Fps hits, still

[COOLJ808]

I've been troubleshooting for days now, I'm not sure what the problem is. When I use things like Enb, higher or lower textures, any .esp,.esm, etc mods active, and regardless of the settings of my video card, I still never get fps rate of higher than 20-25 consistently. Sometimes disabling the grass or disabling mods that add more grass works, but other times, my fps remains unaffected.

My computer stats or more or less like this:

 

Intel Core i7-2960xm 2.7 GHZ (It's suppose to be overclock to 4.0ghz but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or if it matters).

32 Gb Ram

2 NVIDIA GeForce GTx 580m

 

I don't know what other information is suppose to be relevant.

Any help would be awesome, I'm pretty lost right now.

[MShoap13]

First off, CPU-Z can be used to accurately see what speed your CPU is running at. HWMonitor can be used to monitor it in the background (along with a handful of other things).

 

Next order of business, a 580m is actually a downclocked 560 TI so your FPS doesn't seem overly surprising to me (I have a 560 TI on my desktop). I will admit that seems a little lower (5-10 low FPS) than I'd expect it for SLI though.

 

You may or may not see a slight FPS boost if you run Skyrim with the affinity set to two physical cores (I believe something like cores 0,1,4, and 5 would be optimal, but I'm on an AMD chip and can't really say for certain). You also may or may not see a more significant FPS boost by either upgrading your video card driver to the newest version (good luck with that if you're using a dell/alienware/etc. that requires a third party driver) or by disabling SLI. It's also possible that mods like ENB are forcing the game to run on your integrated Intel HD3000 graphics (though replacer packs definitely shouldn't cause this). You can try disabling the integrated graphics through the BIOS to see if this is happening (HWMonito could also probably give you a pretty good idea as it would show your GPU running in power-saver/off mode while you're playing Skyrim). Additionally, if you're using 16x/8x AF through the game, you should also set up 16x/8x AF through your video card control panel as it's been known to provide a slight increase to FPS while improving the quality of Texture Filtering. Oh, and make sure you're running the most up-to-date version of Skyrim available, massive performance inprovements through optimizations happened around patch 1.4.blah and slightly more optimization happened with patch 1.5.24/1.5.26.

 

A good place to test low FPS is staring down at the Gildergreen (the big tree in the middle of Whiterun) from the top of the steps to Dragonsreach. This is one of the more reliably CPU and GPU intensive views in the game.

[COOLJ808]

Thank you for the speedy response, that last paragraph lost me though ha ha. Could you elaborate a bit more? I don't understand how to do this exactly. :/

[COOLJ808]

By the way, the SLI thing seemed to work for me a bit also capping my fps at the least made it smoother,

It seemed to work best when I set it to only use one GPU.

Thanks again.

[MShoap13]

There's a myriad of suggestions in my last paragraph, and Google can find "how to's" on just about anything I suggested. If you can't figure something in particular out, post back with a specific question and I'll see what I can do.