AMD Users low fps fix!

[Sakiel]

Hi guys, first off, sorry for bad english.

If youre an AMD cpu user like me and have low fps issue no matter what you tried. I think i found a solution. Im playing on an AMD fx 8350 cpu with r9 290x GPU. Outside the city and in the city fps would drop below 20 fps.

What you have to do is disable v-sync in your gpu crimson driver AND in the skyrim .ini file located in your documents. exemple: E:\Sean ♥♥♥♥ing murray Files\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition.

-Open SkyrimPrefs.ini
-iVSyncPresentInterval=0 <==== if you have a 1 replace with 0

you will have screen tearing like crazy if you dont have a freesync monitor but you can try limiting the framerate with crimson driver.

Hope it will help some of you. Now the game dont drop below 50 fps.

[Mortius]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

Tsuyu Asui の投稿を引用：

Since you're such an expert. You could tell me exactly why my fps drops and stays fixed around 20-30 outside despite my CPU and GPU showing no signs of them struggling. Please do oh wise master with your PhD in ICT.

Read my post....Their vsync implementation is broken. It seems to get confused on refresh rates and is always double buffered so when you are outside sometimes swaps to a 60hz refresh rate and therefore 60fps vsync; which invariably drops to 28-30 at any slight fps fluctuations under 60fps. Try my solution, and it should make a massive difference. This is WITH a freesync monitor. Disabling the inbuilt vsync and swapping for a better solution is the key here.

I have already disabled v-sync, it was one of the first things I tried...

[NilSatis]

It will still stutter and screentear badly unless you implement another vsync solution as the frametimings are all over the place without one. What are your system specs?

[NilSatis]

Dont use rivatuner to monitor fps on this game to eliminate problems of the way rivatuner injects itself to work. Simply use steam in game fps counter which works fine to avoid any issues here if its just fps you want to see. Using rivatuner also stopped freesync from working on this game for me at least. What exactly are you seeing from rivatuner? Your reply doesnt make a lot of sense mate.

[Mortius]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

It will still stutter and screentear badly unless you implement another vsync solution as the frametimings are all over the place without one. What are your system specs?

But the point is that the fps is the same irrelevant of settings and whether I have v-sync on or off.

Specs:
AMD FX 8120 4.5Ghz
XFX R9 290X
Corsair Vengeance 8gb
Game installed on 120gb Kingston SSD
Windows 10.

[Thanquol]

i got an fx 8350 and a gtx 770 and a bunch of mods in skyrim and the game never drops below 60 fps and everything maxed out anyone thought about that it might be not hardware related?

[Mortius]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

Dont use rivatuner to monitor fps on this game to eliminate problems of the way rivatuner injects itself to work. Simply use steam in game fps counter which works fine to avoid any issues here if its just fps you want to see. Using rivatuner also stopped freesync from working on this game for me at least. What exactly are you seeing from rivatuner? Your reply doesnt make a lot of sense mate.

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I used Rivtuner to check the temps, the CPU and GPU usage and clock which clearly I can't get out of fraps, hurr durr!

[Mortius]

Reference screenshot here. http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/430484747229224407/DE080D34BAA2FD1201E4D297B2A226B703F5F674/

[Mortius]

Burnout6010 の投稿を引用：

Bethesda works with nVidia so it was pretty obvious this was going to run bad on AMD hardware.
I crash every 5 to 10 minutes without INI edits or mods, even though I get about 45 to 60FP/S on Medium.
I'm going to try the 16.11.2 drivers now.

EDIT: New drivers don't change anything.

I'm on new drivers, doesn't change ♥♥♥♥.

[NilSatis]

You should definitely be seeing about 60fps everywhere with that system; you say fps remains the same; always 28-30 outside? That really seems to suggest it is something to do with a vsync implementation to be so close to 30. There is no way you would be dropping that many frames on that system on this game unless there is something else running or a config problem.
In AMD crimson, and overdrive, is Power efficiency set to off (if you have this option)? On a game like this, having this on will definitely cause you problems as it doesnt use your gpu enough so clocks will drop.

Make sure there is no Framerate target control activated for the game in Crimson.

** Also at least in my case, AMD Crimson did not pick this game up and I had to manually create a profile for it. Do that. Once you have done that; it may pick the game up and run better.** ---it will try to use the fallout 4 profile once you have manually added this game due to the way the engine is the same; and so should run exactly the same as fallout 4.

Your cpu is old, but despite that should be enough to run this game ok; so if I were you I would do some more investigation. Are you on Windows 10?

[NilSatis]

Tsuyu Asui の投稿を引用：

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

Dont use rivatuner to monitor fps on this game to eliminate problems of the way rivatuner injects itself to work. Simply use steam in game fps counter which works fine to avoid any issues here if its just fps you want to see. Using rivatuner also stopped freesync from working on this game for me at least. What exactly are you seeing from rivatuner? Your reply doesnt make a lot of sense mate.

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I used Rivtuner to check the temps, the CPU and GPU usage and clock which clearly I can't get out of fraps, hurr durr!

What the hell has fraps got to do with anything? First thing to do when running a game and it isnt working correctly is to try it with nothing working in the background mate. Thats why i suggested it. Im well aware of what rivatuner is for. Post a screenshot of your gpu and cpu usage if you want people to help in this case....and when people try to help you ya little ignorant fwit; try not to use words like "hurr durr" as it makes you sound like a pathetic prepubescent 12 yr old.

