Solitude103 Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 I'm just curious on how important one's computer specs are when dealing with mods in Skyrim. I been running my game relatively fine with a decent amount of mods, but I have always been very cautious of adding too much. That being said I'm quite interesting as I'm looking to upgrade my PC. I'm aware that the more intensive mods are those that add new textures and graphics to the game, and possibly those that add scripts to the game. I currently have a 'GeForce GTX 660 Ti' video card; as well as a 'Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz' processor and about 12 gigs of ram. I haven't had much problems within Skyrim with those components, but I'm wondering if upgrading my specs would help? (I'm going to upgrade regardless due to the fact that I now finally have a decent budget; primarily for upcoming games and editing software.)
nutluck Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 You computer is very similar to mine, same video card, I have a i7 3gig cpu and 16g ram and I have had no issues with mine running Skyrim pretty heavily modded.
RitualClarity Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Computer specs are importing when modding however keep in mind that Skyrim is a 32bit game. There is only so much you can really run so most higher/mid range computer components can do quite will with a heavily modded Skyrim. If you game more skill. you can tweak (optimize the .ini and even textures and meshes) and get even more modded Skyrim game running on components like what you have. I am running the GTX670 with 2gb ram and doing quite well.
Effie Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Even with a super low end pc like mine you can get quite a lot of mods as long as it's not a super amazing enb or something D:
Rokabur Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 I'm just curious on how important one's computer specs are when dealing with mods in Skyrim. I been running my game relatively fine with a decent amount of mods, but I have always been very cautious of adding too much. That being said I'm quite interesting as I'm looking to upgrade my PC. I'm aware that the more intensive mods are those that add new textures and graphics to the game, and possibly those that add scripts to the game. I currently have a 'GeForce GTX 660 Ti' video card; as well as a 'Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz' processor and about 12 gigs of ram. I haven't had much problems within Skyrim with those components, but I'm wondering if upgrading my specs would help? (I'm going to upgrade regardless due to the fact that I now finally have a decent budget; primarily for upcoming games and editing software.) Using an ENB is where you'll take the most fps hit. Have mods running to improve almost all textures and meshes and Skyrim stays at 60fps regardless on a GTX 750 2GB. Using RealLike ENB my fps is now around 36-41 average depending on what I'm looking at (and RealLike is considered one of the lighest ENB with lowest impact. I tried K ENB Pure Light and my fps dropped under 25 at best lol.
TheDude2014 Posted March 12, 2015 Posted March 12, 2015 skyrim is old game everyone knows this so it uses very little in the area of graphic card until u put enb in mix then u need good graphic card with alot of vram to get decent fps, but as always skyrim has been more heavy on cpu then gpu. That being said for ur rigg i recommened a better graphic card, your cpu is fine as is and its truly ur gpu that needs upgrade. If u even want to upgrade. May i recommend a gtx 970 msi its cheap good or u can find one with backplate if u want.
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