Chikokishi

FiftyTifty, I owe you an apology. I dropped the .dll into my game when you first mentioned it, but i did not go into the config of it and set my framelimit. I had assumed the .dll did that itself. I was playing with it and set my limit to 30 and at first glance at the game i do not notice a mouse problem. I mean, it is still slightly there, but I think that is due to the porting from 360. Anyway, sorry! The game works well now. I wish i had noticed my mistake earlier. Thanks for the help. Also, as to why Fraps fixed my computer. I had "fix frame rate" checked in the video recording screen. i wager that did it. Chiko

Fifty, I tried the DLL trick and nothing changed. I did however discover that the glitching only happens in the up and down movement, and not really the side to side. Thus making the stair stepping problem. I also discovered that if i run the game in windowed mode, the mouse runs smoothly. Even if i run it in 1080p windowed mode. So it is fixed in: Windowed mode, any resolution, any frame rate Fullscreen mode, any resolution, fraps recording, any frame rate So windowed mode and fraps recording must have something in common. Chiko

By stair stepping i am litterally referring to the movement of the mouse. If you watch, it will move straight sideways followed by straight down... rapidly. The lines that you are seeing (the darker tones) are due to using a digital camera to record the video. With Vsync on i get a terrible framedrop down to around 25. I have found AA To be much more diffucult for my laptop to run than FXAA. I do not know my videocard driver settings. I have no mods installed. In the INI i disabled mouse acceleration as you said. I have no antivirus on my computer and i did a clean install of the system not 3 weeks ago. I feel as if i have horribly explained my problem. Although much of the help i am getting is good advice, it seems to be tailored toward the wrong problems =( Hopefully i can explain clearly. My framerate, graphics detail, screen resolution, game mode, display, appearence, colours, output... anything of that sort is not an issue. My game runs perfectly well, the sound runs perfectly well, there is no glitching or crashing of any sort. My problem is that the view does not move smoothly, especially in diagonal directions. ... this is not a mouse, hardware, system, operating system, or compatability issue. I know these things are not an issue because when i am recording with fraps (and only when i am recording with fraps) the mouse performs perfectly well. This indicates that my hardware is fine, my cpu is fine, my system as a whole is fine. So what is making it work properly while recording with fraps? The few leads i have gotten (dedicated single cpu, framerate limit, etc) have all been "That is a stupid idea"ed by other posters, so that is a bit confusing. And by this time i feel like I have let you guys down by presenting a question poorly, i am sorry. If I can make this easier in anyway, please let me know. I only want to learn what is going on so that we can help others fix their problem also. Chiko

Hey guys, thanks again for trying to help: Computer: dv6 Pavilion i7 core 2GHertz 8gb ram Radeon HD 6770m graphics 1080P asus moniter. Win7 64bit Game settings:. Youtube video: http://youtu.be/du9JoS0_-1U 0:00 Fraps is NOT recording. Notice how the trees vibrate as I look across them. 0:48 Fraps is recording The screen is still glitchy just because I am recording with a camera. at 1:19 slight stair stepping is still visible on the diagonal 1:31 Fraps is NOT recording Looking as I cross the thistle the vibration is noticeable again. 1:59 Fraps is recording. Once again making the game smoother. My framerate was ~38 during the entire video Fraps on and off. There now, hopefully I gave enough information to get solid help. Not saying that anything that was said was wrong, im still going to look into these things. I just want to know what is making the game nicer while fraps records so that maybe we can help other people with the same mouse issue.

Ill look into the single core idea. Thats a good lead. Limiting fps might be nice too. how do i do that? Chiko

http://youtu.be/kFqfqGxUNic I took this with my cellphone, so it is terrible. But perhaps you can see what it is doing until i get a chance to upload a better video. You can notice the jerkyness at the start, and then at the end you can see how smooth the mouse is moving after turning fraps on. The low framerate is because i am on battery power at the moment. Again, framerate has nothing to do with it. Chiko

Ill use a digicam to show you guys what it does without fraps. It moves like its on a grid. It doesnt matter if im wippin the mouse around or barely barely moving it at all. I turn my DPI way down and use my sniper button and try to move the mouse and it will stay in one spot, then jump to another grid spot. Its completely regardless of the framerate and such. Ill try to do that this evening. Chiko

Thanks for the replies! Frame limit could be the solution? I mean. i set the fraps framerate to 60 so that fraps would be recording faster than my computer was playing. So i dont think limiting to 60 helped me with my 35 fps. Skyrim did not lower the settings. It kept everything at extreme range and high quality for the video. I was going to upload it, but the 250k limit stopped that.. Perhaps some sort of limiter to 30fps might be what i need though? But why would that change the way the mouse moves, it doesnt matter if i move it quickly or barely at all. Chiko

When I try to play skyrim, I basically can't because I get really bad headaches. When the mouse is moved sideways or vertically the screen jerks badly, and when moved at a diagonal it stairsteps to such a degree that I get terrible ghosting where I see double everything and Is gives me the headache. My computer puts out around 35-40 frames per second so that's not the issue (considering I play DayZ at around 15-25 fps normally). I have set mouse smoothing to zero in .inf btw. Here is the weird part: I decided to record with fraps to make a video so that I could post it for help showing my specific problem. I set fraps to 60fps recording (so that I cound capture the stairstepping flawlessly) half screen size. Then I started recording. To my (horror?) astonishment skyrim suddenly was as silky as the xbox. No stair stepping (My fps actually shot up to 43?) no glitching and I ran around in circles for a minute as I was confused as to why it was working perfectly when I tried to catch it. I mean it stil has a *slight* stairstep and glitch, but that is probably due to my computer processing. This is perfect, the game works AND I get to record it! But... at an amazing 800mb per minute recording rate that does not work so well for my poor laptop. Can ANYONE give me insight as to why this happens? Obviously my computer can play it beautifully if I give it more work to do.. or something. Chiko