The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Low Fps On High End System

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Trughost

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Hey to all,
I've been having some trouble with my Skyrim, I'm only getting an average of about 30fps With Everything On Ultra. Keep In mind I can Run Metro Last Light maxed out with a stable 100+ frames a second throughout the entire Game. Similar results with all other demanding games I have, with the exception of Skyrim. Also Bear in mind this is a clean, mod free install (exempting my save folder.) This is my RIG:
Superclocked Nvidia GTX 760 2gb
AMD Vishera 8350 OC'd @ 4.4ghz
16 Gb of 1600mhz RAM

Any Ideas On What the Issue could be here? I know there are better cards etc., but I feel that my system should handle this at 60+ fps no problem. Appreciate the help

EDIT: Reverted Skyrim to default settings in Nvidia Control panel, and disabled AntiAliasing in Skyrim Launcher. Now get anywhere from 40-150 frames depending on what i'm looking at. Indoors begins to touch towards 300. Does this seem optimized or is there still a way to Increase performance while maxed out? I have a friend with an identical build to mine, but with half the RAM (8gb) who boasts 200+ fps on maxed out Skyrim. Is this achievable?
 

apcs13

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There's no way you're getting 100 FPS in Metro Last Light with maxed settings, I get around 30 with a GTX 770, which is accurate and what others with a 770 get, so please don't try to lie to make your system look better, it only makes it harder to troubleshot your issue.

I would validate the integrity of the game cache through Steam, try rebooting your system, putting your antivirus on game or standby or silent mode or whatever while playing, making sure no background tasks are running, monitoring CPU and GPU during gaming, and even reinstalling the game.
 

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What resolution are you gaming at?
 

Trughost

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@Apcs13 Whoa whoa, I'm not trying to lie at all. I'm just giving the numbers I got from fraps; It would be ridiculous to lie about something like that in the first place, especially on a forum full of experts. I just ran Metro with fraps today to get a good comparison and those were the numbers I was getting, not trying to cause hate. Perhaps settings reverted them selves or it's an issue with fraps regarding my frames in Metro LL? In any case, the fps rate seem to be accurate during Skyrim. And as I said before this is a fresh Install, I've obviously already tried rebooting my system and cache has been validated. @COLGeek, I'm running them all at 1360 x 768. @Ytyoussef, Haha I was thinking the same thing, it's exactly this type of confusion I'm trying to figure out.
 

Trughost

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@Ytyoussef- That, and it turns out in game SSAA was set to auto... idk how or when that happened. Once I bumped it to x4, my frames were brought down to a good 30 or so a second. Now that that has been covered, any ideas about the crippling Skyrim performance? xP
 

Trughost

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Since you use a 770, could you possibly list your current settings for skyrim in your nvidia control panel? Maybe there's something I'm missing.. Even on low quality the game still caps at 60 frames per second...
 

Trughost

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Do you think I still should after achieving what I added in the original Post?
 

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Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you or anything, my bad. After you have stated what resolution your monitor is I now understand how you are getting such high frame rates. I use a 1080P monitor, which is more demanding than a 1366x768, so it is only natural I would get worse performance, even though my GPU is technically more powerful than yours.

In response to your other comment about my settings, in vanilla Skyrim with no mods, and with every setting set to the maximum, the game is hardlocked at 60 FPS for me and stays there except for a few buggy areas, such as looking down on Whiterun towards the tree near the statue of Talos, that drops me down to around 45 FPS for no reason at all. Otherwise, 99% of the time, I am locked at 60.
 

Trughost

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Haha no hard feelings. Do you use default nvidia settings? nvidia's Vsync or Skyrim's? And do you have triple buffering enabled? Idk if these could be factors, but some other threads seem to point towards them. xP Thanks for the help.
 

Trughost

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Thanks for that benchmark, it helped out a lot. It seems the most problems occur in well-forested areas, especially around Helgen (I'm using a new save to test this all so naturally most of my fps recordings are taken from there) but my fps seems to stick more true to the benchmark when i'm in an area like a field, such as the one where the tested theirs.
 

Ytyoussef

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You're welcome :)

 


Doesn't matter. It doesn't sound like you know how framerates work, tbh. It's his CPU limiting him, not his GPU.

I never dropped as low as 45 fps in Skyrim back when I had an i3-4360 and GTX 660; always 55+ even around Falkreath and Helgen. His FX-8350 is very likely bottlenecking his GTX 760 in Skyrim, as that game mostly uses 2 cores.
 


Doesn't matter. It doesn't sound like you know how framerates work, tbh. It's his CPU limiting him, not his GPU.

I never dropped as low as 45 fps in Skyrim back when I had an i3-4360 and GTX 660; always 55+ even around Falkreath and Helgen, and that was at 1080p, not 768p like the original poster. His FX-8350 is very likely bottlenecking his GTX 760 in Skyrim, as that game mostly uses 2 cores.

Minimum Skyrim framerate on the 760 is listed as 74. Minimum Skyrim framerate on an overclocked FX-8350 is 45. His framerate hits 45. Simple logic. It's the FX-8350 holding back the GTX 760.
 

Ytyoussef

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I wasn't replying to your comment, I was replying to the OP's post, saying that he thought he fixed it. Anyway, you are right, I hadn't seen your post, or I wouldn't have written what I did. I hadn't thought of the possibility of the CPU holding him back, as the cpu was clearly not the problem at the start of the thread.
 

James Deal

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I'm having the same issue. Granted I have around 280 mods installed, all of which are using atleast the 2k versions if not 4k. Most I chose 4k on. Including Parallaxing everything and running Realvision ENB. I typically get about 50 fps on Skyrim with that many mods but not anymore.
I have GTX 980's SLI, Asus MSI Gaming G motherboard, SSD which Skyrim is on, Water Cooled, 4 extra fans, and 32 gigs of Ram... I SHOULD NOT be having 15 fps like I'm getting on my 4 thousand dollar PC. :( PLEASE HELP...

 
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