[Solved] Will my rig run Skyrim with maxxed out graphics?

Hi i was considering getting skyrim. I recently purchased an entry level gaming Pc which runs wow and SwtoR maxxed out perfectly fine. I was wondering if my rig would run it maxxed out because that would be awesome!! heres my stats:

AMD FX-4100 3.60 GHz Quad-Core AM3+ CPU 4MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology

Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more)

CrossFireX] GigaByte GA-970A-D3 AMD 970 Socket AM3+ ATX Mainboard w/ On/Off Charge, 7.1 Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe X16, 3 PCIe X1 & 2 PCI

8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card

650 Watts - Thermaltake TR2 RX Modular 80 Plus PSU

1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

Your graphics card is adequate, but your CPU may struggle. However I don't know that much about how Skyrim runs on Bulldozer. I would say that if you can't completely max out vanilla Skyrim, you will get pretty close. =)

Neither the graphics card nor the processor is strong enough, but the CPU will be the biggest problem. Skyrim is largely CPU-limited, and it really takes a 2500K to max it out. I think high settings look pretty good, though

I'm playing Skyrim at 50-60 fps with a Phenom II x6 1055t at 3.5 Ghz and a 1gb 6850. I play at high settings with AA off because at 1080p AA is really that noticable for me.

Do you just click the high settings button or do you manually set everything to high. cause if you do the first then thats not surprising. thats some medium settings and low settings mixed with high settings.

also on an overclock i7 2600k i dont see a fps difference between high and ultra. outside its about 110 fps then in a city it goes from 60-100 fps. not until i set the water settings and fxaa do i see a slow down.

phenoms and fx series cpu's just are good enough for this game because with a 6850 and a good cpu the game should be maxed out.

some body slap him....

I think your a clown and your an intel fanboy aint ya

its not the cpu its the GPU but it will run its good enough and just turn off MSAA and all should be well for gaming at about 50 ish fps.

i have 3 rigs and all play it no problem on 2 AMD and 1 intel system.

955BE with 6870
FX-8150 6970
Intel 3930K and 3 x 6970.

so dont let anybody tell you its the CPU or GPU its just MSAA that will kill the game for you

the 4100 wasnt able to run it well on high when i had one at 4.4ghz.
maybe the patch with its optimizations can change that a bit

the 955 is pretty much the same cpu as the 4100? LMAO
they have entirely different architecture, the phenom II being clock per clock faster than FX. the 4100 is about the equiv of a PIIx4 925 and cant even match up to the 955 especially when overclocked. i would know cause i have had both of those. WEI and countless benchmarks ive done with both the 925 and the 4100 left me wanting a PII BE which i then got.
I had the ram fix to 4gb before it got patched and it still didnt make a difference with the 4100. the reason it should run better now is because of optimizations to the game.
dont give assumed information to someone when you dont know what youre talking about

I am using an i3-2120, 4GB of RAM, and a GTX 260 (cost me £36) and I am running Skyrim on all max settings at 1080p.

I don't know what my framerates are, but I can tell you it is perfectly playable, looks beautiful and there is no lag.

Here's an interesting twist. If you're willing to play it on XBOX360 then do yourself a favor and run it on PC (at lower settings if you must). The reason being: MODS!!!

Oblivion's mods literally changed the game dynamics and just when you got tired of the game (hundreds of hours later) a new mod would come out and blow away everyone's mind. I expect Skyrim's mods to be no different.

Keep in mind that there are mods to improve performance while maintaining a similar if not better visual (i.e. SkyBoost made a 50% performance boost for me prior to yesterday's patch). This makes a huge difference for people like me who play Skyrim with 3D Vision : )

Bottom line, your PC should run the game fine (be it at high settings if not Ultra).

go away
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 074-9.html

The 4100 is pretty low end, i would say medium or high settings (depending on resolution)

ok will do some test sort out a fresh post and put them up.

you want skyrim ? heaven 2.5 ? avp ? vantage ? you want eyefinity score aswell as normal ?

will post screenshots no probs might even get some fraps videos in if i got time for them after work.

name your poison

The trolls are out in force today...

