[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 20 November 2011 - 12:37 PM, said:

Quote

Seems like when you are growing up, you can't wait to be a Teenager, then it is 16 for your drivers License, then 18 to Graduate from High School,then 21.

And I bet once you've hit your mid 30s or so, then you're wishing you could be younger again. lol... I'm 15, but I haven't even considered getting a drivers license (I think 15 is when you can start learning). I drive too recklessly on the computer and with the RC car anyway.

Shut up!

30 is next year... I am not looking forward to that at all. In my family, that puts me about 1/2 way to the grave...

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 20 November 2011 - 05:21 PM, said:

Time to give Skyrim a rest. It just took me at least 2 hours to get through a gate. It took me a while to figure out what to do, them much longer to do it. Probably needed to kill a few more Dragons.

That sounds about right.

Interestingly, I have been more focused on my rep in WoW than Skyrim as of late... don't know why, but I am determined to hit exalted with all the major cities...

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:43 PM, said:

coastie65, on 20 November 2011 - 05:21 PM, said:

Time to give Skyrim a rest. It just took me at least 2 hours to get through a gate. It took me a while to figure out what to do, them much longer to do it. Probably needed to kill a few more Dragons.

That sounds about right.

Interestingly, I have been more focused on my rep in WoW than Skyrim as of late... don't know why, but I am determined to hit exalted with all the major cities...

One of those fixations that develope when playing a game.

[LiveBrianD]

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Well, I guess if you're living in a large city, like San Francisco, you really don't need one.

[waldojim]

LiveBrianD, on 21 November 2011 - 10:42 AM, said:

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Well, I guess if you're living in a large city, like San Francisco, you really don't need one.

I have never actually lived in a large city. I have plenty of them that are just big enough for excellent taxi service or public transportation though.

[cooldude91]

Hi all, I signed up because I seriously need help with Skyrim Performance. I'm not looking for a 'Well I get 50-60 fps on this setup, etc' kind of answer, I need an expert or a knowledgeable person to tell me what is wrong with *my setup or what I need to do to run this game*, as my PC should be able to... I load a save at helgen gate and start getting 2-6 fps when I move and frame tearing, when I hit ESC to the menu I get 61 fps right away. dxdiag says i have windows home premium 64-bit(6.1, build 7601), intel core i7 CPU 880 @3.07Ghz (8 cpus)~3.1Ghz, Memory:6144MB RAM, PageFile:2691MB Used & 9513MB Available, DirectX 11, [ATI Radeon HD 5570, Internal DAC(400Mhz), Approx. Memory 733MB, Display Mode 1920x1080 32bit 60Hz, Main Driver: aticfx64.dll(s), DirectDraw/Direct3D/AGP textures accelerations enabled, *Notes: No problems found. it says, AMD HDMI sound on 48000 studio quality *instead of suggested 44100*, Just recently installed RadeonPro, GameBooster 3(boost enabled takes memory used down by 350MB), and ATI Tray Tools, already had Catalyst Control Center Version 2011.1025.2231.38573. At this point I don't know what else to add except that I can play DMC4, Deus Ex: HR, The Witcher 2, Dead Space 2, Dead Island, etc. all on ultra settings. Suggest a fix and I'll tell you if I've tried it or not, and then you can tell me if I've done it correctly. Thanks to anyone who can solve this problem bcos to me its a douzy.

Here is a System Information Check of my gpu i think from ATI Tray Tools:

ATT Version 1.7.9.1573
Display adapter ATI display adapter (0x68D9)
Core Name EG REDWOOD
SubVendor Unknown 103C
SubDevice 6870
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Driver Version 11.11
Release Version 8.911-111025a-128243C-ATI
QuadBuffer Stereo Support No
Catalyst Registry Path
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Clock Information
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Overdrive
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[LiveBrianD]

waldojim, on 21 November 2011 - 01:37 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 21 November 2011 - 10:42 AM, said:

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Well, I guess if you're living in a large city, like San Francisco, you really don't need one.

