Are there any fixes for the microstutter I'm getting? It's terrible. The game runs very smoothly at about 40-60fps at all times. I have already tried turning off mouse acceleration. Anything else?

Post up your ini files please.

*edit* And your system specs.

Yes post your specs please.

Also try the 2 fixes in the link in my signature.

Specs are as follows: intel core i7 with turboboost up to 2.9ghz and an nvidia geforce gt 540m, along with 6gb of ram. I have also noticed that the microstutter gets much worse when the framerate drops into the 30's.

Games do not run smooth at 40fps or anything less than 60fps, not even 59. Once a game dips below 60fps stuttering occurs because you are dropping frames. This is NOT the same as micro stuttering. This is simply your hardware struggling to run the game.

You say you get 40-60 fps. So in the times where your fps dips below 60, you are experiencing straight up PC lag not Micro-stuttering.


But what the hell. An easy way to eliminate micro stuttering is to ENABLE V-sync. But in your case since you are getting low fps, you will still experience "stuttering" no matter what you do.

The best known fix for microstutter is playing in windowed mode. If you are experiencing microstutter indoors around torches anyway that is. You can use the Simple Borderless Window mod from Skyrim Nexus to make your windowed mode look just like full screen mode. There is a difference between microstutter and low fps by the way. For example, microstutter can occur at 60 FPS, I had it indoors, you frames seem like something below 30 for a few seconds as you pass torches, but Fraps claims your FPS is still 60ish, thats microstutter.

Guys the fix is in the post in my signature. Framerate limiter @ 59fps.

You can get stuttering at any frame-rate and it has nothing to do with that. Micro stuttering can be caused by a lot of things.

Both fixes in the post in my sig fix "micro stuttering". But if what you're suffering from is not that exact issue, then those 2 fixes will not work. Give them a try.

I'm sorry but I'd need further confirmation from others on this as I'm lead to not believe it for a moment. Nearly every game you play is going to fluctuate constantly in FPS and not all of them will stutter. I've played games that range between 20 - 30 FPS and they were smooth as butter. I've played games that range from 50-60 with the same results. Then again, I've played games under both circumstances with stuttering.

If stutter was so connected to FPS as claimed then we'd all be complaining right now.

I should point out the 2 fixes I suggested are for when you get "micro stutter" randomly in first person view, but not in 3rd person view.

Yes I can confirm from personal experience both of the methods in BigBadDaddy link work. However, the first option no longer worked for me after 1.3 patch for some odd reason.

*smirk* Hopefully OP is running the 290.53 beta driver that has the Skyrim profile. If not, do it. Then, go into the Nvidia control panel and find the profile for Skyrim and force Vsync *and* Triple buffering 'On'. Done.

Oh and I wouldn't expect much out of that laptop's CPU & GPU in the first place, so your milage may vary.

Stuttering can occur from many different sources, which is why it is important to post your specs and at what graphic level you are running the game.

Not necessarily. Skyrim has a lot of weird Microstuttering issues, and it looks A LOT different than what you'd see in other games. My 2nd system is a Phenom 2 x4 3.6GHz with a 6870. With Skyrim, whenever the framerate fluctuates, I get Microstutter. If it's a solid 60FPS, no stutter. If it's a solid 40FPS, no stutter. Going between 45-50? Stutter. No other game on that computer has the issue, not anything using Valve's Source Engine. Not Crysis 1 or 2. Not Battlefield 3, or WoW, or Starcraft 2, or any other game I've played on it. My main system is similar, but different Mobo/Ram and I have a GTX 570. I have no Microstutter with framerate fluctuations with this card. Sure it slows down when the framerate changes, but there's a big difference between the general slowdown you get, and actual "stutter" that many users are reporting with Skyrim. I've been playing PC games for 20 years so I know what general FPS slowdown looks like... this is not it.

I've tried

- Turning off mouse Acceleration in both Skyrim and Windows.
- Windowed mode(which actually fixes a different type of stutter people commonly report)
- Different Driver revisions(11.10, 11.11, 11.11c, 12.1)
- Overclocking and Underclocking both CPU and GPU
- Turning off VSYNC and using a Framerate capper
- Setting different max Framerates with capper
- ENB Performance DLL
- Changing monitor refresh rate
- Changing Flip que length
- Disabling AA/AF, and trying various graphics settings in both Skyrim and my video card's 3d options
- Shutting down unnecessary Windows services
- Deleting Skyrimprefs and Skyrim.ini and letting the game make a fresh one.

Nothing seems to work, except for some .DLL file I found on Nexus when searching for "Skyrim Stuttering Fix 64Hz Bug", however I get awful screen tearing, like if VSYNC was off, but VSYNC is on and my framerate is capped.

This is not my experience with games. At 30 fps, battlefield 3 runs very smoothly, along with dues ex: human revolution, and many others. This is different. An example is when I am drawing my bow and looking up or down, Its stuttering horribly, while at 40 fps or more.

I am running with texture quality on high, meidum motion blur quality, antialiasing off, fxaa on, shadows on low, AF on 8x, decals on high, distant land on high, anything else to add?

Yeah, my laptop isn't exactly the best. I do have it running smoothly though, except for the stutter! Also I do have the 290.53 driver, but didn't find it very helpful.