stillinferno Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Well, I was hoping it was a heat issue (would have been easy to fix). So if the mobo is fine, the ram is fine, the heat is fine, the power supply should be more than adequate. We are narrowing it down pretty good it seems, hopefully we'll find a solution to this problem soon. This is just about the last thing to consider, but let's look at your audio (do you use onboard or do you have a sound card?) I noticed when I played FEAR back in the day my sound card would cause my FPS to drop considerably because it was trying to play catch-up with the video. (it's happened a few times afterwards - updating or reinstalling drivers helped) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Have you tried deleting your skyrim.ini yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKhajDar Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Soundwise I allways use onboard, never really knew the point of a soundcard if you have a decent mobo...Also, I play with USB-connected headphones, and a soundcard doesn't have usb.I keep it updated with the latest drivers i could find at ASUS... .ini- wise, I tried deleting, trying out, tweaking, deleting, retrying, retweaking... nothing changed, exept the 1300+ FPS in the menu's when I disable V-sync in the skyrim.ini. tried calling ASUS, but they refer back to the website for support on parts :wallbash: for the overclocking part, didn't really think that would be needed for the first couple of years with this CPU... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominionz Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Overclocking isn't needed but it's incredibly easy and it's really the only thing that's gonna possibly net you some extra FPS until AMD gets the Radeon drivers sorted out. Here is an excellent site that I used when I OC'd mine last year.http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?265398-Official-ASUS-P8P67-Series-Overclocking-Guide-and-Information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillinferno Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) While overclocking is a great idea, it is not necessary for your rig. Overclocking in order to compensate for terrible coding is more akin to sweeping the dust under the rug. The problem is still there you're just pumping more power to make it "do" what it should already be "doing" without OCing. Here's what I've dug up so far: Do you have morphological filtering on? I read that was bottlenecking high end rigs for B3. The setting will be located in your CCC. Also I see that your GPU is from Asus which is very interesting because I happened to stumble on someone else who was suffering from severe FPS drops on a reasonably high end rig (regardless of their GPU being Nvidia or ATI even). Do you happen to have a program called Gamer OSD on your computer? If so get rid of it. Here's what I found on the skyrim official forums: http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1328260-frame-rate-drops-every-5-10s-outdoor/ Pertinent Transcription from link posted above: "Well...as far as I'm aware Asus does make ATI cards so I recommend you just hit up Control Panel>Uninstall a program and see if the Gamer OSD program is listed. If you have Asus Smart Doctor installed also then it's a safe bet that OSD is lurking on your system. -Edit- Forgot to answer what Gamer OSD is, it's an Asus program that ties into the Asus Smart Doctor suite, it allows for screen capture/recording and real time overclocking." I'll keep looking for possible answers...I read somewhere that going into the Skyrim.ini and changing the gamepad setting from 1 to 0 helps too. Have you done that already? I also found this link http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1326816-skyboost-topic-3/ But I advise you read it fully and the previous two topics (if they are pertinent) before doing any of that...it is not an elegant solution like those listed above; from what I can tell it's a separate program. I'm sure it's legit but always err on the side of caution. Make sure you understand what it's doing exactly before you try it for yourself. Like I said I'll keep looking for stuff that might pertain to your situation on here; you hang in there. I'm sure we can figure this out. Edited January 12, 2012 by stillinferno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennn Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Asus makes video cards? o_OI wouldn't recommend overclocking, btw. If it's a bottleneck on something else (like audio), overclocking the cpu won't help at all, but it will shorten the life of your components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillinferno Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Asus makes video cards? o_OI wouldn't recommend overclocking, btw. If it's a bottleneck on something else (like audio), overclocking the cpu won't help at all, but it will shorten the life of your components. I agree, in this case it's basically overcompensating for terrible coding. Much like sweeping dust under the rug, it's still there just out of sight. As for Asus, they make a lot of stuff...haven't tried their video cards myself but I've heard a lot of good things about them...minus the Gamer OSD thing. They also make a great audio card...but the Asus Audio Center program screws around with too many of my games (Fallout:NV, Skyrim, Oblivion to be exact) so I just turn it off when I play those games...otherwise it's a great sound card solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Even though your video card is an ASUS EAH4850, it is not on the Sabertooth P67 Device QVL List. Which is odd because all of the other ASUS 48xx cards are on the list. Personally, having once owned a 4850, I would consider replacing it. While it was a decent performer for its day, it also runs terribly hot unless you tweak the CCC profile or edit the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKhajDar Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 Replacing the card is no option for now, I just updated everything but the power suply, gpu and my lcd...I'll have to save some money before this is an option.One thing is for sure, it won't be a radeon card... Took out the card, took the fan of of it, got allmost a heart attack when I saw the amount of cooling paste they used...The small resistors underneath the fan where completely covered by paste, linking them together and for all I know, this stuff is somewhat conductive...I could easy use this amount of paste on multiple cpu's without any cooling problem arising...cleaned it all of, applied a little dot of good quality paste and put it back. It has now run about 12h without problem, so I'll check it out on games today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machuidel Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Try disabling AA or at least make sure you are not using transparency AA (AA on foilage). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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