njkilleen
New Member
Yes... this is my first post – but that's mainly because I normally find the answer to my questions by perusing through other people's problems first, thanks to the magic of the internet. This problem, however, evades solution:
I recently purchased Skyrim from the Steam store, and while it is a fantastic game, I quickly began to notice a particular issue that I was, from that point on, unable to ignore. As I moved around in the “outside” / “outdoor” section of skyrim, there is a particularly annoying stuttering issue (at least, that's the best word I can use to describe it). It does not constantly occur, the stuttering happening almost exclusively as I am attempting to travel a for a period of time in any direction.
I generally receive 40-60 fps, as conveyed by Fraps, but at the moment that these “stutters” occur, Fraps shows an almost instantaneous drop to <15 fps, and then a very quick rise back up to what the fps was before. However, that is not what appears to be occuring on the screen. What the stuttering / fps drop looks like is a sudden pause of everything in the game world, not including audio, and then a sudden resuming of the game world – just like the lagging that sometimes occurs in online games. These stutters rarely ever last longer than 1 second, and will usually occur in a quick succesion, 2-3 at a time.
I did, however, do my own thinking before I posted here. When these stutters occur, you can see objects appearing in the distance, as if the game is taking a moment to load a new block or “cell” that you are beginning to move into. I can totally understand why the game would do this, but not why it would have such a noticeable impact on gameplay. These stutters occur pretty much everywhere in the outside part of skyrim, and almost never in the indoor portions. They can also happen (sometimes) if I am standing still in and decide to turn around, but as far as I can tell, happen concurrently with terrain / other objects being that the game is loading in the distance.
Regardless of any graphical settings, this issue still persists. I can lower all settings to absolute minimum and have this still happen just as often. I recently updated my graphics card, so I'm rather annoyed that something like this is happening, while not occurring in any other program or game on my computer. I've looked up all the different bugs related to this, and none of the answer have helped me. FPS Limiters did nothing – just limited my fps. Disabling vsync with iPresentInterval=0 didn't fix it. Increasing uGridsToLoad value didn't fix it (but it did make the game look exceptionally better). Disabling shadows completely... no. The stuttering does not appear to be tied to the GPU in any way. I'm almost certain that it has something to do with the game loading object / textures from the Hard drive.
So, sorry for the wall of text, but long story short – I would like the opinion of someone who has an idea of whats going on. What do you think is going on and / or what do you think I should do? My Setup is:
Sandy Bridge i5 2400 – not overclocked
MSI P67A-C43
500 GB 7200 rpm HDD (HDS722525VLSA80)
ASUS ENGTX570 DCII/2DIS/1280MD5 - not overclocked
8gb (4x2gb) Patriot Memory 1333 MHz
I recently purchased Skyrim from the Steam store, and while it is a fantastic game, I quickly began to notice a particular issue that I was, from that point on, unable to ignore. As I moved around in the “outside” / “outdoor” section of skyrim, there is a particularly annoying stuttering issue (at least, that's the best word I can use to describe it). It does not constantly occur, the stuttering happening almost exclusively as I am attempting to travel a for a period of time in any direction.
I generally receive 40-60 fps, as conveyed by Fraps, but at the moment that these “stutters” occur, Fraps shows an almost instantaneous drop to <15 fps, and then a very quick rise back up to what the fps was before. However, that is not what appears to be occuring on the screen. What the stuttering / fps drop looks like is a sudden pause of everything in the game world, not including audio, and then a sudden resuming of the game world – just like the lagging that sometimes occurs in online games. These stutters rarely ever last longer than 1 second, and will usually occur in a quick succesion, 2-3 at a time.
I did, however, do my own thinking before I posted here. When these stutters occur, you can see objects appearing in the distance, as if the game is taking a moment to load a new block or “cell” that you are beginning to move into. I can totally understand why the game would do this, but not why it would have such a noticeable impact on gameplay. These stutters occur pretty much everywhere in the outside part of skyrim, and almost never in the indoor portions. They can also happen (sometimes) if I am standing still in and decide to turn around, but as far as I can tell, happen concurrently with terrain / other objects being that the game is loading in the distance.
Regardless of any graphical settings, this issue still persists. I can lower all settings to absolute minimum and have this still happen just as often. I recently updated my graphics card, so I'm rather annoyed that something like this is happening, while not occurring in any other program or game on my computer. I've looked up all the different bugs related to this, and none of the answer have helped me. FPS Limiters did nothing – just limited my fps. Disabling vsync with iPresentInterval=0 didn't fix it. Increasing uGridsToLoad value didn't fix it (but it did make the game look exceptionally better). Disabling shadows completely... no. The stuttering does not appear to be tied to the GPU in any way. I'm almost certain that it has something to do with the game loading object / textures from the Hard drive.
So, sorry for the wall of text, but long story short – I would like the opinion of someone who has an idea of whats going on. What do you think is going on and / or what do you think I should do? My Setup is:
Sandy Bridge i5 2400 – not overclocked
MSI P67A-C43
500 GB 7200 rpm HDD (HDS722525VLSA80)
ASUS ENGTX570 DCII/2DIS/1280MD5 - not overclocked
8gb (4x2gb) Patriot Memory 1333 MHz