How to Prepare your PC for Skyrim: Graphics Drivers, Virtual Memory, Monitoring Software (Part 1)

Hello everybody! If you're a PC gamer and you're planning to play Skyrim, then these videos are for you. I take you through a series of critical optimizations in order for your PC to totally own Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at higher graphics settings and higher framerates. This is a two part series, and it's important that you complete my recommendations in BOTH videos, since every PC gamer should be familiar with all of these procedures.

In this Part 1, I give you advice on:

1. Updating Your Video Drivers
2. Conducting Windows Vista / 7 Memory Test
3. Installing More RAM (8GB)
4. Changing Virtual Memory Settings
5. Installing MSI Afterburner

Stay tuned for Part 2 very soon! In Part 2, I will give you advice on setting up System Restore Points, completing a large malware removal procedure, overclocking your GPU, and defragmenting your hard drives.

Thanks for watching, and share this with all of your friends who will be playing Skyrim on the PC.

Links mentioned in this video:
Video Drivers: http://www.geforce.com/Drivers and http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
Memory test: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/715-memory-diagnostics-tool.html
Memory test command: msched
MSI Afterburner: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

Click Here for Part 2! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0nUzL6E8bo

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[yimi167]

How do I figure out what graphics card my computer is using?

[blaghag5]

thanks alot man i would have never changed my virt mem and the results are great i mean even know my graphs card is 8800 series i can run it on low quality no lag all textures and no graphical errors :D

[MrNeowarrior]

my computer specs= win7 ultimate 64bit, RAM 5Gb DDR2 PC2 6400 875Mhz, GPU GTX 550 TI DDR5 1GB, CPU intel core 2 duo E8400 3.0 Ghz oc 3.2Ghz lol. play skyrim+Game booster and the fps stop at 60fps. and the problem is.. i got no problem. and i can run battlefield 3 in 30, 35, 40 fps in ultra graphic.. it's all because of game booster. so... better using Game Booster when playing any game..

[Nikolas9759]

plss help me my computer have intel hd graphics

[RyanVonFleming]

@Shockwawe1994 HA! REALLY???

[I8aDragonborn]

the afterburner does not give me an option of GPU temperature. .

how do i get it?

[Eussorus]

@yimi167 Go to start type "dxdiag" without quotes and go to display then look

[128hubbabubba]

I hate HP. When i bought my computer it said it was for gaming and stuff and even oblivion doesnt work for me because of my graphics card!!!!!

[hellonearth069]

I have a Dell Dimension 8400 series windows 32 bit home edition with a ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics card, The hard drive specs are 1.0 x 80.0 GB and my RAM is 512.0 MB / 4.0 GB (max) but I have 2 512.0MB cards installed giving a total of 1GB of RAM. Is there an way of using SKYRIM on this computer I have even tried a virtual graphics card and I can get it right.

[Shockwawe1994]

this registry booster is the biggest lie ever..it shows u have 10000000000000000000 errors on ur pc and u dont really have them just so that u freak out and buy their worthless software which does absolutely nothing to improve your pc performance

[FisherBLF]

my ram is 2gb and it strangely plays fine, its an upgrade from my ps3 version.

[weil360]

@yimi167 go to run type in dxdiag