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The issue here is, will there be enough power to run Skyrim and be enjoyable? Yes and no. You can probably play it, but not on high resolution, and not with many graphical features enabled, the kinds that require a dedicated GPU, if you want to see more than 10fps.
But take heart, lots of people play on Ryzen iGPUs, and it runs great! Just don't expect to go above Medium detail if you want to stay around 60fps at 1920x1080.
Your best bet? Just try it. If it doesn't work well, refund it. You have I think, 2 hours of playtime and 2 weeks of ownership, where within that timeframe, you get an automatic refund, no Valve customer service necessary... after that, it will depend on Valve. They usually do, they can tell if you spent the whole time trying to get it to work because you really wanted to play, vs someone trying to get a "freebie" experience.
I would avoid mods, at least during this test. Mods will just complicate things. If the game seems fast enough and you have plenty of RAM available still (close your browser, and every app, just Steam and Skyrim if you can)
Hey who knows, it might be fun to try mods. But not during your trial phase when you might return it.
I found no info on if it dynamically allocates vram with system ram but if it does then you have plenty with 16GB. Just dont crank the game. You will probably need to play it at 720p high or 1080p low to get decent framerates. Hopefully not 720p low.
My last playthrough had been on a Nintendo switch and when my Notebook has a Performance which is a little more pretty, than I am fine with it.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ryzen+5600+RX+vega+7+skyrim+SE&t=ffab&atb=v256-1&iax=videos&ia=videos
Easy to install:
BethINI, a configuration tool that goes beyond what the default launcher has to offer in terms of adjustable parameters:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4875
The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/266
Unofficial Performance Optimized Textures - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21166
Insignificant Object Remover - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/3354
Harder to install:
SSE Engine Fixes - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17230
^ Needs some work-around to work with the latest game update.
SSE Display Tweaks - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34705
^ Needs manual adjustments to enable flip chains. See also: DisplayTweaks Utra Performance Pack - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/91098
I really just want to enjoy the World of Skyrim without bigger improvements and stuff like that.
When systems come with on-board graphics chips, they usually have that option.
Granted, it'll probably be something like bumping it from 1gb reserved as VRAM to 2gb.. but, it's better than nothing.
I did that on old systems I had running Intel chips with integrated graphics. When I say "old" I mean the BIOS option let me bump them from 32mb vram to 64mb vram. It wasn't game-changing. I couldn't magically play modern games on high graphics. But, it let me squeak out a bit more performance on games I could get running on the systems.
I was running STALKER games on an Intel integrated graphics chip on an eMachine form factor for a while. That's not Skyrim, obviously, but it's just letting you know that sometimes you gotta look under the hood a bit more to see if you can make your system do what you want.
Onboard graphics are not designed for gaming obviously. They're designed to just give you a visual on your screen if you don't have one so you're not awakened with a black screen. Great for emails, or for your facebook like a lot of people like to do, but not really designed for very much else.
Since ram, especially V-ram is going to be a huge issue (because you have none without sacrificing your actual ram), I'd strongly recommend getting a low-end texture pack. These are designed to cut the resolution of textures by either 1/2, 1/4th or even 1/8th in some cases. Textures are some of the biggest consumers of V-ram.
Here's one that apparently turns all of the textures to 128x128 (1/8th): https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32823/?tab=description
Turn off most post-processing effects and the random grass generation with BethINI, and the game should run fairly playable to full 60 fps, even with onboard graphics on a decent resolution.
going lower texture resolution will just make for more aliasing artifacts and crap from upscaling, it's not like we're talking about a 2010 Intel HD blah blah blah, we're talking about a modern last-5-years Ryzen CPU with a modern iGPU, have you not played with a Zen2 or an Intel Xe? Some of these things can do RT, integrated gpus doing raytracing. Just saying. It's not 2007 anymore, the iPhone isn't a marvel of technology, it's an outdated calculator.
I see you bought it, you tell us how it plays, Bal!
I don't know why you are comparing a laptop, that's designed to game without a GPU, to a notebook that's not designed to game, let alone without a GPU. It's comparing an apple to an orange.
Same with iphones. Some are designed to be used for gaming. You're not going to game on a mobile device that is designed for e-book reading on the Resident Evil 4 Remake mobile port. I know, because I own one. You can't turn 1 gigs of ram into 16 gigs of ram on hopes and dreams. It just doesn't work. Mine clearly isn't designed for it. I can milk some games out of it by freeing up as much ram as possible, but 1 gig max ram is still 1 gig.
Genuinely when you make a piece of technology do something that it's clearly not designed to do, then you have to do some performance shortcuts, especially when it will also be missing essential software and drivers updates and the game is designed to have to display stuff in a proper and efficient manner, not to mention the fact it's missing what is listed as a required piece of hardware to even run the game properly.
If it works well with the vanilla textures, then cool. If not, I told OP another option to squeeze more performance and gave them the worst case scenario option in the form of a link if they still encounter performance problems. Textures will be one of the biggest impacts on performance as it's all GPU-related and that's a key piece of hardware that's listed as a requirement to run the game that they are missing. Therefore, minimizing the impact of said missing hardware should naturally help improve performance. As well as removing the grass, because grass for some reason in the Creation Engine is ridiculously straining on low-end systems.
Enjoyed the game nearly 2 hours in the morning and I am quiet happy.
Thank you all.
Edit: Didn't actually install the BethIni.