Yodhrin Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Hello, I'm new to modding Skyrim, and I'm trying to do the sensible thing and thoroughly investigate everything before I start fannying about with the actual game(I've been trawling YT, Nexus, and various tutorials for three days running now :P), however I've gotten a little stuck on the issue of HD textures. For the record, my rig is a PhenomII x4 955 [email protected](factory OC'd), 4 gigs of Mushkin Silverline RAM(stock), and an XFI Dual-fan 6850 1Gb(factory OC'd). I understand that which actual textures a person uses essentially comes down to personal taste, but I'm more concerned with what my computer is actually capable of running; there's Vano's optimised versions of the Bethesda HD pack, there's cestral's Texture Pack Combiner and all the associated texture packs, there's AdPipino's Optimiser tool.... So, am I better off looking about for Vano-style "lite" 1024 texture packs and just running them straight up, or can I get a better look with similar performance using the Optimiser on the bigger 2048 packs? If the latter, is it safe/possible to use the Optmiser and the Combiner together? Further, as I currently understand it, I could use the Bethesda pack and the Combined pack together, providing I install the Combined pack second so that it overwrites the Bethesda pack where appropriate; am I correct in that? I also plan to run one of the more modest ENBs and SSAO(if I can find a tutorial/explanation on the latter that doesn't make my brain melt out through my ears), but from what I've read if I pick the right one it should have a negligible performance impact. Any advice is welcome,Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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