I have never actually lived in a large city. I have plenty of them that are just big enough for excellent taxi service or public transportation though.

Hmm... around here, things are spread out a bit. There is a train system, but in the suburbs there's only around 1 stop per city. I haven't checked out the bus system.

Have you tried updating the video driver?

[waldojim]

cooldude91, on 21 November 2011 - 03:50 PM, said:

Hi all, I signed up because I seriously need help with Skyrim Performance. I'm not looking for a 'Well I get 50-60 fps on this setup, etc' kind of answer, I need an expert or a knowledgeable person to tell me what is wrong with *my setup or what I need to do to run this game*, as my PC should be able to... I load a save at helgen gate and start getting 2-6 fps when I move and frame tearing, when I hit ESC to the menu I get 61 fps right away. dxdiag says i have windows home premium 64-bit(6.1, build 7601), intel core i7 CPU 880 @3.07Ghz (8 cpus)~3.1Ghz, Memory:6144MB RAM, PageFile:2691MB Used & 9513MB Available, DirectX 11, [ATI Radeon HD 5570, Internal DAC(400Mhz), Approx. Memory 733MB, Display Mode 1920x1080 32bit 60Hz, Main Driver: aticfx64.dll(s), DirectDraw/Direct3D/AGP textures accelerations enabled, *Notes: No problems found. it says, AMD HDMI sound on 48000 studio quality *instead of suggested 44100*, Just recently installed RadeonPro, GameBooster 3(boost enabled takes memory used down by 350MB), and ATI Tray Tools, already had Catalyst Control Center Version 2011.1025.2231.38573. At this point I don't know what else to add except that I can play DMC4, Deus Ex: HR, The Witcher 2, Dead Space 2, Dead Island, etc. all on ultra settings. Suggest a fix and I'll tell you if I've tried it or not, and then you can tell me if I've done it correctly. Thanks to anyone who can solve this problem bcos to me its a douzy.

The 5570 is on the lower end of what is supported. What settings are you using (eg: med, high, ultra)? Can you try running in Windowed mode, while running HW Monitor to watch the temps on the card? Have you tried the game without the game booster? There is no proper way to reduce the memory usage of a game, and most of those apps cause problems of their own.

This post has been edited by waldojim: 21 November 2011 - 06:11 PM

[coastie65]

cooldude91, on 21 November 2011 - 03:50 PM, said:

Hi all, I signed up because I seriously need help with Skyrim Performance. I'm not looking for a 'Well I get 50-60 fps on this setup, etc' kind of answer, I need an expert or a knowledgeable person to tell me what is wrong with *my setup or what I need to do to run this game*, as my PC should be able to... I load a save at helgen gate and start getting 2-6 fps when I move and frame tearing, when I hit ESC to the menu I get 61 fps right away. dxdiag says i have windows home premium 64-bit(6.1, build 7601), intel core i7 CPU 880 @3.07Ghz (8 cpus)~3.1Ghz, Memory:6144MB RAM, PageFile:2691MB Used & 9513MB Available, DirectX 11, [ATI Radeon HD 5570, Internal DAC(400Mhz), Approx. Memory 733MB, Display Mode 1920x1080 32bit 60Hz, Main Driver: aticfx64.dll(s), DirectDraw/Direct3D/AGP textures accelerations enabled, *Notes: No problems found. it says, AMD HDMI sound on 48000 studio quality *instead of suggested 44100*, Just recently installed RadeonPro, GameBooster 3(boost enabled takes memory used down by 350MB), and ATI Tray Tools, already had Catalyst Control Center Version 2011.1025.2231.38573. At this point I don't know what else to add except that I can play DMC4, Deus Ex: HR, The Witcher 2, Dead Space 2, Dead Island, etc. all on ultra settings. Suggest a fix and I'll tell you if I've tried it or not, and then you can tell me if I've done it correctly. Thanks to anyone who can solve this problem bcos to me its a douzy.

Here is a System Information Check of my gpu i think from ATI Tray Tools:

ATT Version 1.7.9.1573
Display adapter ATI display adapter (0x68D9)
Core Name EG REDWOOD
SubVendor Unknown 103C
SubDevice 6870
BUS 1
Device 0
Function 0
Base Address 0 D000000C
Base Address 1 00000000
Base Address 2 FB9E0004
Base Address 3 00000000

Bus Type Supported PCI Express 2.x
PCI-E Link Width 16
Max PCI-E Link Width 16
SMARTGART Installed No

Driver Version 11.11
Release Version 8.911-111025a-128243C-ATI
QuadBuffer Stereo Support No
Catalyst Registry Path
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{D0BFB506-21F6-401A-B555-D194A4F6C45C}\0000

______________________________
Clock Information
BIOS VPU 650.00
Current VPU 157.00
BIOS MEM 800.00
Current MEM 740.63

______________________________
Overdrive
Adapter 0
Supported Yes
Type PowerPlay
Level 0 : GPU/MEM/VDDC 157.00/200.00/0.900
Level 1 : GPU/MEM/VDDC 400.00/800.00/1.000
Level 2 : GPU/MEM/VDDC 650.00/800.00/1.050

______________________________
Radeon PCI configuration space
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HI and welcome to the forums. Sorry to take so long to get ot his, but I have been playing Skyrim and got a bot in to it. Anyway, in short, I believe you need to up your Video card a bit to maybe a 5770 at the least. I don't think your vidoe card is quite enough at least at the upper end of the settings. You could try medium and see how that does.

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 20 November 2011 - 12:37 PM, said:

Quote

Seems like when you are growing up, you can't wait to be a Teenager, then it is 16 for your drivers License, then 18 to Graduate from High School,then 21.

And I bet once you've hit your mid 30s or so, then you're wishing you could be younger again. lol... I'm 15, but I haven't even considered getting a drivers license (I think 15 is when you can start learning). I drive too recklessly on the computer and with the RC car anyway.

Shut up!

30 is next year... I am not looking forward to that at all. In my family, that puts me about 1/2 way to the grave...

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Geez, nice thought. My dad died at 66 and he lived the longest ( His father, my Grandfather , was 39 or 40 and his brother ( my Uncle ) died the year before him in '87 at 59. His other brother got hit by a log truck coming home on Leave or Liberty so he doesn't count). I'll be 66 next year.

In the Coast Guard, if you didn't have a license and got assigned to a Lifeboat Station it could be miserable as a lot of those stations were usually in the middle of nowhere. If you were lucky you would get a Group office / LBS as they were in civilization, particularly somewhere like Group Portsmouth here in Va. At least on a Ship, you were moored at a base. Good to see another Vet crawl out of the woodwork. Thank You for your service.

[coastie65]

waldojim, on 21 November 2011 - 01:37 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 21 November 2011 - 10:42 AM, said:

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Well, I guess if you're living in a large city, like San Francisco, you really don't need one.

I have never actually lived in a large city. I have plenty of them that are just big enough for excellent taxi service or public transportation though.

I'm in the Burbs, but there is little to no public transportation and cabs aren't all that great either ( not very reliable and expensive ). We have a park & Ride abpout two blocks over, but that bus goes into the Financial District in town then you have to do a bunch of transfers to get anywhere.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 21 November 2011 - 06:35 PM

[LiveBrianD]

There aren't any taxes where I live; those seem to just be in the big cities around here.

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 21 November 2011 - 06:31 PM, said:

waldojim, on 20 November 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 20 November 2011 - 12:37 PM, said:

Quote

Seems like when you are growing up, you can't wait to be a Teenager, then it is 16 for your drivers License, then 18 to Graduate from High School,then 21.

And I bet once you've hit your mid 30s or so, then you're wishing you could be younger again. lol... I'm 15, but I haven't even considered getting a drivers license (I think 15 is when you can start learning). I drive too recklessly on the computer and with the RC car anyway.

Shut up!

30 is next year... I am not looking forward to that at all. In my family, that puts me about 1/2 way to the grave...

For the record, I didn't get my license until I was 21. I just didn't care to have one. When I turned 18, I joined the Army. Believe it or not, I was much happier in the Army without a license. So many retarded duties I didn't have to pull... Only when I was out in the middle of nowhere did I bother with one.

Geez, nice thought. My dad died at 66 and he lived the longest ( His father, my Grandfather , was 39 or 40 and his brother ( my Uncle ) died the year before him in '87 at 59. His other brother got hit by a log truck coming home on Leave or Liberty so he doesn't count). I'll be 66 next year.

In the Coast Guard, if you didn't have a license and got assigned to a Lifeboat Station it could be miserable as a lot of those stations were usually in the middle of nowhere. If you were lucky you would get a Group office / LBS as they were in civilization, particularly somewhere like Group Portsmouth here in Va. At least on a Ship, you were moored at a base. Good to see another Vet crawl out of the woodwork. Thank You for your service.

A lot of this depends on whose Genes I am taking on. My grandad on moms side died at 48 - Lymphoma. Grandad on pops side was 65 as I recall - Heart attack, though the diabetes didn't help. Then there is the fact that both parents are also diabetic, dad has already had one brain tumor removed (in his 40's)... He is 62 now, so I will reserve judgment until he croaks. But from what I am seeing, I can't expect a whole lot. Normally, this would bother me, but I have many years to think it over, and see what my position on life will be when I get there.

With the Army, you always had some means to get to where you needed to be. Even if that meant using the duty driver to get you there.

Always glad to be of service!

Seriously though, my brother is the one who deserves the thanks. He went in a few years after me, and got stuck with a retarded unit in New York. While I managed to avoid tours in Iraq or Afghanistan, he has done one in each. I hold a tremendous amount of respect for those who have actually had to be on the front lines. I know it isn't easy for them, and they earned every bit of respect this country can offer them.

Not to short-change other vets of course, everyone makes sacrifices when serving.

Thank you as well for your service.

[coastie65]

I was going to follow my dad into the Navy, but I had seen the Coast Guard Stations on the Outer Banks of N.C. on our family vacations and really liked it out there. Also Vietnam was heating up starting with the Gulf of Tonkin incident in '64. Suddenly, the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force had resources in country. On Spring Break ( Easter then ), I was on my way to the navy recruiter, but stopped into the Coast Guard Office first. Found out it counted as service and it just snowballed from there. I did all the processing and all that was left by the end of the break was to be sworn in and head off to basic after graduation ( 6 gays after I graduated ). Never was stationed close to the Outer Banks ( First duty station was Cape Cod Canal ). Ended up doing a tour in Vietnam in '67 - '68.

[cooldude91]

I have tried updating the video card drivers, along with getting catalyst control center 2...I've been trying to tweak it to run on high/ultra bcos when i first used the launcher it automatically configured it to high settings. From your suggestions my guess is the only(?) problem's that I'm trying to run too high settings for my video card to handle. If I was to get a 5770 or better video card do you suppose I could run Skyrim on ultra settings?

[waldojim]

cooldude91, on 22 November 2011 - 09:44 AM, said:

I have tried updating the video card drivers, along with getting catalyst control center 2...I've been trying to tweak it to run on high/ultra bcos when i first used the launcher it automatically configured it to high settings. From your suggestions my guess is the only(?) problem's that I'm trying to run too high settings for my video card to handle. If I was to get a 5770 or better video card do you suppose I could run Skyrim on ultra settings?

