Increaing fps and performance at the same time!

[TWarrior]

while googleing a solution to the fact that my system isnt even running on 100% while playing skyrim ,yet the game still stutters, i found this website.

http://online-source.net/tools/cfg-makers/skyrim-cfg-maker/

 

cfg-maker means config maker or with other words: it will print out a skyrim.ini and a skyrim.prefs ini.

 

the good thing is: every change you do in the .ini files is explained and it comes with a simple ui.

you can set the settings to vanilla low, medium, high and ultra and some values even beyond (performance hit! but improved grafics)

 

so why does it improve performance while at the same time improving grafics quality?

because you have the ability to toggle on multithreading and multicore-use for quadcores and +.

those things are disabled and not even visible in the ini files.

 

now my skyrim looks better (higher lod range, better shadows, uGrids to 7 instead of 5) and runs smoother (finally all 4 cpu cores are used).

 

lastly i downloaded the attk power loader here on the nexus and i play with stable 40 fps in wilderness instead of 30 (which goes down to 15 every 20 seconds, cause of ugrids loading).

system is running on 80% instead of 50%.

 

oh and btw my specs are: i5 2500k @3,33 GHz, 8 GB ram, AMD Radeon HD 6970

 

i was so stunned by the outcome of the ini tweaks, that i had to post it here.

hope you enjoy your smooth skyrim experience!

[FiftyTifty]

Eh. I've found that Skyrim performs better on two cores rather than four. Reduced stuttering, script delays and other maladies drastically.

 

And using the '+fullproc' condition on TESV.exe added a lil' stability for me. Reduced stuttering further.

 

Usin' a 965 BE @ 3.4GHz, AMD Radeon HD 6670 DDR3.

Edited January 15, 2013 by FiftyTifty

[TWarrior]

hmm i will test that..

will report back.

 

edit:

 

okay i changed iNumHWThreads=4

to iNumHWThreads=2

and fps does not really change (maybe 2 or 3 fps).

 

anyone knows a good benchmark tool to test cpu core usage while testing both values?

 

apart from that i still gained fps increase with the ini settings from the site.

so it will benefit wither way :)

Edited January 15, 2013 by TWarrior

[FiftyTifty]

Control Panel -> Performance Information and Tools -> Advanced Tools -> Performance Monitor

[TWarrior]

thanks :) so i tested with 4 cores and cpu usage was 65% and 42 fps. with 2 cores it was around 50% and 40 fps.

what is that supposed to tell me?

[FiftyTifty]

That for you, you fare better with four cores. For me, I fare better with two cores.

 

It also tells us that Skyrim, while it does support four cores, it does so very badly.

[TWarrior]

thank you very much 50 :)

kudo to you.

 

but compared to 25 fps and constant cpu spikes and fps drops i had before, i do better with both ini settings, so i don't even care that much.

i will stick with 4 cores.

thanks again :)

[Django03]

Thanks for the tip, my game seems to run much more smoothly now.

[FiftyTifty]

As a report: Just did a fresh install of Skyrim, installed the same mods.

 

Now? No stuttering at all. AND Skyrim runs dandy on four cores, whereas it used to chug when on four.

 

Weird, eh?

[TWarrior]

As a report: Just did a fresh install of Skyrim, installed the same mods.

 

Now? No stuttering at all. AND Skyrim runs dandy on four cores, whereas it used to chug when on four.

 

Weird, eh?

 

 

weird indeed oO

 

oh bethesda.... :D