Thanks for that last. Enough, spoony. The data is against you. Unless you have some freak 2500K-equivalent 955, I can't believe that you're getting decent framerates on Ultra with AA.

well said alex, my point exactly, i HAVE mods installed for all types of stuff i get MAX 65fps and no lower than 60, regardless of playing in 1 screen in 1920x1200 or in 5760x1200 with a wide screen fix since the game is console optimised to run at 60 fps. doesnt matter what i have running i get the same results ever time from 1 card to 3 cards and the cpu over clocked or not its always the same FPS, .

i love it when clowns ALWAYS see the results on a chart on a forum or website and think EVER pc is going to be the same as that when it clearly wont be the same.

true i agree if its well spent or not is the most important thing.

see i got the 3 x 6970 as a replacement for 1 Asus Ares that had a DP port problem and i never got it back so had a credit and had to make to with what i have now :S nbot the best but was good enough for the moment.

and as a sign of im not talking *** i have my photobucket account here with pictures to prove my pc builds in various forms with cards and so forth.

other *** in the too btw

http://s1189.photobucket.com/album [...] _Invaders/

this is dirt 3 on eyefinity in ultra detail ingame

VANTAGE

http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3822907

3DMARK 11

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2567513

tweeking as we speak on all results

Im sorry, but how does this help OP ? If you want to brag then post some pics in the system gallery thread; that would be more appropriate.
To answer op yes, you can run Skyrim but may have to bring it down a notch on the settings. That is coming from someone that had played.Skyrim on a 4100. Im.not bashing.fx or amd and am.not a fanboy, Im just giving you real advice from experience

i think he got his answer earlier this week and hasnt been back since from what i can tell. so we just carried on the discussion .... no big deal...
occasionally i find its best to have a chat in a topic as you get to know your fellow users rather than just spouting specs all day...
i only use 2 sections of the forum as a whole the main pc systems thread and pc games... in both sections theres no real way to chat and get to know you guys...
so an occasional off topic chat in a finished topic doesn hurt any 1...

epeen monster though ??? sorry m8 i dont read books much so if thats a literary reference i didnt get it... but if thats your feellings towards other users then yeah i know that some just dont wanna chat. asking uses to post specs serves 2 purposes... it shows you and the forum they have the kit they claim to have and what skill level there at by what benches they prefer to show off there system with...
kids and younger (20-30) users will tend to go for the bells and whistles of 3d mark and some demanding ingame benches. while over-clockers will go for superpi... old men like me will often go for passmark, crysis or sandra so it gives more of an idea who your dealing with...
from what spoony has posted i would say hes l8 20's to early 30's in a reasonably well paying job. single and content to be so for the time being

theres a spot on the forum for that i was just making sure you guys knew thats all.

Speaking of getting to know each other better, I was wondering if we could ever start a chat room on old mIRC? If anyone here is still familiar with it?

id rather it was just chat threads as chat rooms tend to lead to cliques forming, resulting in bias or even bullying... worse still it could degenerate into chat about American wrestling... i saw this on another site where the mods wernt supposed to take sides but often did unintentionally. then on the forums when sum1 disagreed with the cliques point of view they were not only ridiculed but if they were neg reped by 1 they all jumped on the neg rep wagon... basically riding roughshod over the forum...

so nah i wouldn't bother with a chat room as it can bring out the worst in people who are generally quite nice. best to have a random thread stickied so every 1 can use it and join in on every forum, that way the mods that are already monitoring that section can keep things in order... as chatrooms can seem quite intimidating to non regulars. but a chat topic is something they wont be scared to jump in on.

Spoony, when is your country going to change their piracy laws so our rich American neighbours (I’m Canadian) can stop complaining about their intellectual property being violated? I’m not sure their new SOPA is the answer and given that your neighbours (Asians as a whole) account for about 80% of “illegal downloads” (according to US laws that is) I think their shooting themselves in the foot but reducing the one thing their country is about: Freedom (in this case, reducing Internet Freedom).

As for the OP, here’s some useful links for you (you’ll run the game fine, just not at ultra settings. These should dramatically improve your performance.

Drivers: Download the latest drivers (that means uninstall the current drivers, reboot, install new/latest drivers):
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Patches: Steam will automatically patch your game to the latest version (which improved performance a lot BTW, nevermind those benchmarks!)

Tweak Guides: Tweakguides.com has a pretty good one for you (Radeon user). Given your GPU, I wouldn’t rely on Nvidia’s tweak guide so much.

Hope you like the game!

Wow off topic much?

Honestly, OP's rig will run Skyrim fine at 1080p. For sure at Medium probably at High. The game isn't terribly GPU demanding, and his CPU clock is pretty high. The game doesn't really multithread very well, I think my only concern with an FX CPU is that it might run 2 threads off 1 core pair, which would be worse than 1 thread per core pair.