Skyrim Performance PLUS

Skyrim Performance Plus Mod by VirusType2, aka \'Vergis\', Jan 16, 2012. Got some performance problems? Give these series of mods a try. They certainly can\'t hurt. Some users are reporting performance problems with certain effects like snow and rainfall. I had big problems with the falling aspen leaves in The Rift area of the game. Skyrim was designed for consoles, which have good CPUs, but weak GPUs. It\'s generally the opposite for PC gamers, which have extremely powerful GPUs. It\'s important to mention, the console versions run at only ~30 FPS, at lower resolutions, and indeed have framerate problems at times. However, PC gamers play at higher resolutions, and use effects like Amibient Occlusion, Anistropic Filtering, Anti-Aliasing, and Post Processing Effect Filters. This really puts a burden on the PC. Especially because this game is already very demanding of a CPU. Even the real-time shadows are CPU intensive. The special effects in this game, like snow and rainfall, are called particles, and are rendered by the already overtaxed CPU. Therefore, by reducing the textures in these particle effects, we can expect a variable degree of graphic performance improvement, depending on your system and graphic setup. Obp1Wm1Vo84&feature=youtu.be Thanks to Arsenalrobert for the video! The Rift, or Autumn area of Skyrim, is the most graphically demanding part of the world, on my computer. I figured I could greatly increase performance in The Rift by degrading the quality of the complex falling leaves FX. The vanilla leaves are 512x512px, fast moving, animated objects, with 64 frames of animation, and upwards of 20 can fall at any time. The leaves require more animation as they are asymmetrical and are spinning and twirling. Even in the best of situations, this contributed to a significantly lower minimum framerate in this area, compared to other parts of Skyrim. The falling pine needles, for comparison, are only 128x128 with just 4 frames of animation. Nice as they look, I think most of us here would rather play the game than look at a slideshow of a forest. There are several versions of this mod of varying performance. The leaves move quickly. The drop in quality isn\'t as obvious as it is when looking at a screenshot. However, take a look to compare the graphic degradation you might notice. I use the 128x128 version, which is a very significant reduction while still looking... relatively the same. Many users like the \'Extreme Performance\' edition. Depending on your computer and settings, your results will vary. For me it feels like a 5-20 FPS improvement, with an i5-750 CPU. Someone else has similar results, using a FPS meter. Check the comments for more info. The improvement will be most noticeable if your framerate is low. This is especially the case when turning and sprinting through the Rift, with several