Laggy Lag

[TheHunter666]

Hello Nexus.

 

First off heres my specs: (probably a little more than you needed but the whole thing is)

Intel Core iS 2400 processor

64 bit 8gb ram

2 tera hard drive

Amd radeon HD 6450 graphics card w/ 512 MB

Directx11

Windows 7

 

This is entirely a vanilla install and I'm getting around 15 FPS on average. Now, I know the games older but I was able to run Oblivion with 30FPS (which I believe is above that in which the human eye can perceive) with Ultra High settings and 4x AA. Skyrim on low settings yields the previously mentioned 15 FPS. I believe there is something wrong with my installation or incompatibility between Skyrim and the video card but I'd like some help and advice.

 

Thanks,

:wub:

Edited March 20, 2012 by TheHunter666

[Rennn]

15 fps sounds about right for high-ish settings on that card. I'm mostly guessing there though, based on your VRAM. Skyrim is certainly not going to run as well as Oblivion for most people.

 

Also, the human eye can percieve up to 100-200 fps, though past 100 the difference is minuscule. Our eye can actually take sensory input from several thousand 'frames per second', but it's indistinguishable past 200 fps for anyone, since I'm pretty sure that if you decode sensory input past that the difference would be too small to notice.

 

The interesting part is that the eye adapts to changing frames per second based on constancy, so a stable 30 fps for several hours will begin to look as good as real life. The same goes for 60 fps, and presumably 100 fps. After a few hours your mind 'deliberately' removes the difference in appearance as it adapts to the new frequency. Monitor refresh rates, however, are not subject to this, as no amount of adaptation can get rid of micro-second afterimages on the screen. That's what I got out of some articles, at least.

 

Personally, I can definitely tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps, or even 45 and 60, but my monitor has a refresh of 60 so I can't exceed that to test it.

 

Edit:

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough. If you have Skyrim on low settings, you should be getting a higher framerate than that. I don't know what the problem is though. Is your framerate very jumpy and stuttery?

Edited March 20, 2012 by Rennn

[TheHunter666]

Well I play using an Xbox 360 controller so its especially stutters and jumpy. But even when I just use my mouse, it stutters. Its quite random actually. I'll be playing on 20 FPS for a while then it will go down to 15 FPS for a while. Then back up to 18 and down to 15. The only consistency I noticed with it is its usually worse in interior cells, and better in...cities which is strange. I'm not really sure what the problem is either, but it definitely affects my game play. Its very aggravating to try and aim spells when your screen jumps from one point to another.

[Rennn]

It could be a lack of VRAM. If you're trying to get above low settings though, I'm not sure how you would go about fixing it.

[TheHunter666]

Hmm well this is particularly bad now. I've reinstalled and updated my game and now I'm getting an average of 13 FPS (pretty much unplayable). This is on low settings AND a smaller resolution than my monitor should be run on. Just for testing, I installed quarls texture pack for Oblivion, and am running on ultra high just fine. While the graphics may be worse, I believe they should be using the same requirements between ultra high modded Oblivion and low-medium Skyrim. Im leaning towards theres just something wrong with my Skyrim directory or some kind of incompatibility going on.