Skyrim is running bad on my PC...

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Hi,
I have a Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition, with an AMD FX-6300. When I play Skyrim my frames drop to like 20-30 when I look a certain area like a town or something, but when I'm in the wilderness my frames are usually like 40-60+. It's really been bugging me for a while and I feel like with my set up I should be easily getting 50+ frames. Oh and I do not have any mods installed. I'm really confused why my fps are so bad. Oh and I forgot to add my settings are completely maxed out but it doesn't really help even when I lower them.
 
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How do I do that? Update: nevermind I found it, it was off already


 
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My Catalyst Control Center's layout is slightly different than the screenshot, and my morphological was already off

 
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Supernova1138

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If this is happening regardless of graphics settings, I'm going to say you might have a CPU bottleneck. Skyrim doesn't run all that great on AMD CPUs because it doesn't scale across more than 2 cores, and is pretty CPU dependent, so single threaded performance is quite important for that game. I have the same graphics card as you paired with an older Intel CPU, and I don't get any major framerate drops while playing Skyrim, and that's with all graphics options turned to maximum.

Try downloading MSI Afterburner and monitor your GPU usage while playing. If you see your GPU usage drop when your framerates drop, and Windows task manager is showing one or two of your CPU cores maxed out, then you've got a CPU bottleneck. If that's the case, your options are either switch to Intel, or try overclocking your FX 6300 to try to alleviate the bottleneck.
 
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I mean the FX-6300 isn't that bad, even if it was using only 2 cores it should be fine right? And it's overclocked to 4.2 GHz. I will try the MSI afterburner thing as well.

 
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Alright hold on, i'll try.

 
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For most games that would be true, but Skyrim is quite infamous for being a lot more processor bound than GPU bound. Back when Skyrim came out the GTX 580 was the fastest single GPU out there, and it performed similarly to the Radeon HD 7870, and it ran into bottlenecks on Skyrim with most of the AMD CPUs available at the time along with older and slower Core 2 Duo chips.

For the vast majority of games, you won't hit a bottleneck with an FX 6300 paired with a midrange GPU, but Skyrim and Starcraft 2 are the big exceptions, where even a Core i3 is vastly superior for those titles.
 
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Depends on how much the OP likes Skyrim, if he plans to play a lot of it and it's his favourite game ever, then switching might be a good idea. If not, then he may just have to deal with the occasional hiccup in game, or look at overclocking his FX 6300 higher to try to alleviate the bottleneck.
 
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Yeah Skyrim is not my favorite game, but I'll play it once in a while to have some fun. I use to play quite a bit, I would just try ignore the frame drops as much as possible. And there is no way i'm switching my CPU I just got at the beginning of this year, lol.

 
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That game has been out for a while now also. I bet there new one will have a better engine for multiple threads. I would just keep your current system if you casually play it and not even bother with overclocking it even more. If every other game runs great for you don't mess with it.
 
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Alright, thanks for the help!

 
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