I havn't tried anything yet, I just noticed that when I did a saveini I had the exact same default, but I only have 4 cores. I wonder what imaginary cores (nr4 & nr5) it has run on this far.

@Deathb0rn

I have tested it, too, in different configurations (i.e. numbers), but could not measure any difference, sadly.

When you guys are testing these values are you changing values for the 5th and 6th cores also? Or are you changing values for the amount of cores that you actually have? I am going to try multiple configurations and see what happens.


Edit: Tried several configurations and got no gain or loss at all. I stood at the top of the steps in Whiterun looking down and still only get 19-21FPS no matter what.

I just tried a very quick test, and there does seem to be a difference in performance. Checked Task Manager and it's definitely using 6 of my 8 cores, and performance seems to have increased by about 10 fps.

I tried this setting in several areas and even took screens to see any difference and couldn't tell any difference at all.

bAllow30shader=0
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/Angrydelldo/2011-11-24_00002.jpg


bAllow30shader=1
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/Angrydelldo/2011-11-24_00003.jpg

http://donotargue.com/cfg-makers/skyrim/

What about using this instead?

Just a note: I tried some of the book related tweaks, and it messed up the display of the books when I opened them; they were rotated into unreadable positions.

I have tested several things:
1. distribute the lines evenly across my 4 cores, using several combinations: no effect
2. distribute it in a way that presumably important threads (those called Thread1something) are not on the same core: no effect
3. test another theory: the lines (w,x,y,z are numbers)
iRenderingThread2HWThread=w,
iRenderingThread1HWThread=x,
iAIThread2HWThread=y and
iAIThread1HWThread=z
are defining what thread is iHWThreadx (so if iRenderingThread2HWThread=1, then this is iHWThread1) and iHWThreadx defines on which core this thread will end up:
no effect.

All settings were tested in Whiterun, looking down onto the city, walking from the brewery towards Riverwood and walking through Windhelm. I could not measure any difference.
The utilization of my cores stayed the same, too.
So my conclusion is that either those lines are a leftover and not functional, they are linked to some other (unknown to me) setting or Win7 is overriding any attempt at thread scheduling that Skyrim might do.

Under which category in the ini did you place that tweak?

Skyrim.ini under general.

If you do saveini in the game, it is created automatically as bAllow30shader=0
I've tested it, too, but did not notice any differences.
I guess that this might enable support for 3.0 shaders, but whithout any such shaders used in Skyrim you won't see anyting.

Is it possible to tweak the ini to show first person view when riding the horse?

[Camera]fOverShoulderHorseAddY=-300.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosZ=0.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosX=0.0000fHorseOffsetY=200.0000

to:

[Camera]fOverShoulderHorseAddY=0.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosZ=0.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosX=0.0000fHorseOffsetY=000.0000

maybe ?

Nah. First person does not work with horse. That makes it clip and "see-through" your character's body mesh.

I have set it up like this in the Skyrim.ini

[Camera]fHorseMaxUpwardPitch=25.0000fHorseMaxAngleBeforeTurn=90.0000;fOverShoulderHorseAddY=-300.0000fOverShoulderHorseAddY=-275.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosZ=50.0000fOverShoulderHorsePosX=0.0000

Betther than staring at the horse but. I would like to figure out something else now.

How can I have that camera angle, it's like over your shoulder when you are walking, but for the horse?

Probably does not exist.

Some notable ini tweaks are:

[General];These two default to 0:bUseThreadedMorpher=1bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1;For 8 core (hyperthreading) CPUs:iNumHWThreads=8[HAVOK]iNumThreads=2

bump

iFPSClamp=0 what does this do?

No idea..have not had any time to Test things. Playing to long and hard right now sorry....i would venture a guess as to "Clamp" is also in the Nvidia settings .
This is just a guess...in Nvidia settings we have..."Some applications use negative LOD to sharpen texture filtering this sharpens the stationary image but introduces aliasing when the scene is in motion.

Texture filtering - negitive LOD bias = Allow/Clamp.
Set to Allow for Higher Performance.
Set to Clamp when AF is enabled for better performance.

I have mine set to Allow. (Preformance) I have not changed the setting in the INI

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee72/camaro_69_327/Skyrim/Skyrim15hours.png

Closer zoom in Facegen:

[Interface]fPlayerFaceEditDistance=75.0000fPlayerBodyEditDistance=150.0000

lower numbers = higher zoom level

Defaults:

[Interface]fPlayerFaceEditDistance=100.0000fPlayerBodyEditDistance=175.0000

Any difference in performance or cpu usage?

Just wondering if there is any Console Commands to make the map a bit clearer? I have fixed the .ini map glitch, and removed the clouds, but it still looks really blurry, even on a fine day :/

If set to 60 in conjunction with vsync set to on it removes the microstuttering due to the 64Hz tic rate of the engine. However you'll also experience slow downs in areas where the framerate drops below 60 FPS.

What is best setting for single core processor ?
Where to put this in skyrim.ini? In [General] ?

iNumHWThreads=8 is what mine is set to. its in [General]

A single core would only have one HW thread. and that is not supported by Skyrim. But..good luck .

With the fully patched version 1.3.10, when I type saveini in the console I don't get the expanded ini. Did something change?

when i type in saveini in the console is saves the ini in the data folder named as Proudspire Manor - Dragonborn Edition.txt, it seems to replace the readme for that mod, look around in your data folder and see if its there

Thanks. In mine it is listed as MidasSkyrim.Ini