Slow FPS decay during first minute

[iamthemaniamwhit]

Is this just how the game runs? It seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me. Whenever I load any savegame file or enter a new area, my FPS hovers around 30 and then over the course of the next minute or two it slowly drops down to about 13-19 depending on the environment, until I enter a new environment. Any idea of what might be causing this or if this is totally normal?

 

Thanks for the help

[gsmanners]

If your frame rate is dropping below 30 FPS, you need to lower your settings in a major way.

[Rennn]

That's not normal. Post your mod list and your PC specs or nobody can help you.

[prod80]

It's normal if you runs high res texture mods on a 1 GB VGA card...

 

Your framerate is high(er) at start because there's still abit of space available... when you start moving, more stuff starts loading until it reaches the limit of 1 GB at which point your VGA card will start using the MUCH slower system memory and --> framerate grids to a halt.

[iamthemaniamwhit]

Specs:

 

i7 920 4 cores @ 2.67GHz

 

8GB of RAM

 

Radeon HD5770 1GB of DDR5 RAM

 

Here's my mod list/load order

 

Thanks for the thoughts

 

@prod80 I think that may be it. I'm running several high textures mods and the default dlc but never noticed a heavy fps drop from them, but maybe it just didn't take affect for a couple of minutes.

 

@gsmanners - I agree and lowered most of my settings from ultra to high to medium and it didn't do much as well as uninstalling lush grash and trees and a couple others. So I figured it must be something else. I'll try removing the textures when I get a chance

 

 

[gsmanners]

Here's another tip: Hi-Res + 1GB of video RAM don't mix. Just don't. Not a good idea.