Fraps fixes mouse problem?

[Chikokishi]

http://youtu.be/kFqfqGxUNic

I took this with my cellphone, so it is terrible. But perhaps you can see what it is doing until i get a chance to upload a better video. You can notice the jerkyness at the start, and then at the end you can see how smooth the mouse is moving after turning fraps on. The low framerate is because i am on battery power at the moment. Again, framerate has nothing to do with it.

 

Chiko

[Belial666]

Check your performance settings in Windows and make sure memory and processor scheduling are both set to programs.On XP it's in System Properties,Advanced tab,then in Performance,and in that wondow Advanced tab.May be similar on other ones,I dunno.

 

 

Update: I was searching for something else,and see something interesting.I know others said it here too.It's something to do with CPU affinity.Some ppl have issues trying to use multiple cores,but when forcing Skyrim to one core it speeds up.So in theory,fraps filling the other core would help.Maybe force Skyrim to use 1 CPU core would help.In Task Manager you can right click Skyrim and set to use only 1 core.

 

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/change-the-processor-affinity-setting-in-windows-7-to-gain-a-performance-edge/5322

 

under [General] in Skyrim.ini you can try adding this line:

iNumHWThreads=1

Edited February 21, 2013 by Belial666

[FiftyTifty]

The problem is because of the inconsistencies of the data being sent to the GPU to render, thanks to occlusion culling (Which is a very, VERY awesome piece of code). Limiting the framerate stops the frames from going to some ungodly number when there is little/less to render, then back down to w/e when there is some complicated stuff going on.

[Chikokishi]

Ill look into the single core idea. Thats a good lead. Limiting fps might be nice too. how do i do that?

 

Chiko

[FiftyTifty]

Changing core usage won't make a difference. Refer to my posts earlier in the topic to learn how to limit your fps.

[Belial666]

In SkyrimPrefs,change iPresentInterval=0 to iPresentInterval=1 to set vsync on.Also,shoujld be a setting in driver control panel

[FiftyTifty]

Turning on VSync won't do anything but make the jitters way more apparent.

 

Lovin' the psuedo-techie tips that people are giving out.

[Belial666]

I'm guessing that the laptop possibly has an intel cpu in it,maybe an i5.Without more of an idea what it's running on,or any other settings and mods,driver versions,we're shooting into the dark.

The running FRAPS and game getting better seems to be common issue with others,and setting affinity helps almost everyone with the issue,when searching the web and other forums,even a few ppl here has said it.There's also another tweak that ppl use for core parking,which helps a few others.Enabling vsync may not help much,but it's something to try.

BTW,FiftyTifty,your link seems to be bad for the antilag thing,probaly old link or something.It's not pseudo-techie tips,it's things to try that's been tested by others,and hopefully can work for them also.Without knowing more about the system,we can only guess at what may or may not work.

[Chikokishi]

Hey guys, thanks again for trying to help:

Computer:
dv6 Pavilion
i7 core 2GHertz

8gb ram

Radeon HD 6770m graphics
1080P asus moniter.

Win7 64bit

 

Game settings:.

 

Youtube video:
http://youtu.be/du9JoS0_-1U
0:00 Fraps is NOT recording.
Notice how the trees vibrate as I look across them.
0:48 Fraps is recording
The screen is still glitchy just because I am recording with a camera.
at 1:19 slight stair stepping is still visible on the diagonal
1:31 Fraps is NOT recording
Looking as I cross the thistle the vibration is noticeable again.
1:59 Fraps is recording.
Once again making the game smoother.

My framerate was ~38 during the entire video Fraps on and off.

 

There now, hopefully I gave enough information to get solid help. Not
saying that anything that was said was wrong, im still going to look
into these things. I just want to know what is making the game nicer
while fraps records so that maybe we can help other people with the same
mouse issue.

Edited February 22, 2013 by Chikokishi

[Belial666]

The lines,or stair stepping,also called tearing,they'd go away with vsync on.Maybe try on different quality settings.Your anisotropic filtering is too high,and that can cause some of the issues.It's mostly to sharpen textures at a distance,so higher the more power it needs,and 2x-4x is ususally all that's needed,especially on laptop.I woujld also disable FXAA and use 2x or 4x AA in launcher.What are your videocard driver settings?I'd reccomend setting the video drivers to "use application setting" where you can.Are you using any hires graphics mods like HD 4k,or body mods with high res textures,graphics extenders to see farther?Did you do any tweaks to your INIs like uGrids?Might wanna disable mouse acceleration change bMouseAcceleration=1 to bMouseAcceleration=0 in your skyrimprefs.ini .Atleast you're getting over 30 fps,just gotta get rid of the stuttering.Make sure you also don't have any live antivirus/spyware scanning,disk optimizers,etc in background.Might also wanna try defragging your harddrive too.This should be a good strting point.

Edited February 22, 2013 by Belial666