Skyrim, Choppy Gameplay?

xps13

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Hello members of Tom's Hardware, coming at you with another quick question in regards to Skyrim and my FPS.
Currently I am running my game on a 1024x768 Resolution (Highest available for my screen) On High settings, the game is smooth as butter, (Constant 60 FPS), Everything looks very Fluid and realtime. However when I switch the settings to Ultra, Fraps tells me that the game is running at 45-60 Fps and the game is a whole lot choppier as a whole. On high settings I would run through Whiterun with a constant 60 FPS and it would look perfect, but on Ultra I would receive between 30-60 Fps and the game is choppy as hell, no fluidity whatsoever. Is the choppy gameplay normal, between 30 and 60 fps? Thanks Again. My specs are as follows...

Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.4GHZ (Stock, No Overclock Whatsoever)
AMD Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 (OEM Reference Card)
8 GB RAM @ 1333MHZ
Seagate Barracuda SATA 1TB HDD @7200RPM
 

xps13

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Thank you for taking the time out to answer this for me guys. Sunius do you think I would be able to run the game within 30-60 FPS on Ultra smoothly if I disable Vsync?
 

D3NJ0HNN7

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Aug 24, 2012
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I have the same video card, and i can run it on Ultra with +60 fps, you just have to tweak the files, every pc is unique.
Adjust these files
C:\Program Files (x86)\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim\Skyrim\SkyrimPrefs.ini
D:\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Skyrim.ini
D:\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\SkyrimPrefs.ini

PS: Start with tweaking the shadows a little bit lower, shadows have a huge impact on you performance