RCRN 3.5

[bitdman]

I am very eagerly awaiting the RCRN 3.5 in a couple of weeks and new STEP coming soon. I feel like Christmas is a couple weeks away.

 

Should I buy another HD 7870 graphics card or maybe just upgrade my processor? Decisions, decisions!

[LeetMiniWheat]

Both :D

 

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[frihyland]

Thats to prevent frivolous and ultra lazy responses.  For instance you could have explained why you answered both :P

 

From watching the forums 2 graphics cards seems more trouble than its worth, the cpu upgrade however I cannot recommend enough, we will soon (several months) be recommending mods that add dynamic scripts to almost everything in the game (tens of thousands of them) so cpu, which is already the most critical element, will be even more important.

[Gyro]

Oooo. It'll be nice to actually be able to get some use out of my 2600K.

[bitdman]

Thats to prevent frivolous and ultra lazy responses.  For instance you could have explained why you answered both :P

 

From watching the forums 2 graphics cards seems more trouble than its worth, the cpu upgrade however I cannot recommend enough, we will soon (several months) be recommending mods that add dynamic scripts to almost everything in the game (tens of thousands of them) so cpu, which is already the most critical element, will be even more important.

Thank you frithyland for that info. 

LeeMiniWheat I wish I could do both 

[Neovalen]

Yeah Skyrim doesn't even bother to use the potential of a second video card and it causes bugs (HDR disabled and Water Ripple Bug) unless Stereo 3d is enabled. (no-one knows why)

 

I really love my 2nd video card for just about everything else but Skyrim definitely not. That is a Bethesda patch I would kill for...

[JudgmentJay]

Yeah Skyrim doesn't even bother to use the potential of a second video card and it causes bugs (HDR disabled and Water Ripple Bug) unless Stereo 3d is enabled. (no-one knows why)

 

I really love my 2nd video card for just about everything else but Skyrim definitely not. That is a Bethesda patch I would kill for...

I'm not too sure about that. My FPS is considerably lower when I run with 1 card instead of Tri-SLI. Of course that's at 2560x1600 with 100+ high-resolution texture mods, all the visual improvement .ini tweaks except for uGrids, and dozens of visual enhancement mods. I doubt it'd matter with vanilla.

 

SLI water bug is annoying though. I don't mind not having HDR... in fact if I had it I'd probably look for a way to turn it off as I find it more distracting than immersive.

[bitdman]

From watching the forums 2 graphics cards seems more trouble than its worth, the cpu upgrade however I cannot recommend enough, we will soon (several months) be recommending mods that add dynamic scripts to almost everything in the game (tens of thousands of them) so cpu, which is already the most critical element, will be even more important.

So is a six core CPU a plus in this case or is sticking to 4 cores better?

[Neovalen]

I'll have to try it again but I'm fairly sure with my 2 card SLI setup that disabling one of the cards didn't drop my FPS... (even though usage monitor on Precision says 60-90% for the second card when I run in SLI mode).

[frihyland]

Lets move this conversation to an appropriate spot hardware guide

[bitdman]

Lets move this conversation to an appropriate spot hardware guide

sorry boss! got carried away!

[Besidilo]

RCRN 3.5 is now officially out.

[bitdman]

THanks for the heads up amigo!

[Valamyr]

I tried it on my new install this morning instead of Skyrealism and I switched back after an hour...

 

It wasnt as nice for me. I like not-too-dark environments, so I tried Legacy, and it looked off in brightly lit areas, the wooden flooring around Riften was almost shimmering and the colors looked faded in places (Probably overuse of gamma to create Legacy), though me being used to Vibrant Skyrealism has probably alot to do with that. Finally, I ran into some issues with the new weathers; having had to disable Climates of Tamriel to see RCRN's new weather effects, the Lantern and torch mods I use weren't as bright anymore, because those had CoT compatibility plugins, and the old RNRC CoT plugin didnt really do the job.

 

After a bit of juggling with these issues and comparing screenshots I realized that while it looks like alot of work went into RNRC, and I really like some of new features like weather changing when indoors and being affected by outdoor weather, I had a better deal with Sky.

[rpsgc]

Seeing as STEP was using RCRN before, will it become the choice mod again (vs ENB)?