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Skyrim reimagines the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose. The new character system allows you to play any way you.
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- 2Officially Recognized Specifications
- 3Special Edition Official Specifications
- 4Unofficial Video Chipsets Specifications
Knowing Your Computer's Hardware[edit]
It is essential to know what your hardware is before you can use this page. On Windows systems, the easiest way to identify your video hardware is to run DxDiag, which is short for DirectX diagnostic. To do this:
- On Windows XP, click the Start button on the lower left-hand side of the screen, select the 'Run' option and type in dxdiag, then hit enter.
- On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, click the Start button and type in dxdiag directly in the search box at the bottom of the start menu that pops up, and hit enter.
- On Windows 8, right-click anywhere on the Start screen and select 'All Apps' in the lower-right. From there, type 'dxdiag' (ignoring the 'No apps match your search' message) to search for it. When you've typed the entire word, it'll show up as an app and you can click on it to launch it.
You may be asked if you want to check for digital signatures. You don't need to for this, so click 'No'. Once you're in DxDiag, on the first screen (System) there will be a box called System Information. Within this box will be your processor and memory information. Under the tab 'Display' will be the information about your video card, in the Device box.
- System Wars; Best Console for Skyrim? It's really a crime to play a TES game on consoles. Also you get all the hundreds of hours DLC for free in the form of mods. Best console for Skyrim.
- Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features like remastered art and effects, volumetric god rays, dynamic depth of field, screen-space reflections, and more.
If you are using a GNU/Linux operating system, use the command
lshw
to view hardware specifications for your machine.You can also use an external program to find computer details and more accurately determine if your computer is able to run Skyrim. See the External Links section for some such programs.
Officially Recognized Specifications[edit]
The following represents what Bethesda's officially released specifications for Skyrim are, according to BethBlog. It is also important to note that even if a system meets these, it may still have very low performance. According to Pete Hines on Twitter: 'The Min specs get you playing. The recommended specs let you play on High, not on Ultra. You'll want [a] beefier rig for that.'
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Recommended[edit]
- Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
- Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU processor
- 2GB System RAM
- 6GB free HDD (Hard disk drive) space
- DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon HD 4890 or higher
- DirectX compatible sound card
- Internet access for Steam activation
Minimum System Requirements[edit]
- Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor (AMD Sempron @ 2.4 GHz)
- 2GB System RAM
- 6GB free HDD space
- Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
- DirectX compatible sound card
- Internet access for Steam activation
Special Edition Official Specifications[edit]
The Skyrim Special Edition runs on an updated engine with a host of graphical improvements, and as such requires higher specs. The following are the officially recognized specifications according to Bethesda.net. Notably, it does not run on 32-bit machines like the original release.
Recommended[edit]
- Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit Version)
- Intel i5-2400/AMD FX-8320
- 8GB RAM
- 12GB free HDD space
- NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD R9 290 4GB
Minimum System Requirements[edit]
- Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit Version)
- Intel i5-750/AMD Phenom II X4-945
- 8GB RAM
- 12GB free HDD space
- NVIDIA GTX 470 1GB/AMD HD 7870 2GB
Console Storage Needs[edit]
- PS4: 20GB (North America), 33GB (Europe)
- Xbox One: 17GB (North America), 25GB (Europe)
Unofficial Video Chipsets Specifications[edit]
The video card market is flooded with cards with various clock speeds and architectures, so making a totally accurate list of all available cards is simply impractical. In order to make this list, several generalizations have been made, and several cards have been omitted for space. Also note that much of this list is user-reported; your experience may vary.
