I have a 3570k @ 4.0ghz so it's not a bottleneck. I've never had any FPS issues before in it but lately when I go into caves there are points where i have 0-10 FPS and it is unplayable. I put up the MSI Afterburner GPU monitor and I noticed that when it happens my GPU usage is dropping to 0-20%. This all fixes itself when I go back into open world where I get 80-90FPS and 110-144 in buildings. I don't have any dungeon/cave specific mods installed. I've re installed drivers and switched PCI slots. This only happens in Skyrim. Any ideas what this is happening?
Skyrim 660 Ti Problems
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BigBAWZ
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Firstly to start off, a 3570k at stock clocks will not bottleneck a 660ti. As far as I can see you can try reinstalling the game and see if that helps. Just save a copy of your save file then once the game is reinstalled, put your save file back into the game files.
I had problems with Skyrim entering areas sometimes. I'm sure it was a mod causing the problem. I found when this happened I could save my game, exit, then start the game and load my save to fix the issue. This was with a GTX 770 graphics card.
Onus
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Check the clocks. I'm guessing your card is dropping to 2D clocks for some reason. I had that problem in Guild Wars 2 on AMD cards, and I've read of other people having similar issues with various cards in various games. You may need to force 3D clocks.
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I have the same problem, I think its related to the dynamic lighting system as it typically happens where fires cast shadows and such.
I think this may be related to video memory usage.
I have been running some benchmarks and Skyrim manages to use all 2GB of video memory on my GTX 770.
This is likely associated with the mods I have loaded, including high res textures.
Some tips to reduce memory usage without sacrificing quality:
1. This is a Windows 7 setting to disable fancy desktop features while running Skyrim.
Right hand click the shortcut you use to start Skyrim (probably to skse_loader.exe if you are running mods).
Click "Compatibility"
Tick "Disable visual themes" and "Disable desktop composition".
Click OK
2. Reduce antialiasing in the Skyrim options from 8 samples to 4 samples.
I have been running some benchmarks and Skyrim manages to use all 2GB of video memory on my GTX 770.
This is likely associated with the mods I have loaded, including high res textures.
Some tips to reduce memory usage without sacrificing quality:
1. This is a Windows 7 setting to disable fancy desktop features while running Skyrim.
Right hand click the shortcut you use to start Skyrim (probably to skse_loader.exe if you are running mods).
Click "Compatibility"
Tick "Disable visual themes" and "Disable desktop composition".
Click OK
2. Reduce antialiasing in the Skyrim options from 8 samples to 4 samples.
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