GPU and CPU usage in skyrim

Longplay1

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Hi I have amd athlon II x4 640, 4Gb ddr2 Ram, And one HD 6850 OCed. I run skyrim at 1920x1080 ingame AA and AF turned off instead 2xAA and 16 AF in ccc with some graphical mods. In wilderness everything seems okay with 40 -50 Fps. But in some heavy demanding sceneries and fights it begins to stutter and lag, So i checked GPU and CPU load in those demanding areas like MArkarth or so and my GPU and CPU load never exceeded 40 percent. Pls how can i fix it if its even possible. Other games like crysis 2 runs fine maxed out
 

moradin

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I have maybe a solution.

These setting for Skyrim help to increase memory usage (default game limit is 500-600 megabytes) and reduce ~5 seconds lags.

Open skyrim.ini and modify these values (they are and category may not exist at all, add new):
[Papyrus]
iMinMemoryPageSize=100000
iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000
iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000

WARNING! Do not increase iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes value, because memory fragmentation may cause the game to crash or freeze.