A jump either up or down causes a small hesitation as the GPU adjusts to the new value. The biggest thing is to smooth it so there are no big jumps. Then, you will have a base to compare any mods that claim to 'fix' fps - most actually do things like reduce visual eye candy to improve fps (if the fps is bad enough, it will be worth it)Īs for fps, it's very overrated - Xbox caps it at 30 and they run smooth. Things like the ini settings.Īll of this is covered in detail at Tweak Then tweak the game settings for the game.

Start with that & make custom adjustments for your own system. Next is to tweak your video card - the video card people make this easy - I know Nvidia has a set of canned settings for many games - including Skyrim. Users have reported an increase of 8-10 frames per second on average others have reported a decrease of 2-4 frames per second, while others have claimed a decrease of 20 frames per second on average. Object Detail Fade - I suggest to untick it.

Try setting these parameters to lower values, they will decrease the view distance but increase the FPS a lot. oddly enough there is no iVSyncPresentInterval in my SkyrimPrefs.ini. Unticking some of these values will increase your FPS but decrease the number of items reflected by the water.

They steal cpu time and slow things down - that includes VOIP Skype & IM services especially. A Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) plugin to boost FPS (frames per second) in CPU-intensive sections of the game. its cap as standard via settings to 60fps unless you change in SkyrimPrefs.ini iVSyncPresentInterval1 (this settings locks FPS to 60 and is as standard ON1) or used a tool to turn of vertical sync. Get rid of any unneeded background processes and windows services. The first thing to do is tweak your Operating system for best operation - if the OS is slow - no matter what you do in the game it will still be slow.

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