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Personal Computer[edit]
Very High / Extremely High | High / Very High | Medium / High | Low / Medium | Very Low / Low | Unplayable |
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ATI / AMD Radeon | |||||
RX 480 8GB RX 480 4GB RX 470 8GB RX 470 4GB RX 460 4GB RX 460 2GB R9 295X2 8GB R9 Fury X 4GB R9 Fury 4GB R9 Nano 4GB R9 390X 8GB R9 290X 4GB R9 390 8GB R9 290 4GB R9 380 4GB R9 380 2GB R9 285 2GB R9 280X 3GB R9 280 3GB HD7990 6GB HD7970 6GB HD7970 3GB HD7950 3GB HD7870 2GB R9 270X 4GB R9 270X 2GB R9 270 2GB HD7850 2GB HD7770 1GB HD7750 1GB HD7700 1GB HD6990 4GB HD6870X2 2GB HD6970 2GB HD6870 1GB HD6950 2GB HD6950 1GB HD6850 1GB HD5970 4GB HD5970 2GB HD5870X2 4GB HD5870 2GB HD5870 1GB HD5850 1GB HD4870X2 2GB HD4850X2 2GB HD4850X2 1GB | HD6790 1GB R7 260X 2GB HD6770 1GB HD5830 1GB HD5770 1GB HD4890 2GB HD4890 1GB R7 250 1GB HD4870 1GB HD4870 512MB HD4670 AGP 1GB | HD6750 1GB HD6670 1GB HD6570 1GB HD5750 1GB HD5670 1GB HD5670 512MB HD5650 1GB HD4850 1GB HD4850 512MB HD4830 512MB R7 240 1GB HD4770 512MB HD4730 512MB HD4670 1GB HD4670 512MB HD3870X2 1GB HD3870 512MB HD3850 512MB HD2900XT 1GB HD2900XT 512MB HD2900Pro 512MB | HD6450 1GB HD5570 1GB HD5550 1GB HD5450 512MB HD4650 512MB HD4550 512MB HD3850 256MB HD3650 256MB HD2900GT 256MB HD2600XT 256MB X1950XTX 512MB X1950XT 256MB X1950GT 512MB X1950Pro 512MB X1950Pro 256MB X1900XTX 512MB X1900XT 512MB X1900XT 256MB X1900GT 256MB X1900GT Rev2 256MB X1800XT 512MB X1800XT 256MB X1800XL 256MB X1800GTO 256MB X1650XT 256MB | HD4250 512MB HD4350 512MB HD3450 256MB HD2600Pro 256MB HD2400XT 256MB HD2400Pro 256MB X1650Pro 256MB X1600XT 256MB X1600Pro 256MB X1550 AGP 512MB X1400 Mobility 128MB X1300XGE 512MB X1300XT 256MB X1300 256MB X850XTPE 256MB X850XT 256MB X850Pro 256MB X800XT/PE 256MB X800XL 256MB X800GTO2 256MB X800GTO 256MB X800Pro 256MB X800GTO 256MB X800GT 256MB X800 256MB | X700XT 256MB X700Pro 256MB X700 256MB 9800XT 256MB 9800SE 256MB 9800Pro 256MB 9800 256MB 9700Pro 256MB |
Nvidia GeForce | |||||
GTX 1080 8GB GTX 1070 8GB GTX 1060 6GB GTX 1060 3GB GTX 1050 2GB GTX Titan X 12GB GTX Titan Black 6GB GTX Titan 6GB GTX 980 Ti 6GB GTX 980 4GB GTX 780 Ti 3GB GTX 970 4GB GTX 960 2GB GTX 780 3GB GTX 770 2GB GTX 760 3GB GTX 760 2GB GTX 750 1GB GTX 690 4GB GTX 680 4GB GTX 680 2GB GTX 670 2GB GTX 660 Ti 2GB GTX 590 3GB Mars II Dual GTX 580 3GB GTX 580 3GB GTX 580 1536MB GTX 570 1280MB GTX 560 Ti 448 1GB GTX 560 Ti 2GB GTX 560 Ti 1GB GTX 560 3GB GTX 560 1GB GTX 480 1536MB GTX 470 1280MB GTX 465 1GB GTX 460 2Win 2GB GTX 460 2GB GTX 460 1GB GTS 450 2GB GTX 295 1792MB GTX 285 2GB GTX 285 1GB | GTX 550 Ti 1GB GTX 460 SE 1GB GTX 460 768MB GTS 450 1.5GB GT 440 2GB and 4GB GTX 280 1GB GTX 275 1792MB GTX 275 896MB GTX 260-Core 216 896MB GTX 260 896MB 9800GX2 1GB | GT 630 2GB GT 520 2GB GTS 450 1GB GT 440 1GB GTS 250 1GB GTS 250 512MB GTS 240 512MB GT 240 1GB GT 240 512MB 9800GTX+ 512MB 9800GTX 512MB 9800GT 1GB 9800GT 512MB 