Low spec PC? No Problem, buy and play anyway!

[DrDrake]

Hello Ambrosians,

Havent been active alot on Ambrosia, due to real life work and one other game ive been playing now, for those that are in my steam friend list will understand what im on about here.
Yeah, so if you ever wanted to play Skyrim but didnt bother to get it just because you might not have funds to get better graphics card for Skyrim, its not a big deal really. All you need is windows 8 and you are good to go. Just buy the game and enjoy but before you do, at game start window, go options and set everything to low options, more info in this screenshot:


[In View Distance settings set everything also to low apart from character fade which should be in slightly increased.]

Here are my settings for view distance:

Here is the deal about playing skyrim...Ive played it before, for atleast 2 years already, but then after 1.9 update and a month later my ps3 broke and i wasnt bothering to get another one just to play skyrim. I was on level 156 with loads of stuff collected, kind of sad to see that experience going to sh*ts. But then again i saw that there was a *Weekend Deal* on steam and Skyrim costs were below 4 euro, decided to buy it due to minimum system requirements. Had a look around on google and found out that you can actually play it without nvidia graphics with ease...
So yeah, im back into it and also bought the latest DLCs for game, Dawnguard and Dragonborn. Just dont go down installing mods, that will make you lag alot. With low options there is no lag ingame, some parts of the map where you come up to dungeons with alot of light like fire places, candles and mist, you might feel that it gets a bit laggy but overall game works like a dream. Your screen will be narrow while playing game, this is caused by aspect ratio (4:3) for better performance.

Anyway, goodluck if you consider buying the game and have some fun. I only posted this because i had few guys telling me they cant play skyrim due to crappy pc, but right now 4/5 of guys play skyrim already.
The game graphics remind me of the ones that CoD: World at War uses which im also playing on low specs and it works just the same.

Cheers,
DrDrake

[Dr.Richtofen]

I've tried decreasing every single one of these settings on my old PC but nothing could be done to improve my FPS. (My old PC had about 3GB of RAM, an integrated GPU and some random processor). If none of these things work,  I suggest using this mod -

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17137/?

Sure it looks bad, but at least its playable.

[Duke Devlin]

Good thing Skyrim is more of a game experience than graphical lel

[Jake]

I've got a shit computer & all.. Probaly worse than yours

I Just use optimisation Mods, & I can play everything on medium And render distances on nearly full with a consistant 30 fps

[Rawrplus]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

[prokiller]

wow! Thank you, this great tip. NVIDIA and AMD must hate you! With this 1 great tip, you can play skyrim! Don't forget to lower the settings.

[BANG BANG]

wow dude... i was bound =/ bought this game on sale and i couldn't run it,but now i use dis hack it workz!

[fuckingarabs]

OMG THANK YU SO MUCH NW I CAN PLAY SKYRIM WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM

DIZ HAK IS GREAT 10/10 WOULD LOWER SETTINGS AGAIN

[Coolpwner]

Hello

Greeting! I am from Russia Federation, you seeings, when i click on this topic, i thout it was another one of those bullshit topics! Thanke to you, I kan finally play skyrim, on windows 8. I lowered all the settings, and BOOM, it worked!! Thank you a lot!!

Warm Regards,
Koolpwner

['PL']

Oh the Natural WTB Disease is running again, Rest in Balaclava.

[DrDrake]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

 

Yes, half of my friends had it on ps3, whats the problem? I was the first one to actually buy it and they sort of followed, even though one of them is CoD fan he still liked playing it for a while ON PS3.

[fuckingarabs]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

 

Yes, half of my friends had it on ps3, whats the problem? I was the first one to actually buy it and they sort of followed, even though one of them is CoD fan he still liked playing it for a while ON PS3.

I HAVE SAME PROBLEM ON 1.6 AND MINECRAFT AND COD 1 PLZ HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

[Duke Devlin]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

 

Yes, half of my friends had it on ps3, whats the problem? I was the first one to actually buy it and they sort of followed, even though one of them is CoD fan he still liked playing it for a while ON PS3.

Does the ps3 version have mods ? ._.

[Rawrplus]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

 

Yes, half of my friends had it on ps3, whats the problem? I was the first one to actually buy it and they sort of followed, even though one of them is CoD fan he still liked playing it for a while ON PS3.

Does the ps3 version have mods ? ._.

No mod support is not the only thing that stinks about the console version. But either way, let's not turn this into mustard race topic.
Thought thinking about it, this probably should have been posted under tutorials

[Dr.Richtofen]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

To anyone who doesn't get it -
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GlenJoyner/20121014/179348/Outofmemory_Skyrims_PS3_woes_examined.php

[[P]aRa[S]]

Where are from all the random guys poping up...

[ℓσкαтσя]

we need a real life hax section.

[DrDrake]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

To anyone who doesn't get it -
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GlenJoyner/20121014/179348/Outofmemory_Skyrims_PS3_woes_examined.php

I dont really care about updates, since i played it long before them! As soon as skyrim showed up for ps3 in shop, i bought it!

[Rawrplus]

You bought skyrim for ps3? Oh man!

To anyone who doesn't get it -
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GlenJoyner/20121014/179348/Outofmemory_Skyrims_PS3_woes_examined.php

I dont really care about updates, since i played it long before them! As soon as skyrim showed up for ps3 in shop, i bought it!

Honestly I think you should give the PC Edition a try with all it's mods, DLCs and so on (albeit you probably would need a better PC for that).

[Pim]

I've had 1 issue with skyrim on ps3. First time i played it an entire city was gone. River.... Or smth. Just wasn't there, just a few doors (no walls) and everything else just vanished like it has never been there.

After deleting all local files and reinstalling everything was fine. Had a great experience on ps3

Edit: whiterun had never existed in my first version of the game