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Tried and tested. PC Skyrim fiddling update.
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- Created on Monday, 05 December 2011 11:07
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 01:26
- Written by Andy
Following hours of playing with the values, I soon found myself with ini files which were all over the place and the game was starting to struggle on my non-spectacular hardware, so I went vanilla, updated the 4Gb enabler and worked through this guide:
The results were the best I'd seen without hitting performance. Ambient occlusion, the usual fps-killer made little impact on the hardware but added a huge amount, especially to buildings.
After testing various mods, these are the ones which have made the most improvement. All available from skyrimnexus.com.
- No More Blocky Faces
- Enhanced Night Skyrim (high density starfield)
- High Quality Eyes
- Detailed Faces v2
- Enhanced Blood Textures
- QD Inventory
- Detailed Bodies
I get a performance drop with this one, so don't leave it on permanently. Looks lovely, though:
My current hardware is listed here. I've reduced my overclock for the benefit of stability in Battlefield 3 [edit] I've just put it back to 4.8 after finding a more likely cause of the crashes.[edit]