TWEAK SECTION
Still having bad performance? Want to squeeze extra juice out of your system? Please try the following methods to possibly increase FPS, or lower vram usage.
Tweak one; Let's focus on setting up the compatibility for the .exe
1. Right click on your Skyrim exe on your desktop, and click properties
2. Click the "Compatibility" tab, make sure these boxes are checked, Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition, and Run this programs as an administrator
3. Click OK, and launch the .exe, your windows theme should turn into basic. This can result in roughly 200mb free.
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Tweak two; Once you've done that, we can work on the pagefile.
Click your windows start button and pull up control panel.
Once you have the control panel up we're going to want to go to System and Security, and from there System. On the left side of the system tab you should have "Control Panel Home" with 4 options. Device Manager, Remote Settings, System Protection, Advanced System Settings.
Click on Advanced System Settings. This should pull up a system properties box, if not already there, make sure you're on the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click settings. Click the advanced tab and "Change..." on virtual memory.
Once here, it should tell you at the bottom the minimum, recommended, and currently allocated virtual memory. Click the "Custom size" bullet, and in the Initial Size, and Maximum size enter the Recommended page file size, and click set, and then OK.
Your PC may ask you to restart, be sure to restart and try it out and report back.
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Tweak 3; I also recommend disabling ULPS via Regedit.
To do so follow these steps
1. Open the Regedit program, this can be done by using the start button search function
2. Once you have regedit opened, click edit, and then "Find"
3. Type Enableulps in the search bar
4. Double click enableulps and change the 1 to a 0, hit F3 to find all instances of enableulps, don't bother with enableulps_na
5. Exit regedit and restart