nickrorschach

Hi guys, I followed the S.T.E.P instructions and picked myself up an in game lag\stutter when moving around. I thik my problem is that I installed the texture mods without actually understanding how much of an impact they could have on VRAM. I now face the horrible realisation that my expensive SLI GTX580s are no longer capable of running something totally maxed out :) When I first started experimenting with the game, trying to pin down the cause of the stutter, it didn’t occur to me for one second it would be a hardware limitation... It took me stripping Skyrim\STEP down to hardly any mods before I noticed it…With some monitoring, GPU-Z showed me I was maxed out at 1.5GB VRAM - so problem solved, I guess. What I would like to ask is this - with STEP stripped back to just the official HD texture pack and the Realistic Overhaul I was still reaching the limits of my VRAM in outside areas and stuttering. I did not install the Hi-Res DLC Optimized pack during my last round of testing – but would this actually make any huge difference to the stutter? Just the offical HD texture pack and nothing else = 1.1ish GB used and smooth as butter. I figure before I do any more playing around it is better to ask outright, can people with 1.5GB of VRAM install the core modules listed in STEP without getting a stutter? Is it possible I have missed something else? My machine is very well optimized, I run Skyrim from an SSD, have no page file on my gaming machine, 8GB of RAM and a 64bit O/S - I dont think the problem is related to anything other than VMRAM.  Thanks