Skyrim movement stuttering.

[SchuylerLE]

From the day I downloaded Skyrim, I had no issues with it. Playing it for a few days straight, I had no problems. But after not playing it for about a week, I just started it up, and I'm getting a small issue that is driving me mad. When I move my mouse to look around, I get these small stutters. Now it's not a huge issue, but it's really been bugging me. It's not the graphics stuttering, just my looking movement, and it only happens when I'm walking/Running. When I'm standing still, my movement is perfectly smooth.

Any ideas? This is really just starting to bug me.

 

[shai1co]

I had this problem it was very annoying ruined the game experience even tho it was just micro stutter, tried changing settings and tweaking mods which helped but didnt solve the problem.
Then I remember it all started happening since i made that deadra armor set, i took it off and bam problem solved.. wtf.
i have all other type of armor sets heavy & light and dont get graphics lag when i put them on.
so for me deadra armor = movement stutter.

 

[wolfram23]

Well I noticed some stuttering yesterday that wasn't caused by "loading stuff". It was very apparant when looking down, because I was collecting some alchemy mushrooms... basically it's just a super terrible stutter. Looking up is fine and in 3rd person it's fine. Also my FPS was pegged at 60 as it always is indoors.

I've seen reports of this issue elsewhere so I guess it's pretty common. No idea what the cause is.

 

[amdbcg]

I had a similar problem with lag but it was with Blender3d - it would only update on mouse movement. I solved this by turning down the colors from 32 bits to 16 bits.
its much faster.

 

[Guest]

I have been reading this forum and i have been having the same stutter problem, when i was searching for a solution i found this mod which reduces stutter.


http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/2581

Tell me if this helped.

 

[chrisafp07]

I also had these sames issues and created a post on it this week. I had someone post an article referring to the issues with the 12.0 thru 13.1 catalyst drivers. So Cata 13.2 is leaked and in BETA, I downloaded it, installed, all Skyrim issues are gone, try it im telling you.

 

[juveyfruit]

I also have had the same issue with stuttering with Skyrim. I know when it is about to occur and how to temporarily resolve the issue.

The main symptom is slow load up time of a save file; to begin playing the damn game. I can tell that I am about receive bad FPS.

The temporary resolution is to reinstall the graphics driver. During the stuttering I get FPS of 0 to 15. Post reinstallation of the graphics driver I get back to my normal FPS of 40 - 60.

The bad news is that after sometime of playing the game, the FPS reverts back to 0 to 15 and I have reinstall the graphics drivers again.

I don't know how or why, but it seems that the graphics driver is being tampered with. I am not sure if this is Skyrim or something else!

Specs:
Intel Q9505 @ 2.83Ghz
8.0 GB RAM
Win 7 - 64bit
GTX 550Ti

p.s. Its hard to justfiy to continue to play this game when I have reinstall graphics drivers again & again.

 

[plupsiedeflupsie]

After 200 hours of Skyrim on my 4GB RAM/ 1GB ATI 5650 laptop, I've seen just about every malfunction that one could think of:

- crashes to desktop (memory problem: solved by using a 16GB USB stick for Readyboost)
- crashes to switched off (CPU overheated: clear the cooler vents, use a fan pad or bottlecaps to raise the laptop for better ventilation)
- intermittent stutters, hangs: the one thing I find that solved this for me was uninstalling MS Office (normally I don't use it, but I needed it for my job, and right after I installed MS Office the trouble was starting, when I removed it the problems never came back)

I'm not sure if MS Office is the only software that can cause these stutters, but I'm sure in my case it was. Another piece of software that interferes negatively is TomTom Home updater (to connect your satnav to the pc), older versions would drive Windows Explorer crazy, so I uninstalled that too, although I don't remember it messing up Skyrim.

Oh and be sure to *always* use the latest drivers for your graphics card. Download them at the manufacturer's website (don't rely on OEM packages or Windows to hand out any updates, they never get updated anyway).

 

[aschr]

*FIX*

Had the same issue. Found out the mouse that came with my computer (hp) didn't have a lot of dpi. You can tell if this is the reason by looking diagonally. After some research I found out that low dpi laser mice will "staircase" when moving diagonally. It is especially noticeable on high resolution monitors. I switched to a different mouse and difference was immediate.

 

[ccoo84]

I found out for me that when I took off my g-sync it fixed it..