Utterly Mad

Skyrim doesn't need better graphics, I already can't play it. ;w;

Don't worry too much about it. Either they are displaying old screenshots, or it isn't much of an improvement. I wouldn't put much stock into the system reqs they post either. My PC doesn't meet the reqs for skyrim or fallout 4 and yet it runs both perfectly fine.

Don't worry too much about it. Either they are displaying old screenshots, or it isn't much of an improvement. I wouldn't put much stock into the system reqs they post either. My PC doesn't meet the reqs for skyrim or fallout 4 and yet it runs both perfectly fine.

But normal Skyrim sucks on my PC. There's some lag-inducing lighting effect that I was never able to disable.

Or it could be the blank textures. Skyrim had a few, and you could recover a lot of FPS by deleting them, or finding a mod that deletes them for you. Fallout 4 was egregious with blank textures. It was about the only thing that gave me FPS problems until I got a mod that deleted them. I have no idea the point of applying a texture that is completely blank, especially when they don't actually do anything in game. The FPS hit comes from the game rendering the blank textures. I know that doesn't make sense, but imagine you have a sheet of perfectly transparent material and you wrap it around something. The material reflects no light, all light passes through it. It changes that light in no way. It also doesn't alter the appearance of the object in any way, and yet keeping it attached to that object means extra tape (power usage). That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Delete those blank textures and you'll get a decent FPS boost and no change in the grayfix. When I got my PC back in 2011, I got it specifically so I could play skyrim. It was advertized as a PC that was made for games of the day. I still went through and got rid of blank textures and gained a good 5-10 FPS.

I can host 7 days, but I can't promise the FPS will be stable. I host for a friend in italy though, and she seems to have no problem with it.

Blank textures are often added to intentionally gimp performance, adding tessellated objects to gimp AMD cards like this is frequent.

Blank textures are often added to intentionally gimp performance, adding tessellated objects to gimp AMD cards like this is frequent.

As someone who's stuck using an AMD, that's a fucking shitty thing to do.

Quote from: Six on October 26, 2016, 01:36:22 pm

Blank textures are often added to intentionally gimp performance, adding tessellated objects to gimp AMD cards like this is frequent.

As someone who's stuck using an AMD, that's a fucking shitty thing to do.

It doesn't hurt the new RX cards as much as it used to because they sort of cheat and ignore tessellation, but older AMD cards get fucked by it because it takes them a while to process tessellation since it's supposed to be done on Nvidia's CUDA, The Witcher is quite bad for it.

Quote from: Perigrin on October 26, 2016, 02:14:09 am

Twas probably godrays, need to go into the ini files to change that

Was it the thing that makes the screen do all sorts of annoying lag-inducing effects whenever the light level of what you're looking at changes, like anytime you look up or down? >.o

That is HDR, or High Dynamic Range lighting. That can be a seriously gimling setting if your computer is sub par.