Here, take a look at this "mod", it's really a guide. It improved my FPS by 10 as well as improve my high shadow quality, and i have a medium range laptop W a GT 540M video card, so definitely not the biggest workhorse by far. http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=283 Take a look at this as well, it's a script extender that improves CPU performance by removing some bottlenecking caused by poor computer coding. this gave me another 9 FPS on average. http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4387