Skyrim modded at 1920x1080 experiences? (gtx 760, 770, 780. r290))

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I'm looking for commentary how well people's experiences are with Skyrim modded at 1920x1080 using one of the following video cards -

GTX 760 2gb/4gb
GTX 770 2gb/4gb
GTX 780 3gb
R9 R290

Planning on selling my 7950 3gb, trying to see what my options are in terms of upgrades.

Edit: Just to add the reason for this question is this is likely the heaviest usage scenario for me at the moment and somewhat not very well documented to find results on (since modded Skyrim isn't an actual benchmark test case with reviewers). Didn't end up getting BF4.

Not sure what the timing (release date and next GPU releases) and requirements of upcoming games like The Witcher 3 and Mirror's Edge 2 will be yet.
 
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GTX 680, runs like balls with heavy mods.. by balls I mean 40-50fps.

I'll let you know when my r9 290x gets here....anyday now ups.
 
Running very heavy texture mods 2k/4k mixed including landscape, clothing , models & weapons with Jasmin 7.3 ENB. Shadows are set to 2048 using Skyrimprefs.ini tweaks

65-100fps on a EVGA GTX 670 FTW 2GB overclocked well beyond default 680 speeds 1270/3470 (capped @ 100 in Evga Utility for the flickering bug)


If you are going to get a 700 series card, start with the 770, the 760's are slower than the 670's. If you can swing it, buy the GTX 780ti, I'm sure you will have no problems running any kind of mods with that card.
 
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I have absolutely no problems running skyrim at 1920X1080 with the offical hi rez textures and about oh a dozen mods with absolutely no problem. My frames max out at 60 and stay there.. Getting this 760 was an great idea and the 2gigs of ram really help.
Im still getting my butt kicked in the game but because I see something new and get caught up in it and forget about that bear thats about to rip my guts open. Remember coming up to a new area and finding a waterfall Ive never seen before.. amazing.. absolutely amazing.

also, nothing in this system is over clocked..
 
I don't go apeshit with mods like some do, but with a big texture pack, better normals, and all that kind of stuff, I find it runs at basically 60fps solid on a 680 2GB at 2560x1600. Uses right about 2GB of VRAM too. Maybe occasional dips below, but pretty solid 60 for the most part.

You want to keep it capped at 60fps, because the physics engine freaks the fuck out at higher frame rates for some reason. You'll see stuff rattle around on tables, objects will fly violently all over the room when you open a door like there was an explosion, that kind of thing.
 
Sycraft said:
You want to keep it capped at 60fps, because the physics engine freaks the fuck out at higher frame rates for some reason. You'll see stuff rattle around on tables, objects will fly violently all over the room when you open a door like there was an explosion, that kind of thing.
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Yeah I've tested it out and it usually starts going crazy at anything over 120fps. EVGA has a nice little overclocking tool that allows you to cap the framerate of your video card. It has worked wonders with Skyrim.
 
Skyrim is one of the easiest running games that looks good in recent memory.

Seriously, I had 100+ mods including 2K textures and maxed detail effects...in Eternity @ 5300x1050 on my single 6970 2GB and it was more than playable.

Skyrim is a very low bar graphically to base a build off of.
 
Yea I'm aware of the 60 fps issue. Still would like it to run as close as possible to 60 though consistently. I also realize the issue with Skyrim is dependency on other aspects of the system such as the CPU and even ram performance as the bottleneck in certain situations.

Also the issue with Skyrim is the conflicting reports. For example just look at the divergent performance between the first two responses in this thread. This is my concern if I go with something like the GTX 760 and when I was getting the 7950 (also the stuttering reports).

Also with the VRAM you hear conflicting reports of it using over 2gb in certain edge cases with mods at even 1920x1080.

