Yet another thread about Skyrim stuttering

[moozilbee]

Hi,

Yes, I am having stutters and ctds, and yes, I have looked at a bunch of other stutter posts asking for help and I still have am not completely sure of the cause.

Basically, Skyrim stutters horribly in most areas outside, and even more just outside towns (Riften and Whiterun mostly), and also stutters in certain towns like Windhelm.
I have tried and tried to fix this problem, but nothing seems to work, and I'm wondering if it's caused solely by my CPU, which I suspect it is, since my CPU runs at about 90 - 95% usage whilst playing Skyrim, sometimes peaking at 100% (often when I stutter or ctd), and my GPU is only at about 60-70% load.

Framerates are fine, I get about 30-40fps when looking straight forward, but then stutter when turning around and my fps drops to about 1 frame every 4 seconds for about 6 seconds before the game goes back to a smooth framerate.



But I am unsure of whether this is due to Vram usage as well, as sometimes when Skyrim has a CTD the vram usage is at around 1970 mb (of 2048 mb), it might be my cpu causing the stutters and my vram causing the crashes.



I would like other peoples opinion on this as then I will know whether buying a better cpu will mostly fix the problem, or whether it is due to having too many/too high res texture mods, or lack of system ram, or needing a faster drive.



Here are my specs:
RAM: 4gb crucial ballistix ram

OS: 32bit windows 7

HDD: 500gb seagate 7200rpm hard drive

PSU: XFX 550w

GPU: AMD XFX R9 270 (Stock speeds)

CPU: AMD phenom II x2 550 BE @3.5 ghz (Overclocked from 3.1 ghz to 3.5 ghz)

CPU cooler: Arctic cooling freezer 7



Skyrim mods:
Requiem

A few other non massive gameplay mods such as Epic gameplay overhaul, Hunterborn, Convenient horses, etc.
A few immersion, armour, weapon, animation, house, and other probably not performance affecting mods, such as wet and cold, immersive armours, etc

A few not too heavy NPC mods: Interesting npcs, inconsequential npcs, and populated roads paths lands (No other NPC mods)

Realistic water 2, the grim and somber ENB (game still stutters without enb), ELFX, Grass on steroids with imingrasssize @ 80, SMIM, unique grasses and groundcovers, Skyrim performance plus, Skyrim project optimization.

Running the enb in borderless windowed mode, with the recommended enb local tweaks for my system.

A bunch of texture mods, most of which only effect interiors, weapons, armour, and npcs. No landscape textures apart from Vivid landscapes all in one (performance version) & alternative snow 1k, no town retextures. Most of the textures are 1k, with some exceptions such as the amidianborn armour and weapons mods.



I realize that my cpu is vastly inferior to my GPU, this is because I have upgraded the GPU but not the CPU, I just want to know whether upgrading the cpu will fix the problem, or whether the problem lies with something else.



Here is a link to my other forum post, check the picture at the end, it shows the performance of Skyrim using GPU z and task manager in a stutter heavy area (Windhelm) the game ctds and the memory usage drops at the end.
Sorry for the crude ms paint picture

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1621863-yet-another-post-about-stuttering-and-cpu-usage/

 

[Guest]

your cpu is indeed not the best, and since skyrim is very cpu intensive upgrading to amd fx83** or intel i5/i7 will fix the stuttering and give big improvements in FPS, also, try upgrading your ram to 8GB because modded skyrim uses ALOT, go play skyrim and look at your ram usage, if it is maxed out all the time then that will be a factor in the stuttering.

EDIT: get 64 bit windows, preferabely windows 8, because it uses less system resources.