Skyrim stutters in towns

[key1001]

Hello I've been having this problem for week now and have been trying to solve it ever since. I've searched everywhere on google and this forum, I've studied multiple cases of Skyrim stutter and have applied unofficial patches even the 64hz patch. Still no progress in stopping the stutter. Over all, the game runs fast and smooth, but when I enter the tavern in whiterun and leave the tavern back into the town itself, it starts stuttering. Stutter is most extreme around the area of the well, where market stands are. And on that spot near the well, when looking towards where Jorvaskr and Dragonsreach are located raises even more stutter to the point game is almost frozen for 10-20 seconds, then trying to turn away takes another 10-20 seconds of freezing and then stuttering only to be back to normal when facing towards the town's main gate. This is strange, but I am suspecting NPCs have something to do with it. Any ideas?

 

My spec is

 

Windows 7 64-bit

Core 2 Duo 3.2ghz

Nvidia 460 GT

4GB RAM

 

and I am using SKSE

I have tried lowering all settings to LOW, stutter persists even without Highres texture packs.

 

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[Rennn]

Is that 460 GT the 768MB model?

If it is, you have to use the half-res options in SMIM and get rid of the Skyrim Flora Overhaul completely. I used to have a 768MB GTX 460 GC, which is faster than your GT 460, and it stuttered horribly when I tried to use SMIM or SFO.

Edited March 7, 2014 by Rennn

[key1001]

OOPS, GTX 560 is what I meant. GT 460 is my previous gpu lol

[Rennn]

OOPS, GTX 560 is what I meant. GT 460 is my previous gpu lol

 

I see... Well, still use performance options of SMIM and SFO whenever possible just for basic optimization. It shouldn't be terribly important as long as you don't use other HD textures though.

Also, don't turn antialiasing higher than 4x in Skyrim's options. 8x is just a waste of performance for anyone with a weaker card than a GTX 680, GTX 770 Ti, etc.

Anisotropic Filtering will be fine at 8x or even 16x.

 

Your CPU might be choking trying to run all the AI and people in towns, as it's just an older dual core. Any scripts could aggravate the problem, like Frostfall, Wet and Cold, etc. First try setting your system power plan to high performance and running a CPU boosting program before you launch Skyrim like Razer Game Booster (or any equivalent).

[key1001]

Thanks I'll try that out