9600GT 1GB 9600GT 512MB 9600GSO 768MB 9600GSO 512MB (G94) 9600GSO 384MB 8800 Ultra 768MB 8800GTX 768MB 8800GTS 512MB (G92) 8800GT 1GB 8800GT 512MB 8800GTS 640MB (112SP) 8800GTS 640MB 8800GT 256MB 8800GTS 320MB 8800GS 384MB NVS 3100M 512MB | GT 520 1GB GT 430 1GB GT 220 1GB GT 220 512MB GT 610 1GB 9500GT 1GB 9500GT 512MB 8600GTS 512MB 8600GTS 256MB 8600GT 512MB 8600GT 256MB 7950GX2 1GB 7950GT 512MB 7900GT 512MB 7900GX2 1GB 7900GTX 512MB 7900GTO 512MB 7900GS 512MB 7900GT 256MB 7800GT Dual 512MB 7800GTX 512MB 7800GTX 256MB 7800GS Bliss+ 512MB 7800GT 256MB 7800GS 256MB 7600GT 256MB | GT 210 512MB 9400GT 512MB 8500GT 256MB 8400GS 256MB 7600GTS 256MB 7600GS 256MB 7300GT 256MB 6800Ultra/EE 256MB 6800GT 256MB 6800GS 256MB 6800GS AGP 256MB 6800 256MB 6800XT/LE 256MB 6600GT 256MB 6150SE nForce 430 | 7300GS 256MB 7300LE 256MB 7300SE 256MB 6600 256MB 5950 Ultra 256MB 5900 Ultra 256MB |
Other | |||||
Intel HD 4000 Intel HD 4400 128MB Intel HD 4200 | Chrome S27 256MB Intel i740 |
Mobile/Laptop PC[edit]
Extreme[note 1] | High[note 2] | Medium / High[note 3] | Medium[note 4] | Medium / Low[note 5] | Low[note 6] | Unplayable[note 7] |
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ATI Radeon | ||||||
HD 6990M HD 6970M HD 6950M HD 4870 X2 | HD Mobility 4650 1gb (8GB Ram) HD 7670M HD 6870M HD 6490M GDDR5 Version HD 5870M HD 5470M (with 8 Gb RAM) | HD 6850M HD 6770M HD 6750M HD 6830M HD 6730M HD 5850M HD 5830M HD 5770M HD 4870 HD 4850 HD 4830M HD 3870 X2 HD 3850 X2 | HD 6670M HD 6650M HD 6630M HD 5750 HD 5730 HD 5650M HD 4670M HD 4650M HD 3870M | HD 6490M DDR3 Version HD 6470M HD 6370M HD 5470M HD 4570M HD 3850M HD 3670M HD 3650M HD 2600M XT Mobility X1900 Mobility X1800 XT Mobility X1800 | HD 6450M HD 6320M HD 6310M HD 6250 HD 5450M HD 5430M HD 4550M HD 4530M HD 4350M HD 4330M HD 4270M HD 4250M HD 4200M HD 3470M HD 3450M HD 3430M HD 3410M HD 3200M HD 3100M HD 2600M HD 2400XT HD 2400M Mobility X1800XT Mobility X1700 Mobility X1600 Mobility X1450 Mobility X1400 Mobility X800 Mobility X700 Mobility 530v | Xpress X1270 Xpress X1250 Xpress X1200 Mobility 9800 Mobility 9600 Mobility 9500 Mobility X2300 Mobility X600 Mobility X300 |
Nvidia GeForce | ||||||
GTX 660M GTX 580M GTX 570M GTX 485M | GT 650M GTX 560M GTX 480M GTX 470M GTX 460M 1.5GB GTX 460M 1GB GTX 285M | GT 555M 2GB GT 555M 1GB GT 550M GT 445M GTS 360M GTX 280M GTX 260M GTS 260M GTS 160M 9800M GTX 9800M GTS 9800M GT 9800M GS 8800M GTX | GT 540M GT 525M GT 435M GT 425M GTS 350M GTS 250M GT 335M 9700M GTS 8800M GTS Quadro FX 1600M | GT 630M GT 520M GT 420M GT 415M GT 330M GT 325M GT 320M GT 310M GT 240M GT 230M GT 220M GT 130M GT 120M 9700M GT 9650M GS 9650M GT 9600M GT 9600M GS 9500M GS 8700M GT 8600M GT 7950M GTX 7900 GTX 7900 GS 7800 GTX 7800M Go NVS 4200M | 410M 315M 305M G205M G120M G110M G105M G103M G102M ION 2 9500M G 9500M Ge 9400M ION 9300M G 9200M GS 8600M GS 8400M GT 8400 GS 8400M G 7700M Go 7600M GT 7600 Go 7400M Go 7300 Go 6800M 6600M Go | 8200M G 7200M Go 6400M Go 6250M Go 6200M Go FX 5700 Go FX Go 5600 4200 Go |