The reason I want to go as low as possible is because of a planned faster upgrade (although the new Maxwell launch date somewhat complicates things). Currently I don't really have an extremely demanding games to play. The most demanding really would be modded Skyrim and a Witcher 2 replay since I didn't end up getting BF4 or will likely at this point. Upcoming games I'm interested in would be Witcher 3, Mirrors Edge 2 and some others but there isn't enough information to gauge that at the moment and may have already upgraded again depending on the timing of those releases.

My 7950 upgrade was actually fairly recent and since getting that I've been playing games like FTL (super demanding :rolleyes:), LoL, Civ 5, and etc. Main reason I'm selling it because of the resale value at the moment and I have some concerns of what will happen to resale value/difficulty of reselling down the road.
 
I'm selling my current card to a mining friend this weekend.

That easily justifies my 760 4GB (instead of 2GB) purchase....

And yes, I am ditching the red team (AMD), SPECIFICALLY because of Skyrim related stutter issues. (overall sheety drivers don't help either).

- But, as is my understanding, 2GB is perfectly respectable for Skyrim modded-to-hell etc. Meaning, 40-50 without frame-latency/stutter etc. (I'm also told an SSD helps)

_IF_ you can afford a 770 4GB, by all means do so.... I, unfortunately, don't have that kinda money to throw around during the holidays.
 
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Weenis said:
GTX 680, runs like balls with heavy mods.. by balls I mean 40-50fps.

I'll let you know when my r9 290x gets here....anyday now ups.
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Let us know how that runs with the 290x. I know Skyrim is not crazy about AMD cards and I just got 2 R9 290's on sale.
 
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Running about 13gb worth of mod on a 7950 and I have no lag to speak of.
 
Was running skyrim on Ultra with a plethora of INI tweaks to make the game look much better (even tried ugrids 7, but CTD'd), including forcing Quality AO via NVCP

33GB worth of mods (mostly everything in this pack); pretty much every single texture in the game replaced with 1K (if small) and 2K (if large). I was forced to downgrade all my 4K textures to 2K due to filling up my VRAM (3GB).

After that, I hit the 3.1GB memory limit. (Edit: NEW DEVELOPMENT: http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2729)

The game, when it worked, was dropping to 45FPS at a certain point in Riverwood (first town, quite small) with even lower drops in the mountains above it in a snowstorm.

End result: Forced to lower my ini quality tweaks and run an ENB for SMAA (less VRAM/FPS hit) and ENBoost so I didn't hit the memory limit.

I still hit my VRAM cap; it still discards VRAM and still causes massive stuttering due to having to reload all the textures back into VRAM. Considering I'm not even anywhere close to something like a giant town, I'm afraid I'm going to have to lower quality of some mods even more, or possibly try throwing them through DDSopt to hopefully reduce memory/VRAM usage.

All this on a 780 running at 1920x1200. All thanks to NVIDIA not learning and consistently having less VRAM than AMD.

If you go balls to the wall with mods, you need VRAM badly.
 
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Krenum said:
Yeah I've tested it out and it usually starts going crazy at anything over 120fps. EVGA has a nice little overclocking tool that allows you to cap the framerate of your video card. It has worked wonders with Skyrim.
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Just turn adaptive v-sync on. I'm running 2x SLI 770s and I typically would get over 120fps and the game would bug out. Water would flicker everywhere and I could be on a mountain and it would make splashing sounds when I walked. All sorts of other weird bugs would happen too. I couldn't even play the opening scene without the carts bugging out and crashing into each other then getting stuck.

I turned adaptive v-sync on and now it is mostly bug free. I'm using a 120hz refresh rate btw.
 
7950 Overclocked with tons of 2k/4k textures and RealVision ENB. 50 to 70 fps at 1440p
 
I have a 680 with a ton of texture mods. I usually have a steady 60fps with vsync but occasionally it dips down.
 
Godmachine said:
Let us know how that runs with the 290x. I know Skyrim is not crazy about AMD cards and I just got 2 R9 290's on sale.
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290x gets about 80% more frames in most situations than the GTX680, that is with Skyrim pretty heavily modded.
 
