fabes253 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Alright, since I have found the modding community Skyrim went from collecting dust on my Steam shelf to being played everyday. However I am having some frame lag while playing which I dont get, I mean Skyrim doesnt even use DX10. I can play Battlefield 3 with DX11 on ultra with virtually no noticeable frame lag. Now the lag is not constant not at all, If i am running straight whether in a dungeon, town or outside its smooth as butter, but when I pan my camera with my mouse it will lag up the screen get real choppy and even freeze for half a second then goes back to no lag. I just dont get it here are my system specs; Win7x64Intel Core i7 2600k @ 3.4GHz16 GB Ram (4x4 GB DDR3 1333)Sata 6gb/s HDNvidia 560 Ti x 2 in SLi. Game settings pretty much all set to the highest setting but reduced the distance sliders to half. The only thing I can think of is the game is just simply not optimized right, I can run any other game with near max graphics if not maxed and its smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Sorry I don't have the answer, but have you tried disabling radial blur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderdToastMan Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Use FRAPS and post your actual frames per second. We can probably help you out also, a mod list or load order, as well as what texture replacers youre using... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabes253 Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Use FRAPS and post your actual frames per second. We can probably help you out also, a mod list or load order, as well as what texture replacers youre using... Alright, so I made a quick video so you can witness the lag I speak of, its short (1min), in 1080pHD and on Youtube here is the link; http://youtu.be/vHE1dito1eM Second here is a snapshot of all my mods in order of load. http://www.freeimagehosting.net/pmg6x As for fps, it seems when im running straight im capped at 60 but when I turn it drops to 40ish and when it freezes it will get to 10 then when its done freezing right back up to 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfiZ Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Are you watching your HD light during those lag frames? I bet it's the HD texture packs, regardless of your vid memory/gpu speed. I mention that because I have 2gb vid mem (not sli) and had identical lag as in your vid. My solution, sice I didn't want to remove my HD textures..was to half scale the largest *_n.dds textures ONLY (I searched my texture folder for _n.dds and sorted by size), with Optimizer Textures (Ordenador.exe). It took a little while, since I had to move the _n textures for each folder to a subfolder to batch process them and then copied them back to their original folders. Lag was gone, and the detail loss, since the main dds's were still unchanged, really barely noticeable. Smooth as silk now. If it were me, I would disable to two texture packs and test for the lag you have again. If it's reduced or gone, that might be the issue. Also, while on the subject; with your HD texs enabled, go to console and type tscr and see if the lag is still there. If it ISN'T, then script lag is affecting frame rate. I've had this issue before too, something to do with the script buffers affecting texture allocation in cpu memory. There are ways to "smooth out" script lag without your game getting borked, since the lag is stored in save games, and if not corrected, can caused frequent CTD in all sorts of situations, progressively getting worse and worse unless corrected.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabes253 Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Thanks for both ideas, I tried them both to no avail, disabling the hd packs from the data files and still lagged. also tried your script disabler and still lagged. keep the ideas coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endlaren Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Have you tried dismissing all your followers? I've encountered the same sort of lag before, always when I turn to look at my party of followers. It gets worse the more followers I have with me, especially when they are wearing armor from mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabes253 Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Have you tried dismissing all your followers? I've encountered the same sort of lag before, always when I turn to look at my party of followers. It gets worse the more followers I have with me, especially when they are wearing armor from mods. I have and its still laggy when turning. I am leaning on the fact it has something to do with Nvidia specifically or SLi, maybe its not optimized for it? I dont know but i have my fan profiles for my video cards set up to scale better with the card heat and in battlefield my cards get hot and my fans max out at 100% but skyrim barely gets my cards hotter than 65 degrees F. Just makes me think its not a hardware issue but definitely something else causing the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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