Skyrim

[Frag Maniac]

1. OC your CPU higher. At least 4GHz, you should see some decent improvement.

2. Never accept playing at a lower resolution. You're a PC gamer, not a console gamer, LOL!

3. Get the Skyrim HD texture mod from Skyrim Nexus. It's a smaller file size than the DLC and looks better.

4. You can make your game run better by using different settings within the Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files.

1. I won't be OCing the CPU higher until I get a GPU that can actually keep up with it. Until then it's clearly my GPU that is the bottleneck, not the CPU.

2. If you were on a GTS 250, you'd understand how ridiculous that sounds. I can play OK at 1600x900 IF I turn all AA off, as I discovered in my testing last night, but with the HD pack of course it's likely going to dip lower than I care to see it and the resulting choppiness I don't like.

3. Smaller file size because it only covers at best 1/4 of the game. I don't see how that is a good solution. It would only play fine where there's no texture improvements. In towns where the textures have been converted completely, it would likely play worse.

4. I've already done that. I tweaked everything I could that didn't cause unacceptable visual tradeoffs.

Anyone actually HAVE any experience trying the official HD texture DLC pack on a GTS 250 1GB? Guess I'll have to DL a 3+ GB file and experiment if I can't get any pertinent responses.