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.

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.

Does anyone remember when Oblivion came out? Back then, even up-to-date machines struggled to max out graphic settings without killing their FPS. Skyrim not only looks much better, most medium level and higher computers can enjoy this game without sacrificing too much of the visual goodies. I understand that some of you are ultra obsessed with using ultra-high setting with 50+ FPS, but lets be real. Unless you "just built" your PC or spent a lot of $$$ on it a year or two back, you cannot expect to hit those levels.

I have a:
AMD 965 3.4ghz
4 gig ram
ATI 5770
Windows 7 (64bit)

I run the game next to maxed out (with 16x AF and 2x AA) but I do hits some slow ups (mostly in town or in areas with a lot going on graphically) I know for a fact I'm no where near 50+ FPS sustained, but I would rate my performance as acceptable. I plan on upgrading my GPU to a ATI 6970, but not because of Skyrim. My rig is 3 yrs old now (only cost me $1200 to build it myself) and it is time to get a new GPU. I'm sure the 6970 will get me through to the end of my current computer's life costing me a grand total of $1500 for a rig that played games on high settings for 5 - 6 yrs.

Point is, if you obsess over your FPS you're going to notice more "hick ups", lose a lot of the immersion of the game, and end up spending butt loads of unnecessary $$$ to hit unnecessarily high FPS in every latest game so you can say "OMG OMG, I'm pawning this game at 60+ FPS with everything in super dupper max mode, max AA /AF, with super dupper high res textures loaded". It is a game guys, have fun with it. You dont need 50+ FPS as a min. If that's your preference, that's cool, just know you're being very OCD and don't act like anything less is not worth playing. Again, this game runs a LOT better then Oblivion did when it first came out!!!

Lmao this guy have never heard of slickdeals before... 1200 for those parts....smdh.

I have a Phenon II X4 3.4 ghz and crossfired 5770s (only using one card at the moment). I play at 1080p.

I play on high settings and have had superb performance. On rare occasions I get a hickup in a city, but it is rare.

I would also point out that the games performance relative to FPS is VERY NICE. I've played games where I am showing consistent FPS above 30, but still feel very janky. Oblivion could even be like this at time, feeling janky or stuttering even when I had high FPS. In this game, I seem to be getting an incredibly smooth experience consistently.

I've been reading a lot of discussion about these fps numbers with people complaining that they are only getting 65-70fps. What the heck do they want? I thought that once you get past 30-40fps, it doesn't matter anyway, am I missing something? Why would somone need those huge fps numbers?

I've used the Large Address Aware fix, and increased the memory limits in the ini file.

I've been reading a lot of discussion about these fps numbers with people complaining that they are only getting 65-70fps. What the heck do they want? I thought that once you get past 30-40fps, it doesn't matter anyway, am I missing something? Why would somone need those huge fps numbers?

I don't see why people are whining that this is a "bad port" or "not optimized" when they are running low end graphics cards. This game preforms great compared to "bad console ports" etc (crysis, gta iv, metro 2033)

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.