Malcom86 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 (edited) Hi,I hope someone can help me, or at least make things clearer to me.I started to play again Skyrim from a few days. It was a year or so I didn't play Skyrim, so Steam patched the game. When I started a new game, it was more slow, with very bad FPS. This was very strange, because a year ago I played it on my laptop with a processor 2,3 ghz, 4gb ram and a ATI Radeon HD545v 512 mb ram, and I can play Skyrim enough smoothly. Now I'm playing on a computer with an I5 processor 3ghz, 8 gb ram and ATI Radeon 5450 1gb ram. How the hell could it be the game is so slow ?? I lowered the graphic setting, trying to have a better FPS but I have to lower it too much to have a decent FPS, and it become a pain.The last thing happened to me ? When I go out from a cave and I have the "blinding" effect, it lasts forever. And I have to reload a previous saved game to make it works. I can't understand...is it a bug or something like this, or the last patches made Skyrim an "heavy" game like hell my computer can't run ? I don't think to have such a bad computer...I can't make a try on my old laptop because I have it no longer...I don't have any DLC, neither I'm using the high resolution texture packs. I tried disabling all my mods and making a clean new game. I'm pretty sure mods are not causing this.My computer have a I5 processor 3ghz, 8 gb ram and ATI Radeon 5450 1gb ram, windows 7 64bit. Video card drivers updated. My resolution is 1920x1080, but changing it doesn't make Skyrim run better. Please help !! Did you have any problems like this ? Edited December 17, 2012 by Malcom86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korun Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 ATI Radeon 5450 1gb Vram, this is your bottleneck, i've got the same gpu before, can't have more than 12 fps in 1920x1080 on high setting, which was the settings given by the gamethis card is good only to watch video in hd, surfing the net :(change for just more powerfull and with the cpu/ram it will be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcom86 Posted December 17, 2012 Author Share Posted December 17, 2012 Any advice for a good GPU ?I could use a Geforce 210 1gb ram (I found it), but I don't know if it's really better.I'll look for some good GPU...I found on internet a very interesting graphic card: Geforce 410 GTX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korun Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 GForce 210 will be the same, for the GTX 410? what is your PSU, or your computer specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcom86 Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 My computer have a I5 processor 3ghz, 8 gb ram and ATI Radeon 5450 1gb ram, windows 7 64bit. Video card drivers updated. My resolution is 1920x1080.I don't know what PSU I have. How can I know it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcom86 Posted December 18, 2012 Author Share Posted December 18, 2012 (edited) What if I use an ENB ? Can this help improving FPS ? If yes, someone knows a good ENB to do so ? Edited December 18, 2012 by Malcom86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 For the PSU (Power supply) look at the label on it - what you are looking for is Watts. Many off the shelf computers are underpowered to the point they can barely run the stuff that came installed - Newer Video cards can easily require more power (watts) than the original PSU can safely provide. A gaming computer currently has about a 550 watt or more PSU. Many inexpensive computers come with between 200 and 300 watts - not enough for a newer power hungry video card. As for getting more out of what you already have - go through the General section of this FIRST. then the part for the specific game.http://s1.zetaboards.com/bbenlibrary/topic/4751769/1/#new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korun Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 What if I use an ENB ? Can this help improving FPS ? If yes, someone knows a good ENB to do so ? i will quote what'S BBen46 said in an other post Re: using ENB on low level computers. No matter how you cut it, ENB does cost in FPS. It is a trade off - better graphics (eye candy) for processor clock cycles. If the processor (GPU or CPU) is spending more time rendering the eye candy , it has less time to spend running the game action resulting in lower fps. If your system can handle it, ENB does make the game more graphically to your personal liking - there is an ENB for nearly any preference now. But all of them will cost fps. There are some that will cost less fps than others, but there is no 'magic' add on that can give more fps AND more eye candy as they use the same computer resource - clock cycles. Now that I have burst your bubble, there are ways to get more clock cycles for use by either ENB or FPS. http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/biggrin.gif first off, every little gizmo and add on in your computer takes clock cycles. Find the worst offenders and shut them down while playing. Some of the worst are leaving a browser open for some reason. VOIP,& Skype type programs. I know you like to talk with your friends while playing, but that takes away from the available computing power while playing. Your antivirus may be set to check every disk read and write - meaning a few lost cycles on every read while the AV checks to be sure that a piece of code that it checked not 15 seconds ago is still OK. Most AV programs have a game function - or a way to exempt certain programs and folders from this. There are programs to help you temporarily remove things when you play, then put them back when you stop playing - some cost, some are free - some people swear by them, others swear at them. One I have used is Game Booster . http://www.majorgeek...ster_d8023.html Then, if your operating system (Windows) is running poorly, no mod will speed it up. You will need to optimize the Windows to play games better. Here is a link to a site that can show you how to optimize your computer, your video board, and the game - be sure to do it in that order. Yes, it does take some time. but you should only have to do this once. http://www.tweakguides.com/ http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/thumbsup.gif Now, with an optimized Windows, an Optimized Video card and an Optimized game - you may just free up enough clock cycles to use that ENB you like without sacrificing too much fps. http://forums.nexusmods.com/public/style_emoticons/dark/cool.gif when i ask for your specs i already known the common one cpu/ram etc....i was asking for your computer trademark: Dell or HP /motherboard/power supply etc.. for exemple a std Dell PSU is BIG :P 350 watt@@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts