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Hello

 

I have a 1440p monitor now and I played Skyrim to see how it would play.

 

I am in the beginning parts of the game, talked to the the king at the Dragons Keep or something like that.

 

I am getting about 60 frames per second in the game.   I thought the GTX660 wouldnt do well with a 1440p monitor.  I use Nvidia Experience to optimize my settings for the game.  Many of the settings are high or ultra.

 

I thought Skyrim pushes the gpu?  Is that after I add DLC and packs and things?

 

 

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thats with the mods, and enb

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Skyrim is more CPU intensive than GPU intensive out of the box.

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Most likely medium to high settings, but skyrim only pushes the GPU when used with A LOT of mods. Even then it's nowhere near as demanding as for example crysis 3

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Mod it - ENB and stuff - then check

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If you mod it, it will/can wreck gpus. Skyrim with dlc is no problem.

 

Where do I get mods and DLC from?

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Where do I get mods and DLC from?

One place is Steam Workshop.

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enb does, 1080p with an enb 24FPS with a 660ti. Get some mods on it 

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Most likely medium to high settings, but skyrim only pushes the GPU when used with A LOT of mods. Even then it's nowhere near as demanding as for example crysis 3

idk. It probably just poorly made mods but my gpu can take a beating. Crisis is good looking but i stay around 60 most the most.
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Where do I get mods and DLC from?

Mods I would suggest looking into nexus mod manager, and look at gophers videos(i think that's his name)

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Where do I get mods and DLC from?

nexus mod manger, look up gopher on YouTube it will show you how to mod skyrim.

Dlc you have to buy

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nexus mod manger, look up gopher on YouTube it will show you how to mod skyrim.

Dlc you have to buy

 

Ok,  Thanks

 

I have a i7 4790K overclocked to 4.5 maybe that's why I am getting 60 fps with a GTX660 on a 1440p monitor.

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Ok, Thanks

I have a i7 4790K overclocked to 4.5 maybe that's why I am getting 60 fps with a GTX660 on a 1440p monitor.

im at 4.5 and a crazy amount of mods (thomas the train dragons) i sit at 45 fps, 4k textures at 1080.glhf
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When bone-stock, Skyrim murders the CPU and not the GPU.

With mods, they murder BOTH the CPU and GPU.

 

It was released in 2011. You have to be running an absolute turd for it to be "murdered" by vanilla Skyrim.

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It was released in 2011. You have to be running an absolute turd for it to be "murdered" by vanilla Skyrim.

It was more of a joke than something literal. As in it's really unbalanced in performance.

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Where do I get mods and DLC from?

best place for mods is on nexusmods.com.

people on youtube i like watching mod spotlights from are Brodual (they posts a video of just one mod, and explain them in detail)

and MxR (he posts new video every sunday of the bests mods that week and explains them briefly)

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It was more of a joke than something literal. As in it's really unbalanced in performance.

 

It's about what I would expect from a massive open world game -- especially one so old that the top end GPUs at the time of its release were about level with a GTX 950 now.

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It's about what I would expect from a massive open world game -- especially one so old that the top end GPUs at the time of its release were about level with a GTX 950 now.

That and it was in the dark ages of ports; ones that used a disproportionate amount of CPU vs the GPU.

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That and it was in the dark ages of ports; ones that used a disproportionate amount of CPU vs the GPU.

 

It wasn't a bad port. It wasn't exactly GTA IV. Actually the PS3 got a far worse port of Skyrim than the PC did by absolutely miles.

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It wasn't a bad port. It wasn't exactly GTA IV. Actually the PS3 got a far worse port of Skyrim than the PC did by absolutely miles.

It still used a disproportionate amount of CPU, you can't lie :P

Driver San Francisco suffered from this exact problem and that was one of Ubisoft Kiev's BETTER ports

TF2 suffers from this problem but to be fair it's online only and was natively PC developed

 

However, one game series that DIDN'T suffer from this problem was the Saints Row series, which need an unusually disproportionate amount of GPU compared to the CPU.

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