Guide:AMD Catalyst Control Center

Template:Notice ATI Catalyst Control Center Setup for S.T.E.P. -- by S.T.E.P. Team

Updated: 5:55:16 7 January 2014 (UTC)

GUIDE FORUM THREAD

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Preface

Catalyst Control Center (CCC) Anti-Aliasing (AA) only partially augments Skyrim AA, of which the AA sample rate is set within SkyrimPrefs.ini. The CCC Anti-Aliasing Mode settings have no impact on Skyrim AA, so AA must be set in the INI (iMultiSample; 4x recommended). Anti-Aliasing Setting DOES impact Skyrim AA, and so do all other settings under Anti-Aliasing and Texture Filtering. Therefore, the best quality graphics for the least performance impact is described below. Performance options are also specified for those with less-capable video cards.

General

1. Open Catalyst Control Center, and click on the [Preferences] button in the upper right. Select Advanced View.
2. Under the Gaming section on the left select Gaming > 3D Application Settings.
   • Set [Tessellation Mode] to AMD Optimized
   • Set Enable Surface Format Optimization to "On", if it's not already.
   • Set [Wait for vertical refresh] to On, unless application specifies
   • Make sure that [Anti-Aliasing Mode] and [Anti-Aliasing Samples] are set to Use application settings
3. (optional) Add "skse_loader.exe" to be associated with as an application-specific profile:
   • Click [+ Add] in the left column
   • Navigate to skyrim/ and select "skse_loader.exe" to associate these settings with Skyrim ("TESV.exe" should be used if that is the executable used to launch Skyrim).

Profile

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1. Right-click on any open space on the desktop and click on AMD Catalyst Control Center.
2. Look to the left side of the newly opened window and under the "Gaming" tab, click 3D Application Settings.
3. Click on the [Add] button in the right pane. A browse file window should open.
4. Locate and select "TESV.exe" within your "skyrim\" folder and click [Open]. A warning will pop up asking "Do you want to override the pre-defined profile?" Click [Yes] then [OK].
5. Select the "TESV.exe" profile that appeared below the "Add" button and change all settings to match the following:

   Anti-Aliasing

   • Anti-Aliasing Mode: Use application settings
   • Anti-Aliasing Samples: Use application settings
   • Filter: Standard
   • Anti-Aliasing Method: Supersampling (NOTE: Set to Multisampling if FPS drop is a problem)
   • Morphological Filtering: Off

   Texture Filtering

   • Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Override application settings
   • Anisotropic Filtering Level: 16x
   • Texture Filtering Quality:High quality
   • Surface Format Optimization: On

   Frame Rate Control

   • Wait for Vertical Refresh: Always on
   • OpenGL Triple Buffering: On

   Tessellation

   • Tessellation Mode: AMD optimized
   • Maximum Tessellation Level: AMD optimized

6. Click [Save] in the lower right hand corner. Another warning will pop up asking "Do you want to overwrite the existing profile? TESV.exe". Click [Yes] then [OK].