I noticed the only bad thing about this texture pack last night.

Whenever I go into a room or dungeon with large, flaming braziers or cauldrons, my framerate drops to like 1 FPS until I turn my camera away from the flames.

It's crazy. The game runs perfectly smooth 99% of the time - even with the high res HD textures. But if I turn my camera toward a large flame of some sort, the framerate dies almost instantly.



I had to switch the texture packs off in order to play. There is definitely a graphic detail difference.

Am I goign to have to get a new video card? Or is there some workaround for this issue?




It's defiantly just the flames and/or smoke. I'm assuming it's particle count related (maybe the smoke from the flames have a high particle count? Not sure...)


CPU: i7 920
GPU: GTX 460 1GB Overclocked, running @ 1920 x 1080 FULL HD via HDMI
6GB DDR3 Triple-Channel RAM



Time for a GPU upgrade I assume? BF3 runs fine on this system BTW.

Or is it just a poorly optimized Texture Pack?

If the GPU is factory overclocked then see if there are driver settings you can tweak for better flame rendering, if it's your own overclock try undoing it and see if it runs better.

It's a manufacturer overclock.

It's the MSI Cyclone 460 GTX.

The OP has a system spec very similar to my own.

I haven't noticed specific problems with flames but I do find that I get occasional stuttering and reduced frame rate with the new textures. I've not tried any tweaks so far to see if I can improve it. I may just turn off the hi-res stuff, Skyrim looked pretty good to me as it was....

Does the texture pack have a readme with recommended GPU specs?

If your card is ok then try some relevant setting tweaks.

Yea, it's not a HUGE visual difference, but the HD pack is definitely prettier looking than the stock graphics - especially at full 1080p HD resolution.

It appears to be just the flames/smoke though. I have no stutter problems at all until I get into a room with lots of particles floating around - particularly the flames and smoke.

If there is some way to tune down just those graphics and leave everything else as-is, I'd be good to go.

The Texture Pack is basically "Beyond Ultra" and will tax most systems. Not to say that you can't run it decently on your card, but it will stumble and cough chewing on these textures. It should be simple matter to make a mod that replaces the hi res flame or smoke particles with the stock ones. You may have to uncheck the ESPs until a mod comes out.

Already did.

What REALLY killed me was during one of the Brotherhood quests when the entire dungeon was on fire. I won't give anything away, spolier-wise, but if anyone knows the part I'm talking about, my card was CRAWLING during that sequence.

svcks because I didn't have a save prior to that and I basically missed out on one of the biggest storyline events because of it.

I've seen threads like this one all over the place the last day, I am having issues as well. It's pretty much, the game runs fine for 1 minute and then frame rates tank. I don't think that the textures are that demanding, I just think that there is some badly written code or something afoot. This is typical Beth. I wouldnt be surprized if they hotfixed this soon. Beth. more often than not, never gets things right the first.....or second time for that matter, so we'll see what happens in the following week.

My system is worse than his except I have a 560. Running 1920x1080, texture pack hasn't affected me at all, flames are fine. Is the difference between the 460 and 560 that big?