Huge FPS drop during combat

[Closet Deadpooler]

I'm running Skyrim SE on ultra settings(set by Nvidia GeForce Experience, and I do have the latest game ready driver). When I'm in interiors or exteriors I was getting smooth gameplay without stuttering on a manually set 2560x1080 screen resolution, no mods, but then I got to the part where I fight the first imperial captain and soldier with Ralof and it just craps out completely. Not even playable, I mean I press the block key and 20 seconds later the game responds. I hit attack and instead of attacking the game does a power attack...really really bad lag.

The thing is, I have better than the recommended specs:
Geforce GTX 970(2)
Driver 375.70
Intel Core i7-5820K CPU @ 3.3GHz
15.89(16) GB RAM
And my 2560x1080 monitor at 60Hz

[Closet Deadpooler]

Originally posted by Drom:

I have similiar problem, at least i think so. Basically whenever I'm outside/in skyrim, about half of the NPCs there drop my FPS to like 15-20 when looking at them. Usually some of the domesticated animals and bandits, perhaps more, haven't played that much yet. Otherwise the game runs extra smooth with 60+ fps, never dropping. The original game ran smoothly as well, tho not as smoothly as this SSE, except of those fps drops. I've read some forum posts on the internet, not solved unfortunately, but people thought it was caused by mods in most cases (I don't have any yet). The drop doesnt seem to be inside cities and other instances. Kinda hard for me to google solution with all those people complaining with mods.

For me, Skyrim ran a lot smoother. I used the exact same build, ultra settings, ENB, mods, and even 4+ companions and it never dropped noticeably in the FPS department. One thing I did see that was odd: I checked my Nvidia control panel settings and my graphics cards were set to "power efficient" I was like wth why do I need power efficiency on a desktop so I changed it to optimize performance.

My idle temps have doubled, but I'll check if that makes any difference.

[Closet Deadpooler]

I still have the fps drops, but not as bad as in the first battle in the Helgen fort. Its mostly stuttering now. Fallout 4 is doing this for me now too.

I'm thinking either something went wrong with my hardware in the last day or it was the Windows 10 update I installed on Friday.

[Trondesson]

I had this problem, too. The fixes I found didn't work well for me, but this did:

- Open NVidia Control panel
- select Manage 3D settings
- click on the Program settings tab
- choose Skyrim special edition in the dropdown menu or, if it is not there, click on Add and add
the program
- Look for Monitor Technology in the lower window
- on the right side it said "Use global setting (G Sync)", click on it and change it to "Fixed
Refresh"

Now the game is running smooth as silk for me. I did the same for Skyrim special edition launcher, don't know if ithat was necessary, but it didn't hurt.

Edit: It might not have been the same problem after all, but this got rid of the stuttering while iFPSClamp=60 in Skyrim.ini or iVsyncpresentinterval=0 in SkyrimPrefs.ini only caused different problems.

[Closet Deadpooler]

I'm not finding monitor technology in my settings either. And I only found a Vsync setting under apps.

[Closet Deadpooler]

I was wandering around in Riverfell when my whole system just crashed. I had to manually press and hold the power button to get any response.

The entire screen was black except for a blue bar at the top.

[Closet Deadpooler]

But there was almost nothing happening. The only actor in view was Ralof. I've played Fallout 4 for hours with no FPS drops in the past, now I get big drops in that too.

[Closet Deadpooler]

That stinks.

[killlogic]

One thing I would recommend for smoothening out either Skyrim or Fallout 4 is an application called RTSS, which has a frame rate limiter that is providing a perfect 60fps on my setup. For some reason, the engine that powers these games likes to render at 62fps, which introduces that weird stutter which persists throughout the game.

I'd highly recommend downloading MSI Afterburner (which comes with RTSS) and install.

https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

The RTSS app will be a icon that has an image of a monitor on it, open the application and set the frame rate limiter to 60. That seems to fix both Skyrim and Fallout on my end.

Just for reference my machine has the following (I got stutter in vanilla Skyrim and the SE without RTSS)

I7 6700K @ 4.4ghz
16GB of 3200 DDR4
GTX 1080 FE

[Closet Deadpooler]

You had stutter on that system?!

What were you running it in, 8k?

[ᵉʳᵍᵒ]

I get this too. I'll be looking at a dense forest and get 38-45 FPS and as soon as anything attacks me (facing the same direction, btw) I'll hit lows of 18. As soon as they're dead, my FPS will jump right back up to where it was previously.

[Lino]

I fixed it iVsyncpresentinterval=0 and enabling Vsync on NVidia Painel

[Chris J]

i aint gonna says its your since your 970 is better than a 780 and you have 2 of them in SLI so rule out GPU not being the problem this game is taxing on most systems since its higher requirements than the original skyrim i think bethesda might patch the performance issues on there and theres a beta patch you can try out. if bethesda doesnt get round to fixing it then the community will probably make performance mods.

[EBALLACK]

you guys could try using razer cortex which kills unnecessary background apps.My game is running far better now.

[Mr.Hmm]

Disable iVsyncpresentinterval= 1 to =0 then enable V-Sync in your GPU's control panel.

Skyrim's V-Sync is garbage to say the least.

[Sir Samson]

stutter is removed by changing the vsyncinterval to 0 and adding the havok engine line that suits your monitor hz max 120fps or you get physics issues, see https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/5aa7w5/confirmed_120fps_fix_for_skyrim/