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"You may be boiling my skin off with rolling gouts of flame spewing from your hands, but that won't stop me from glaring at you like you've made some obscure joke about my mother's chastity...."

 

 

 

@lifeshield

Thats a nice sword!

Hey all! It's been a good few months

I have a little spare time from work again so looking to get back into Skyrim. I've updated and come across all manner of bugs so going to clean install and start the story all over.

I've read that S.T.E.P is out of date, so could someone (Lifeshield, Toology, Propa, Milamber if your still about) list what mods/textures packs they use (screenshot of list) that I can use as a guide?

Much appreciated.

+Rep for all help.

Screens from Skyrim a few months back:

Question for those who know how Skyrim works. I have a 2GB GTX680 (Reports as 2038 in Nvidia Inspector) and my Nvidia Insepctor says I use between 1900MB and 2036MB of RAM while playing. My performance is a little less than I want (only a little). I have STEP and Lifeshields Beautiful Skyrim. My question is is all that VRAM being used actually in use? Or does Skyrim load up more RAM for standby like windows does with regular RAM?

Hope that makes sense.

I am asking cause I am wondering if a second 680 will improve my performance or if I should opt for a 4GB model.

EDIT: Also are there any ways to reduce VRAM usage without reducing visual quality by a noticeable amount.?

 

Use a Texture Optimizer.

 

A second 680 won't increase the amount of VRAM you have as far as I'm aware. I could be wrong here but I don't think I am. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am so.

 

This is the version of STEP I am using.

 

 

 

STEP Guide (PDF).zip 517k .zip file

 

 

 

 

 

Crainte Vormir

 

Thanks. :D

Edited by Lifeshield - 6/11/12 at 3:25am

What res is your monitor and how many do you use? Most of the time the amount of vRAM you have doesn't effect how well the game runs. If you have a 1920x1080 monitor and only one of them then get another 2GB model of the 680. A single 4GB model 680 will run the same as a single 2GB model.

My GPU is 1GB and MSI afterburner says I use 720-800 MB vRAM while playing Skyrim.

I'm not a great scripter so this ENB configuration tool is a god send, I'm finally getting somewhere with my own ENB.

Anyway is there a way that adds a kind of depth of field where anything after a certain (great) distance away becomes blurred? i.e. distant mountains look more out of focus compared too anything 200ft away? I hate the sharp look of distant object and landscapes, low detail distant trees look bad, but it looks bare without them there.

Thanks

I already used the texture optimizer, thanks though.

As for a second 680 you are right, it wont increase my VRAM, but maybe I phrased my question wrong. My frames are around 40FPS and I would like better, and I was wondering if another 680 would help or is it my VRAM limiting me.

The monitor I game on is 2560x1440. I have another 1080p monitor as secondary but no games on it, might increase VRAM usage a little though.

As for VRAM I got a little extra free by switching from ENB ambient occlusion to nvidia driver forces ambient occlusion, not sure why. Looks the same to me.

From what it looks like is I am ok for VRAM though, it seems to load up more than it actually needs, as my performance is the same even when VRAM is almost all in use.