Cannot detect video hardware - Set to low quality.

[roach the human]

I;m havign a hell of a time trying to figure this out and Im at my wits end. This game works flawlessly on my desktop with a Geforce GTX 750i. My ASUS ROG VG752V laptop has a GTX 965m in it and no matter what I do I cannot force Skyrim to detect my GPU. Ive gone through the NVIDIA CP and set the .exe and launcher to use my GPU, ive disabled the onboard, ive chaged the .ini... WHAT DO I DO??!?!

[kdodds]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/496881136901276153/

[Qnomei]

Well, it doesn't matter if the game detects your GPU or not. The only thing that does is set the initial settings. If the game is set to run with your dedicated GPU in the Nvidia CP, that's what it will use.

If it bothers you that much, at the bottom of the SkyrimPrefs.ini there's a setting that looks like this:

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M"

Except it will say "Intel HD4600 Mobile" or something like that. Change it to:

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M"

That will probably get rid of the message. Probably. I can't remember if the game even detects my GPU or not, all I care about is if the game actually uses it. I know it does because I use hardware monitoring software that tells me, and the game doesn't look like crap.

[cheshirm]

might try running the game from geforce experience instead of steam, that sometimes works,

[roach the human]

i unfortunetly tried that with no success. the game plays but it terribly. framerate is like 10 fps, textures missing... unplayable. ive got an i7 with gtx 965m. this should look and play wonderfully but the game refuses to see my card.

[cheshirm]

click Help top to this window then system information. steam shows 2 video cards correct?

[tulle040657]

does your laptop have and intergrated graphics in addition to your 965m, Bethesda games have a bad habit of using the lesser chip

[AriekB]

windows 10 I'm guessing, just set your resolution to high or ultra manualy, Bethesda detection software is lacking when it comes to win 10.

[Ulvgard]

I am having the same issues with these specs
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: HP
Model: HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0xx
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD A12-9800 RADEON R7, 12 COMPUTE CORES 4C+8G
CPU Family: 0x15
CPU Model: 0x65
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3793 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: Radeon RX 560 Series
DirectX Driver Name: aticfx32.dll
Driver Version: 23.20.15017.3010
DirectX Driver Version: 23.20.15017.3010
Driver Date: 1 31 2018
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: Radeon RX 560 Series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x67ff
Revision: 0xcf
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18.74" x 10.55" (21.50" diag)
47.6cm x 26.8cm (54.6cm diag)
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

Memory:
RAM: 8149 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 952605 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 631510 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: XInput Controller #1 detected
VR Headset: None detected

[cheshirm]

maybe this:
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/DH-017.aspx

[Sinsling]

Quite the necro. Delete the skyrim inis from your save folder then restart the computer. Run the skyrim launcher afterwards.

[Dr. Kleiner]

I ran into this problem as well, what Sinsling stated is a good start, but this did not get Skyrim SE to detect the card either, so I went into, in my case, the application for the video card NVIDIA GeForce Control Panel, picked the game executable in the 3D drop down menu settings and made sure it was set to use the NVIDIA GPU, not the default "use global settings" blaa,blaa,blaa. This still did not get Skyrim SE to recognize the card, but did allow me to change the settings in Skyrim's options menu to a higher resolution and Ultra High settings. Hopefully you have a similar application where you can do the same, this should allow you to get the higher framerates, resolutions, etc.

[Derza]

Yes I had the same problem with Skyrim and I have spent over 20 hours looking everywhere for a solutions. After contacting Bethesda, apparently if you have onedrive running in your windows game won't work. The Solution is to make another user (starting your pc you choose) to play the game from there happily ever after. Same goes for Fallout 4 :D