[NilSatis]

That screenshot is with the vsync implementation turned off in C:\Users\****\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition? Pretty low cpu usage which might be odd on your cpu and that is very cool for a r9 290x, but apart from that looks quite normal and for you to be getting exactly 28fps is very strange; does this figure move up and down or fixed?

All I can tell you at this stage is this is NOT the game. Something is limiting your fps; no mods installed, profile created in amd crimson, power efficiency set to off etc...

Ill bet with a bit of searching on your system you will find out why this is happening. Good luck.

[Mortius]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

Tsuyu Asui の投稿を引用：

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I used Rivtuner to check the temps, the CPU and GPU usage and clock which clearly I can't get out of fraps, hurr durr!

What the hell has fraps got to do with anything? First thing to do when running a game and it isnt working correctly is to try it with nothing working in the background mate. Thats why i suggested it. Im well aware of what rivatuner is for. Post a screenshot of your gpu and cpu usage if you want people to help in this case....and when people try to help you ya little ignorant fwit; try not to use words like "hurr durr" as it makes you sound like a pathetic prepubescent 12 yr old.

Are you partially illiterate? You asked me why I was not using something else to record the fps, such as fraps. I explained why, because I didn't just want to see the fps, I wanted to see the temperatures and the CPU and GPU usage. Jeez learn to read. I already posted the CPU and GPU usage... Talk about ignorance.

[Mortius]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

That screenshot is with the vsync implementation turned off in C:\Users\****\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition? Pretty low cpu usage which might be odd on your cpu and that is very cool for a r9 290x, but apart from that looks quite normal and for you to be getting exactly 28fps is very strange; does this figure move up and down or fixed?

All I can tell you at this stage is this is NOT the game. Something is limiting your fps; no mods installed, profile created in amd crimson, power efficiency set to off etc...

Ill bet with a bit of searching on your system you will find out why this is happening. Good luck.

It moves but it stays within 20-30. Like I said, no matter what setting I put this at, it stays the same throughout.

I don't use AMD profiles.

[Burnout6010]

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

Dude, this is utter rubbish. Crashing every 5-10 minutes.....how is this anything to do with AMD vs Nvidia? There is something else making you crash here. Drivers are not going to stop a game crashing; ever....unless the game is making the drivers crash. Inevitably this has something then to do with your gpu or your driver implementation and nothing to do with the game. Im on 16.11.2 (there is a later driver now but none contain skyrim changes, and this game basically runs on the preset for fallout 4 in the amd drivers) and it runs absolutely great, if you make the necessary vsync changes.

Found out it was an issue with a Windows service called "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service", which was activated because I have a graphics tablet installed: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/59sm2x/if_you_are_crashing_every_fifteen_minutes_or_so/?st=iv0dy1jp&sh=a2d6112c

Doesn't change the fact that Skyrim SE is coded like trash, a service like that shouldn't interfere with the game. (not to mention the very amateurish SSAO) V-Sync changes don't improve framerate that much, to be honest.

I'm glad the crashes weren't a NVIDIA vs AMD thing. However, nobody can deny that Bethesda collaborates with NVIDIA for their games, it's pretty obvious things are going to run better on GeForce.

[AragingMonk]

Tsuyu Asui の投稿を引用：

NilSatis の投稿を引用：

That screenshot is with the vsync implementation turned off in C:\Users\****\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition? Pretty low cpu usage which might be odd on your cpu and that is very cool for a r9 290x, but apart from that looks quite normal and for you to be getting exactly 28fps is very strange; does this figure move up and down or fixed?

All I can tell you at this stage is this is NOT the game. Something is limiting your fps; no mods installed, profile created in amd crimson, power efficiency set to off etc...

Ill bet with a bit of searching on your system you will find out why this is happening. Good luck.

It moves but it stays within 20-30. Like I said, no matter what setting I put this at, it stays the same throughout.

I don't use AMD profiles.

I posted this on the forums a few days ago.

These are the tweaks I have used to improve my game performance. You will have to adjust your settings according to your system specs.

GAME SETTINGS: High, Godrays off. If you use Ultra settings turn off Godrays and 64 bit render target.
Anti-ailiasing FXAA not TAA (TAA blurs) but we will override this anyway.

RADEON SETTINGS: Anti-ailiasing mode, override applicacation.
Anti-ailiasing level: 8X
Anti-ailiasing filter: Standard
Anti-ailiasing Method: Multisampling
Morphological filtering: off
Anisotropic filtering mode: Override application
Anisotropic filtering level: 16
Texture filtering quality: High
Surface format Optimization: Off
Wait for verticle refresh: Always off
OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
Shader cache: ON
Tessellation Mode: AMD Optimized
Frame Rate target control: 100 FPS

MONITOR SETTING: 100 Hz ( Can go higher, this is best for me)

Go to: C, Users, User name, Documents, My Games, Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim Perfs .ini. Under the Display list you will find " iVSyncPresentInterval= 1". Change the 1 to 0 and save the file before closing. This turns off Vsync

BONUS: to adjust Grass. Use this only if you want to adjust the grass size, no performance gain on my system. (lower end system may see improvement at 50 or more.)

Go to: C, Users, User name, Documents, My Games, Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim .ini, Grass. At the bottom of the grass list add the line "iMinGrassSize=40" copy and paste without qutoes.

If you change the number to lower then 40 you get more grass. If you go higher you get less and 100 is really sparce grass.

Here are my specs s you can adjust accordingly: FX 8300 CPU stock Clock. R9 38X Nitro stock clock, 16 gb RAM but that does not matter the game runs the same on 8.