Skyrim running **** even with i5-2500k + 7970 Crossfire

atibingler · 24 Jun 2013 at 07:48

Hey, all my other games run just fine (just tried Metro 2034 and it runs great), but with Skyrim I rarely get over 30 FPS. I do have a lot of texture mods and especially when I enable ENB I get mad-low FPS. Is it a game-limitation? Or is the problem on my end?

I've heard Skyrim can't handle more than 3,2 GB of RAM but shouldn't it just crash in that case? Mine just runs unbearably slow FPS. Any ideas what might be the problem? My CPU isn't overclocked by the way.

atibingler · 24 Jun 2013 at 08:09

CaptainRAVE said:
Probably too many mods or some kind of clash between them.

Yeah, maybe, I'll see what happens when if I uninstall most mods

atibingler · 24 Jun 2013 at 08:46

skylineboy said:
I'm running same set up as you. I am getting good performance on max settings @1920x1080.

I would uninstall mods and slowly readd them. Check them all for compatibility with one another.

Yeah. By the way, is your CPU overclocked? Because if that's not it, then I think I can conclude the problem lies with the game/mods. I got 8GB of RAM which is surely enough, got SSD, got 2 7970's. Only thing I can think of would be the CPU cause I've heard Skyrim can be tough on CPU's. But do you think an standard clocked i5-2500k is enough to run Skyrim + mods, for sure?

atibingler · 25 Jun 2013 at 19:48

Hey guys it's me again.

It seems like any ENB mod is toxic to my system. It goes from smooth 60 (cap) to 20-40. Looks like I'll just have to live without an ENB then unless you guys have any idea why ENB is so taxing on my system. I'm running The Wild's. I've tried tinkering with the set-up but it doesn't help much. I'm thinking it's my CPU bottlenecking (a stock speed i5-2500k) but reducing shadows does nothing so I'm not so sure now.

One weird thing I noticed though, I noticed the ENB comes with inbuilt SMAA apparently, so I disabled my Anti-aliasing. However, when I removed the SMAA feature, and while also having Anti-Aliasing disabled, I see no reduction in AA-quality! So basically my game still appears to have AA even though I've got everything disabled on that end.

When I deactivate and activate 6GB of texture-mods there is no performance impact whatsoever. I have no idea what's in those ENB's that bring a good system like mine to its knees. Quite frustrating! Also, I'm running just a single 7970 at the moment.

atibingler · 26 Jun 2013 at 16:28

RedDanDoc said:
This might sound daft but have you tried using an Xbox controller ?

Only reason I say is because I first played this with a controller and it ran smoothly then left the game came back and played it without a controller and it ran really slow but when i plugged controller back in it ran ok.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Haha. Sounds daft indeed. I'll take that into consideration as a last option

@Pighardia: I'll try enabling & disabling ENB

EDIT: Disabling ENB puts me to 60 FPS (steady). So yeah I think it's the ENB. I don't know though. When I had a little fight with a hunter the FPS dropped to around 50 though (without ENB).