Hello,

My question is about RAM and how it relates to Skyrim. From what I gather, Skyrim only uses up to 4gigs of DDRIII RAM, yes? I currently have 6gigs, would there be any benefit for me if I upgraded to more/better ram?

My system is as follows:

CPU: AMD Athlon 630 II Quad Core
GPU: AMD Radeon 6870 HD 1g
700w Power Supply
Windows 7 64bit

I ask because yesterday I noticed some huge FPS spikes around Solitude. I checked Window's system monitor and it showed that I was using about 4.9gigs of memory, which seemed really high. My CPU was running around 30%.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

6/8 GB is the maximum a standard user would actually benefit from on a computer, to be honest. That allows the OS some breathing room so that applications can use ~4 GB of RAM.

Most of the time, you really only need more RAM than that if one is doing various types of dev work and/or design work.

Skyrim, in particular, cannot use more than 4 GB of RAM as it's a 32-bit executable.

Thanks!

I'm trying to figure out what the bottle-neck is. Most of the time I can run Skyrim on high/ultra at around 50-60 FPS, but other times the game freezes, as if it's loading, (usually when I first come across a big fight), and then after a while, it runs back at 50-60FPS.

I thought that it was the War-Zones mod, but I uninstalled it and nothing changes. The bottle-neck isn't just with massive battles either. I can't quite pin-point it.

Oh well.

Be sure to grab Catalyst 12.7 Beta, it may have some hud issues but is the fastest Skyrim Driver or 12.8 WHQL which is the second fastest most stable driver for Skyrim, also if Skyrim is constant 60-50 Fps then stops for a second and Fps drop, then its a Modded Textures issue, you may be using too many of them.

Skyrim, at least mine, on high/ultra settings with a ugridstoload=7, grass fade set to 14000.000, and a resolution of 1280x720, uses barely 1.5 gb: http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1344891040.jpg

Textures... that could be it.

I have the official texture packs, HD Textures, 2k Textures, and one or two more. I thought about textures being the problem, but mistakenly assumed that b/c the lag wasn't everywhere, that the textures weren't the issue.

This is probably a thread for the mod forum now.. but do you have any suggestions? Do I just use one texture mod, or should I try that texture combiner I saw earlier today?

Thanks!