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Looking at buying skyrim for the pc. I was told by a mate when I buy through steam you get the HD addon pack or something to download? Will my GTX460 run this game on ultra settings?

Thanks.
 
Not sure why people ask without stating their CPU aswell, Skyrim is very CPU hungry ontop of being quite poorly made. Low end rigs can run it comfortably with an SSD though, but if you're running off a HDD you'll need more raw power. 460 should be fine medium-high (no ultra, definitely not ultra shadows and distance) as long as it's got a decent intel in there. If your proc is AMD though then you might struggle without more GPU, although an AMD would just bottleneck most of the excess it certainly would need carrying by a strong GPU.
 
I ran it on high (with HD pack) on my old 460 1GB..

I tried ultra but the FPS was pretty low in some places. (20-30)

I prefer it constantly looking good. :)
 
Not sure why people ask without stating their CPU aswell, Skyrim is very CPU hungry ontop of being quite poorly made. Low end rigs can run it comfortably with an SSD though, but if you're running off a HDD you'll need more raw power. 460 should be fine medium-high (no ultra, definitely not ultra shadows and distance) as long as it's got a decent intel in there. If your proc is AMD though then you might struggle without more GPU, although an AMD would just bottleneck most of the excess it certainly would need carrying by a strong GPU.

Ive got the AMD phenom II x 4 965
 
Nearly identical to a rig my mate has and he can play pretty much anything. You gonna be gaming at 1080p though? I'd imagine you'd be able to run most settings maxed under 1080p but the jump to 1080p is probably gonna make you have to drop them.
 
Nearly identical to a rig my mate has and he can play pretty much anything. You gonna be gaming at 1080p though? I'd imagine you'd be able to run most settings maxed under 1080p but the jump to 1080p is probably gonna make you have to drop them.

1920 x 1080 in my monitor resolution bud.
 
In that case I'd stick it to 0x AA, 16x AF, FXAA on, texture high, blur high, shadow medium, decal ultra, water to reflect land and skies only, object fade 7, light fade 25, actor fade 7, item fade 7, grass fade 4, specularity fade 20, distant detail high, object fade on.

If the shadows look too ugly though, try opening your SkyrimPrefs.ini and change fShadowBiasScale= to 0.2500. That will have a minor impact on performance but will do more good than harm. On medium the shadows are really pixelated but changing that will blur out the edges and make them look more real.

EDIT: Forget that, it's BlurDeferredShadowMask= that you need to change, and put it on around 7. The BiasScale is still useful though as it can stop the weird chase effect Skyrim has with shadows where as you run forward the shadows kinda run from you. It's hard to explain.

BlurDeferredShadowMask (note that the shadows on the right are on ultra, medium is a huge step down, so you'll benefit even more from the setting)

This is shadow bias:


TBH, the only things that let Skyrim down on looks on lower settings are the shadows so this should sort it out for you, good luck.
 
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youll get very low fps many people under estimate the cpu power this game likes aswell.

With respect, that's utter crap.

Skyrim played very well on my 460 (with i5 2500). The settings were mid/high. Smooth as silk and good looking.

I did eventually upgrade to a 7850, but Skyrim did not show much improvement.
 
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