Skyrim low fps on GTX 770 / i5 4670k

[deadlytivo]

I am playing skyrim on an i5 4670k @3.4ghz (stock), GTX 770, Z87X-OC, 8gb DDR 3 1600mhz , Corsair 750w, ssd 120gb / hdd 1tb wd caviar and am getting fps constantly at 40-50

Anyways, my nvidia control panel settings are http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/vlk9.png/

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I monitored my GPU usage using msi afterburner and it showed a max temp of 60 degrees and a max gpu usage of 99%.

My cpu usage (using ctrl+del performance monitor) showed 60-70% usage.

Reducing antialiasing transparency through nvidia control panel increased my fps enormously

What I find disconcerting is that this gpu has benchmarked to over 80 fps avg on ultra settings across multiple credible sites.

Is there anything concerning here or is this regular performance?

Do I need to OC my cpu?
Is it simply my nvidia control panel settings?

 

[juanrdp]

Maybe you have VSyc enabled and a monitor refresh of 50Hz?

As i have a similar system (Fist gen i5 750 Oc at 3.8 and also a Gtx 770) i you want i could check this afternoon what fps i get on Skyrim (althought i have several visual mods that i'm not sure if could affect the fps)

I'm not sure about it but i would bet that on skyrim i didn't get a Gpu usage on 95-100% with the same board.

 

[HumanShield]

You've answered your own question there. Its your Nvidia control panel settings. You are running FXAA and 32xCSAA. There is very little point running 2 different types of anti-aliasing at once, chances are you probably have in-game aliasing switched on too which will be overriding your nvidia panel settings anyway. If you want to manually assign your visual settings for Skyrim using Nvidia control panel, you need to set all in-game settings to default (except screen resolution) and then run custom DX11 shaders.
Also CSAA may be a more optimised version of MSAA but its not going to make the game look any different if you run it at 16x as the game is essentially an upscaled, HD textured port. It will most likely look identical running at 4x MSAA. Plus you haven't mentioned adding in any of the community-mods yet so i'm assuming you are running Skyrim vanilla.
You cant really judge your FPS against review benchmarks unless you are using 100% identical hardware/software settings. For a start they wont have been running Haswell processors and 7** series GTX cards so you already have 1-Up on them.
Just play around with your anti-aliasing settings. Check out custom shaders/rendering if you want to push for better graphics (although IMO the game looks much the same using in-game AA as using external settings). Also check your screen resolution, if you are running 2880x1800 then don't expect the same FPS as if you were running 1920x1080.

 

[deadlytivo]

I customised the nvidia control panel to have AA settings and Anisotropic filtering set to application controlled.
Ingame, I have Anisotropic Filtering set to 16x AA set to 8x and Transparency set to 8x Supersample.
My fps remained at 40 - 55.

I maintained the above but with FXAA disabled in both ingame and in nvidia control panel with no change. (fxaa / aa / af options are ingame)
Fps still 40-55

I turned off ingame fxaa / AA / AF and instead set it to what I had in the links provided in my first post with the exception of setting AntiAliasing mode to ''override any application setting''.
This boosted my fps to 80 - 100.

To be honest , I didn't notice any difference in visual display with any of the above. With my final change (overriding) it guarantees its overriden, or is it, as I suspect, simply what I set it ingame?

I feel very disappointed that a game like Skyrim on vanilla is causing me such a strain with 1920 x 1080 resolution and 60hz.

 

[HumanShield]

As far as I remember, if you use in game AA settings, they seem to ignore the nvidia request to Override application settings. Set everything to default within Skyrim (except screen resolution). Set Nvidia to override settings, and google search for Custom ENB DX shaders. They put slightly more strain on your FPS than the stock shaders with high AA settings but they usually come with improved lighting/ambient filtering so you wouldnt need to add in other mods (eg Volumetric lighting/fog etc). Think I spent about 2 days playing with AA settings/mods in Skyrim before I was finally happy enough to let myself play it. I'd already completed the console version twice though so gave up after a few hours anyway 😛