Skyrim under performing?

Post » Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:23 am

Firstly I am very new to PC gaming and am still trying to work everything out but I feel that Skyrim is under performing on my system. I am running 'Windows 7 64bit' on a bootcamped iMac and my specs are:

2.5GHz quad-core i5-2400S
4GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512mb

I know that its a long way of top of the range but I expect to be able to get Medium/High graphics with little lag and stuttering. However I have to run the game with everything on low, AA off, Anisotropic Filtering 4x with medium textures to get a fairly stable experience. I'm pretty sure I should be able to get most things on medium with textures high and the game still be stable with a small amount of stuttering here and there. When I play Oblivion and Fallout 3 I can run both on the 'Ultra' Preset with AA and shadows lowered slightly and I get a stable experience with rare fps drops and stuttering.
Also I am very clueless when it comes to drivers so I haven't downloaded any.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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Farrah Barry
 
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 10:22 pm

This game taxes the CPU as much or more than the GPU. Your video is fine, so you have to address helping the CPU. More RAM would be a good, and cheap right now, start. I think you can get 16GB's for less than $100. So, put as much RAM as you can afford to and your motherboard can handle.

Also, make sure you have no background apps running, at all. In particular Antivirus programs.
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