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GUIDE FORUM THREAD

Introduction

Installation & Setup

Creating Skyrim Profile

Troubleshooting

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NVIDIA Inspector

NVIDIA Inspector is a tool created by Orbmu2k. This tool provides detailed hardware information much like GPU-Z from all the available hardware senors dealing with the video card. This senor information can also be monitored via the included monitors which, in turn, can be logged to a CSV file for later viewing. Inspector also provides simple overclocking tools to control the GPU clock, memory clock, shader clock, voltage, and fan speed of the video card; however, not all of these options will be available to all users.

NVIDIA Inspector's real treasure is the game profile settings. Inspector includes literally hundreds of individual game profiles. Using these profiles you can set up individual driver settings for individual games that will be loaded and used when the game is launched. These setting are also more exhaustive than the settings included in the NVIDIA Control Panel so you have more control and additional settings to fine tune your games.

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NVIDIA Inspector Installation

The wonderful thing about NVIDIA Inspector is that it's a standalone application. There is no installation required. Simply download the tool and run the .exe to launch the program. This means it can also be ran from USB flash drives and used on the go. You can download NVIDIA Inspector here: NVIDIA Inspector

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IMPORTANT NOTES

− In NVIDIA Inspector, search for "Elder Scrolls: Skyrim". If you cannot find it, update your NVIDIA drivers to the latest version. − Make sure Transparency Multisampling is disabled. It has been reported that this can make Khajiit and other creatures appear semi-transparent.

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FEATURES DESCRIPTION (and FPS HIT)

Supersampling: 2x (FPS hit ~2-4)

• SS 2x is very performance friendly, but if you want an even better SS, try 4x/8x SS or 4x/8x Sparse-Grid SS (both are BIG fps killers). WARNING: Sparse-Grid SS may cause semi-transparent NPC/player/mobs glitch! Turn it off if you experience this issue in-game.

Anisotropic Filter: 16x (FPS hit ~1-2)

• Forcing AF 16x from your video card settings improves water rendering, even if the game already uses AF 16x. Be sure to set AF to 0 using the Skyrim Launcher when forcing it (revisit
• 1.D.2. SkyrimPrefs INI ).

WARNING: SSAO set to "Quality" or "High Quality" have a HUGE impact on performance!

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IMPORTANT: Some NVIDIA cards (like the GTX 560 Ti) ceased rendering SSAO outdoors in Skyrim after the official 1.5.24 patch. The problem hasn’t been resolved but NVIDIA is aware of it. For now, you can temporarily switch to Oblivion or Fallout 3 compatibility to get back the SSAO outdoors.