Not quite, I use a 5770 in my main machine, and with it overclocked I can pull off about 45fps using mostly ultra settings. There are still a few scenes that cause it to drop down into the 20's though. This game demands quite a bit from a machine. For now, I would say first ensure that AA is off, AF is at 8x, and your max view distances are turned down a tad. Then tone back the water effects, and the terrain effects as needed. You can also turn off the advanced sun-lighting (can't think of what they call it right now). I have found that these settings have the greatest impact.

[waldojim]

coastie65, on 22 November 2011 - 05:36 AM, said:

I was going to follow my dad into the Navy, but I had seen the Coast Guard Stations on the Outer Banks of N.C. on our family vacations and really liked it out there. Also Vietnam was heating up starting with the Gulf of Tonkin incident in '64. Suddenly, the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force had resources in country. On Spring Break ( Easter then ), I was on my way to the navy recruiter, but stopped into the Coast Guard Office first. Found out it counted as service and it just snowballed from there. I did all the processing and all that was left by the end of the break was to be sworn in and head off to basic after graduation ( 6 gays after I graduated ). Never was stationed close to the Outer Banks ( First duty station was Cape Cod Canal ). Ended up doing a tour in Vietnam in '67 - '68.

I was off for Ft. Benning 30 days after I graduated!

I actually feel bad for most of the service members that had to go to Vietnam. There was so very little respect for them after their return. You still see it in people sometimes. That must have been hard. As someone not old enough to have seen this first hand, it is hard to understand how it really was though.

Anyhow - back to the games!

Maybe I should actually try playing it today...

[cooldude91]

Great answer thanks! I've tried medium settings, anistropic and anti-aliasing both off and framerate has improved quite a bit. I think I'll upgrade the graphics card bcos if I start this game I'll want the best experience I can squeeze out of all the time spent playing. With an i7 880 with 8 cores at 3.07Ghz, which card should I get to achieve the best graphics and can my motherboard support 2 of them?

Edit: Sorry for the link, but for instance I'm thinking one or two of these, http://shop.amd.com/...D5&region=us-en

This post has been edited by cooldude91: 22 November 2011 - 10:28 AM

[coastie65]

cooldude91, on 22 November 2011 - 10:00 AM, said:

Great answer thanks! I've tried medium settings, anistropic and anti-aliasing both off and framerate has improved quite a bit. I think I'll upgrade the graphics card bcos if I start this game I'll want the best experience I can squeeze out of all the time spent playing. With an i7 880 with 8 cores at 3.07Ghz, which card should I get to achieve the best graphics and can my motherboard support 2 of them?

Edit: Sorry for the link, but for instance I'm thinking one or two of these, http://shop.amd.com/...D5&region=us-en

You should be fine with that card as long as you have the power Supply. I think you do, but would need to go back and see if you listed it. No problem with the link. That is an acceptable use for it. By cutting off the AA and AF, and reducing it to medium settings, and the FPS improved, that pretty well says that don't have enough card.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 22 November 2011 - 01:10 PM

[waldojim]

cooldude91, on 22 November 2011 - 10:00 AM, said:

Great answer thanks! I've tried medium settings, anistropic and anti-aliasing both off and framerate has improved quite a bit. I think I'll upgrade the graphics card bcos if I start this game I'll want the best experience I can squeeze out of all the time spent playing. With an i7 880 with 8 cores at 3.07Ghz, which card should I get to achieve the best graphics and can my motherboard support 2 of them?

Edit: Sorry for the link, but for instance I'm thinking one or two of these, http://shop.amd.com/...D5&region=us-en

I don't know if your motherboard can support 2 of them, but your best bet is to not bother with 2 of them. 2 cards can create a variety of problems, that take a bit of understanding, and considerable time to tweak from one game to the next.

The 6870 is powerful enough to tackle Skryim on ultra quality. Another option would be the Nvidia 560Ti or the 570. Coastie is correct though, do ensure your PSU is up to the task. The last thing any of us would want is for your PSU to give up the ghost, and take anything with it.