Fix for flickering water and sound stutters.

[Elias Wick]

Greetings I have found a special solution to the Water Flickering and Sound Stutters for the ones who still have problems with that.

There are multiple ways of going around these issues:
1. If you have Nvidia, install and run NVIDIA GeForce Experience. Go into games and chose "Optimal settings" for skyrim. Now, depending on your computer screen this might set your game resolution from 1920 x 1080 to 2715 x 1527. Do not worry, Skyrim will scale to this resolution. This will fix the issue. Problem with this fix is that your graphics card has to render a much higher resolution.

2. If you have a monitor that renders in 144 hz... Well, you can't play in 1920 x 1080 and still have 144 hz. You have to reduce the Hz down 24 steps. So set it to 120 and the game should now work fine. The problem with this is that you have to change your settings back and fort to get the most out of your screen.

3. Some people can try to Open "SkyrimPrefs.ini" located here "C:\Users\USER\Documents\My Games\skyrim"
Change "iPresentInterval=1" to "iPresentInterval=0"
Now this will work for some people and you may not have to do anything else.

I hope this was helpful to some of you! Have a nice day and Fus Ro Dah!

[cfs111]

Also lowering AA to 2 or off will usually work as well.

[Elias Wick]

Originally posted by cfs111:

Also lowering AA to 2 or off will usually work as well.

Thank your for your comment! I did try this but it didn't work for me.

[DMKI]

Points 1 and 3 didn't work in my case, and point 2 isn't the best solution.

All you need to do is to limit your FPS. On fast computer with fast monitor you'll get as many FPS as you have Hz in your monitor. But the game goes south if you have over 60 FPS. However, while limiting to 60Hz would work, it's an overkill. You need to limit the game itself to 60 FPS, and the problem will be gone.

The simplest way to do that is to install ENBoost, then edit the enblocal.ini and change EnableFPSLimit from false to true. That's it.

[Justin]

Originally posted by DMKI:

Points 1 and 3 didn't work in my case, and point 2 isn't the best solution.

All you need to do is to limit your FPS. On fast computer with fast monitor you'll get as many FPS as you have Hz in your monitor. But the game goes south if you have over 60 FPS. However, while limiting to 60Hz would work, it's an overkill. You need to limit the game itself to 60 FPS, and the problem will be gone.

The simplest way to do that is to install ENBoost, then edit the enblocal.ini and change EnableFPSLimit from false to true. That's it.

Legend , worked for me . Cheers mate .

[Witchy_Jay]

Thanks so much, I've been pulling my hair out for days trying to fix this! You're a LEGEND!

[Earthgrasper]

Gonna try this out, thank you dad!

[Elias Wick]

Originally posted by outerheavenxxx:

Gonna try this out, thank you dad!

No problem son!

[Bandy]

Necro yes, but thread still helpful when you switch to a 144Hz monitor and strange things start happening....

The OP suggestions pointed me in the right direction, but instead I used Nvidia Profile Inspector and in the ESV profile set "Frame Rate Limiter" to 59.7 fps, and solved the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

[Villiie]

None of this worked for me, do u mind i send u a video on discord so i know where talking about the same glitch?

[Villiie]

NEVERMIND, Bandy's tactic worked

[barrywide]

Thanks man, fix #1 worked for me. I figured this was an issue with one of my mods and did a fresh install before I found this.

[Luna Kitten]

This glitch happens every time I enter an inn. Doesn't seem to matter which one, there are banging sounds in every inn I go in and when I leave, I start getting flickering water and sound glitches, and eventually all graphics start flickering too.

[Daxitron]

Gonna necro this a tad just to say, in addition to #2 in OP post, make sure to toggle off FXAA. No amount of reduction in Hz fixed anything until I toggled FXAA. Then worked like a charm up to 120Hz.

[[JK Trolling] Neville Longshot]

I just went into windows display settings and changed the refresh rate of my screen to 119 instead of 144hz, this worked right away and didn't require any external programs or changing of graphics settings for skyrim.

So it just seems that this game was never meant to be played above 120FPS

[smr1957]

Originally posted by RaY:

I just went into windows display settings and changed the refresh rate of my screen to 119 instead of 144hz, this worked right away and didn't require any external programs or changing of graphics settings for skyrim.

So it just seems that this game was never meant to be played above 120FPS

This game, as has been repeatedly stated, ad nauseum, elsewhere in both this and SSE forums, is not meant to be played over 60 FPS - the game is not designed to run over that and bugs will occur. For full info on that, see:
FPS can't exceed 60
https://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/2561864094345033643/?tscn=1526053394#c2561864094345056812

And for a more detailed discussion of the FPS issue, see:
Getting the game above 60hz [FPS] is it possible? - https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/5251727781289359246/

(All above links from pinned topic Helpful Links and References, Section 5, General Troubleshooting)

Options:

For original Skyrim (NOT SSE), "FPS Limiter" from Nexus will do the trick. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34/?

If you are using Nividia, see this:
Fix: Bouncing animals and general odd behaviour, 120 hz and above 60 fps. [FPS limiting] - https://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/535150948606032257/

This is what you are looking for and where you should make the adjustment:
Limiting FPS in Nividia Control Panel
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2384049685
Just set that to On and set to 60 (or even 59 to eliminate possibility of it popping over 60 on occasion)

If you are not using Nivida, see this:
https://youtu.be/B0buajaoDuA