Jitansgate Posted October 16, 2012 Author 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. I've seen a lot of Comments on different forums saying that 11.10 works nice for them but i just wanted to ask around here to see what everyone else has to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 11.10 was probably the last stable/non laggy release for a lot of people. I'm running 12.8 currently on a 5770 and so far it's been doing fine. Every release up until 12.8 has either BSODed my computer or crashed half my games. Skyrim runs great on Ultra, 1920x1200, 4xAA, 16xAF with 12.8 for me, but everyone's different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 11.10 was probably the last stable/non laggy release for a lot of people. I'm running 12.8 currently on a 5770 and so far it's been doing fine. Every release up until 12.8 has either BSODed my computer or crashed half my games. Skyrim runs great on Ultra, 1920x1200, 4xAA, 16xAF with 12.8 for me, but everyone's different. I've had Problems with AA with Weird Pixels showing up all over the Screen and everyone has said to Turn AA off and it fixes that issue. When the game first came out Is the day I bought the game and it Ran Perfectly on High with AA on after Driver Updates and Steam Patches AA started Messing up and the game began to be laggy, also I wounder if the Free Texture DLC is partially to blame for FPS Loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sa547 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 @Jitan: can you provide the full specs of your rig? Also, can you list what mods and ENB version and settings you're using? Many factors can cause even a good gaming rig to go sour on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuncio Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 11.10 was probably the last stable/non laggy release for a lot of people. I'm running 12.8 currently on a 5770 and so far it's been doing fine. Every release up until 12.8 has either BSODed my computer or crashed half my games. Skyrim runs great on Ultra, 1920x1200, 4xAA, 16xAF with 12.8 for me, but everyone's different. I've had Problems with AA with Weird Pixels showing up all over the Screen and everyone has said to Turn AA off and it fixes that issue. When the game first came out Is the day I bought the game and it Ran Perfectly on High with AA on after Driver Updates and Steam Patches AA started Messing up and the game began to be laggy, also I wounder if the Free Texture DLC is partially to blame for FPS Loss? I've found that texture loading time is a big deal. If your disk system is slow, it can make gameplay pretty tedious sometimes.While my computer is not terribly fast by todays standards, it's more than enough to play games like Skyrim at 1080p... except for the old, crappy SATA controller on this motherboard.I've done some things to get around it with testing. If you have a good, fast USB controller and USB thumb drive, the readyboost option can help performance. While read/write bandwidth is much lower than your sata drives, the seek time's are much, much lower, and can bring up files much more quickly because of it. In any case, download and install GPU-Z, fire it up, then run your games. Quit the game, or tab out, or throw GPU-Z on another monitor if you have multiple monitors hooked up, and see just how much of your cards resources are being used during skyrim. If the card is showing the RAM at peak usage, try backing down some of the settings. See the screenshot below. The highlighted areas show video card usage during gameplay of skyrim on my rig. About 75% GPU load and very little memory usage. This is with the HD textures turned on. Means I could turn settings up even more, but the fact is, my rig isn't feeding enough data to the card to overburden it. Do some testing. I'm going to try skyrim on a RAMdisk (partitioning off a certain amount of RAM to act as a hard disk.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 @Jitan: can you provide the full specs of your rig? Also, can you list what mods and ENB version and settings you're using? Many factors can cause even a good gaming rig to go sour on you. Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670OS: Windows 7 32-bitProcessor: AMD Athlon II X4 630 (4 CPUs), Ram: 4GBDirectX 11 I only use Weapon Mods and Armor Mods. No Graphical Enhancement Mods and No Weather Mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazealzar Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 @Jitan: can you provide the full specs of your rig? Also, can you list what mods and ENB version and settings you're using? Many factors can cause even a good gaming rig to go sour on you. Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670OS: Windows 7 32-bitProcessor: AMD Athlon II X4 630 (4 CPUs), Ram: 4GBDirectX 11 I only use Weapon Mods and Armor Mods. No Graphical Enhancement Mods and No Weather Mods. I have an AMD 7850, I found with 12.8 and 12.9 I got bad artifacts in LOD and trees. But 12.6 is a bit faster with no artifacts. This is just in Skyrim everything else seemed OK with the 12.8 drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 @Jitan: can you provide the full specs of your rig? Also, can you list what mods and ENB version and settings you're using? Many factors can cause even a good gaming rig to go sour on you. Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670OS: Windows 7 32-bitProcessor: AMD Athlon II X4 630 (4 CPUs), Ram: 4GBDirectX 11 I only use Weapon Mods and Armor Mods. No Graphical Enhancement Mods and No Weather Mods. I have an AMD 7850, I found with 12.8 and 12.9 I got bad artifacts in LOD and trees. But 12.6 is a bit faster with no artifacts. This is just in Skyrim everything else seemed OK with the 12.8 drivers. Its just Skyrim that runs Laggy all of my other games run fine. I'm Rolling back my Drivers to 12.1 to see if that changes performance and I'll let everyone know what the changes are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sa547 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 (edited) Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670OS: Windows 7 32-bitProcessor: AMD Athlon™ II X4 630 (4 CPUs), Ram: 4GBDirectX 11 I only use Weapon Mods and Armor Mods. No Graphical Enhancement Mods and No Weather Mods. 32-bit Win7? o_O That explains why. Since you have 4GB of memory, why not use the 64-bit version of Windows 7 to make the most of the extra memory? After I installed 64-bit Win7, Skyrim's performance improved considerably that it gave me confidence to use more mods and better tweaks, and yeah, ENB. Catalyst 12.6 was also fine for my HD4670/512mb. Edited October 18, 2012 by sa547 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitansgate Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 5670OS: Windows 7 32-bitProcessor: AMD Athlon™ II X4 630 (4 CPUs), Ram: 4GBDirectX 11 I only use Weapon Mods and Armor Mods. No Graphical Enhancement Mods and No Weather Mods. 32-bit Win7? o_O That explains why. Since you have 4GB of memory, why not use the 64-bit version of Windows 7 to make the most of the extra memory? After I installed 64-bit Win7, Skyrim's performance improved considerably that it gave me confidence to use more mods and better tweaks, and yeah, ENB. Catalyst 12.6 was also fine for my HD4670/512mb. I thought you needed a Super Computer to run 64-Bit that is why I never used it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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