[FIX] To anyone who experiences low framerates, FPS drops in Skyrim: SE

[IE33]

Yeah. I've tried Nvidia Inspector. No dice.

 

Are you sure you disabled Vsync from Skyrim ini's and configured Nvidia Inspector correctly?

 

http://i.imgur.com/n0xvRr2.png

 

Skyrim.ini

[Display]

iPresentInterval=0

SkyrimPrefs.ini

[Display]

iVSyncPresentInterval=0

I'm pretty sure you did something wrong if the Nvidia Inspector VSYNC is not working for you.

I have same GPU as you do (4GB variant)

Edited October 29, 2016 by IE33

[NCRForever]

Yes. I have V-sync set to on. Not Forced. I'll try it again.

[IE33]

Yes. I have V-sync set to on. Not Forced. I'll try it again.

 

Nvidia Inspector didn't work for me first time I tried it, If I remember correctly I've set it to ON and didn't select framerate cap and kept going above 60 FPS in-game, after switching it to FORCE ON and setting Frame Rate Limiter to 60.7 my FPS wouldn't go above 61.

[NCRForever]

Ran it again. Set it to 60.7. Seems to have set this time. Although, I just hit 65, but there was no tearing. Let's see how this plays out now. Thanks!

[IE33]

Ran it again. Set it to 60.7. Seems to have set this time. Although, I just hit 65, but there was no tearing. Let's see how this plays out now. Thanks!

 

If it keeps going to 65 like you said (Doesn't for me, I've capped it to 60.7) then I would suggest capping it to one of these: 57.5 | 58.6 | 59.7, should do the job.

Edited October 29, 2016 by IE33

[NerevarII]

Haha yeah wanting less FPS isnt the common trend around here ;) I have a 380x so I should get a little bit better performance, and I'll be wanting less >.> a GTX960 isn't a bad card at all though.

 

Also I second those numbers, try exactly 60 or a little below

[shimon101]

In your Skyrim folder, wherever you installed skyrim. not the data folder, the actual skyrim folder.

 

 

 

Anyway, here's something else that will work. replace all of SSE's textures with the original Skyrim's vanilla and/or HD textures.

 

Why? because bethesda and the people who work there are idiots, and upscaled the textures, doing virtually nothing other than causing an increase in performance costs. You can't even tell a difference between Skyrim and SSE. if you can, you must be looking REALLY hard for them.

 

The new textures don't look better, and all they do is eat up VRAM and drop FPS.

Can you explain how to do that please? And is there anywhere I can download the textures from as I don't have the original game installed?

[doomy19]

If you look at the difference between the two screenshots the OP posted, you can see the likely culprit for the FPS gain. Volumetric lighting and godrays are enabled in the 30 fps screenshot but not in the second one. This alone can account for the difference in FPS, as real time volumetric lighting requires alot out of a videocard.

[IE33]

 

Can you explain how to do that please? And is there anywhere I can download the textures from as I don't have the original game installed?

 

You will need to extract them from BSA archives using BSA extracting tool.

And no, you will have to download Skyrim Legendary Edition.

 

If you look at the difference between the two screenshots the OP posted, you can see the likely culprit for the FPS gain. Volumetric lighting and godrays are enabled in the 30 fps screenshot but not in the second one. This alone can account for the difference in FPS, as real time volumetric lighting requires a lot out of a videocard.

 

It's just different time of day I've spent several minutes turning stuff OFF and ON to check what's the problem as well as trying to replicate with certain settings Shadow flickering/dissapearing bug.

 

And yes I've tested it with Godrays ON/OFF (and many other settings, except for Volumetric) before applying Fix and the FPS gains were non-existent to laughable (Well, the only FPS gain I noticed was when I turned everything to lowest possible settings, then I got 50 FPS outside cave xd)

 

Several people on Skyrim reddit confirmed that it solved their framerate issues.

 

By the way, if you apply this FIX there is no need to turn OFF godrays as they don't drop frames anymore (Imo, they are s*** - almost not noticeable)

 

I get ~45-60 FPS with High Godrays when running through Riverwood / Between trees behind it etc.

 

http://i.imgur.com/5QUwbpw.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/0tXpdLp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BmNAUWl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/j7mXL6Y.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/IaAFRR1.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/gqCSHrK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Z0X4qk6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ekrXvHT.jpg

 

Add +4-6 FPS in each screenshot (ie. my real framerate in last screenshot is 48-49) for some reason they go down when I alt-tab to make a screenshot with ShareX (so I can capture it with FPS counter)

Also I tweaked my .ini's with some graphical enchantements; shadows on grass, increased distance etc. (and I lost around 3 fps because of that) wasn't something major but there was hit on framerates so if you didn't derp around with .ini's to make game look slightly better you'll get even more.

Edited October 29, 2016 by IE33

[Pencildragon]

This fix worked great! I was getting drops down to at least 30 just running around Riverwood and the surrounding areas, now it seems as though it never drops below 50. However, it seems pretty jittery(Bethesda games have always been plagued by this haven't they?). Until somebody comes up with a stutter remover mod, is there any way to limit JUST Skryim to, say, 50fps? I used Rivatuner to set my global fps to 60, AMD's utility seemed to do absolutely nothing.

 

EDIT: I'm an idiot and was missing the new profile button. Make sure to select SkyrimSE.exe and not the launcher, the launcher won't work.

EDIT2: Okay, so it all works in game. However, at the main menu I get about 1500fps and my graphics card starts emitting a really worrying whine. Anybody know how I can fix that?

Edited October 29, 2016 by Pencildragon