timelessness Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I am having a strange bug in Skyrim. I have the latest update through Steam, I've removed any mods I had installed (nothing fancy, one or two simple things, nothing that should cause this, especially since it happens with them removed), blew out all my INI files (not just skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini) and let Steam replace them. I verified my cache, I defragmented my files, I have no viruses, I have nothing resource hungry in the background running, I physically cleaned out my computer (even though it wasn't overheating) just to be sure. The problem: When playing, if I crouch while in first person view my frame rate drops through the floor. If stand, it goes back to normal, if I go to third person view, it goes back to normal. If I go into any menus while crouched with the lag issue going on, my mouse stutters and is jerky in the menus. If stand or go into third person and then go into a menu, the mouse is fine. It doesn't not matter if I'm outside, inside, if there's water around, if there's no water around, if it's raining, if it's not raining, if it's snow, if it's not snowing, only happens as soon as I crouch in first person and stay crouched. This only started yesterday or the day before. Prior to that my game ran fine with settings on Ultra. I've tried putting it on low and the problem still occurs. I have a 3.4 Ghz quad core CPU (AMD), 1 GB GDDR5 (ATI) video card, and 12 GB DDR3 of RAM (no paging file, because with that much memory, who needs it?). The most my CPU heats up to is 40 C (under severe load), and my GPU heats up to 65 C (under severe load). Anyone have an ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelessness Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Completely wiped Skyrim from my hard drive and let it reinstall overnight. Still have the same issue with a clean install. And it's definitely not a problem with my save, because I loaded the save on another computer with no mods and then again with mods, and it works fine, no lag when crouching. Have all the graphics settings the same as well. And this test computer has a worse video card, but still is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelessness Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 I've also completely ripped out all my graphics drivers (deleted all files, cleared all reg keys, etc), reverted to 12.1 (which worked fine with Skyrim before), also reinstalled 12.2 (which was working fine for a week and a half before I started having any issues). So far, issue is still happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelessness Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Well, I've narrowed it down to an antialiasing problem. If I turn antialiasing and anisotropic filtering off, problems. If I turn on antialiasing, but turn anisotropic filtering off, problems. If I turn antialiasing off, but anisotropic filtering on, runs fine. I realized that it might be specific to antialiasing when I thought about the fact that no matter what my antialiasing settings were configured to, my shadows had hard, blocky, square edges, like it's not antialiasing at all. If I turn antialiasing off, it looks the exact same, but no severe lag when crouching. So, that said, anyone know what in 1.5 buggered up antialiasing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DethChikkin Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 (edited) Well, I've narrowed it down to an antialiasing problem. If I turn antialiasing and anisotropic filtering off, problems. If I turn on antialiasing, but turn anisotropic filtering off, problems. If I turn antialiasing off, but anisotropic filtering on, runs fine. I realized that it might be specific to antialiasing when I thought about the fact that no matter what my antialiasing settings were configured to, my shadows had hard, blocky, square edges, like it's not antialiasing at all. If I turn antialiasing off, it looks the exact same, but no severe lag when crouching. So, that said, anyone know what in 1.5 buggered up antialiasing? yeah i got this too, so glad its not just me XD first thought in my head was "oh great, which mod f****ed up this time.....". EDIT: noooo this only made it worse, gonna try tweaking my vid card settings Edited April 16, 2012 by DethChikkin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DethChikkin Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 so id dont know whats wrong but i think i might play a warrior now so i can avoid crouching XD. what the hell is with this patch.... anyways i need some sleep, but before i pass out ill put my specs up: win7 64 bit os6gb rami7 920 2.67 ghznvidia geforce gtx 560 ti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdw77 Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 (edited) I have this same problem, and it only happens to be on one save file. its not a drastic fps drop but its noticable and annoying. i really dont want to take my mods off I have 81 mods running, idk if thats a lot or not. But the only fps lg i get is when i crouch in first person. and i do not like using third person... :( EDIT: Now the drop in fps is so severe that i HAVE to play in third person. And it only happens when i look down or crouch. This makes no sense at all. Edited July 19, 2013 by cdw77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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