{"id":27259,"date":"2011-11-24T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27259"},"modified":"2011-11-24T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T12:24:57","slug":"how-to-drastically-reduce-skyrims-system-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/27259-how-to-drastically-reduce-skyrims-system-requirements","title":{"rendered":"How to drastically reduce Skyrim&#8217;s system requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guys who bought us the infamous ICEnhancer mods for Grand Theft Auto (which made it look ridiculously amazing) have done it again, but this time in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>When used in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyrimnexus.com\/downloads\/file.php?id=47\" target=\"_blank\">TESV Reduced Texture Pack<\/a> by alex30001, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyrimnexus.com\/downloads\/file.php?id=953\" target=\"_blank\">Performance\u00a0 and bugfix ENBSeries 092 Patch 5\u00a0<\/a> by Boris Vorontsov reportedly makes the game playable on older hardware that would otherwise not be able to make it past the first load screen.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t confirm this personally because MyGaming staff have a tendency toward blowing our meagre wages on butch gaming PC hardware, but commenters over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/mm11o\/oh_wow_skyrim_just_got_easier_to_runenbseries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a> seem to confirm that it&#8217;s legit.<\/p>\n<p>One user claims he was able to run the game on a Celeron 3.0 GHz CPU with 2GB of RAM and a paltry GeForce 210 512MB graphics card.<\/p>\n<p>He even took a screenshot; while the graphics take an expected knock, its surprisingly not that hideous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-low-texture-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27261\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-low-texture-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Skyrim low texture screenshot\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-low-texture-screenshot.png 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-low-texture-screenshot-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Skyrim-low-texture-screenshot-250x187.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from making the game playable on rubbish old computers, the Performance and bugfix ENBSSeries 092 Patch 5 also claims to make it more stable, so it may be worth checking out even for gamers with high-end gaming PCs.<\/p>\n<p>While Skyrim has received extremely positive reviews from critics, it is not without its flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Bethesda supports custom user created mods which are capable of tweaking pretty much every aspect of the game, from character model improvements, to better blood textures, a full 3D map and a better inventory system.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in cranking your Skyrim experience up to 11, be sure to check out our full <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/27109-skyrim-mod-starter-kit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Skyrim mods starter guide.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low resolution texture pack in conjunction with performance and bug fix mod make Skyrim playable on old hardware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":26055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,3],"tags":[165,21,905,925,923],"class_list":["post-27259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-bethesda","tag-headline","tag-mods","tag-system-requirements","tag-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27263,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27259\/revisions\/27263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}