Who else has stuttering or breaks in background dialogue?

[KlinkKlink]

Heya, Nexus! Ever since I bought Skyrim I have noticed stuttering and breaks in dialogue from NPCs that are next to me. "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an --- to the knee" is what I'll hear over and over again. Does anybody know I can to fix this? I downloaded the latest audio drivers for my sound card and even reinstalled game but to no avail. Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

[MShoap13]

First I'd try messing around with the Windows sound settings (Control Panel>Sound>your output device>Properties>Advanced). Try setting the playback rate to 24 bit, 48000 Hz (IIRC).

Another approach could be to restrict the game from using CPU Core 0 (and Core 1/all HT Cores if you're on an HT-enabled Intel system). This frees up Core 0 so it can handle IO queues and such without interruption (The first core always handles these tasks no matter what else is running, they will never be allocated to other physical cores).

If that doesn't help, you could try unpacking the relevant .bsa archives. Sometimes decompressing the dialogue and lip sync files on the fly can cause stutter. This is somewhat of a dire measure as it is generally recommended to leave the .bsa's alone, but you won't actually be altering them, just making their files available in an uncompressed format. If you completely unpack them you should also be able to remove them from the resource list of Skyrim.ini to reduce the affect of unpacking these files has on your System RAM usage.

Edited April 7, 2013 by MShoap13

[Sianama]

I noticed that too, but not always. Sometimes it happened, when I was already playing for an exceptionally long time, sometimes it happened after AltTabbing out and in and sometimes just with no reason I could see. But it always went away either after relogging (from desktop, not main menu) or after some time had passed.

I don't know what really causes it though. I'd be glad to be enlightened. :)