i do. The framerate is important.

And as i said, i will be glad to run a full evaluation on this.

My frame rate in game is just fine. and the detail is great.

i still run 32bit windows 7 and my system ram is 4gb installed. Since my gpu is 1.28 gb i only have 2.72 gb of actual system memory. Oh and every game i play is fine. I get decent fps, when i look at benchmarks online, mine are pretty close. Also i am sporting a slow q6600 @ 3.4ghz with an ol' timers front side buss.

And here is another kicker:
As far as process explorer/task manager goes, they report this playing skyrim of the time:

Total: 3583 (how? with my vram deducted it should ony have 2720)
cached: 1506
available: 1974
Free: 532

paged 157mb

And this is while playing Skyrim. With it running and the sound playing while i tab out. (BTW, i can tab out and in on skyrim no problem, all day long back and forth. no problems whatSoEver)

settings: 1920x1080 ultra- with some other settings turned even higher (i noticed ultra isnt maxed out???)
outside ~60fps with the occasional dip in the 50s.
inside locked 60 or over (bumps to 63 sometimes???)

I dont notice loading lag of pop ins. I dont notice microstuddereing like i did see when spinning in circles on fallout3.

I am running an out of date PC (maybe a decent GPU) with not even 3gb of system ram (when you subtract the gpu). I have no issues and at all. i play most of my games on win32 instead ogf my vista64 drive. I can tell you ram might help some, but i am in the camp that believes it does very little for fps. As far as multitasking and other windows functions, the ram may help a lot idk. As far as gaming, i am gaming fine with less than 3gb available.......still playing great

Its because of the Memory mapped IO.Its not get deducted unless its needed.

Ocre, once again it isn't about FPS (which is where apoppin is going off the rails in this thread) it is about the level of detail in the gameworld. What I've done only knocks a few FPS off, still plenty left, more than any console gets playing Skyrim, thats for sure.

Oh, and setting Skyrim to Ultra in the menus does not even come close to maxxing it out, even with the official HD texture packs, just gets it to where it should have launched on PC all along.

apoppin won't be lazy and he will use the Nvidia pry bar to remove and replace RAM as necessary to really test it instead of making conclusions based solely on Task Manager

What is using the RAM is the game isn't apoppin? and why does the total amount used fluctuate according to the complexity of the game cells currently loaded?

thats what i am saying. I have no issues playing at all. The game is smooth as butter. I can fast travel without a hitch. The maps and scenes load fast. I dont really see anything lagging.

i dont have the high res pack installed. will that make a big difference?

I never said you (or anyone else) had any issues did I? Yes the game runs smooth in stock form (with or without HD textures). That isn't the point. At all.

The stock game shows you next to nothing of the game world. My alterations and mods fix that, but to do so they use more memory (more things loaded in a cell at any one time).

Skyrim without even HD textures is a joke btw. It's like playing the game on a voodoo 2, everything is that blurry and undetailed.

Words

Don't be lazy and remove some of your RAM or agree to wait until someone else does a real test.