My GF's machine runs it heavily modded at 1920x1200 on a GTX 570 and it runs just fine.
 
Id go with a GTX 770 or 780. Right now is a great time to upgrade for you as the 7950's are fetching a pretty penny on the used market thanks to litecoin mining.
 
I've already sold it. Going to wait until boxing day (think Black Friday) in 1.5 weeks and see what deals show up before buying. I hadn't been playing anything except really low demanding games since buying the 7950 so just using a laptop for now.

Although I'm wondering if there is a point to the GTX 770. Right now I'm thinking either I go lower with a GTX 760 or might as well spend more for the 780 or 290 custom (assuming no ridiculous markup and availability, also still a bit weary of some issues, not sure if they exist given the different chip).

I guess it'll have to depend on what actual sale pops up at the end. Like if a GTX 770 dips below $300 and the 760s remain closer to $250 I'll just move up. Or if a 760 dips to $200 and the 770s remain over $330 than I'd rather save the money and just wait to upgrade right at the next release and resell then.

Although what are peoples experiences with ease of resale and resale value on higher end cards like the GTX 780 (I typically buy more middle)? I don't really care so much about the up front costs but more the cost difference and ease to upgrade down the line (long term ownership costs) factoring in resale.

In hindsight I should've bought this $470AR MSI Twinfrozr GTX 780 on Black Friday.
 
Weenis said:
290x gets about 80% more frames in most situations than the GTX680, that is with Skyrim pretty heavily modded.
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and how could that possibly be? a 290x is not but about 30-35% faster than a 680 in general at 1920x1080.
 
I'm running Skyrim with over 300 mods (half are visual w/enb). I'm getting over 75-120 fps with my EVGA Superclocked 780 oc'd completely cranked up with vsync on at 1920x1200.
 
i'm running with a lot of mods, ENB, a metric ton of AA and AF with rig in sig and am perma-locked at 60 fps. granted, only at 1680x1050, but the game never slows down. i'm getting a 1080p panel this weekend, i am not worried.

screenshots from a while ago, since then i have added the flora overhaul mod:

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DJS4000 said:
i'm running with a lot of mods, ENB, a metric ton of AA and AF with rig in sig and am perma-locked at 60 fps.
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Where's your ENB? The lighting looks identical to vanilla (ie; terrible) and you're using hardware AA, not SMAA via ENB. (Also, AF hasn't done anything noticeable to performance anymore for the last few years)
 
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Where's your ENB? The lighting looks identical to vanilla (ie; terrible) and you're using hardware AA, not SMAA via ENB. (Also, AF hasn't done anything noticeable to performance anymore for the last few years)
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you are correct, i installed the ENB afterwards, too, i just realized :eek:

i will take some more screens on the weekend.
 
I am reading some crazy stuff here and I'm starting to think there is something wrong with my skyrim, I have sli 480's yes they only have 1.5gb of vram, but I'm reading here people with way way more mods than me and higher res with only 2gb cards running the game just fine.

I mean I'm only running like couple of mods and it's hitting the vram limit hard with AA off sometimes it even stutters when I turn around fast, most of the time capped at 60 but still damn. maybe it's time to upgrade.
 
HIJACK

so.. Im just frickin tired of mmo culture. need a stand alone game.

Skyrim looks like fun! so much talk about mods etc.. any good simple list of mods? or should i just buy the game, play it vanilla for a bit, get a idea of what I'm looking for?
 
XBarbarian said:
HIJACK

so.. Im just frickin tired of mmo culture. need a stand alone game.

Skyrim looks like fun! so much talk about mods etc.. any good simple list of mods? or should i just buy the game, play it vanilla for a bit, get a idea of what I'm looking for?
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I sudgest getting these 3 at first they are must have, experience the game the way it was ment to be and then start tweaking the stuff you don't like, there are a couple of graphic mods that don't alter the original game experience but I suggest you get familiar with the game first.

