Skyrim 1.3.10 Patch Properly Supports 4GB of RAM
Skyrim 1.3.10 Patch Properly Supports 4GB of RAM
Posted 12/21/2011 at 7:39am
| by Paul Lilly
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Three cheers to Bethesda, who finally rolled out a small patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PC through Steam that shows big love for gamers rocking more than 2GB of RAM. The Skyrim 1.3.10 patch adds "support for 4-Gigabyte Tuning," otherwise known as Large Address Aware. Lack of LAA support made third-party mods like "4GB Skyrim" popular (as featured in PC Gamer's "Skyrim Mods: the 20 best so far").
That's really all the patch brings to the table, but it's enough. For the first time, 64-bit systems can strut their stuff. It's not a total game changer, but it could reduce crashes, smooth out framerates, and open the door to prettier graphics, whether by dialing up the settings or via various mods.
To grab the patch, just sign into Steam and it will be downloaded automatically.
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FrancesTheMute
December 21, 2011 at 2:37pm
Yep, I run it with everything set to High and I would get pretty frequent crashing. I found and started using that 4GB mod and the crashes went away completely.
praetor_alpha
December 21, 2011 at 9:49am
It's 1.3.10 (as in ten), not 1.3.1. The last version was 1.3.7.
Nyarlathotep
December 21, 2011 at 11:57am
On my system with 4 GB of ram the game would consistently crash after about an hour of play. Once I started using the 4GB Skyrim mod the crashes have gone away completely. I have even gone back and tried to run the game again without the mod and the crashes come right back. It may be a quirk in my config but the memory mod is definitely what fixed it for me.
Maybe you were just being facetious and I didn't get it?
Marthian
December 21, 2011 at 10:37am
On Very low. Get into higher quality, and you will start needing that extra ram.
Besides, with how cheap ram is, why have less than 4gb?
boodiespost
December 21, 2011 at 11:33am
ram is cheap if youre getting the current generation ones... to get a discontinued ram like the guy mentioned aboved would cost at least 3 times more.
praetor_alpha
December 21, 2011 at 2:55pm
4 gigs of DDR 400 is $100. 4 gigs of DDR2 is $50. I'd say that's resonably cheap.
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