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Skyrim tweak will allow for much better mods

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I have a confession to make. It’s not a particularly popular one – but I loved the heck out of Skyrim. Yes, it was a buggy and glitchy mess. Yes, its combat is frankly terrible. Yes, many of its quests are repetitive and shallow. Despite that, it was good enough to suck up 200 hours of my life. And, two years on, it just keeps getting better thanks to mods and tweaks.  Now there’s a tweak that will let you have 300 (plus) player NPC battles.

Modders haven’t been able to go completely wild with Skyrim, thanks to the game’s very last gen memory limitations, but people have found a simple mode with an ini tweak that enables the game to use up bigger chunks of memory, which in turn will allow modders to be more creative.

ENBSeries forum user ‘sheson has found a way to enable Skyrim to user larger chunks of memory. The game was previously locked to using 256Mb bits at a time but that limit has now been removed – which will greatly improve the performance of some of the game’s more ambitious mods, and allow for the creation of some even more glorious ones.

As sheson explains:

"When tesv.exe is started it allocates two 256MB blocks of memory. When the first block gets full, the engine will allocate more blocks. This can cause the known troubles. Thankfully, by telling the engine to request a bigger block from the start it magically makes use of it without any further ado. This isn’t the case with the second block. Thankfully again, the second block does not fill up as quickly and once it is full the engine does not trip over itself when allocating more blocks."

In the associated Reddit thread, people are saying it’ll allow for more than 300 NPC’s on screen – so we could finally see Skyrim being put to use to recreate some large-scale battles…like Lord of the Ring’s Battle of the Pelennor Fields for the city of Minas Tirith?

Skyrim mods are already impressive. Expect them to get a lot better.

Last Updated: January 21, 2014

17 Comments

  1. Admiral Chief in Vegas

    January 21, 2014 at 12:04

    FUS RO AWWWWJISSSSS!!!!

    Reply

    • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

      January 21, 2014 at 12:06

      Darnit. Beat me to it

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief in Vegas

        January 21, 2014 at 12:07

        Too slow grasshopper, what’s going on with you today?

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        • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

          January 21, 2014 at 12:08

          No clue. But so far I have been beaten to the punch 3 times in a row

          Reply

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            January 21, 2014 at 12:16

            That’s what she said.

          • Admiral Chief in Vegas

            January 21, 2014 at 12:16

            O_O

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            January 21, 2014 at 12:27

            Don’t judge me, it’s the first chance I’ve had to get that out today :/

          • Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!

            January 21, 2014 at 12:52

            That’s what she said

          • Admiral Chief in Vegas

            January 21, 2014 at 13:03

            Oh snap!

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            January 21, 2014 at 13:06

            Damnit! lol

  2. TiMsTeR1033

    January 21, 2014 at 12:11

    A slow day for articles.

    Reply

  3. TiMsTeR1033

    January 21, 2014 at 12:15

    in other news

    Reply

  4. Alien Emperor Trevor

    January 21, 2014 at 12:29

    Hopefully we get to see more people in the cities. They always felt a bit empty.

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    • Admiral Chief in Vegas

      January 21, 2014 at 12:47

      Agreed

      Reply

    • Kensei Seraph Moe Ninja

      January 21, 2014 at 12:50

      A random person generator for each city would be interesting.

      You could go on a killing spree and come back a few days later only to find the entire city has been repopulated with people all armed with deadric gear who are out for revenge for their loved ones.

      Reply

  5. Ultimo_Cleric N7

    January 21, 2014 at 13:24

    Skyrim is amazing.

    Reply

  6. Matthew Holliday

    January 21, 2014 at 13:39

    300+ NPCs + RealvisionENB + 2k textures + overhauled lighting + Climates of Tamriel.

    PC explosions inbound.

    Reply

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