Stuttering in Skyrim why??

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  1. sethwilliam

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    I'm a big fan of skyrim and got a gaming PC just for it and its mods. However my experience has been a huge let down. After working for 2 months at my schools Maintenance department to buy this PC and I finally get skyrim set up and everythign only to have stuttering? I'm not sure if stuttering is the correct word its hard to describe whats happening but I think that is the best word.

    It happens with mods like Sjel Blad Castle, and well almost EVERY HOUSE mod that I use. Even when playing base skyrim with just the one mod active everytime I look in the houses direction it stutters. Going into windowed mode helps Alot so I do that. Turning Shadows down helps even more and almost completely gets rid of the problem but I shouldn't have to do that.

    My PC:
    i7 4770k
    16gb RAM
    64gb SSD with skyrim
    2 TB HDD for OS and other stuff
    750W Corsair PSU
    EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked

    Video driver updated with Geforce experience.

    I shouldn't be having any problems with a house mod on my pc, its really a let down for me and I hope someone can help.

    I will be willing to do anything to solve this, I've been trying everything I can think of but just can't figure out whats wrong.
     
  2. Undying

    Undying Ancient Guru

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    Are you monitoring CPU/GPU usage, clocks and temps while playing?
     
  3. sethwilliam

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    Ive done it once before, although I'm willing to do it again, can you tell me which programs you'd recomend for a the best results?
     
  4. CalculuS

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    Could you perhaps give us a more clear example of what you mean by stuttering? Can you make a video?
     

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    I hate Skyrim. How can you be a open-world, graphically intensive game, and use only two cores?! I saw little to no gains going from Athlon64 to Core2Quad.

    ... And what made you put a game on your SSD and not the OS?
     
  8. sethwilliam

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    Uploading now, Its like a stuttering/jittering that happens. Its kind of hard to see in the video but I tried my best to record it. It doesn't seem to bad in the video but ingame whens its jittering like that everytime i look at my own house is very frustrating.
     
  9. sethwilliam

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    yep thats me ^_^ Ive tried many sites to get help. Still no one has been able to help me fix this annoying thing.
     
  10. sethwilliam

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    I had my OS on the SSD origanlly but it kept getting fuller and fuller even though i tried to redirect all downloads to the HD. So i just gave up the few seconds of Boot time in exchange for a much faster game load time.
     

  11. CalculuS

    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    Skyrim actually uses more than 2 cores. It was a silly little rumor that got busted by Tomshardware.com at its release. It does not use more than 4 cores.
     
  12. ScoobyDooby

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    I feel your pain OP, I experienced tons of stutters with Skyrim. It is the engine primarily, and it took me forever to get it smooth.. I was never fully successful to tell you the truth. Had the same issue with Fallout New Vegas. Was so annoying I never actually played that game since all I did was spent all my time trying to fix the stupid thing.

    If I remember correctly, I managed to find some special combination of settings in the config files of Skyrim.. I wish I could tell you what I did to get it smooth but I honestly don't remember.

    I can say though that there is a ton of info out there on this subject as it is definitely a very well known issue that many people experienced.

    wut?
     
  13. sethwilliam

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    Ok got the video up, I hope you can see the jittering
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCY8RO9aWQ&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

    EDIT: Ok I dont know why but I just took a look at it on youtube, its almost impossible to tell the stutter. It looked fine before I uploaded it. I will try to get a better video. But in the meantime if you guys have any suggestions that I can try that would be great.

    EDIT EDIT: Ok I've tried uninstalling my video drivers using driver sweeper in safe mode. Reinstalled in normal mode and still no solution.
    I just made another video showing the stuttering which I HOPE shows it better. I can see it anyway so I hope this will be enough for you guys to help me figure it out.
     
    Last edited: Oct 20, 2014
  14. Yecnot

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    wat

    From Tomshardware bench. I've played the game, and it will not use more than 50% cpu, causing bottleneck. Funny that my fps tripled in bf3 though.
     
  15. -Tj-

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    Did you try one optimizer addon tool? It converts certain texture formats to more gpu friendly/faster.. Also lowers its vram usage.. And try to avoid higher 4k texture resolutions and shadow custom distance settings.

    Also dont use gridlock? any higher then 7 (default 5).



    skyrimprefs.ini
    [General]
    fBrightLightColorB=1.0000
    fBrightLightColorG=1.0000
    fBrightLightColorR=1.0000
    iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
    bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0

