I hope a mod doesn't remove this as a spam or something but, I've been tweaking my skyrim settings and so far i can run everything on ultra with shadows at high. However the AA is turned to 4 and i have my nvidias gtx 560 forced AA set to 16x csaa and transparency to 4x supersample. However in riftens forests I get lowerd to an average 50-55, as well as other random locations. I have the latest drivers and the 1.6 patch. I realize this is actually really good for FPS but i want a solid 60.

Here are my specs. Anyone know how i can fix this FPS drop without lowering image quality?


[Display]
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 560
Driver version: 301.42
DirectX support: 11.1
CUDA Cores: 336
Core clock: 850 MHz
Shader clock: 1701 MHz
Memory clock: 2052 MHz (4104 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 4094 MB
Dedicated video memory: 1023 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 3071 MB
Video BIOS version: 70.24.18.00.64
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Components]

easyDaemonAPIU64.DLL 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
WLMerger.exe 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
daemonu.exe 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
ComUpdatus.exe 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
NvUpdtr.dll 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
NvUpdt.dll 1.8.15.0 NVIDIA Update Components
nvui.dll 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdsync.exe 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUI.exe 4.4.730.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll 6.14.13.0142 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.13.0142 NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.13.0142 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.13.0142 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.13.0142 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.13.0142 NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX 09.12.0213 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.13.0142 NVIDIA CUDA 4.2.1 driver
nvGameS.dll 6.14.13.0142 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

You're unlikely to see that much difference between 16x CSAA and 8x CSAA or even 4x CSAA if you already have 4x in-game AND supersampling on top of that. If I was you I would just tone that down to 4x and see if that helps. Or turn down SS down to 2x, if you're on a 1080p screen or above it's really hard to tell the difference.

ll try that and see if it gets any better. i'm only on a 1600 900 res so it should be good. Thanks again.

maybe try using 4x sparse grid rather than full supersampling on the transparencies and see how it looks. i find it's a bit blurrier but you can also play around with the negative lod bias to offset that a bit.

doesn't the driver anti aliasing setting override the game setting?

How would one do this? I'm trying not to tweak my settings too much.

I find that the difference between low and high shadow quality is very minimal, yet it has a large (up to 25%!) impact on your FPS. I would recommend lowering your shadow quality to either medium or low for more FPS.