Guide:AMD Catalyst Control Center
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Template:Notice ATI Catalyst Control Center Setup for S.T.E.P. -- by S.T.E.P. Team
- Updated: 7:53:06 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Preface
Catalyst Control Center (CCC) Anti-Aliasing (AA) only partially augments Skyrim graphics as dictated by 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.
General
- Open Catalyst Control Center, and click on the [Preferences] button in the upper right. Select Advanced View.
- 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
- (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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- Right-click on any open space on the desktop and click on AMD Catalyst Control Center.
- Look to the left side of the newly opened window and under the "Gaming" tab, click 3D Application Settings.
- Click on the [Add] button in the right pane. A browse file window should open.
- 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].
- Select the "TESV.exe" profile that appeared below the "Add" button and change all settings to match the following:
- Anti-Aliasing
- Anti-Aliasing Mode: Override application settings
- Anti-Aliasing Samples: 4x
- 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: Off, unless application specifies
- OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
- Tessellation
- Tessellation Mode: AMD optimized
- Maximum Tessellation Level: AMD optimized
- Anti-Aliasing
- 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].