    [Imagespace]
    bDoDepthOfField=1
    iRadialBlurLevel=2

    [Display]
    iBlurDeferredShadowMask=6
    fInteriorShadowDistance=5000.0000
    fShadowDistance=10000.0000
    iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=2048
    iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
    iShadowSplitCount=4
    iMaxAnisotropy=16
    fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
    fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
    fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=100000000.0000
    fGamma=1.0000
    fDecalLOD2=5000.0000
    fDecalLOD1=2500.0000
    fSpecularLODStartFade=10000.0000
    fShadowLODStartFade=1000.0000
    fLightLODStartFade=10000.0000
    iTexMipMapMinimum=0
    iTexMipMapSkip=0
    iWaterMultiSamples=4
    iMultiSample=0
    iShadowMode=3
    bTreesReceiveShadows=1
    bDrawLandShadows=1
    bFull Screen=1
    iSize H=1050
    iSize W=1680
    fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
    fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
    fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=100000000.0000
    fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=100000000.0000
    fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=100000000.0000
    fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=100000000.0000
    iScreenShotIndex=2
    bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
    bMainZPrepass=0
    iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=100
    iMaxDecalsPerFrame=500
    bFloatPointRenderTarget=1
    sD3DDevice="AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series"
    bFXAAEnabled=1
    iShadowMapResolution=4096
    fShadowBiasScale=0.1000
    iShadowMaskQuarter=8
    iAdapter=0
    iPresentInterval=0
    iShadowFilter=3
    bTransparencyMultisampling=1
    bDrawShadows=1
    iActorShadowCountInt=8
    iActorShadowCountExt=8

    [Grass]
    b30GrassVS=1
    fGrassStartFadeDistance=15000.0000
    fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=15000.0000
    fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000

    [MAIN]
    bGamepadEnable=0
    bCrosshairEnabled=1
    fHUDOpacity=1.0000
    bSaveOnPause=0
    bSaveOnTravel=0
    bSaveOnWait=0
    bSaveOnRest=0
    fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000

    [GamePlay]
    bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
    bShowQuestMarkers=1
    iDifficulty=4

    [Interface]
    bDialogueSubtitles=1
    bGeneralSubtitles=1
    bShowCompass=1

    [Controls]
    fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.0000
    fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0125
    bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
    bInvertYValues=0
    bGamePadRumble=1
    bMouseAcceleration=0

    [Particles]
    iMaxDesired=5000

    [SaveGame]
    fAutosaveEveryXMins=60.0000

    [AudioMenu]
    fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
    fVal7=1.0000
    uID7=0
    fVal6=1.0000
    uID6=0
    fVal5=1.0000
    uID5=0
    fVal4=1.0000
    uID4=0
    fVal3=1.0000
    uID3=94881
    fVal2=0.4000
    uID2=466532
    fVal1=1.0000
    uID1=554685
    fVal0=0.8000
    uID0=1007612

    [Clouds]
    fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000
    fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000
    fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000
    fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000

    [TerrainManager]
    fTreeLoadDistance=100000000.0000
    fBlockMaximumDistance=100000000.0000
    fBlockLevel1Distance=200000.0000
    fBlockLevel0Distance=100000.0000
    fSplitDistanceMult=5.0000
    bShowLODInEditor=0

    [NavMesh]
    fObstacleAlpha=0.5000
    fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000
    fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500
    fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000
    fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500
    fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000
    fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000
    fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500
    fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000
    fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000
    fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000
    fEdgeThickness=10.0000
    fPointSize=2.5000

    [Trees]
    bRenderSkinnedTrees=1
    uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=100

    [Decals]
    uMaxDecals=1000
    bDecals=1
    bSkinnedDecals=1
    uMaxSkinDecals=500
    uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=250

    [LOD]
    fLODFadeOutMultObjects=100.0000
    fLODFadeOutMultItems=100.0000
    fLODFadeOutMultActors=100.0000
    fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000

    [Launcher]
    bEnableFileSelection=1
    bShowAllResolutions=1
    uLastAspectRatio=4

    [BlurShaderHDR]
    bDoHighDynamicRange=1

    [BlurShader]
    bUseBlurShader=0

    [Water]
    iWaterReflectHeight=4096
    iWaterReflectWidth=4096
    bUseWaterDisplacements=1
    bUseWaterRefractions=1
    bUseWaterReflections=1
    bUseWaterDepth=1

    Skyrim.ini looks too big, i'll just upload it here..
    SkyrimINI.rar
    http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/40475790/file.html


    This was ok on 570GTX and looked great, driver HBAO + driver TrAA - 2x supersample will make the grass even nicer, i had to use lower hbao and no traa back then.. Idk now didnt play it again :)
     

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    I guess its a combination of Skyrim.ini settings that got changed by one of your mods and even when not loading those mods anymore the settings are still screwed.

    Make a copy of your Ini and delete it. Start Skyrim without any mods and set it to ULTRA. Make a savegame, end the game and make another copy of the original ULTRA ini.

    Tweak from there until you find a setting looking good and not stuttering. Set the ini to read only and load mods.
     
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    Stuttering in Skyrim/Fallout/TES is pretty common, you could try one of the stutter remover mods.....
     
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    Open skyrim.ini and put this line

    iFPSClamp=60
     
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    To the op, do you get stuttering in any other games at all?
     
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    I assume youve the latest version (aka steam).
    Instal skse and enboost (you dont even need to use a enb for this to work)

    You will end up running the game through skse btw. Just google both and you'll find detailed guides on how to install both. Memory optimizations. They will change Skyrims memory blocks to 512/256 (256/256 is default) and improve the way your vram is utilized for the better.
     

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