Thank you Nexus community for this thread. I had been trying to get my Skyrim running smoothly (as is possible on my aging hardware) for some time now, and this has been of great help in alleviating some of the issues I was having. I have tried and do not personally favor the use of OneTweak (formerly Simple Borderless Window), as it causes Skyrim to disobey driver settings (AA, VSync). I have also tried ENB VSync / FPSLimit and DXTory and I likewise do not favor these. Many threads much like this one have recommended the use of one thing or another from here and each has caused placebo-level improvements(?) and introduced their own issues. iPresetInterval=0 is my preference as it observably makes the slowdowns that do occur not as bad (drops to ~45 instead of 30). I have taken some advice from this thread and setup a 64Hz refresh rate (inbuilt in the nVidia control panel). My monitor natively supports 75Hz but it seems to be behaving better overall, not just in Skyrim, at 64. I have set iFPSClamp=64 to align with this, and forced VSync through the driver to enforce the hard limit of 64FPS. Again, I noticed that Skyrim does not obey this limit (or other driver settings) with OneTweak, in case anyone here was wondering/trying that. I do experience some asset loading stutter. I imagine this is simply the nature of my aging hardware beast, and I'm sure I could combat it with a faster processor / SSD / faster clocked RAM / expensive upgrades I'm ruling outside the realm of possibility right now. Making the best of what I have was my goal all along. I had already set all the ini Distant LOD settings to the Medium values in the interest of fighting this. I use uGrids=7 because it has no noticeable detriment over the default =5 (asset load stutter is the same). I have tried uGrids=3, this offers no noticeable improvement but introduces CTDs for me that I could otherwise go dozens of hours without. For those with aging hardware like mine I strongly recommend the use of the Shadow Remover plugin on the Nexus, along with its recommended ini settings. Shadows have been the bane of my machine and this was a night-and-day improvement for me. Looking over the OP's specs I imagine he has no need for such a thing, but hey, maybe someone browsing here will. There are a number of other performance-focussed mods I have set up as well but I can't be arsed to link them all when there are numerous threads here that do. My setup, for anyone interested: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 (2.5GHz x 4, hyperthreaded) 8GB DDR3 RAM @ 1066MHz 1TB 7200RPM HDD, no pagefile 2GB GTX 750 Ti Superclocked - this is probably the best GPU on the market with this low a power usage. Crippling 300W PSU, bolted in along with mobo - this is a prefab tower I've been trying to eke the life out of. I hope this helps. Skyrim is still chugging along on this machine - it works hard - but it spins up to that 64FPS sweet spot every chance it gets and stays there nicely in indoor cells. Never drops below half (32FPS), no load time issues, and looks a far sight better than XB360.
