Skyrim mods/tweaks recommendations

[insomnia_jt]

Yeah it's for system ram. Don't know what the limit is but when doing that DNA config wizard the limit there was 12+ ram.
Oooooh hair physics? I wish trees had better physics, like PhysX physics... Sure the branches "sway" but the trunks doesn't.

[insomnia_jt]

For those who want more grass, this list really does makes difference. I'll give you a heads up though, it takes a serious hit on the FPS...

Grass mods i have are;
Skyrim flora overhaul by Vurt
Dat Grass - Riverwood, solitude and whiterun, overwrite Flora's grass By JZE
Dense Grass By Zealyfree
Grass and Grass By MannyGT

thats my load order

Thanks to OhKay I finally have LOTS of grass

[insomnia_jt]

I really must post this mod. It's absolutely brilliant!
After level 30ish all dragons have bacome an easy task to kill, even at master/legendary difficulty. But these guys are what the dragons should be like!
You also get to create unique armor sets from the scales from each dragon.
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/11206

Here's Faalgolin, the second most easiest of them. Made me drink a few Ultimate Healing potions lol.

[valks666]

Those papyrus and budgetcap tweaks may be detrimental in the long run, according to some posts made by SmkViper a bethsoft rep over at the bethsoft forums, there is no way you can make skyrim use more than 4gb or memory, and the settings under papyrus only apply to the memory allocated to scripts. I didn't see the budget caps section mentioned by he clearly states the max memory skyrim can use is 4gb;

The values I recommend are the defaults

I can't begin to guess what a mod might need, but in general they should be as low as possible without running into problems. If you see "overloaded VM" errors in your log, then the values are too low, or the mod needs to be optimized or fixed (as that error can also indicate runaway savegame bloat).

Keep in mind that the entirety of Skyrim can use 4gb at most, and the entire game fits in about 1-2gb of that.

Minimum values should certainly not be set high - there is no reason to allocate 100kb for every single function call, especially when most only need a couple of bytes.

As with all ini settings: Let the user beware. If your computer starts crying you should probably tone down the settings. Or check your watercooling hoses.

'Artorius', on 08 Jan 2013 - 06:44 AM, said:


Duke Patrick (spooky fx) reccomends this figure when running his Heavy Weapons Combat mod:

iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000

as well as using these settings in the Papyrus section:
fUpdateBudgetMS=4.8
fExtraTaskletBudgetMS=4.8
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500
iMinMemoryPageSize=100000
iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000

(SmkViper)
I would recommend against making such large changes to the default settings as they will most likely have detrimental effects to memory, and framerates. The allocated memory bytes is stack size, not heap size, so there is no reason for it to be that huge. Also, page sizes that large will most likely disable some internal optimizations and waste large amounts of memory.

If you want to see what each of these ini settings do, check the wiki.

Link to the thread these are from http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/143507 ... ork/page-2
wiki page on papyrus settings http://www.creationkit.com/INI_Settings_%28Papyrus%29

~Cheers

[insomnia_jt]

Thanks! I'm beginning to wonder if Skyrims default ultra prefs and inis are the best... I'd like to know though if some of the changes that's been reccomended really are better. Like if bMouseAcceleration=0 really makes difference.

[valks666]

The thing is, most of those tweaks are out of date now. I know something has changed since I last played skyrim (with the 1.5 patch) because some of the tweaks that I used to be able to use (such as changing iShadowMaskQuarter=4 to 5 or 7) no longer work and/or get reset back to their defaults by the game itself. So I'm in the process of testing each ini tweak one by one again to see if any of them either improve performance or visual quality.

[insomnia_jt]

Then I guess the first post I made about the DNA ini tweaks are out of date as well.
Are there any mods that increases the RAM use in Skyrim?

[valks666]

Don't think its possible, since its a 32bit game. With the large address awareness flag ticked, 32bit applications can use a maximum of 4GB of RAM. As far as I know only 64bit applications can use more than 4GB, or something like that. Also I'm not sure how VRAM on video cards factors into this, is VRAM limited to 4GB as well, and it is 4GB of system ram, and 4GB of VRAM, or 4GB of ANY RAM total...Boris would know for sure!

~Cheers

[ENBSeries]

That's right. But it's possible to give about 2-2.5 gb of extra memory to the game, but i don't want to bother, performance decreased when i tested that trick and water textures corrupted. The game is too old now and it's hell buggy crap, better to keep my nerves for the future.

[plk4]

Is it possible to fake a ram disk though as a cache drive juat for skyrims needs?