killer_virrus12 Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 Hello! So for the past few months I have been trying to build a new PC for gaming and for my career in general. Now the thing is, one of the few games I want to play is skyrim with lots of visually enhancing mods. My question is, how powerful does my GPU has to be so it can run lots of these mods? thanks.
KoolHndLuke Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 Depends on how utterly fantastic you want your graphics to be. I can run a heavily modded Sky on my shitty little $50 graphics card and an I3 processor that gives me an average of 20 fps world space and 30fps in cells with settings on medium to high and fhd. I mean, you spend the money if you want to push Sky instead of roping it in for a weak rig. I was looking at a 1070 series gpu since it is a bit cheaper for my next build, but that may not be enough to run newer games at the highest settings/resolution. I'm still learning all this stuff.
uscno84 Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 What resolution do you plan on using? What kind of textures ? 2k, 4k? Do you wanna use enb? What’s your budget? How much of that budget are you willing to use on a gpu
27X Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 Skyrim is one the few current games where brute force is the sole measure of performance, and because of the way the gamebryo build they used parses out content, that bruteforce is governed almost entirely by bandwidth (thanks ps3, you're so helpful) Â Basically almost every bottleneck in the engine is throughput related and is due to the insistence on making sony's console have "parity" (do notice quotation marks) with the other versions, and basically the game is a bandwidth chughugging spaghetti trainwreck because of it. Not that's it's the only issue, but it factors heavily. Because of that brute force is pretty much how you get lots of frames in high resolution and high asset quality in skyrim. Â If you plan on running at 4 or 8K with assets to match, you're gonna need the top shelf of whichever manufacturer you pick, and that especially falls on memory and storage. These are your two biggest bottlenecks because of the way skyrim loads things, and they'll determine your minimum base framerate once you start piling mods on and in. They actually matter more than CPU and GPU in establishing minimum stable frames by quite a wide margin.
killer_virrus12 Posted June 3, 2019 Author Posted June 3, 2019 8 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said: Depends on how utterly fantastic you want your graphics to be. I can run a heavily modded Sky on my shitty little $50 graphics card and an I3 processor that gives me an average of 20 fps world space and 30fps in cells with settings on medium to high and fhd. I mean, you spend the money if you want to push Sky instead of roping it in for a weak rig. I was looking at a 1070 series gpu since it is a bit cheaper for my next build, but that may not be enough to run newer games at the highest settings/resolution. I'm still learning all this stuff.  8 hours ago, uscno84 said: What resolution do you plan on using? What kind of textures ? 2k, 4k? Do you wanna use enb? What’s your budget? How much of that budget are you willing to use on a gpu To answer both questions, I'm looking for extremely amazing graphics. similar to this vid I was looking for some 8GB GPU's on the market, but some say that is overkill. Hence my OP.
27X Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 27 minutes ago, killer_virrus12 said:  To answer both questions, I'm looking for extremely amazing graphics. similar to this vid I was looking for some 8GB GPU's on the market, but some say that is overkill. Hence my OP. Those people are idiots.
uscno84 Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 8gb is FAR from op, if anything its UP (under powered) you want at least 11gb, if your in a rush, try to pick up a used gtx 1080ti, or maybe amd radeon 7 which has 16gb hbm2. But if your patient, it looks like amd and nvidia are launching card in july and august
theonebullet Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 If you plan on spending good money on a monitor you'll have to follow it up with an i7 and a quality GPU.  More importantly you'll need to make the game stable. Regardless of your $$$$ spent, crashing is a real thing.  Gopher is a good outlet for these types of things.Â
yatol Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, killer_virrus12 said:  To answer both questions, I'm looking for extremely amazing graphics. similar to this vid I was looking for some 8GB GPU's on the market, but some say that is overkill. Hence my OP. extremely amazing? there's better than the textures pack he pick trees don't move, so he have less than 30 fps and he is only walking, because if he run, he have freezes?  trees are still moving, more than 30 fps (don't have the crappy blur effect to hide crappy distant terrain, because making everything around your char crappy to try to hide that... keeping crappy distant terrain is better than that) trees no longer move, drop under 30 fps in towns, can live with that crappy whiterun lod, trees, distant mountains and whatever, are crappy, so what? it's so far away you can't really see how crappy it is, no need to blur that trees no longer move again, before getting to whiterun   anyway, to check if your hardware can handle what you use with all 4k textures i could find, optimised, my max vram usage is about 4gb (town run) barely use half of the 8gb gpu vram, that's fine  max ram usage is 5.6 gb, there's 8gb available, 2 gb are reserved for windows and skyrim.exe, that's fine a custom race follower is about 200 mb, some armors are 100 mb, if you are above the max, it's that you get rid of, before thinking of resizing down  max ssd max usage is 337 mb, max ssd speed is... don't know, if that's not the max it's fine  max cpu usage is 73%, 100% is cpu bottleneck (too much to do for the cpu) no idea if that exe can reach 100% cpu usage, since it's optimised for the thing there is in consoles of skyrim release time  max gpu %... the thing you connect on the gpu for that... didn't bother with it... so there's nothing you are supposed to have 100%, or that mean gpu is waiting for textures to be load from hdd (hdd bottleneck), or for cpu to tell gpu what to render (cpu bottleneck)   Â
nemocdt Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, 27X said: Those people are idiots. Looks like he's getting about 10-15 fps. ? and the stutter omg. Â
27X Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, yatol said: 4k textures i could find 4k screenspace and 4K textures aren't even kind of the same thing, and no DSR is not a substitute. Â meanwhile: Â Â
chevalierx Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 beacuse most people her have creapy pc they can't handle heavy modded skyrim so you can get good visual maybe SE is better you need I9/I7 in 9xxxx and 1080/2080 gtx with 16 go and 4k texture and mesh(high poly)/UV improve ( you need this) , good weather/ENB , good config of ini ( ugrid 7 or 9) and enjoy
Dawndrake Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 On 6/3/2019 at 12:33 PM, killer_virrus12 said:  To answer both questions, I'm looking for extremely amazing graphics. similar to this vid I was looking for some 8GB GPU's on the market, but some say that is overkill. Hence my OP. It is not overkill. The setup in the video is barely holding up the framerate.
Dawndrake Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 On 6/3/2019 at 6:35 AM, 27X said: If you plan on running at 4 or 8K with assets to match, you're gonna need the top shelf of whichever manufacturer you pick, and that especially falls on memory and storage. These are your two biggest bottlenecks because of the way skyrim loads things, and they'll determine your minimum base framerate once you start piling mods on and in. They actually matter more than CPU and GPU in establishing minimum stable frames by quite a wide margin. I got Skyrim on my HDD but my MO2 and all the mods on a SSD. Do you think I can get some improvement if I moved by base game to an SSD?
Grey Cloud Posted August 4, 2019 Posted August 4, 2019 No one has mentioned ENBs. You can have the best hardware in the world and an ENB can make things look like shit. Or you can have distinctly average hardware and an ENB can make things look top-notch.
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