Other | ||||||
Intel HD 3000 | Intel HD (800x450) |
- ^These cards should max the game at full 1080p without any problems.
- ^These cards should run Skyrim at high settings, give or take a little depending on the resolution. They will definitely play Skyrim well.
- ^These cards should be around medium/high settings give or take a little depending on the exact resolution. Some of these cards are showing their age but should still be more than sufficient for Skyrim.
- ^These cards should be around solid medium settings give or take a little depending on the resolution. These cards should be on par with the console version graphically or even a bit higher.
- ^These cards should run Skyrim, with the right tweaks you could probably get them to look as good as the console version. The farther you get down the list the closer you are to low end.
- ^These cards will have trouble running the game, if they run it at all. The game probably won't be very enjoyable on any of these. Try setting the lowest resolution available (800x450 for 16:9) and desktop resolution 800x600 - playable on Celeron 847 and 807, (SandyBridge 1.1GHz dual core and 1,5GHz single core)
- ^These cards will not run Skyrim, it's time for a new computer.
These are generalizations based on the entire series of cards, single cards can be quite different from the rest of the series.
Source: Unofficial 'Will My PC Run Skyrim' Thread #63 w/ hardware guide (original thread may have more information for your specific card)
Operating Systems[edit]
It is recommended that you use Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10 to play Skyrim, whether as your native operating system or through dual boot. Wine is a good method for running Skyrim on other operating systems. Because Skyrim is very CPU-intensive, using a virtual machine or emulation will give you drastically reduced performance, bringing an otherwise-powerful system to its knees. It is recommended that Mac OS X users use Boot Camp, as it will allow them to use Windows natively on their computer, or Wine; using Parallels or VMware Fusion will likely give you significantly reduced performance. Linux users may have luck with Wine, with potentially better performance; more information can be found here.
External Links[edit]
- CPUID — just click on 'Download Latest Version' in the top-left corner of the page. Instructions are provided on the web page.
- Can You Run it? — A Java-based tool that will analyze your hardware to determine if you can run a wide variety of games, including Skyrim.
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If you have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics, you can pretty much forget about playing Skyrim on it with decent quality settings. It will start (we’ve tried), but no amount of tweaking will get it past very low settings – even with the latest Sandy Bridge IGP (HD Graphics 3000).
