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[JayNic]

Mine too... And I just have to save, - quit - and restart... And it's back to normal...

Any idea why?

Or is there a console command that clears memory or something?

[Shadowtroop]

the only thing ive noticed is that the save menu has gotten extremely choppy.

how long do you play in one sitting until it gets choppy?

[JayNic]

Sometimes it's 30 minutes - sometimes it's an hour+...

It seems to be related to how much a travel between zones - I just spent an hour walking across the map (cause fast travel is for sissies) and it's fine... As soon as I start going in and out of buildings - towns - it starts to drop framerate...

[ffe3214]

you could try the following:
go into a interior cell, open the console and type pcb
this is the purge cell buffer-command which worked in oblivion and fallout. i use it to get rid of lod meshes that sometimes are not cleared from the buffer. but i got no performance problems on long play sessions, so i don't know if it works
also setting (or adding) bPreemptivelyUnloadCells=0 to 1 in your skyrim.ini under [general] may helb. it clears the cell buffer every time you change the cell, but it also increases loading times.
you can also try the memory tweaks from this mod: http://www.skyrimnex...ile.php?id=1387 , if it suits your system. for me it made no performance difference, but the bugs with the meshes appear much less when using them

[JayNic]

Great tips! I will try them all and report back!

[luxwing0go]

Is it a background process going on? I find sometimes that when my game slows down it's because Windows is updating or something. Game Booster is a program that lets you turn off background processes while you play, you could try that and see it that's what's causing it.

[Smosh]

My CPU tends to bottle neck. ctrl - alt - del in and out of game usually helps me.

[Skyweener]

This has happened to me with games on 360 and PC. Notably Fallout NV on 360 and Dragon Age on PC. Dragon age would become unplayable after a while. But in general, I think it's a good idea to have a restart after playing games like this after a little while.

In Skyrim, the save menu will be very choppy the first time you start the game after a PC restart. I think it's just loading the game saves for viewing. My game is always choppy/stutter. Doesn't matter what graphical setting I use. It's worse than my very modded NV. (skyrim mostly vanilla textures too - both at ultra 1920x1080) After some play time I get this flickering water that forces a reload of my game. Other than that I don't notice extra lag/stutter from extended play. But the water issue happens frequently, sometimes after short play time.

[JayNic]

Well I've done pcb, and the bPreemptivelyUnloadCells=1 change... I didn't notice any change. After a random while - it would start to get a bit choppy. So I decided I would alt-tab and go through the list in the link that ffe3214 shared. When I came back from the alt-tab - It was fine!

I have since tested this several times - any time it get's a little choppy - I just alt tab out and back in and I'm back to smooth frame rates...

Not that I'm not happy with the outcome - I just wonder why this is?

[Azikj]

Hello, I have the same problem too: after some hours of play my framerates go down twice as much. I mentioned it happens if I go in or out of building, and after multiple loads os save games. Did someone knows the solution to this problem? My rig (if it helps) : Core i5 2500K, 8 Gb RAM, Geforce 9800GT, Win7 64 bit. Thank you for attention!