Skyrim low fps

moonsterino · Mar 4, 2017

I have trouble running skyrim on ultra and high settings. Outdoors I get around 40-50, but it can drop to mid 30's even low 20's in towns, indoors always 60 fps.
I wonder why do I get such low fps outdoors when I have all the recommended system specs?

Could it be that my CPU is too weak?

Specs : CPU : AMD 7870k
GPU : GTX 1050 ti,
8 GB ram 1600Mhz

krzyimprt · Mar 4, 2017

moonsterino :

Skyrim loves CPU's with higher single threaded performance.

moonsterino · Mar 4, 2017

krzyimprt :

moonsterino :

Skyrim loves CPU's with higher single threaded performance.

So I should upgrade to intel?

synphul · Mar 4, 2017

Is it vanilla skyrim or do you have mods added to it? If so what type of mods, enb and lighting effect mods? Body physics mods? Weather mods?

Chances are your cpu is holding you back more than your gpu. I've got an oc'd i5 4690k paired with an old hd 7850 with only 1gb vram. So long as I play with mostly vanilla I can maintain 55-60fps pretty easily, even with some things like collision mods, ragdolls & force, water mods, some hd textures, horse improvement mods, improved roads and trees and a variety of other things.

Your 1050ti while considered a more budget oriented card by the current lineup and standards is easily stronger than mine so should handle the graphics. Unless you're using enb mods with weather effects and things, that will tank fps. I mentioned hitting 55-60fps and maintaining it (almost always 60fps regardless of battles and things, indoors, outdoors) on high/very high @1080p. As soon as I enable enb mods my fps drops down to 25-40fps depending on what settings I use for lod and shadows.

I should note this is all original skyrim, not skyrim se or skyrim online or anything. If you're talking one of the other versions then my references may not help as much.

Callum Clarke · Mar 4, 2017

moonsterino :

It's not a CPU bottleneck because I have an Athlon 860K which is identical to your processor, only real difference is the IGPU is disabled. Anyway, I paired mine with a RX 460 2gb which isn't as good as the 1050ti and AMD drivers are known for being more intensive on the CPU rather then the CPU. All this and I can run Skyrim at the maximum graphical settings. FPS will sometimes dip to 40 in intensive scenes but that's about it.

moonsterino · Mar 5, 2017

synphul :

Is it vanilla skyrim or do you have mods added to it? If so what type of mods, enb and lighting effect mods? Body physics mods? Weather mods?

Chances are your cpu is holding you back more than your gpu. I've got an oc'd i5 4690k paired with an old hd 7850 with only 1gb vram. So long as I play with mostly vanilla I can maintain 55-60fps pretty easily, even with some things like collision mods, ragdolls & force, water mods, some hd textures, horse improvement mods, improved roads and trees and a variety of other things.

Your 1050ti while considered a more budget oriented card by the current lineup and standards is easily stronger than mine so should handle the graphics. Unless you're using enb mods with weather effects and things, that will tank fps. I mentioned hitting 55-60fps and maintaining it (almost always 60fps regardless of battles and things, indoors, outdoors) on high/very high @1080p. As soon as I enable enb mods my fps drops down to 25-40fps depending on what settings I use for lod and shadows.

I should note this is all original skyrim, not skyrim se or skyrim online or anything. If you're talking one of the other versions then my references may not help as much.

It is vanilla skyrim.

synphul · Mar 6, 2017

Have you tried running msi afterburner while you play and using the on screen display to check cpu and gpu usage? That may help give you an idea of what's going on, if the cpu is 95-100% in use and changing graphics settings don't help then it will likely be the cpu isn't strong enough to maintain higher fps in stressful situations.

Another thing to try checking before making an upgrade would be double checking windows power options and making sure it's set to 'high performance'. Otherwise there's really nothing else, if a cpu upgrade is needed it will mean a completely different motherboard, possibly ram (newer platforms for both amd and intel use ddr4), reinstall of windows. There's no other fm2+ cpu that's really worth upgrading to, an athlon x4 860k is about the same as what you've got.

You're sure you're using your dedicated gpu right? The monitor is plugged into the back of the graphics card and not the i/o panel of the motherboard? Just trying to make sure and eliminate the possibility of any mistakes that may have been overlooked.

moonsterino · Mar 6, 2017

synphul :

the only thing that I didn't do is the "high performance" . I've checked the msi afterburner and the % loads were ok. the cpu didn't even reach 60%. And yes. I am sure that I am using my gtx 1050 ti.

synphul · Mar 6, 2017

Something is off if the cpu didn't even reach 60%. Sounds like a software issue or settings issue. Have you checked cpu temps? Maybe thermal throttling is slowing the processor down. Low cpu usage would result in low performance. My i5 is a stronger cpu with the same number of cores and vanilla skyrim runs it harder than 60% with a lesser gpu so it's not as though your gpu is bottlenecking your cpu and causing the low usage/fps.

Is there anything else running in the background when you're gaming? Windows updates, system scans, antivirus scans?

moonsterino · Mar 7, 2017

Callum Clarke :

moonsterino :

It's not a CPU bottleneck because I have an Athlon 860K which is identical to your processor, only real difference is the IGPU is disabled. Anyway, I paired mine with a RX 460 2gb which isn't as good as the 1050ti and AMD drivers are known for being more intensive on the CPU rather then the CPU. All this and I can run Skyrim at the maximum graphical settings. FPS will sometimes dip to 40 in intensive scenes but that's about it.

the athlon has better single core performance, which skyrim likes

kelebra7 · Jul 4, 2017

moonsterino :

Callum Clarke :

the athlon has better single core performance, which skyrim likes

kelebra7 · Jul 4, 2017

moonsterino :

kelebra7 · Jul 4, 2017

Bro, This is my rig and i can tell yours is better. running on high settings with constant 60 to 56 fps.
I also use mods texture graphics static mesh etc.
In my case i am stopping background processes before i game or just use GPU tweak for fps boost.

AMD A8 7600 Bios IGP Disabled
Asus Expedition GTX 1050 TI
2X4 gb 1866Mhz Ram

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