You can upgrade your CPU. Ryzen is almost there and an upgrade is reasonable.

You are one reason why skyrim is still quite popular and i think it is in Bethesdas interest to keep the game popular. They are still working on the game, so if you would make a suggestion for them, i truely believe they would do something in that direction.

8GB RAM
GTX 970

VRamSizeDX11 tool provides values between 10000 and 18000 so far. I took the lowest value after executing the tool 3 times but F4 wont start with ForceVideoMemorySize=true.

One thing thats bothers me for a long time is the light in Skyrim. Strafing with torches through the night just doens't look satisfying. Generally all exterior lightsources emit this ugly light. Some mods altered intensity or the color of the light which makes it a littlebit more bearable, but i thi...

Opethfeldt ENB ftw. Looks great and has great performance.

I would wait til next year if thats a possibility. Next year you get a new generation of intel CPUs which support DDR4 ram. Furthermore next year there will be 20nm gpus.

I think the best time to upgrade is at the beginning of new generation, not at the end.

I wonder if there is something to make the vegetation less noisy. Fog makes the vegatation even more pixelated espescially trees. Is there something to reduce it? Do i need better textures?

Hmm i think the performance drop is not abnormal. I also play with opethfeldt but in 1080p. I have a 7850 running at 1100mhz so performance should be higher than your card and i get 30-40 frames. Highly Performance friendly grass mod lowers my frames into the 20 in some areas. You can try to lower y...

You can give this a try:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/44752/?

Maybe you can tweak it to your liking.

My first try didn't work but i got it now working. Faster clouds work hand in glove with the windsound, so i can now enjoy your majestic cloudshadows.