Hi guys, I've recently gotten Skyrim for PC and while I have a desktop that can easily run Skyrim it is not frequently available for me to use so I use my laptop. As soon as the game started, where you are being taken to Helgen, I noticed that some textures seemed to be stretched. After playing a little more through the game I noticed that the graphics stretching occurs only in the main Skyrim world and never in dungeons or buildings. I was wondering if any of you guys could help me out because I am not too good on computers and am new to PC gaming.

Here are some pictures of what is happening:

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/651002022690920484/0C6C7E5784592A7702908F0BC4B285FABA538693/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/651002022690920484/0C6C7E5784592A7702908F0BC4B285FABA538693/
After the above picture I look up a bit and it goes back to normal

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/651002022691884390/AAB7AD9076BD2E9B40D729F1F8B45CEBDBCCD766/

I'm pretty sure the problem is not my laptops set up because I have everything set on low yet I an run Crysis on medium and all other games on high with no problem.

My system specs:
HP Pavilion dm4 notebook PC
i5 intel core CPU @ 2.53 Ghz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 (x64)
ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics (Not sure of exact model but if you guys know of a way to find out let me know so I can post specific model)

Any help is appreciated.

P.S. the drivers are current as that was the first thing I checked. Also it is not due to mods because I deleted all of them then checked the integrity of the game on steam and I still had the problem.

Turn down the settings, that happens when you're running things harder then your hardware can handle.

Everything is already on low

The game suggests that I run it on high settings but I've tried low, medium, high and custom set ups and it still happens.

Figured out my what graphics card I have, ATI Mobility HD 6370. According to Canyourunit.com I have 3.5GB Video RAM.

Try lowering your resolution, or playing in windowed mode.

SR Labs tells awful lies. You have perhaps 256, "maybe 512". What you do NOT have is sufficiently speedy RAM, or adequately wide, when system memory is considered. The 6370 is very weak, very slow, very far below minimum.

Yeah I always do that.

OK. Thanks for the help. I am probably going to get a new laptop soon because I'm going to college and I was wondering if you could tell me if the videocards that I have as options would work? There are a couple because I am looking at HP, sony and dell computers, anyways here are my options:

2GB Discrete GDDR5 AMD Radeon
1GB DDR3 Radeon HD 6630 switchable graphics
1GB AMD Radeon HD 6630M hybrid graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 1GB graphics with Optimus
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB graphics with Optimus

All of these would be with i7 processors @ 2.3-2.8 GHz and all with 8GB of RAM and Windows 7(x64)

Which would work best? and which ones would probably not work at all?

Again, thanks for the help.

Looks like it could be overheating or your GPU is going South.

Looks like it could be overheating or your GPU is going South.

You could also try re-loading the drivers from scratch.

First off, the attached VRAM doesn't mean a lot until AFTER core speed, RAM speed, shader processor count, and memory system bandwidth are considered. You can put twenty GBs on a card, and if it has only a 64 bit memory bandwidth, it will only work with 128 MBs of that.

1GB DDR3 Radeon HD 6630 switchable graphics these first two are essentially the same and are the best of the four.
1GB AMD Radeon HD 6630M hybrid graphics

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 1GB graphics with Optimus (Quite poor, although not as poor as the HD 6370, I don't believe)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB graphics with Optimus (Borderline Zone in between Low End Business cards and Medium, Gaming Cards. Better by far than its GT 520 M cousin, but not in the same class as an HD 6630.

Alright this helps allot. Also you didn't mention anything about the first one which is on the best option of the computers I'm looking at if you look at the set up and price. I just wanted to get your opinion on it, it's model is actually the new Radeon 7690m which is just a new version of the Radeon 6770m.

In terms of which I'm leaning to, even though they might not be the best for gaming because this would be a computer for college with gaming as a second priority, the above mentioned Radeon 7690 which is just a slightly better 6770m is in first place with the Nvidia 540m in second. Which would you chose?

BTW, I'm currently doing research still, I'm only going to buy in a couple months probably by which time some options may have changed and I will thus have to ask again, but I really appreciate the help.

EDIT: Basically, will I be able to run skyrim with either of these graphics cards on low to medium?
Kep in mind these would be the system specs:
Intel 17-2720QM 2.2GHZ (6MB L3 cache) with turbo boost up to 3.3GHz
windows 7 (x64)
8GB RAM

Without model numbers, your "first one" was meaningless, as I told you, the VRAM by itself is not pertinent.

Right now, none of AMD's HD 7n00s, other than the 7670 and 7970 have been taken out from under the shelter of the NDA agreement to keep quiet. The HD 7670 is very simply another HD 6670 running through OEMs for another year. If there's an HD 7690M coming, no general release information on it is in the channels that I keep watch on.

The GT 540 really isn't a gaming card, and Skyrim really isn't in the same class as any other games, so buying a 540 for it will leave you fighting the minimum requirements on anything newer. Avoid it on a basis of what's coming later.