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MalvazarOrmega

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Okay so I finally got around to getting skyrim and installing it, only to be met with a super slow menu screen. I could probably count the frames honestly. I don't know why this is happening, I know my system can handle the game. Could use some insight on this problem.

 

System Specs

AMD Athlon x2 3.0ghz

4gig ddr2 1066

ZT-84MEH4M-HSL 512meg Graphics

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I don't want to sound like an elitist ass here but...

 

Why do people insist on trying to play (relatively) high spec games on non-gaming hardware?

 

The GPU in the OP's rig is not and never was a gaming GPU (it's fine for older games, for decoding blueray and the like) - OP needs to give serious consideration to upgrading - assuming it's a desktop machine and not a laptop you can do so for less that $/£50 these days and get a 4xx, 5xx or 6xx geforce - preferably with a second digit higher than 5...

 

I seem to see this kind of thing in practically every gaming forum I take part in, as does my wife in hers (facepalm moments like this are quite common in the Sims 3 forums...)

 

Failing the option to upgrade, try switching every graphical option to the absolute minimum as suggestes above and whatever you do, don't install any hi-res textures :)

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I was considering upgrade the graphics yes, i just chose the try and make work what i have first. Honestly I hate nvidia with a passion (only have it cause it was in the machine already), they are about the most useless company on the face of the earth (never hard a card from them that is worth a damn)
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I was considering upgrade the graphics yes, i just chose the try and make work what i have first. Honestly I hate nvidia with a passion (only have it cause it was in the machine already), they are about the most useless company on the face of the earth (never hard a card from them that is worth a damn)

 

fair comment (I'm a couple of generations behind current myself right now)...

 

But I'm in the opposite camp to you, I've never got on with ATI cards, last one I owned was an X1950XT which I replaced with an nVidia 8800GT after suffering with the (at the time) ridiculously poor ATI antialiasing performace - I have ATI in my laptop in the form of a radeon hd 5450m and it does the job for what I do on there (even works quite well with CoD MW3) but I'm still not sure whether I'd go back to AMD (as ATI are now) for my desktop machine - though I may when I upgrade my processor next year.

 

I'm by no means a "fanboy" so if you do upgrade then I'd say (on a budget) the Radeon 7750 might be a decent choice in its 2GB form ;)

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