Aarchduke

I had been dabbling in making a permanent card-controlled AA and AF setting of 4 samples for Fallout 3 due to issues had in that, but then lost interest and didn't bother changing them back, causing some issues I guess. I also set my card to maximise performance when plugged in (Power settings) For future reference incase it happens again - how do I toggle vSync? I know its a setting in one of the ini's, due to it not being offered anywhere in or out of game as an option...

I've been playing around this morning and stumbled upon some settings in my graphics card which looked a little off, so I reset to defaults, and also set Skyrim to High priority and some other programs back to normal and this seems to have done the trick, at least for now (fingers crossed this was the problem, and I can relax!) Thanks for all the help :)

I'm using task manager right now - CPU usage peaks at 50% when skyrim is running, and RAM peaks at about 3.5GB out of an available 8GB... So everything appears normal - as I said, changing any graphical setting does nothing... This really is weird...

Hi Rennn, Thanks for the prompt reply - 64-bit Windows - What is a paging file? - I do use a framrate limiter - I have always used it to avoid mouse jittering, although it's never been an issue before? - I do use v-sync - I have tweaked my ini yes - 60 Hz Any of this help? :/ Cheers, Tom.

Dear All, I have recently decided to play the Dragonborn expansion, which I downloaded a few months back and never got around to playing. Important: At the time I stopped playing, I was quite happily running the game on high settings, with a very nice, flawlessly consistent frame rate which only dropped in heavy, heavy battle sequences. But now, when I have returned to play the game, I am experiencing crippling lag, regardless of what settings I choose - the framerate remains low and mouse movement delayed severely irrespective of graphical settings chosen at launch or in-game. About two weeks ago, after reading up on the subject a bit, I re-installed the game and to my delight, everything was as it was - framerates restored and no whiff of lag present. But alas, work got in the way so I resolved in confidence to play it over the festive period, when I have some time off, but to my horror, I have returned home to find that when I open the game to play (at this point vanilla, no mods installed), the lag has returned with a vengeance. I am currently re-installing the game right now but surely there must be a solution to this other than to keep on re-installing every time I want to play? I have tried many suggestions - CCleaner, De-fragging, un-installing unnecessary programs, de-selecting unnecessary background Windows services at boot, graphics tweaking, hard-drive cleaning, frame-rate boosters, all sadly to no avail. And surely the fact that the game can run perfectly after being re-installed proves that it is not a graphics issue? As I said, this machine can run it flawlessly on High normally - what has changed over the past few months? My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L855-10P with an Intel Core i7-3610QM @2.30 GHz with an AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics card with 2GB of VRAM and 8GB of RAM. I am running Windows 7 with bags of room on my hard-drive. This is an extremely mystical and frustrating problem that is ruining my Christmas! Please, if you have any solution to offer, I would welcome your help! Many thanks in anticipation of any response, Tom