On the other hand, Skyrim was built to run well on consoles that are now half a decade old so it has relatively modest system requirements. If you have a mid-range dedicated mobile GPU there’s a good chance that you can run it at reasonably high settings.
Official System Requirement Translated to Laptop Graphics
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Bethesda’s minimum specs for Skyrim include a dual-core processor running at 2GHz accompanied by 2GB of RAM and a 512MB DX9 video card. That includes pretty much any recent laptop with a dedicated GPU, but you also want it to look pretty. For that, Bethesda recommends a computer with a “quad-core Intel or AMD CPU” (since a quad-core AMD processor is enough, the mobile Intel Core i5/i3 with Hyperthreading should also qualify), 4GB of RAM and a DX9 video card with 1GB of VRAM.
The developer goes on to specify the NVIDIA GTX 260 or Radeon 4890. It’s important to remember that these are the recommended desktop cards. Laptop GPUs with the same name except for a trailing “M” are invariably slower. For example, the GTX 260M is a mobile GPU with 112 CUDA cores, whereas the GTX 260 (without the M) is considerably faster with its 192 cores and higher clocks. The same principle applies to any mobile AMD or NVIDIA GPU. Skyrim will of course be playable on the GTX 260M regardless, but it’s something to keep in mind if you are moving around in the lower end of the scale.
Testing
What Is The Best System To Play Skyrim On Xbox One
For testing purposes we got the Steam version just to have the game and saves easily accessible on several laptops via the Steam cloud, which apparently doesn’t work or isn’t implemented yet. As a few points of reference we have tested the game on one laptop with an 1st-generation Core i3 CPU and Intel HD Graphics, one mid-range laptop with a 1st-gen Core i5 CPU and a Radeon HD 5650M/6650M (same GPU), as well as the G53SX, which is equipped with a 2nd-generation (Sandy Bridge, current) quad-core Core i7 CPU and a GTX 560M.
What Is The Best System To Play Skyrim On Steam
They have not been tested with the same settings, but with a somewhat more realistic approach aiming at playable frame rates with any setting, but preferably at the laptop’s native resolution if possible. For the lower-end laptops this is 1366×768 and for the ASUS it’s 1920×1080. The benchmark was a run from point A to B in the Labyrinthian area using FRAPS to measure average frame rates. Lots of snow (and trolls) were present. Openemu compatible psp games.
On the Core i3/HD graphics combination the game was not playable even at the lowest possible settings and resolution, which was hardly a surprise. The latest generation Sandy Bridge HD Graphics 3000 series is more powerful and might be able to achieve playable frame rates , but whether it looks good is another question entirely.
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The mid-range AMD Radeon HD 5650M, which is essentially the same chip as the current HD 6650M, 6630M and several others (but with varying clocks) was a positive surprise. In combination with a previous-generation Core i5 processor it managed to produce more than adequate results at the default “high” setting with AA/AF turned off. It was also fully playable with 8x AA/AF with the occasional dip to about 25 FPS, which is still playable. This AMD GPU is comparable to the GT 500M and GT 400M series from NVIDIA, so common mainstream GPUs like the GT 540M, GT 525M, GT 425M and so on should produce roughly equivalent results. Most of these cards are equipped with DDR3 video RAM, but this is apparently not a problem.
What Is The Best System To Play Skyrim Onto
Naturally, the far more powerful GTX 560M has no problems whatsoever running Skyrim at high settings and Full HD (1920×1080) resolution with additional post processing. Also bear in mind that this resolution contains about twice the amount of pixels to process. It can be tweaked further to run at “Ultra” settings if you can forego some antialiasing and anisotropic filtering.
What we are unfortunately missing is a point of reference between the rather useless integrated graphics and the fully capable mid-range cards, such as lower end dedicated GPUs. However, based on Skyrim’s performance with mainstream GPUs, there’s a good chance that the game is playable even on slightly older laptops. A quick visit to System requirements lab might be enlightening, even if it isn’t always entirely accurate.