SkyUI
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
A quality world map
 
Nahawand said:
I sudgest getting these 3 at first they are must have, experience the game the way it was ment to be and then start tweaking the stuff you don't like, there are a couple of graphic mods that don't alter the original game experience but I suggest you get familiar with the game first.

SkyUI
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
A quality world map
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thanks man
 
Single 780 with high res textures and other demanding mods id avr 80-120 fps @ 1080p with about 2-2.6GB vram usage.

No you didn't ask but with 2 in SLI its pretty much same performance maybe about 10 FPS increase with less frame drop this game isn't really optimized for SLI :(
 
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Nahawand said:
I sudgest getting these 3 at first they are must have, experience the game the way it was ment to be and then start tweaking the stuff you don't like, there are a couple of graphic mods that don't alter the original game experience but I suggest you get familiar with the game first.

SkyUI
Unofficial Skyrim Patch
A quality world map
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oh.. and is there an official site.. or a trusted site for these referenced mods.. or just google 'em, and get em from various places..
 
XBarbarian said:
oh.. and is there an official site.. or a trusted site for these referenced mods.. or just google 'em, and get em from various places..
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Yes get them from nexusmods, using nexus mod manager it's the simplest and easiest way to mod an elders game or fallout and I believe the latest version even supports a lot of other games, you hit download with manager and bam the mod is there. if you google must have skyrim mods there is a reddit post with like the best out there.
 
Running practically all the textures in the previous listed mod texture pack and using the 4k when applicable. Lots of npc add ins and armor and clothes texture mods. Using a single 560 ti 2gb. Playable 60fps most of the time, dips down at times. Using max vRam at times as well. Planning on stepping up to a 760 4gb. My 560ti will not run the game with the ENB enabled and set to full.
http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s644/slashgnr101/2kmbMemory_zpsb5016575.jpg
 
Skyrim is more CPU load oriented than GPU and SLI support is broken on Skyrim.

Still tweaking mine, pretty much maxed ENB just the contrast and lightening settings need to tweaked to my liking though major PITA.

Runs like shit on my system gfx card being help back big time and need more RAM.

i3 2100 3ghz stock
GB Z68X UD5P or something
6GB of ram (Skyrim + ENB process uses around 4GB +)
GB Superclock Ed GTX670

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seeing this thread makes me want to reload skyrim and play it again
 
I bought Skyrim through Steam, loaded nexus mod manager

found the 3 mods mentioned above and added them.. which downloaded them locally.

doesn't seem like I need to install the mos from there, right? the nexus mod manager auto magically installs them as well, is that correct?

someone mentioned to use the SkyUI, I actually have to launch the game with that, is that it? any one know of a tutorial or such? I only played for like 15 mins.. but.. didnt see any kind of tutorial etc.. so i was like totally clueless stumbling around.. LOL
 
XBarbarian said:
I bought Skyrim through Steam, loaded nexus mod manager

found the 3 mods mentioned above and added them.. which downloaded them locally.

doesn't seem like I need to install the mos from there, right? the nexus mod manager auto magically installs them as well, is that correct?

someone mentioned to use the SkyUI, I actually have to launch the game with that, is that it? any one know of a tutorial or such? I only played for like 15 mins.. but.. didnt see any kind of tutorial etc.. so i was like totally clueless stumbling around.. LOL
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okay, no when you download from the site with link that says through nmm " nexus mod managr", you need to go to Mods in the manager, and there you will see categories now a lot of them will be 0, but the ones that have 1 or 2 next to them means they contain a mod double click that you will see the mod with a red x next to it double click the mod and it should install it and you will see a green tick.

as for skyui and a lot of other mods you need to download something called Skyrim (skse) download it install it and then it will put a shortcut on your desktop launch skyrim from that shortcut and it should load all mods.

for future preference when you get a lot of mods get a program called boss <-- it will set a load order for the mods so they don't conflict with each other.
 
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