(Skyrim) Low fps ONLY in towns. GTX 560Ti

[Valimer]

32-60 fps outside, even more inside.

20 fps when in town (Like Whiterun). more specifically, fps only drops when i face inward toward the town. The second I look away FPS instantly goes up.

Playing on ultra, forcing 16x Anisotropic, 2x AA, 2x SS via nvidia control panel.
Radial Blur quality low, everything else on highest settings.

GTX 560 Ti
4 Gigs DDR2 RAM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Yorkfield 2.66GHz
750W PSU

What concerns me the most, is that my friend has a GTX 260, quad core cpu, and 4 Gigs of RAM, and his computer breezes through with ease with the same game settings as me.
While my almost identical rig (except for updated video card) stutters at the site of buildings, his easily handles it.

Why is this? Im using the most up to date nvidia drivers.

 

[abugroza]

i have a problem too my cpu is athlon II 245 4gb ram gpu 6770 but when i play skyrim fps always below 60 in town even in outdoor, in town is the worst, so i've tried lowering resolution to 1024x800 it just the same. my game quality is set to high and fxaa enabled and AA 8 lowering AA has no significant effect, is it cpu bottleneck?

 

[helpsl]

i have a 560ti i also have massive lag spikes only after a month i figured out its all to do with skyrims shadow setting.
find skyrimprefs.ini in your documents then edit the lines

iShadowMapResolution=(SomeNumber)
fShadowBiasScale=(SomeNumber)
iShadowMaskQuarter=(SomeNumber)
to
iShadowMapResolution=2048
fShadowBiasScale=0.2540
iShadowMaskQuarter=4

 

[dravan]

Make sure your Graphics Control Panel setting are "use application options" or turned down.
Then when starting game MAX everything out expect for Radial Blur Medium and Shadows Low, Dont worry the FXAA will compensate for any low detail shadow aliasing. You will not notice any difference.

Or try turning FXAA off and shadows Medium.

 

[slayersen]

i have a problem too my cpu is athlon II 245 4gb ram gpu 6770 but when i play skyrim fps always below 60 in town even in outdoor, in town is the worst, so i've tried lowering resolution to 1024x800 it just the same. my game quality is set to high and fxaa enabled and AA 8 lowering AA has no significant effect, is it cpu bottleneck?

i have a 6850 and if you put AA x8 the pixles don't reder as fast but it donsn't touch the frame rate so i would stick with 4x - 2x or even none for optimal performence

 

[Wayfall]

Hello

I have read all if this and te one thing I would like to add is about the micro stuttering. I have finally built my desktop this July and it took me a month to figure out a fix as I was having it too.

I found this fix online:
-Load up the skyrim launcher options and click play in window.
-Set your resolution again.
-As windowed mode means it has borders, so search in google 'Skyrim Nexus simple border less windowed mod'
-Copy the file to ye location it tells you and then right click the file and click 'send to/desktop(shortcut)'
-when you double click the new link now it will load up skyrim without the launcher and wait for twenty seconds about in the menu and the border will be gone an it will look like basic full screen but technically it isn't.

Somehow this made my camera smooth a silk in and outdoors with my 60fps as usual. FYI I have a ATI R9 270 Sapphire and before that i had a GTX 650 Asus with the same bug. So it's just a random bug some people have some don't.

Hope this helps anyone that find this.

 

[slayersen]

Hello

I have read all if this and te one thing I would like to add is about the micro stuttering. I have finally built my desktop this July and it took me a month to figure out a fix as I was having it too.

I found this fix online:
-Load up the skyrim launcher options and click play in window.
-Set your resolution again.
-As windowed mode means it has borders, so search in google 'Skyrim Nexus simple border less windowed mod'
-Copy the file to ye location it tells you and then right click the file and click 'send to/desktop(shortcut)'
-when you double click the new link now it will load up skyrim without the launcher and wait for twenty seconds about in the menu and the border will be gone an it will look like basic full screen but technically it isn't.

Somehow this made my camera smooth a silk in and outdoors with my 60fps as usual. FYI I have a ATI R9 270 Sapphire and before that i had a GTX 650 Asus with the same bug. So it's just a random bug some people have some don't.

Hope this helps anyone that find this.

Dude... check the date.. this thread died 2 years ago (close to 3 years ago please remeber to check post dates before posting, thanks, although you did give some info that is really good it is a little irreverent)

Irreverence: I have a 770 now and Max skyrim with 59fps in the laggiest spot in dragonreach... a new I5 8gb ram and a new mobo case and psu ect (got that in the summer of 2012) and afterwards upgrated to 16gb (2012 3-4q) and a gtx770 acx 2gb (EVGA) (2013 august)

I also did the trick to stop the bad vsync that skyrim uses (it causes fps stutter becuase it is locked to 60 but syncs for 58 or something stupid... so I just did that got glitches as the game isn't ment to be played like that so I just used dxtory or similar to lock the fps to 62 so it isn't so ****ed up.

I apologize to the creator of the thread for thinking this was the one I posted way back when