any advice for random open world horrid fps drops please?

[Critterina]

ill be getting 50-60 in the open world then turn around and suddenly its around 10 fps.. anyone have any advice for fixing this? i have nvidia 3060. i am also playing on high graphics

[ebolaconundrum]

The only time ive had that sort of issue was when I upgraded my drivers and hadn't forced the game to do the precompile of the shaders again, so it was doing it as needed in the background.

[Killertruth186]

Have you tried to turn the effects quality down to low? It had fps issue until I have changed that option down to low.

[VanGoth]

Disabling fog helped me with fps drops in the open world. You can do this by adding r.fog=0 to your engine.ini. Even looks better in some instances.

[BlueBangkok]

Hard to make recommendations without more information. What kind of 3060 do you have? How much memory does it have? What is the rest of the system (CPU, RAM, drive...)?

Is HW lumen on? If so, disable it (it's the biggest resource hog by far).
Shadows are 2nd biggest hog - going down to medium should help.

[Etny2k]

3060 was bad when it came out 400 years ago. I always stick with 80s.

[stubbles]

The steam version of the game is currently kind of broken. Bethesda broke it with their first update that Fri/Sat after it launched. It broke something in the rendering pipeline, and DLSS/framegen/Upscaling/SuperResolution do not work correctly anymore.

[FTWO]

Stop using Sprint, just move forward like normal. When you get your Speed, Athletics, and whichever Armor you're using Mastered, you'll be zipping through things pretty damn fast. If you're already fast and using Sprint, your PC is struggling like crazy to load everything up while you're attempting to move super fast and there you get the unbelievable stutters and in most cases, the epic crashes out of nowhere.

- Graphics Settings -
Window Mode - Fullscreen
Resolution - 1920x1080
V-Sync - Off
Frame Rate Limit - Uncapped
Show VRAM - Off
Motion Blur - Off
Screen Space Reflections - On

-Quality-
Everything is on High setting
Lumen Hardware RT - Off
Lumen Hardware Lighting Mode - Low
Lumen Software RT Quality - Low
Upscaling Technique - FSR
FSR3 Mode - Balanced
FSR3 Sharpness - 50
FSR3 Frame Generation - Off

These are the Settings that I use and I run the game perfectly fine and the game looks absolutely fantastic. No lag, no stutters, and loading screen is quick. I have, however... crashed about 3 or 4 times in 100 hours of game play. Which I'd say is pretty good, nothing really to complain about since the times that I did crash was because I was Quick Porting all over rapidly doing various things and that crashed the game after several several ports back to back quickly... so I understand why I got those crashes.

16GB RAM 3000 MHz
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics 3.70 GHz
8GB Radeon RX Vega

My specs are not impressive. In fact, my bucket of a PC would be considered a "potato" and yet I can run this game... like I said, perfectly fine. Maybe these Settings can help you, I don't know. I hope it does.

[Killertruth186]

Originally posted by stubbles:

The steam version of the game is currently kind of broken. Bethesda broke it with their first update that Fri/Sat after it launched. It broke something in the rendering pipeline, and DLSS/framegen/Upscaling/SuperResolution do not work correctly anymore.

I have heard it was broken on Xbox console.

[lailaamell]

This is not playable on anything with less than 12gb vram in 1080p try 720p/30fps low medium windowed

[Cascomp2]

It works OK on my Steam Deck.

Anyway, I've heard it said that the game apparently has a memory leak, and one way to improve performance is to save the game then exit to desktop every few hours, then start it again.

[Rage]

My friend said he fixed the same issue with some overclocking stuff

[lailaamell]

Originally posted by Cascomp2:

It works OK on my Steam Deck.

Anyway, I've heard it said that the game apparently has a memory leak, and one way to improve performance is to save the game then exit to desktop every few hours, then start it again.

Like thats probly every elder scrolls that leak will never be fixed