just doesn't on another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Its a Radeon HD 5670. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkiev Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Partly 'cuz I'm lazy, and partly 'cuzza the problems I heard about with 12.2 to 12.5, (haven't really kept track of what's up with the latest few releases - see "lazy" comment) I'm still using the 12.1s with my HD6970 and am quite happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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