Everything runs smooth and very nice, and i have an old build from about three years ago...all on ultra, some on high and shadows on low!

FPS is constant as well, no idear how much but i have no need to even check it as it runs like a charm!

Running pretty beast on my laptop

65+ FPS everywhere (1080p, Ultra with x8 AF and X4 AA, latest ATI Catalyst) but the usual FPS slowdown in Dragonsreach looking down, etc

6990M Overclocked
i7-920XM OCed to 3.2Ghz x 4 all cores
6GB RAM

Hope a patch fixes the FPS issues in towns

GTA IV? Sure. But you say Metro 2033 and Crysis (1) are console ports? You are joking, right?

Take a look at my rig in my sig, I get really low FPS and stutter in Skyrim especially in places with atmospheric effects and yet I get a stable 60 in all those other games you mentioned even BF3 on ultra and Witcher 2, so what's the escuse for Skyrim other than its poorly optimized on higher end machines?

I'm getting mouse movement **** up, otherwise everything went smooth with installation. So I can't play it because I can't orient myself prioperly with the mouse! Hmpf! FIX MOUSE!!!

I've just fixed my frame problem, I turned off V-Sync and changed shadow maps now I'm getting 60 to 75fps outside and a lot more inside where before j was struggling to even get 40.

You dont need a fast PC mine is graphically update 4 year old PC.... running over 70 FPS very smooth outdoors on High settings. Still get the Occasional 5 second lockup that everyone gets, but runs smoothly 99% of the time.

Athlon X64 4200+ 2.2Ghz Dual core
Vista 32 bit
Onboard RealtekHD sound
2GB DDR2
nVidia GTX 460 SuperOC 1GB DDR5

p.s. i think Bethseda done a great job, and am really happy i didnt have to buy a new PC.

How do you get 70 fps on a 60hz monitor? For those unfamiliar with that a hert (hz) is, its bascially the ammount of times a current cycles in 1 second. If a monitor cycles 60 times per second (60hz), that is the max FPS it will display. This is why many games cap the max FPS around 60, and only through editing ini settings can you unlock it. Which is Pointless in 99.9% of cases.

Ive read a lot of posts in this thread with people claiming 60+ FPS and chuckled to myself. Your the same people who buy the gold tipped connecting cables for all your equipment. Its a waste of money unless you know what your doing, and have money to burn.

Also, are you aware of the human eyes flicker limit? There are only so many FPS your eye can actually pick up on. While it depends on the person, its right around the 60 mark.

I dare you to even try getting over 45 fps in the center of Riften, etc.

When people ask "What fps do you get" you don't say the highest number outside noob. Otherwise I'd be running at 120 fps.

Do you play your entire game inside Riften then?

honestly, quit with the name calling, you sound like a little 10 year old. I was just here to say it runs sweet on my pc and give my specs and be helpful to the community theres no need for the insults out of nowhere.

My computer is about 2 years old and runs it on ultra at 40-50 fps.

I have a 60 fps always on my system. Sometimes a drop to 55 and 50 sometimes and 45 rarely. I'm running 1 6950 1 gig and 6 gig of Corsair GT Dominator RAM on my i7 960 system. I have it all maxed out besides the anti aliasing and anistropic filtering cause I crash when I use them, I get 40 to 50 with them on. And I have no load times, it's all pretty much instant. Btw I have a 60 Hertz monitor and it caps at 61 fps all most of the time.

Swap is never instant when CPU is reading from a disk. Having an SSD doesn't mean you don't obtain SEVERE performance drops in certain areas.
Yhe user before me is right: you're simply not noticing some areas where the game has significant degraded performance. The only way to validate this theory is using a monitor tool
that LOGS framerates at a constant time (at a sustained rate, or logging minimun and maximum framerates, for example). If you're using your naked eye and just a stupid indicator on the screen, you will probably miss the whole story.

Performance is good, stability is garbage.

AMD Phenom II x4 925 2.80Ghz CPU
4gb RAM @ 800
Geforce 9500 GT w/1gb
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

using a heavily tweaked INI + LAA switched .EXE
mostly medium settings with max visibility range and most of the bells and whistles
Tried Low/Minimal settings and it didn't help stability so no reason to hold back.

The monitor might not be able to depict more than 60 frames per second,but that doesn't mean that a computer can't render more than 60 frames per second.
One's system might be able to depict 120 fps and the graphics card will send 120 different frames each second to the monitor,even if some of them get lost because of the monitor's inabillity to depict them.

Btw,60hz is a TFT limit,for CRT monitors frequencies like 75hz or 85hz are pretty usual.

Actually it isn't just Riften, almost every town you go into has an area that makes you lag immensely.

Noob.

Ugh, a GTX 580 used to display games on a TV ... Of course you were struggling, consumer low end TVs have a 50Hz refresh rate ...

I'm sorry, but what does the refresh rate have to do with what FPS he's getting? If v-sync is off you have no limit.

People turn v-sync off to get higher than their refresh rate for faster input response time.

Your not even worth my time, [censored].

I'm usually hovering about 70-90 outside, go down to about 50 in Sovengard with all the special stuff floating around. 40ish in towns(varies between 40-60) I usually hover at 120 in dungeons. I hate it when I get to 120 fps, stuff start flickering. 120 hertz 27Inch monitors here . Running an i2600k and two 6950's cross-fired. Really wish this game was more optimized.

Your stuff isn't working correctly. I never drop below 30FPS on my GTS250 on high settings + maxed view distance. Even in Riften, or any other city.

Newb.

What he said!

Q6600 @ 3.2GHz
4Gig ram
GTX 260

After playing for 47 hrs I finally had a CTD. It was my first visit to Riften and as I was nearing the N gate (had approached from the SW) the Kahjiit trader tent was missing it's texture- appeared bright white/purple- then the game crashed. This was the first graphic anomaly I have seen.

Otherwise I'm using ultra settings without any tweaks. Have a new comp: i72600k, Asus p8z68-v pro, gtx 580, 8 GB ram, @ 1920*1200, no overclocking. I've occasionally experienced a bit of stutter when exploring... only reproduce-able stutter I've was in Markarth when looking out over the city from the highest point.

Now that I've finally got my game working again (YAY!) I'm quite happy with the performance I'm getting. Although, I think that's probably a subjective thing.

My rig probably averages out to a mid-range system because while the graphics card is still pretty decent, it's only a dual core processor. So I'm not getting 60 FPS anywhere but I also don't need that. It looks smooth to my eyes and I'd guess it's probably somewhere around 30 in exterior cells. It doesn't stutter or flicker, I've had surprisingly few crashes and so far it's only frozen the one time when everything decided to just implode. I can't run the ultra settings but it looks aesthetically pleasing to me with the settings I have it on. No doubt there are some people who would wrinkle their noses at these settings but I'm very pleased with the stability and performance I'm getting.

i think Khaotic forgot to turn off his mums screensaver and 'PC's for Dummy's' electronic book he has running in the background.