Skyrim - Gameplay on Low Settings (No Shadows)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim runs on fairly dated machines. I was expecting to play this game on bare minimum graphics, however i found myself able to play with Medium textures and x4 antialiasing to wear down the jaggies.
This is a clip to show what the game looks like with low-low graphics with shadows disabled.
To disable shadows (This is what I have to do in Windows XP, not sure if it differs for newer operating systems):

Go to My Documents
Open My Games
Open Skyrim
Open the file SkyrimPrefs
And change ONLY the following settings to these values:

fShadowDistance=0.0000
fInteriorShadowDistance=0.0000
fShadowLODStartFade=0.0000

General PC specs:
AMD Dual Core 5200+ 2.7ghz
GeForce 9800GT 512MB
2GB RAM

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[MrBewbielover]

Ok, I ran Skyrim fine without all that. Fine I mean 25 - 35 fps. And all I have is an Intel E2180 2.0ghz, Nvidia 9600gt 512 mb and 4 gb ram. I think you meant medium settings not medium texutres by the look of your video.

[SuicidalFerret]

@MrBewbielover It was medium textures, the rest of the settings were tweaked in quite a few ways i didn't bother listing. That sounds about right for your system.

[Tarim06]

Nice work there - Surprised the dual core processor along with a geforce 9800 cant do a bit more really - still gratz on getting it to run at all.

[SuicidalFerret]

@Tarim06 I have, since making this video found a mod called "TESV Acceleration Layer" which gives my system a boost of around 20 FPS. It seems to vary between systems, there has been feedback on the mod of people getting only a 5 FPS increase and some people 20-25. I'd recommend the mod to anyone, just google it or search it on skyrim nexus.

[jjkillerx]

@SanderKivi u r a tru gangsta loool get in there

[TheNuclearBird]

DUDE NICE, HAD TROUBLE FINDING FSHADOWLOD THING BUT NICCEEE

[alexander28maximo]

@MrBewbielover hey its run in a 3gb ram 1312 mb of video card and i dont know the ghz

[kriwient]

I have Intel Core i5 430m 2.3ghz 6gb ram

ATI RADEON HD 5470

and a PC intel core i7 2.8ghz ATI RADEON 6000 Series 8 GB ram

and with this my laptop almost runs the game as smoothly as my pc O_o

[RoryDangerCox1]

eh, i'll live

[SanderKivi]

Haha wicked, im actually playing Skyrim on a 5 year old laptop ! tnx alot :D 

[FisherBLF]

@icedragon769 understandable ty

[icedragon769]

@FisherBLF Flames, Clairvoyance, and Web graphics don't work on the lowest settings. I just learned to deal with it.