Low fps on mid/high-end PC

[aciits]

EDIT: Rolling back to previous driver helped!

 

EDIT #2: I updated my video drivers to the latest again and it still works smooth, I really don`t get it because I use default driver settings. Damn the drivers, here goes something around 3 hours of moding again.

Hi!

 

I experience huge lag issues and I have no idea what`s causing it. I haven`t played Skyrim for quite some time now but the Dawnguard trailer inspired me to get back to it so I started with updating all my mods I had previously installed. So after few hours of work I had my ~50 mods up to date and I went on to kick some ass in Skyrim but instead of that I got huge loading times and unplayable fps, almost like a slideshow. What`s more interesting I even get lags in main menu, but only after the smoke shows up, same thing on loading screen, I can see fps droping when the smoke comes up and when I`m finaly in game I get a glorious slideshow of bullsh*t.

 

Well after all that you think that the mods are at fault here but the thing is I deleted everything, redownloaded Skyrim from Steam and went in Skyrim without any mods - still the same problem. I tried both low and ultra settings but result is the same.

 

I`m using latest Nvidia drivers and the following PC build:

 

Motherboard: Asus Z68P8-V Pro

 

Video card: Two GTX 460 1Gb in SLI

 

CPU: i5 2500k

 

Sound card: Asus Xonar DG

 

OS: Windows 7 with the latest updates

 

 

I`ll install the old video card drivers, maybe that helps but besides that I have no idea about what`s going on.

Edited May 31, 2012 by aciits

[Werne]

I don't know about Nvidia cards but AMD has Catalyst which is basically controling visual quality in games and programs while overriding the application's settings. When you disable Catalyst's 3D settings or switch them to "use application settings" it uses the settings set in game or it's ini files. That means the difference between playing Skyrim with 30 fps and swearing at Skyrim with 5 fps.

 

I don't know if Nvidia has a program like that, I wouldn't know because I've always been using AMD. I know Catalyst tends to reset it's settings after update so if Nvidia has a program like Catalyst, it's possible your 3D settings might've reset after the driver update. Don't know why rolling back helped though.