So, someone could run the texture pack very smoothly if the VRAM usage wasn't that high to begin with. So, the amount of VRAM Skyrim uses depends on many things, screen resolution (higher=more textures eating up VRAM) being one of them. But this same card will experience stuttering if I try to run it in 1920x1080. I have a Radeon HD 5750 1GB (not a modern, high-end graphics card by any means) and I run Skyrim just fine at 60FPS on 1440x900, with about 12gb of texture mods installed. Do you mean to say that the official texture pack will not run well if your card has 1GB VRAM?Īctually it's a bit more complicated than that. Victoria Bartel Posts: 3325 Joined: Tue 10:20 am Please read installation instructions on the main page (you still need the actual. Within installation, you can even select certain 'secondary' areas where you don't really care how sharp say, some clutter looks, or some NPC clothing looks. You might be desperate for vram, but not that desperate! This option is a great compromise to give low-end specced computers a less blurry looking Skyrim!įinally my personal favourite option of the bunch, for the discerning medium rig mod user, the Hybrid + Vanilla normal maps option! Using the same high resolution mix of 10 textures as the first option, but with a clever use of vanilla normal maps underneath them in order to reduce vram usage at virtually no visual quality loss.

Strapped for vram? The mod has an option for 1024 across-the-board-capped textures, hand-picked and hand-compressed from the official texture packs, to replace the truly hideous 512 textures. Which is this basically: if there was a 512 texture in vanilla Skyrim, instead of ballooning it up to 2048 texture all of a sudden (which is default resolution for the DLC) a more reasonable but still much prettier-than-vanilla 1024 version is made. The complete optimized Hybrid option makes a sensible compromise with the official high-res texture pack. Have the official High-Res texture packs but find out too late that you can't really run them all? This mod helps by giving you more options with the extent of the high-res textures you want to use!

Figured this mod really deserves more attention (and downloads).

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