Skyrim SE won't recognize my NVIDIA card!

[X7]

​1º: Skyrim won't recognize my GTX 1050 and so, the game sets itself to run at low

2º If i play fullscreen, the game won't recognize my resolution, the game stretches outside the second monitor and it becomes blurry. So i have to play WindowMode Borderless

I already have tweaked NVIDIA Control Panel, by selecting SkyrimSE.EXE and forcing to use High-Performance NVIDIA Processor. The game runs at 50 fps, is this normal with an 1050?

Windows10
GTX1050 / Intel i7-7700HQ
Laptop MSI GL62M 7RD

[El Biznatchio]

Publicado originalmente por Sinsling:

@biznatch gpu's won't use system ram when their vram runs out?

Nope.

Publicado originalmente por Sinsling:

@rip while it still perturbs me that your system can't run SSE at 60fps on it's native display, I would like to share some advice on gaming laptops;

A good practice that I have learned when buying laptops is to expect the performance of a desktop of half the cost. This means that a $900 (that is the typical cost of your model) laptop performs as a $450 desktop. A $1600 laptop (current market price of my model) can be expected to perform like a $800 desktop.

Going cheap just isn't an option if you want a powerhouse laptop, unless you are willing to hand-build one.

I've pretty much exhausted my limited knowledge for solutions. It may just be the gtx 1050 2gb doesn't perform as well as you would like.

^^ Hence why I say anything under 2000.00$ is a low priced gaming laptop. For comparison sake my desktop cost 1500.00$ to build and I canabalized a few parts (namely PSU and secondary harddrive), and that was just a hair below bleeding edge at the time I built it. Essentially a budget performance gaming rig, costs to go up any higher on the ladder were 500.00$ per componant.

[Ancient]

Publicado originalmente por RIPsnAw'-:

The Laptop cost me 1000€ (That is not low priced gaming laptop i guess lol)

It is. My MSI GT73VR[www.amazon.com] with i7-6820HK/32GB/GTX 1080 was $3299 when I bought it new last year. It's good, but like Sinsling said above, it's still essentially only comparable to a $1500-$1700 desktop. My $2500 gaming desktop can bury it easily in benchmarks, but I can't take my desktop with me on a train or whatnot either so I paid through the nose for the portability.

Don't take my word for it though... listen to the guys at notebookcheck.net that do this for a living:

The GL62M 7RD is a cheap entry-level device into the gaming world. Price and classification within the MSI line-up suggest that cuts have been made in several aspects. Nevertheless, the specification does not sound bad: Kaby Lake quad core processor, GeForce GTX 1050, 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB hard drive.

- Source[www.notebookcheck.net]

Also, like I said way back on page 1, ~50 FPS for Medium, FXAA, 1080p in SSE is normal for a mobile GTX 1050: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSy7Gzq7Qjc

It's not underperforming. It just has it's limits and they're pretty low.

[Sinsling]

Sadly lower than my 970m t.t

[X7]

When I bought this laptop, it was not to "full game" because I need the laptop when I leave the house, so a laptop was what I needed, and later buy a desktop full gaming. Sooner or later I would notice a difference and this is it... Well the Special Edition looks good enough without enb's so I'll just mod it a little and run it on medium.
(I'm gonna connect a miniDP later for a last try)

[X7]

Thanks everyone

[Eriane]

Publicado originalmente por RIPsnAw'-:

When I bought this laptop, it was not to "full game" because I need the laptop when I leave the house, so a laptop was what I needed, and later buy a desktop full gaming. Sooner or later I would notice a difference and this is it... Well the Special Edition looks good enough without enb's so I'll just mod it a little and run it on medium.
(I'm gonna connect a miniDP later for a last try)

ENB really kills the FPS on the game. I bought a $500 laptop a year after skyrim came out, real budget but I needed it to travel. It played skyrim (oldrym) at 60fps vanilla, and it could still pull 50-60fps with 100+ mods. ENB is when it dropped to 30fps but mind you it had a 4gb dedicated video card in it. Games rely heavily on v-ram for textures so 2gb is fine for <2k textures at least for skyrim.

You're probably better off and this is totally theoretical, to install a texture mod that uses the vanilla skyrim textures from oldrym and enable ENB. It might look better that way, but it's hard to tell if this would work or not.

To be frank, your laptop is probably overpowered for skyrim SE but it lacks in v-ram.

[ravensm2009]

ok, so its not really a problem for me but i do have the same problem, skyrim se launcher simply wont detect my gpu. i dont have the onboard gpu listed in my pc anywhere, not in device manager and nvidia control panel doesnt give me an option to switch gpu's. the pc simple thinks i only have one gpu. and with that heres my specs

i7 7700k
1050 ti oc
8 gb ram
250 ssd
windows 7 home premium (i plan on switching to 10 at some point for the directx 12 feature)

like i said, its not really a problem but if someone can point me to a fix, my ocd would REALLY appreciate it.

[VectorX]

Figured it on my comp. Check your BIOS settings (especially MSI). Ensure that your primary card is PEG (Primary External Graphics?) and not IGD (Integrated Graphics Display). I noticed that Skyim SE just uses whatever is listed as your primary display adapter and doesn't let you choose which one to use. While windows won't care and will usually use the integrated graphics for low power times and the graphics card during games, that's not always the case.

[ravensm2009]

Publicado originalmente por VectorX:

Figured it on my comp. Check your BIOS settings (especially MSI). Ensure that your primary card is PEG (Primary External Graphics?) and not IGD (Integrated Graphics Display). I noticed that Skyim SE just uses whatever is listed as your primary display adapter and doesn't let you choose which one to use. While windows won't care and will usually use the integrated graphics for low power times and the graphics card during games, that's not always the case.

my CPU doesn't have an IGD, its purely a CPU, i have since upgraded my GPU to a 2060 super. still same problem, my bios even comfirms that i only have a GPU and not a IGP as well.

its weird, not a problem since the feature is only there to optimize your graphic settings, which i have bethINI do anyways. i just find it odd that the game has trouble seeing certain cards