Help LOW FPS with Skyrim on L702x

[maze11]

try checking your GPU temps while youre trying to play. If they are abnormally high, the card might shrink performance to keep the safe temps.

[Bishie]

I found that a simple overclock using MSI Afterburner, the 1.4 BETA patch for Skyrim available via Steam, and the 290.53 BETA Nvidia drivers improved performance significantly.
I'd be inclined to turn shadows down to medium, no AA and use FXAA instead.
I've resorted to playing the likes of Skyrim and BF3 at 1366x768 also, allowing room to bump AA usage etc.

Playing Skyrim all on high at 1080p may be pushing it somewhat. The GT 555M is a capable GPU if you know how to get the most out of it, but don't expect desktop level performance.

You paid in excess of £1000 for a 3D display, Blu Ray, and the 2720QM CPU.
Price doesn't always reflect performance.
The spec in my signature cost £700 for instance, because I didn't opt for Blu Ray, the 3D 1080p display, and the CPU upgrade.

Best of luck to you.

[hizzaah]

You cant expect to run with everything on high with a mid-range card for forever.. Skyrims a demanding game. Update Skyrim and your nvidia drivers as suggested. Give Nvidia Inspector (overclocking utility) a go. I prefer it over MSI Afterburner..

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Benchmarks - Notebookcheck.net Tech Check out the results for the 555m. You'll have to tone the settings down some to get good fps in all areas

[super-twisted]

As above, disable or set shadows to low and try it again. Shadows are always the killer in any game these days (aside from AA and tesselation!).

[Sam_A_1992]

Originally Posted by super-twisted

As above, disable or set shadows to low and try it again. Shadows are always the killer in any game these days (aside from AA and tesselation!).

I have my shadows set to low and think they look fine, they still look defined and sharp. I also have aa off af x16 and fxaa on, with everything else on high i get atleast 40fps with temps no higher than 69C on both cpu and gpu. (no overclock btw)

I also have 2.5gb of texture replacers and loads of mods installed.

[batmemo]

Originally Posted by hizzaah

You cant expect to run with everything on high with a mid-range card for forever.. Skyrims a demanding game. Update Skyrim and your nvidia drivers as suggested. Give Nvidia Inspector (overclocking utility) a go. I prefer it over MSI Afterburner..

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Benchmarks - Notebookcheck.net Tech Check out the results for the 555m. You'll have to tone the settings down some to get good fps in all areas

Definitely this is not the result from Gt555 in xps.I play the game with version 1.3, all on ultra,1600:900;AA-4;FXAA,AF-16 and triplebufering forced through nvdia drivers,put all graphics mode that i can find;HD texture;Hd water;HD background mountains;HD foliage,gras,fire,light.snow,etc. tweak the shadows with some mod and it looks very nice and with skyboost i get 34-40 fps.I try Ambient Occlusion from new nvidia drivers on preformance level and realy the game looks better,but sadly the gpu just cant hanndle this i get 15-25 fps.I tried also that processor thing set to 99 procent that Sam_A_1992 write about,and realy i see biig tempreture drop from 85 max to 73-74.Realy nice.Thanks Sam

[Sam_A_1992]

Originally Posted by batmemo

Definitely this is not the result from Gt555 in xps.I play the game with version 1.3, all on ultra,1600:900;AA-4;FXAA,AF-16 and triplebufering forced through nvdia drivers,put all graphics mode that i can find;HD texture;Hd water;HD background mountains;HD foliage,gras,fire,light.snow,etc. tweak the shadows with some mod and it looks very nice and with skyboost i get 34-40 fps.I try Ambient Occlusion from new nvidia drivers on preformance level and realy the game looks better,but sadly the gpu just cant hanndle this i get 15-25 fps.I tried also that processor thing set to 99 procent that Sam_A_1992 write about,and realy i see biig tempreture drop from 85 max to 73-74.Realy nice.Thanks Sam

No problem i tried ambient occlusion aswell but the fps drop is simply to big. I also use enb mod from boris which makes things look nicer which now works for optimus laptops!!! ENB main page

[ZXRaziel]

I always switch the shadows off completely , i like it better that way and it gives you a good performance boost .

[batmemo]

Originally Posted by Sam_A_1992

No problem i tried ambient occlusion aswell but the fps drop is simply to big. I also use enb mod from boris which makes things look nicer which now works for optimus laptops!!! ENB main page

Is ENB series too havy for gt555.They envolve to many post procesing and SSAO.Wich version did you use.

[Sam_A_1992]

Originally Posted by batmemo

Is ENB series too havy for gt555.They envolve to many post procesing and SSAO.Wich version did you use.

Im using the latest version 105 enb injector (which is a non SSAO version) with this guys settings i found and without enb in this particular area i was in i was getting 40fps and with enb i got about 36fps. So a small drop but note version 105 performs a lot better than 103, expect 10+fps loss with 103. Also it can take a while to find settings you like.

Enb in general does make things brighter, more depth, deeper colours and a bit more crisp. I still dont know wether i prefer vanilla or enb tbh. Also please note most enb settings also use the fxaa post process injector which us optimus users cant use as it still relies on d3d9 files.

The enb settings are very customizable so it will probably take time to make a config which suits you. Which is why i downloaded a setting which i like then tweak to my liking.