- Apr 22, 2012
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My goal is to play Skyrim at above 20 FPS on my machine. Currently, with all of the settings on "Low" with no AA or texture filtering, no Vsync, and with all of the settings in my video card console set to "High Performance" I can only manage to get 9 to 12 FPS -- and I tell you the graphics look very bare-bone and featureless, nothing at all like the screen shots that I've seen from other players. My machine specs are as follows:
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.70 GHz - 512 SD RAM - Verto GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128 MB - 250 watt PSU - 100 Gig HD
I have ordered another 512 SD ram to give me a whopping 1024 MB total system memory. My hope is that this will give my system the needed resources to play above 20 FPS, and maybe even give me the power to play at a smooth 30 FPS with some of the settings turned up. But I must say, I am a little disappointed in my GPU, the manufacturer promised "The industries best image quality for the most demanding applications!" and all of that other hoopla, however I am definitely not seeing that sort of quality in Skyrim. I can barely make out the characters in the game as human, but rather as walking slabs of blurred colour -- and the draw distance is so reduced, objects and characters materialize within feet of my character -- I feel as if I am rather playing in a spectral world of Ghostrim.
Can anyone suggest another upgrade I might try to boost my performance? I was thinking about upgrading to a bigger hard drive so that the game can utilize more virtual memory and page files. Should I think about Overclocking my CPU? What do you think?
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.70 GHz - 512 SD RAM - Verto GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 128 MB - 250 watt PSU - 100 Gig HD
I have ordered another 512 SD ram to give me a whopping 1024 MB total system memory. My hope is that this will give my system the needed resources to play above 20 FPS, and maybe even give me the power to play at a smooth 30 FPS with some of the settings turned up. But I must say, I am a little disappointed in my GPU, the manufacturer promised "The industries best image quality for the most demanding applications!" and all of that other hoopla, however I am definitely not seeing that sort of quality in Skyrim. I can barely make out the characters in the game as human, but rather as walking slabs of blurred colour -- and the draw distance is so reduced, objects and characters materialize within feet of my character -- I feel as if I am rather playing in a spectral world of Ghostrim.
Can anyone suggest another upgrade I might try to boost my performance? I was thinking about upgrading to a bigger hard drive so that the game can utilize more virtual memory and page files. Should I think about Overclocking my CPU? What do you think?
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