Intel Corei5 2,67Ghz
8GB ram DDR3
Radeon HD 6950
DirectX10
Windows Vista ultimate

30-40 FPS at the beginning on Ultra, in the town it crashes to 20 FPS.
Can anybody told me, what is this and how to fix it?

Try this, i have crossfire 6950s and it should help.

Report back to tell us how it goes

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4157665&postcount=17

Does it really help? Ok. i'll try.

So, it doesn't help anyway. Does anybody have low framerate at my graphics card?

Yeah my 6950 has a modded bios and overclock, with everything set to the highest am getting 30-40 fps in riverwood or that first town.
Im not happy about this and would like to see some update drivers or optimization on bethesda'a end.

CatalystCreator Andrew D
We're working on a CAP update for Skyrim; as soon as an ETA is known I'll let you guys know
12 hours ago

I'd say around 24-48 hours until it's out

I have the same two graphic cards you have and I also experience stuttering, especially when multiple things are happening on the screen like in the beginning of the game.

I'm either dumb or what's the problem? I spent years playing Oblivion with an average of probably 16 fps, I'm planning to buy a 6950 also, and your post was actually pretty good news to me, I would have said it's more than enough ...

Or do similiar Nvidia cards perform significantly better?

My friend has i7 870 gtx580 12gb ddr3 1920*1080 and flawless 100 FPS.
I have a 1280*1024 and 30 FPS, so i don't know, how to fix it.

I bought this PC especially for Skyrim, but it doesn'w work rughtly. It's pretty ironic.

A likely problem, at least for the OP, is low CPU clock speed. This game doesn't care if you have more than two cores, it only cares what speeds you're clocking. It cares a lot about the speeds you're clocking.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skyrim-performance-benchmark,3074-9.html
The link shows that high clock speeds are much more important than the number of cores beyond two. You can see in the second graph that increasing the number of cores beyond two doesn't actually affect performance.
Huge oversight by Bethesda, not including support for more than two cores. This game is severely CPU bottle-necked, and we're pretty much SOL until someone comes up with a solution to this, be it the modding community or Bethesda themselves.

1920x1080 all max. getting 45-120 fps and game is running pretty good. If drivers and patches bump fps to 60-120 fps, its enough for me.

2500k 4,2 ghz
6950 2gb (modded 6970 OC 890/1445)
8gb ddr3 1600 mhz

Hmmm its definately the drivers, I dont have the game just yet but will have it in a couple of hours. I know for a fact one 6950 should be able to do this game easy but Im hoping for crossfire optimisation.

So, does my problem have any solution or it doesn't?
Only drivers, that will be after 48 hours? And i think, drivers can get +5FPS, and not more

Read my post, a few posts up. It is your processor that is holding you back because Bethesda didn't code the game for more than two cores. If you don't have crazy high clock speeds on your processor, you won't get good FPS at Ultra settings.
Basically, this doesn't have anything to do with the card, and you're SOL until Bethesda or anyone else optimizes the game for quad-core CPU, or you upgrade your CPU.

They can get allot more if the game is having major scaling issues with SLI/CF

Man, does it mean, that my FPS is "ok" and i don't need any drivers to my graphics card?

Okay, a lot of thx to you.

Bump.