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Unofficial Skyrim Performance Boost

[Dec 24, 2011, 12:11 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Bethesda Softworks Forums have a thread on a new utility for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim claiming to offer framerate improvements of up to 40% on CPU-constrained systems (thanks Acleacius). Here's the skinny:

This patch will improve your frame rate by up to 40% in all CPU-dependent situations, i.e. especially in cities. It works mostly by rewriting some x87 FPU code and inlining a whole ton of useless getter functions along the critical paths because the developers at Bethesda, for some reason, compiled the game without using any of the optimization flags for release builds.

There has been some confusion about the original dll file and the current one for Script dragon. Script Dragon's dinput8.dll is 592kb The non working TESV Accelerator dinput.dll is 74kb

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Re: Unofficial Skyrim Performance Boost

Dec 24, 2011, 19:46

Jerykk

Third, I know it's fun to bash developers, but I haven't seen any compelling evidence yet that Bethesda actually screwed something up. Without actually seeing the original project files used to compile the code, wild-ass guesses and rampant speculation are about all anybody has. I think the fact that framerates drop by 50% in cities is sufficient evidence that Bethesda didn't do a very good job optimizing this console port.

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Comment [quote="Jerykk"Dec 24, 2011, 19:46]q[Third, I know it's fun to bash developers, but I haven't seen any compelling evidence yet that Bethesda actually screwed something up. Without actually seeing the original project files used to compile the code, wild-ass guesses and rampant speculation are about all anybody has.]q I think the fact that framerates drop by 50% in cities is sufficient evidence that Bethesda didn't do a very good job optimizing this console port. :| [/quote]

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