Main cause of Low FPS?

[Tribe Reimanen]

What is often the main cause of Low FPS? When i run the game with graphic mods it runs alright but when i run it without graphic mods i only get about 10 FPS more and i basically never hit 60 FPS.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

What are your sys specs? I have mine capped at 60 FPS max, and seldom in any game I play, am I below 55. (Admittedly, I play VERY few "current" AAA titles.)

[Tribe Reimanen]

GPU: Ryxen 5600 XT
CPU: Ryxen 5 2600X
Ram: 16 Gig
I do have it installed on a HDD but that shouldnt influence FPS right?

Not the most insane build but should still be able to run the game at a respectfull Framerate. Especially when running it with no mods.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

I'd think it should run vanilla on mdm settings I'd think, yeah. I recently turned my graphics down to LOW and switched off the TSAA anti-aliasing. Seriously, the decline in quality was nothing approaching what I anticipated, as it is still perfectly satisfying to look at. (At least for these nearing 67 yr old eyes) Hit PLAY on your STEAM Library for the game, and then click OPTIONS. Shut off the anti-aliasing completely, and set your graphics to low. Then play. That should help with the FPS, unless you are already AT those settings.

[Corinze]

You should be able to run the game on Ultra with no mods at a steady 60 fps.
Make sure your power supply is set to performance with windows. And check your gpu is set to performance not quality. If everything runs good then you can make adjustments to more quality over performance.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

^Corinze knows this game better than I, by a large margin. Take his advice. lol

[emitfudd]

I played oldrim on a 2010 Dell Inspiron 580. LOL. It had an i5 750 cpu and I put a 750 ti in it. I didn't monitor FPS back then but it ran perfectly fine even heavily modded. Now I am playing SE with a Ryzen 5900X and a 3080 GPU. I have capped my FPS to 160 and it rarely dips below that except in heavy snowstorms. A high end PC isn't needed for this game although some that use extensive visual mods may disagree.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

Originally posted by emitfudd:

A high end PC isn't needed for this game ...

Well, not now that it is 12 years old. Like most TES titles though at release, you needed a fairly decent system. Starfield for ex, isnt gonna run on just any potato out here. Neither did SR at release, or Oblivion, or MW.

[TofGaming]

Your PC is good enough to run this game at max settings without any issues. I ran this game 2-3 months ago on gtx 970 and I7 4790k and it it was locked 60 on max settings.

[Alex]

Playing it from a HDD is generally a bad idea, especially if you have demanding visual overhaul mods. Buy a SSD, they aren't that expensive.

[SpeedFreak1972]

I run it atm modded (800+ mods) on a I7 4790 and a 1080

[Nabinkemper]

We would have to see your mod list, game settings, and ENB setup to better understand what could be causing your FPS to remain at 45-55.

Your graphics card is fine (8 or 12 GB of VRAM). Your running with the gaming minimum of 16 GB of RAM (DDR4 PC3200). Judging by the processor, your MB (a B350 chip-set right?) and CPU are the bottleneck at this point. Still, it comes down to how much you are throwing at the system.

[Tribe Reimanen]

Ok so i have now removed every single mod and reinstalled. Still for some reason i get really low FPS in random places. When i run the game on lowest settings its playable but Ultra settings just doesnt work. Wtf? My other games run fine

[StreamWhenGuy]

Do a clean install of the game.
Use BethINI to organize *ini files.
SSD only really affects loading screens and cell loading.
Setting the power plan to Balanced is recommended and doesn't really affect anything. It's mostly about CPU clock speed. You don't want it to run at max clock speeds all the time with High Performance power plan.
AMD cards don't have any performance presets AFAIK aside from auto and manual overclocking, so don't mess with it and leave it at default.
Don't use any "performance optimization" presets for a specific game within the videodriver settings. It tends to screw things up.
As a last resort reinstall GPU drivers in Safe Mode using DDU.

For the vanilla game, your PC is an overkill. If it runs well vanilla, you can start adding mods.
EDIT: Ryxen

[Alex]

Does the Skyrim launcher even recognize your video card?

Originally posted by ✪Reimanen:

Ok so i have now removed every single mod and reinstalled. Still for some reason i get really low FPS in random places. When i run the game on lowest settings its playable but Ultra settings just doesnt work. Wtf? My other games run fine

You need:
1. SSD
2. More RAM
3. ENB
4. To disable any kind of power saving mode on all hardware.
5. To reset your Skyrim configs to default.
6. Finally, install all the technical stuff from the pinned thread (engine fixes, etc).

[Tribe Reimanen]

Ive managed to fix it by following the DragonbornsFate modding guide.

Originally posted by Alex:

Does the Skyrim launcher even recognize your video card?

Originally posted by ✪Reimanen:

Ok so i have now removed every single mod and reinstalled. Still for some reason i get really low FPS in random places. When i run the game on lowest settings its playable but Ultra settings just doesnt work. Wtf? My other games run fine

You need:
1. SSD
2. More RAM
3. ENB
4. To disable any kind of power saving mode on all hardware.
5. To reset your Skyrim configs to default.
6. Finally, install all the technical stuff from the pinned thread (engine fixes, etc).

Anyway to follow up on this:

- SSD / HDD Does not influence FPS, it influences loading times and general smoothness of
the game in terms of Lag and clunkiness
- 16 Gigs of ram is enough to run any game, and 16 is MORE than enough for
Skyrim
- ENB? To make the game run better? What?