Performance with HD texture packs

[dbgager]

Recently I installed Skyrim again with the intention of exploring the game with HD packs installed. I have installed a variety of Mods, but the mods that will effect performace are the HD texture packs. I decided to go all out., so I downloaded The Texture pack combiner..which is simply a batch file that combines all the best textures into a directory that you can simple then copy into the game..I then downloaded all the texture packs, and ran the batch file.

Well my in game performance was not terribly bad in wilderness areas averaging 20-40 fps,although it would stutter often..and somtimes freeze for a short while. But as soon as I came to a town or any area with a number of NPCs it turned into a slide show. When I installed the texture packs I always opted for the 2048 texures rather than the 4096.

I have just purchased several upgrades for my computer and hopefully will be able to run Skyrim in HD mode better.

My Specs where

AMD Phenom 8450 processor..4 GB memory

Asus GTX550ti Video Card

My purchases where

AMD FX-6300 processor..Asus M5A97 MB...8 GB DD3 1866 ram( I was thinking from how the game was behaving..I had more CPU limiting than GPU limiting).

Asus GTX 660ti with 2 GB video card ( benchmarking has shown this factory overclocked GPU ..has performance close to , or even in some cases surpassing the GFX 670 )

I also purchaseed a newer technolgy HD to speed up HD accesses

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM.

This is about all my budget could afford..at about $700. WIll this run my current Skyrim at an enjoyabel level of performance ( 30 -60 fps). I also am curious if I would also be able to add an ENB profile to this..since I know that drags performance down another 10-50%.

I posted this in the Mod Talk forum earlier. But I am thinking maybe I posted it in the wrong place.

Edited April 19, 2013 by dbgager

[MShoap13]

The Video Card probably would've been all you needed to upgrade to run Skyrim with HD textures, etc. 1GB of vRAM isn't enough, 2GB should be fine. You'll have to play with ENB on your own but it should run pretty nicely depending on your graphical and ENB settings.