Super Skyrim Lags

[sgman1]

So recently I decided to reinstall Skyrim. Only problem is, I'm having severe lag while playing it.

 

I also installed other Beth games this month with the same/similar engine. Oblivion was more or less working okay and New Vegas seemed to work damn well near 60 FPS ... well at least until two days ago (right when I decided to reinstall Skyrim). But I am just assuming that it was save game bloat since it worked okay most of the time except after playing a while and save files seemed to be fairly large (~5 MB).

 

I cleaned up all files that were related to Skyrim and did a fresh install with a new savegame. Hell, I even lowered most of the intense settings like shadows, textures and object details to the lowest and it still lagged like all hell.

 

I even tried to go up from not updated to updated to see if that was what could be the cause, but no change...

 

Anyone know what could be causing this?

Edited April 8, 2013 by sgman1

[Georgiegril]

Without knowing your specs....

Have you updated your drivers? Used an fps limiter? Disabled radial blur, AO and FXAA?

Have you checked your prefs.ini files and .ini files and reset them to what was working before (reinstalling will have overwritten any changes you made with the defaults.)

Have you looked at your driver's game profile and made sure you had the correct settings?

Have you addressed external possible causes, like mouse lag, running processes/services/ inadequate memory, etc? Have your run basic computer maintenance like cleaning up files and defragging?

 

If you are getting lag without mods, I would definitely avoid adding mods until you correct the problem.

[sgman1]

Without knowing your specs....

Have you updated your drivers? Used an fps limiter? Disabled radial blur, AO and FXAA?

Have you checked your prefs.ini files and .ini files and reset them to what was working before (reinstalling will have overwritten any changes you made with the defaults.)

Have you looked at your driver's game profile and made sure you had the correct settings?

Have you addressed external possible causes, like mouse lag, running processes/services/ inadequate memory, etc? Have your run basic computer maintenance like cleaning up files and defragging?

 

If you are getting lag without mods, I would definitely avoid adding mods until you correct the problem.

 

Specs: http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N71Jq/#specifications

 

4 GB RAM version. Home basic.

 

And in order of the questions that you asked: Latest. No. Yes, yes, yes. Used both modified (the ones that were working previously) and default .ini files. I've set driver's to allow applications to handle all the specifics. No mouse lag elsewhere. Not sure about the processes, got an update recently from Microsoft and now I see one named dllhost.exe described as COM Surrogate, though, if it was malware I would think things would be much slower. Rest are more or less same as before and didn't impact performance much (I could even play while having firefox open fairly comfortably). AND I defragged like just today, CCleaner usually seems to handle junk upon startup.

 

As for mods, well funny thing is that even with lots of graphics and texture mods, I was playing at fairly low FPS once but it sure wasn't as laggy or inconsistent in FPS as it is now.

 

You think there might be a hidden folder somewhere with app data or something that might be keeping bad settings or a corrupted file from a previous install or the like?

[sgman1]

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[Georgiegril]

The first thing I would do is update to the most recent drivers. Then try limiting your fps. Try something low, like 35.

If that doesn't work you might investigate better settings for your drivers, rather than using the game app to handle everything.

There are a number of driver tweaks and .ini tweaks that might help.

In order to get a better idea of what you are working with, you could try posting your .ini values, BOSS log

You may find people more responsive if you don't send them to a linked site, but simply post the information so it is easily read. (Enclose in spoiler tags if it is long)