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[Ciaranus]

The game seems to be loading up quickly enough, initally it was playing reasonably well about frame rate of 30 or so on the games recommended settings of High. Fps jumps up to about 60 inside small cabins etc. Over today though I've been getting increasing instances of lag generally while outside but occasionally within dungeons, whereby screen freezes, and then bout 6 secs later it comes back to about 30 fps. I'm wondering if my rig is insufficient. I've updated all my graphic card drivers and the like.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz (I believe it's overclocked up to about 2.4GHz)
2 GB RAM
32 bit Windows XP
ATI Radeon HD 4800

Monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster PX2370, 1920 X 1480

Any advice would be appreciated i've tried taking shadows down to low, turning off AA. Doesn't really seem to have any effect on this lag thing.

[Rilez736]

I've been getting this problem too. I get MASSIVE stutters and the only way I found to fix this is to save and reboot the game.

[buddhamind]

The game works wonderfully smooth on my computer... except for some random (but very annoying...!) freezes.

I have exactly the same kind of lags you mention. My specs are probably even a bit better. Also with EVGA precision i see my memory usage, GPU usage and temperature. These values never get beyond 75%. So it's (probably) not that I have to little graphical capacity or an overheating problem. still I suddenly get short freezes with drops of framerates from 20-30 to 1-5. Seems totally unnecessary... Nevertheless I don't know what could be the problem.

I switched off the sound-acceleration in the controlpanel, put of the AA and FXAA seperately, put on the loose-files loading, turned down shadows, updated nvidia-drivers, switched off v-sync and anisotropicfiltering (which actually made the game a lot smoother, but did not prevent this lag).

If anyone has the solution, or even a good idea, I'd be very glad!!

[protheus9]

I got exactly the same Probs. And i think it has nothing to do with any Hardware Probs and settings. I think it is a Tex streaming Problem inside the games code. I hope Bethesda willl fix it soon. .. I´ve tried anything else and we need a Patch ^^

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[buddhamind]

I have very good news. I can hardly believe it myself!

I still use winXP normally, but I remembered I had installed Win7 about a year ago on my other hard drive. So it was a small thing to boot up my old installation. I installed Skyrim on win7 and got the latest nvidia drivers. Conclusion: The game runs perfectly without stuttering at all.

It is even better. I tested the game first on "medium" settings, but it seems it works even perfectly smoothly on "ultra"! I have an 9800gtx card. Even with anisotropic filtering on 16x and AA 8x and FXAA all on.

Except for the shadows. They actually are creating problems. They seem to make the game slow. When I put them low it runned smoothly again on "ultra". Small notice on my part: there's a difference between drops in framerate, which I experienced on winXP and just a constant low framerate. So I'd say the shadows are causing the game to be slower, but weren't the cause of the lags/ freezes.

I hope this solution (= installing win7) works for you guys too! It is a world of difference in gameplay not to have the screen freezing now and then.

Edited by buddhamind, 14 November 2011 - 01:16 AM.