Originally Posted by fb III IX ca IV
Skyrim was poorly optimized, and it uses an old engine that apparently can't take advantage of more than 2 threads. You should read the Toms Hardware article on Skyrim, they had it running on an i5 2500k and GTX 580 and the performance just kept on increasing the further they raised the CPU clock speed.
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Not arguing about that. The intended emphasis here was:
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That depends on the game, and in some cases, even how you play it. Skyrim doesn't have a significant multiplayer component or stuff blowing up ALL the time (like we would expect of PS2), it's built much more for eye-candy and pretty scenery, so it tends to be more taxing on the GPU than just about any other game.
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That doesn't mean it's light on the CPU. Just means that you need more graphics muscle to run Skyrim on ultra than BF3 on ultra.