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Skyrim runs terrible (Low FPS, freezes and lags)

Gerkor

Commendable
Jul 27, 2016
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Hi everybody,

Just installed Skyrim via steam on the pc, that I am using in office, and it runs horribly (fps is low and lagging), could you please tell what is wrong with the system? I attach the DxDiag report, apologies in advance I can't say that I am familiar with the computers :)

Time of this report: 7/27/2016, 14:28:29
Machine name: HNO-ENG-005
Operating System: Windows 8.1 ???????????????? 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600) (9600.winblue_ltsb.160611-0600)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP EliteDesk 800 G1 TWR
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8104MB RAM
Page File: 4723MB used, 4659MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.03.9600.17415 64bit Unicode

Thanks in advance!
 
Solution
Okay your best bet if you can't replace the graphics card, is play at a smaller resolution, when Skyrim comes up it asks what resolution you want to play it in, hopefully that should increase the FPS
I think the big thing here is you don't have a graphics card, so that will mean your using IGPU on the processor, which is not overly good for gaming. You could try and run Skyrim on the lowest settings and still get like 25-30fps maybe. You can pick up a second hand graphics card for less then £100 easily, which will be able to run Skyrim great.
 


My bad! For some reason it is not here, so actually I have two: inten graphics and nvidia fedoras 630 2gb
 
Okay your best bet if you can't replace the graphics card, is play at a smaller resolution, when Skyrim comes up it asks what resolution you want to play it in, hopefully that should increase the FPS
 
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