DerkMcGeurk

Ok, thanks a lot for your help, much appreciated. Have a good one.

You missed this message mate! Yeah it's working and using the GFX card. My laptop's power button is orange when the GFX card is being used and white when the intel one is. Just played about 10 minutes and it was orange the whole time. One last question then I'll leave you alone! Would you recommend me using Mod Organiser 2 or is it ok to stick with Vortex which I half know now?

Windowed Borderless Mode FTW! 60fps and zero screen tear! Thanks for your assistance Dubya! Is windowed borderless mode problematic at all for running heavily modded Skyrim though or can I crack on now?

I changed the HDMI input from slot 3 to slot 1 (read online that they can have different capabilities) and it's now running at 60fps (yay) but with bad screen tear (booo). In the Windows Advanced Display Settings if I click 'Display adaptor properties for Display 2' a new window opens and in there there is an Adapter tab which says Intel HD 530 is my adapter type, then a Monitor tab which says Generic PnP monitor and refresh rate is set to 60Hz. I've looked through the TV's settings menus and searched online but can't see anyway to check or adjust the refresh rate through the TV. In the aforementioned 'Display adaptor properties for Display 2' there is an option to change refresh rate to '30Hz Interlaced', will that do the trick? Here are the TV's specs from manufacturer website: Supported Display Resolution Computer inputs on all HDMI up to 4K UHD 3840 x 2160 @60 Hz HDR supported, HDR10+/HLG Video inputs on all HDMI up to 4K UHD 3840 x 2160 @60 Hz HDR supported HDR10/HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) HDR10+/Dolby Vision

"Reset Nvidia to default settings. Is it capped at 30fps?" Done and loaded game, still 30fps. "Ensure your laptop display isn't set to 30hz. If you are playing at 4k, it might only support 30hz. You may need to drop down to 1920x1080 to get 60hz." I'm projecting the display to my 4k TV which is 60Hz, but I read yesterday that my GFX card can't output 4k to a TV anyway (wish I'd know that before buying the TV!) In Advanced Display Settings it says: Phillips TV Desktop Resolution 1920 x 1080 Active Signal Resolution 1920 x 1080 Refresh Rate 59.940Hz - so that looks right doesn't it? All the other solutions I tried said to type or change iPresentInterval =0 in the Skyrim.ini, and another similar one about VSync but those lines aren't in there anymore. Does that matter?

Just ran BethINI and I'm still stuck at 30fps. VSync and Triple Buffering are both on in NVIDIA Control Panel and Power Management Mode is Prefer max performance. Any idea where I'm going wrong?

Thanks for getting back to me mate. I was using Vortex yeah and I saved my Saves folder before going nuclear and then copied them back over, so they must just be left over from my previous modding attempts. Will delete them now. So BethINI should get me to 60fps in vanilla and then I can add mods then. Ok, thanks a lot dude! Hopefullly I won't need any more advice! Much appreciated.

Hi DoubleYou, I wonder if you would be so kind as to help me. I started modding, or rather, trying to mod Skyrim SE on NYE and now 9 days later I am back to square one with a freshly installed Windows 10 and obviously freshly installed Skyrim SE! I'm following this Concise Skyrim mod installation guide: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/38334. It says that you need to get the vanilla game running smoothly at 60fps before trying to add any mods. And with this I am struggling bigly! I've tried 3 or 4 different methods I've found to up the fps to 60. The first time it worked but with abysmal screen tear, then after installing SKSE it would no longer load the game. So I reset the PC (thinking that my previous failed attempts to install 100+ mods before uninstalling them all and the game itself to start again had irreversibly knackered any chance of modding Skyrim on my laptop). Re-installed Windows, updated all drivers, re-installed Skyrim, (system restore point here) auto cleaned the master files with SSEdit, tried a different method editing INIs to increase fps but couldn't get it to work this time in vanilla. So I restored system to just after the fresh install, ran SSEdit AutoClean again, installed SKSE then downloaded Havok Fix and a Refresh Rate Fix and they increased fps to 60 in the SKSE version but again with horrific screen tear - and they did nothing to the vanilla version (of course). Other guides advised changing various settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel to stop screen tear - Triple Buffering ON, VSync ON, Power Options to Performance etc but none of them stopped the screen tear. So I restored my system to just after my fresh install, ran SSEdit AutoClean, then found your BethINI. Just two questions for you if you wouldn't mind: 1) Does BethINI fix the fps on NVIDIA GPU laptops to 60fps, without causing screen tear? 2) Does it matter that I have in my Documents\My Games\Skyrim folder the following: Skyrim.ini Skyrim.ini.baked Skyrim.ini.base SkyrimPrefs.ini SkyrimPrefs.ini.baked SkyrimPrefs.ini.base ??? I've not seen mention of .baked and .base anywhere else and google comes up with nothing! I really hope you can help me. I'm at the end of my tether but too far committed and too seduced by all the mods I've seen to give up! Probably could have just led with the questions and saved you reading all about my sordid modding history, but I'm pessimistic that BethINI alone will solve it (surely not) so wanted to give you all the info in case you or someone else is kind enough to help me. Thanks, Derk. System: MSI Laptop GS72 6QE Intel® Core i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)16GB RAMGeForce GTX970m 3GB RAM Monitor is Projecting to Phillips 4K TV - 60Hz