Skyrim Performance and Graphics Boost Guide

This site has been retired and will hardly updated as I'm not playing this version of the game anymore.

First of all, read this all careful, as you will miss some important Information and may get bad experience if you tweak your INIs wrong.

The new Skyrim Special Edition released on Oct 28, 2016 is a 64-bit application and the graphics environment and memory management is more powerful. More details here.

My recommendations and INI tweaks from here are NOT applicable for Skyrim SE. For Skyrim SE use my preset recommendations here.

Before you start to tweak your INIs, save and backup your current INIs. May be you first start opening yours and then choose one from my presets and compare it in Notepad and edit yours. The collection under main files contains all different presets for weak, medium, high and ultra hardware sets. You can find each of them as a standalone download under optional files.

If you're using an AMD Radeon graphics card, use the currently new final release, or even better Adrenalin 21.x, I'm using 21. 3. 2 currently and finally all stuttering has been gone, all supporting Windows 10. 0 as well already, to continue with your good experiences on the game and graphics and my settings. When you use the new AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition, take care you defined the game settings for Skyrim as mentioned before, as adjusting AMD game profiles is different as before with CCC. You are now able to adjust the predefined profiles in the new AMD Radeon Adrenalin UI.

But keep in mind, that usage of VRAM on Win8 and Win10 was limited for DX9 games up to 4GB only, not higher as it was possible with Win7. Microsoft Platform Support Team wass already investigating this bug. Now with since Win10 Fall Creators Update during October 2017 this bug has been fixed. The recent version of Windows 10 (starting with 1703 Build 15063. 13 and higher) gives you a bit more with the new integrated game mode, which gives your game more priority on resources and the VRAM memory limit for DX9 games has been removed.

When you use ENBoost (currently v0. 479) and want to make use of the new VRAM memory feature which came with Win10 Fall Creators Update, you need to disable Autodetect VRAM setting on your enblocal.ini and set the real VRAM size like

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false

VideoMemorySizeMb=6144

With Skyrim V Special Edition, this memory issue will significantly change again, as this remastered version of the game is a 64-bit application supporting DX11, which enables use of more memory. Famous modders are also prepared to change and working on their mods to match and make them compatible with the new version. So don't use my recommendation on Skyrim SE, they are only for legacy Skyri