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Hayden's v0.7 works flawless here! Epic work Hayden!

The good and the bad news:
http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/
We'll be seeing another patch next week... More to come after holiday season.

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Same here with 0.7 the map is no good.

Second,.... I occasionally (and at no specific given time in game) CRASH TO DESKTOP (I realize a lot of people have this problem). Many people have mentioned the "4gb fix" and how that helps stop/lessen the CRASH TO DESKTOP problem. How does one go about enabling/utilizing the "4gb fix" or "LAA" as I've also heard it referred to?

Use this tool: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

Just place the .dll and the .exe in any folder and start the .exe

[h2]For people that have to use the 4GB launcher and still want to use CrossFire and/or other Tools with Auto Detection[/h2]
The 4GB launcher renames the TESV.exe to TESV.exe.4gb, which will make all tools and CrossFire profiles not working. The solution is to use the newest version of the 4GB launcher v1.4 (or higher) and use the following command parameters to start it:

It is very important, that you do not place the skyrim4gb.exe and the skyrim4gb_helper.dll in the game's directory, cause it would overwrite your original TESV.exe!

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I am loathe to report that the 11.11c drivers are absolute garbage.

Crossfired 6850s, show mild negative scaling with absolutely horrible stutter. Radeon Pro (no profile) reports 75% utilization, but game feels like 5-10fps.

This is a step back from the 11.11b drivers which had tiny microstutter and menu lags.

An even further step back from 11.11a that just disabled crossfire.

I have tried using Radeon Pro profiles (Oblivion, Bioshock) but profiles cause even WORSE performance, on order of -200% scaling. Have also tried overriding app settings for AA and AF, with negative results.

I am somewhat crestfallen as I had hoped to use my new cards with Skyrim. One card on its own gives marginal fps for eyefinity, I had hopes 2x cards would make it feel good.

Dirt 3 worked exceptionally well OTB, with crossfire and eyefinity.

It seems that Skyrim is the buggiest game of the year with the worst driver support of all time.

Here's how I sit.

Skyrim 1.2 (definitely noticed a few odd things, the Draugh often do their shouts behind them, instead of at me. very weird)
Hayden's 0.7 fix (works great, but it seems that if I have used it once, quit Skyrim, and go to use it again without relaunching the fix, I get odd menus. I have to close the fix exe and relaunch it as well)
4gb Fix
AMD 11.11b drivers
CrossFire dll for 4gb fix with 11.11b drivers

I'm getting 99% GPU load on both GPUs now (dual unlocked 6950). This is great! I'm finally seeing some nice scaling.

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Wow.. after update, nothing works for me except... HaYdens .7 and the 4GB mod. Also, if I run it with crossfire.. my map is messed up.... But if I run single gpu no problems.. WEIRD
Some reason if I use reg apps weather it be test or normal launch, it doesnt even run.. wth?

Anyway, guess its .7 and 4gb mod for now
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Here's how I sit.

Skyrim 1.2 (definitely noticed a few odd things, the Draugh often do their shouts behind them, instead of at me. very weird)
Hayden's 0.7 fix (works great, but it seems that if I have used it once, quit Skyrim, and go to use it again without relaunching the fix, I get odd menus. I have to close the fix exe and relaunch it as well)
4gb Fix
AMD 11.11b drivers
CrossFire dll for 4gb fix with 11.11b drivers

I'm getting 99% GPU load on both GPUs now (dual unlocked 6950). This is great! I'm finally seeing some nice scaling.

What was the key to get CF scaling to work for you? Was it Skyrim 1.2, or the "CrossFire dll for 4gb fix ". Can you link this please?

I am not using any 4gb fix as I never had ctd.

anyone have a verdict on whether to use catalyst 11.11b Or 11.11c Drivers? I noticed someone had mentioned that there were problems with "c". Does "b" enable crossfire? Any advice?

What was the key to get CF scaling to work for you? Was it Skyrim 1.2, or the "CrossFire dll for 4gb fix ". Can you link this please?

I am not using any 4gb fix as I never had ctd.

Try just going ahead and using the 4gb Fix as well, just to see what's going on since I'm now using modded dlls. Even if you didn't use it before, try it:

11.11b drivers
4gb Skyrim: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013 (put the exe and dll inside your Skyrim folder where tesv.exe is)
4gb Skyrim Crossfire: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2182 (put this dll inside the Skyrim folder where tesv.exe is)

Launch Steam > Launch Hayden 0.7 and 'Inject' > Launch skyrim4gb.exe

This is somehow working great for me. I wasn't seeing anything too different when I first started on 11.11b without the 4gb patch, but I was getting bad CTD. With the 4gb patch, I lost crossfire scaling. With all the stuff I listed, it's now working quite great. I still seem to get a few odd hickups in dungeons, but not bad. Otherwise I'm seeing much higher framerates than single gpu and 99% usage on each GPU watching them in GPU-Z.

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You don't have to use that .dll anymore... Use the method I described above.

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