Hi everybody.

First, thank you Alexander, Skyboost is really great.

Markath (Waterfall)

No Acc: 18 FPS
Skyboost r3: 27FPS

Radeon HD 6950@ 6970
Phenom II X6 1100T
8GB DDR2

I'm using Inject SMAA too. Looks even better than 8x AA and needs less performance.

Sorry for bad english (tired guy from Germany)

Then your system is bottlenecked by your gpu.
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Hm people are funny that they can't figure this one out on their own how hard is that? i quess that's why consoles were made...

Any way im suprised people got bottleneck on gpu i got mobile 6650 and it allows me to play on ultra 1280x720 (everything on max except draw distance) any desktop card should be a lot faster so something is funny here.

Whiterun stairs vanilla 30 FPS(1090T 4.0Ghz)
Skyboost gives me 44 FPS.

Keep up the great work.

Well I don't really understand what do you mean by "bottlenecked" (I'm from Belgium sry for my bad english). I have a laptop with Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz and a GeForce 9600M GS wich is i think enough to run this game more than 20 fps in medium quality...

I got a gtx 560 ti oc with i5 2500k and I also got the reply that it's my GPU that bottleneck for me. Yyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa seems about right.

@Adapt

I can sort of confirm your reduction in stuttering as I have started using both the TESVAL and SB together with no what appears to be less stuttering thus far. I say this reluctantly because, if TESVAL does provide more stable performance (no stuttering), it's very subtle and I cannot be 100% sure because I push my Vram to the maximum which often induces stuttering. It could be that, because SB optimizes CPU performance in certain areas, more Vram is in use, which could be causing the stuttering??

Any way, I know one thing for certain, by using SB my CPU is taking on greater loads thus the increase in frame rates in CPU critical areas and since SB allows room for upgrading visual settings, I decided to increase ugridstoload to 9. I've noticed this ultimately reduces my frame rate with virtually no increase in load to the GPU and Vram. This tells me ugridstoload is mainly loaded to the CPU. Can anyone confirm this? I'd like to know because if this is true, Alexander's work opens a lot of doors for folks with high end CPUs.

Just as a side note: my cpu is i5 760 @ 4.0 ghz, gpu is gtx 460 sli.

My CPU load in critical areas is impressive at ~ 50%, 60%, 70%, 50% for cores 1-4 respectively.


PS: thanks a ton Alexander!
Also, i'd like to see all my cores at >80% in the near future... haha!

Alexander,

Any chance you can modify the code to write out the address of every address that wasn't patched to a log file. That may help us determine why some of these people can't seem to get it to work.

Yeah such an obvious thing to figure out.

Ok i uploaded my last four savegames.
i tried at least 15 savegames but without success
http://db.tt/BiOnPF7K
http://db.tt/fzpbzo7P
http://db.tt/iQZqpxmu
http://db.tt/XB1tA5t3

Can we get this on Nexus?

Hmm, that kind of makes sense. It looks like you are playing the German version of the game. Often times, German releases of the game are different than the English version to account for the blood and stuff. Do we have other Germans that have it working okay on the German version of the game?

Yes, I'm also using the german version and no problems yet. Well, no problems with Skyboost but so many Gamefreezes. Almost every quest can't be finished. Everytime a cutscene has to start, the game freezes. But that's not a problem with Skyboost...

sorry guys i think its not a skyboost problem, even without the mod i cant load my savegames.

If you say so, i don't have time to play anymore sadly because i'm busy with other things and i spend way too much time with computers daily. However that's what Alex says (use only one). If you get more then good, have fun. =)

I don't know, I just felt like letting people know. It didn't cause any bugs for me, so it might help/hurt someone else. My CPU is at ~ 60, 60, 55, 50 at the horrid Dragonreach -> Tree view, I hope he can help us get to 80 soon too! Constant 60 FPS! Haha.

All these tests are done on an Athlon 64 x 2 3800+, 7300gt(512), and 2.5GB DDR2 ram.
A low resolution texture pack has been applied, also.
--Dragonsreach view over tree and lower city--
Vanilla: stable 11fps
Vanilla w/o Bloom|HDR&tints: stable 12fps.
--
Skyboost: variable 11fps
Skyboost w/oBloom|HDR&tints. variable 11-15fps.
Loading speeds boosted O.o.
--
TESVAL: stable 9fps
TESVAL w/oBloom|HDR&tints: variable 9fps.

*Bloom|HDR&tints setting through SHP & STP.
Note 2: Playing @ 640x480

Silverglade
Hi , is this okay if I'll print the log using windows debug strings so u will be able to see and save 'em using DbgView ?

rafaelinux
sse2 is horrible on such amd cpus , wait for fpu/sse1 version plz , I want to see if there will be any boost

I wanna note, though, that on other areas the improvements are pretty massive, looking from the companions guild to the town changes from vanilla's 11fps to skyboost's 20-23. Made it playable for me , I'm happily slaying dragon priests on a level 37 char now , thanks

--edit--
Even then caves with too many lights or "mists", "fogs" and these kind of things drop my fps to 10 or less. I suffer through it, though, and keep playin'

That would be better than nothing, but i was hoping you could have a simpler method where people didn't have to download something else to get us logs. I was hoping you could just create a log file on disk and write messages to it, like you do with the loader.

its not a lack of patching, its a lack of capable hardware.

Okay , let's try this fpu/sse/sse2 test , use all.bat to run
http://alexander.sannybuilder.com/Files/stuff/fputest.zip

write here ur cpu specs and ouput from the test (or just elapsed time for each stage)

Thats mine from amd athlon 5200 x2 2.7 ghz

---------- testing started ----------testing x87Starting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 4750 mstesting sse1Starting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 5703 mstesting sse2Starting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 5485 ms---------- testing finished ----------

Mine is AMD X2 250 2X 3.0ghz

E:\Download\Skyrim mod\fputest>echo off
---------- testing started ----------

Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test
-----------------------------
Instruction set: x87
Starting matrix multiplication loop...
Elapsed time: 695 ms
Bye!

Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test
-----------------------------
Instruction set: SSE
Starting matrix multiplication loop...
Elapsed time: 674 ms
Bye!

Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test
-----------------------------
Instruction set: SSE2
Starting matrix multiplication loop...
Elapsed time: 987 ms
Bye!
---------- testing finished ----------
Press any key to continue . . .

For science!

AMD Athlon X4 630 @ 3.2GHz with a GTX 560 Ti 1 GB ~ 953 MHz core.

C:\Users\Diego\Desktop>echo off---------- testing started ----------Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test-----------------------------Instruction set: x87Starting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 707 msBye!Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test-----------------------------Instruction set: SSEStarting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 708 msBye!Geeks3D.com - x87 / SSE2 Test-----------------------------Instruction set: SSE2Starting matrix multiplication loop...Elapsed time: 1066 msBye!---------- testing finished ----------Press any key to continue . . .

MrDoc , Knight Diego
plz reload the test , i did some changes