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Been using this ever since it came, by far the best horses retexture I could find.

I'd prefer any "realistic" ENB configs to resemble the look of Norway, Alaska or Siberia, seeing that they're the closest geographically to what Skyrim province should look like.

You're running out of VRAM. Optimise the textures using DDSopt or similar. Try lowering AA, SSAA is especially resource hungry.

A question a bit OT, which one of these is recommended to be used to optimise textures without sacrificing on quality? 1) DDSopt 2) BSAopt 3) SMCO 4) Optimizer Textures I'm not really sure what are the differences between them, I usually tend to use the most frequently updated program.

You can use MSI Afterburner's fps limiter with any card.

PLS isn't all that good, unfortunately, it's a flawed technology at best. IPS is much more mature and you can even get some cheap Korean brands with LG panels that are 2560x1440 (Yamakasi Catleap, etc.) for a fraction of the price. I have a Hazro HZ27WC that is a rather good quality panel (the LG used in Apple Cinema Display), although the stand looks very cheap and isn't too functional.

For that kind of money, you could get a 27" 2560x1440 IPS display.

Being stuck with a Hanns.G for 5 years... He's not on a budget so he might as well get a higher quality IPS monitor. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824260047

OK thanks, I'll get him to try 16x AF and 8x if necessary. He'll be playing at 1366x768 (his TV's native res). That shouldn't be an issue then, you can always try reducing or optimising the textures and overclocking the card's memory, if necessary.

There's no reason why anyone should want to upgrade from an i5 760 for gaming.You can easily overclock it to 3.6 GHz and to 4-4.2 GHz if you've done a bit of overclocking before. I've been running a 750 here since its launch, still one of the strongest CPUs for gaming, considering that 90% of new games are GPU-limited. No AMD CPUs come close and the only Intels that do, SB and IB, don't offer enough of performance improvement to warrant an upgrade. Also, overclocking RAM is a gimmick, the only reason why I'd get a memory that runs at higher frequencies than 1600 MHz is when overclocking a CPU held back by its multiplier.

Most modern cards handle AF without any issues. If performance drops whilst using it, reduce it from 16x to 8x and you should be good to go. Textures filtering is definitely something that's noticeable in games like Skyrim. I prefer SMAA to FXAA, the latter blurs the image too much. Neither is perfect but it's a nice post processing effect that has negligible performance impact. It all really depends on the resolution you play at.

Optimisations and SLI profiles is what driver's support is about.

I've seen autoupdate capability in the latter 200 series drivers' date=' but I don't know if it works. I never install that feature.[/quote']This is new software that is gonna use a new nvidia cloud database to store all game info and all hardware info and autoconfigure your game profiles and drivers to get max quality from each game you have installed on your specific system according to your full hardware specs. Still pie in the sky' date=' but at least they are trying something new.[/quote']Ahh, hadn't heard of that. I can see the appeal of that as you wouldn't need to wait for new drivers to get new game support.Yes, you would. That software has nothing do with new drivers' support for recent games.

4 years ago the mainstream card was a GTX 260. The first version with 196 shaders, from what I remember. This card can barely handle the new games at medium settings, sometimes struggling to run them at all at high resolution. And the standards are going up with 3D gaming, Eyefinity or 2560x1440 monitors becoming more accessible. It doesn't matter that the card had 896MB or 1.7GB VRAM, it just isn't up to scratch any more. Not arguing that a GTX 670 is a better value than a GTX 680. But neither will be a top card in two years.

I'm pretty sure you'd have nothing to back that statement in a year or two. ;)

Am I the only one who prefers Realistic Lighting to RCRN? I also like a few ENB configs but these tend to have a significant performance hit and differ in the style and form so won't please everyone.

Just get a single GTX 670 2GB and save your cash for a more meaningful upgrade in the future then. :)

I don't think there's any need for SLI cards in Skyrim, not to mention that the game probably doesn't scale all that well with multi-gpu configs, with it's CPU usage and all that. It's an old and outdated engine after all.

If you feel like it, sure.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30711325/Skyrim/Shadow_Striping_Fix-8043-1-3-1.7z Enjoy. I've just installed MDSaSF, if it causes any crashes, it will be removed. So far, so good.

You're VRAM limited at that resolution.I was running Skyrim at 2560x1440 with 4xMSAA and it was already hitting the 2GB (or more) of shared memory at times with high resolution texture mods. Now with a GTX 580 1.5GB, I had to pick some lower resolution textures for mods like Skyrim HD - 2K Tex. Unfortunately the game doesn't manage the assigned memory too well.

The STEP guide explains exact steps you need to take in detail. You should be following them from Step 1 till the end in orderly fashion. If you want to skip some texture mods, feel free to do so. I myself pick the ones that I like and are trouble-free to install. And yes, a lot of mods will overwrite each other which is why it's crucial to install them in order or make sure to not overwrite certain files when needed.