I have:
GTX 960m
i7-6700
16gb ram
I can only play on 720 > x < 1080 on medium at 30fps. Any idea how I can improve this?
Thanks
It’s not that great of a graphics card to play a demanding game. But i can tell you that postprocessing and shaders pull the framerate down hard for what their worth. set them to low. next you can’t have your textures set too high because you’ll run out of video memory. don’t set any setting past HIGH, you’ll have diminishing returns that will not be worth it. One exception may be physics, it may be handled by the CPU and yours is more then enough, try that one on ultra and see if you take a performance hit. Have you updated your Nvidia graphics drivers?
First things first; set to lowest quality graphics and lowest resolution. Now note your framerates in a few locations (indoors/outdoors/between buildings/open field/forest) take note of lows and highs and averages.
This could take ten to thirty minutes: but is handy as it lets you (and us, if you share) find what your system CAN do as MAX framerates.
Now we basically turn settings up until these framerates drop below what we consider acceptable.
My attitude to story games that arent twitch shooters or have flight/race physics is that 25-30 frames is fine (i like a photorealistic medieval period).
This game is really nice at around 40-45 fps (its fight model and even ‘opening doors’ feels way better… so I tweak to have high framerate and pretty graphics. My settings make my framerate tank in cities and run 60fps in the wilderness (some heavy forrests dropping to 40s).
Take note of what the last poster said. Some settings hit harder than others.
I think shadows hit pretty hard (on my system), and hence are the only setting I drop, alternating levels between if grass casts shadows or not depending on town/city life.
I would recommend playing at 720 if you can turn eye candy up noticably more…
When I used my laptop for gaming I had to tweak Skyrim for ultra quality and 30 frames per second… i was willing to give up resolution and if you are on a laptop-chances are you will plug into televisions when you get the chance. 85% of the worlds televisions dont tender more than 300-400 lines of moving resolution anyway; so I would go with prettier graphics over higher resolution.
Resolution, like antialiasing is a feature you turn up when you have framerate to spare. (Not a problem here)
I would dialbin all the pretty settings you want and turn on the features that are CPU hits (generally physics and postprocessing), though I reckon there would be a few guides written up for tuning this game by now, so glance through them.
From what I have read most site have identified three or four settings to drop a few notches for ‘vastly better’ performance.
Me? I run Ultra+ and just tinker with shadows and resolution… (3.5 year old midrange (enthusiast) pc)
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