Hello,

this is my first post on these forums, and I hope someone here will be able to help me.

I bought a new PC the other day, which I thought would be able to run Skyrim without any issues. However I get pretty awful frame rates even on the auto detected settings (high) my spec is below:

Intel® Core™ i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (according to the manufacturer this is overclocked to 4.40GHz, as a side note, how do I check this?)
8GB DDR3 RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6450
Windows 7 64bit

I am also using Valve's Steam Client to run the game, not sure if this makes any difference.

I keep reading about Crossfirex Application Profiles (or CAPs for short) which as far as I can tell instuct the Catalyst Control Centre what settings to run on for what games, I downloaded CAP 3 straight from AMDs site and installed it but it just disappears and doesnt seem to make any difference, Im certain that I should be able to run this game with frame rates higher than 10fps!

Thanks in advance for any info

Elliott

Hi, and welcome to the forums

The AMD Radeon HD 6450 is a low-budget graphic card, and not very powerful. There rest of the computer seem to be very nice, though.

AMD includes a performance hint in the cards' name, but the very first digit has no connection to how well it works. Cards or onboard chips numbered in the 400s and downward are for plain business, not for games. The HD 5450 and 6450 can run the game, but in Low Resolution and mostly low quality image settings. This game isn't very GPU-centric compared to most current releases.

A Radeon HD "500" card, like an HD 6570, is an in-between, made for games, but not high settings, either, unless the game is Skyrim, and at Medium resolutions, or less, it probably will offer some high settings.

The Mainline gaming cards from AMD are in the 600s and 700s, such as the HD 6670 and HD 7750.

thanks for your posts both of you, bought this from overclockers UK, kind of marketed as a gaming PC, looks like a graphics card upgrade might be in order then

For the 2500k, you overclock by increasing the multiplier. You can go into the BIOS and check to see what the multiplier is for your CPU. For 4.4ghz, the multiplier should be 44. There might be a way to check the speed in Windows--your comp might of come with some software for overclocking, but not sure. Someone else might be able to point you to some software for this, incase you don't know your way around BIOS.

ok, thanks immortal i'll check the BIOS and see what that tells me