Skyrim crossfire fix!

Firstly sorry if this has already been mentioned

I stumbled upon this little gem today, I was having some issues with crossfire in skyrim (shocker eh), but I ended up settling for running the game at high no big deal, looked fine. With CF enabled I could only hit 20fps peak!

Anyway this 100% fixed everything, both cards now being fully utilised, game runs super smooth, no frame drops, everything maxed out

A simple one...find TESV.exe in your skyrim folder, rename it to fallout3.exe and your done. Seemingly as the game is the same engine as fallout 3 the CAP works equally as well for both games! So renaming the file triggers CAP to run the fallout3 profile and just runs amazing.

I don't know if this would help with any other issues, but its worth a punt surely.

*note* I'm not sure if this works for SLI users or not, but by all means try it, whats the worst that can happen

Edit: one last thing, the game will no longer launch via steam with this, as the launcher will look for TESV.exe, you will need to manually launch fallout3.exe

Good work, that works for me so far (about 10 mins) on my 6990.

Thanks for sharing!

Wow top find fellow works 100%

Have 5870 as main card then a 5970 as second (this way cause of cooling) was struggleing to get 30fps at 2560x1440 set at mix of high and ultra and now a solid 60fps
Was going to get a 580 to play this lol.

2 hours playing and its still working fine. Thanks again, and have a gold star:

Will give this a go, been holding off starting the game as the poor performance was really annoying.

the difference is ridiculous haha! nice one mate thanks!

If this works when I get back from work, I will send a bj in the post.

I want your babies!

My 6970's are eating this up now, excellent find fella.

OP is a genius

Strange, its not working for my friend who has a near identical setup to mine!

Excellent find thats, working like a charm on CF5870s. What a beautiful game...

No probs, I can't take any credit though as I found it else where...just sharing the wealth as they say.

I was genuinely surprised to find caps were activated by the exe name, I thought they were more complex then that.

Damien make sure your friend named it correctly.

Heh, nice find and thanks for sharing, pgi947.

Didn't do much for me, already capped at 60 but I'm on older tech (4870x2), however, no matter what I do (forced off through CC and edited the .ini) vsync won't turn off.
However, it seemed to make mouse movement a little more smoother/responsive (also turned off mouse smooth before).

It's not working for me either, the FPS has slightly improved but it's still far below what a single 6970 typically does.

There was a crossfire fix for Fallout 3 that required you to rename your fallout3.exe to oblivion.exe.

I wonder if renaming it to morrowind.exe will give even better performance.

It drops my FPS.

I didn't guarantee it would work for everyone, just worked for me so thought I would share, if it helps I'm also on 11.10 with 11.9 cap4, fps rose from around 20 to vsync limit of 60 on ultra.

For those its not working for what drivers etc are you all on? See if we can find some common ground for it not working.

Not working for trifire here

Even with 11.11s

11.11?!