So I have been experiencing a bit of lag only in outdoor areas. Just doesn't seem fluid like it should. I mean its not completely unplayable, it just gets annoying at times. Indoor areas are just fine, no problem at all.

My Specs

Core I5 650 3.2ghz
6GB RAM
GTX 560 TI with 296.10 drivers

I am not using ENB series mods, but have many different graphical mods installed through the skyrim workshop. Though honestly, I don't think the mods I have installed are any big performance hitters. I was thinking it could be a Vsync issue, but my iPresentInterval in ini is set to 0. I saw some Vsync options in nvidia inspector, do I have to change those? I uploaded a screenshot of my inspector settings, take a look.

[img]http://img.techpowerup.org/120413/nvidia_20120413_142335.png[/img]

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No one has any ideas, really?

Have you tried bMouseAcceleration=0 under [Controls] in SkyrimPrefs.ini? For me (and others) that setting made it all bit more fluid.

I see that posted all over the net, but I've only just now stopped to ask this, will that .ini tweak do anything for players using xbox pads?
Sorry to barge in on your thread with no information for you OP.

Thank you! I will try that and reply back with results.

I don't know but I think you/they should try and see if it makes a difference? It's a tweak that can be reverted back right away by changing the 0 value back into 1. As far as I know it will not break a savegame when this INI tweak is used and then reverted.

Okay, hope it will work.
But all in all outside scenes always have less fps then (certain) indoor scenes. Especially areas with a lot of trees for example in combination with a high(er) Antialiasing Transparency setting of your videocard software.
Btw what are your fps values? On my system I have 55-60 fps on plains and in areas with lots of trees I hit around 45-55 fps but still rather fluid with a Antialiasing Transparency setting of 2x (supersample).

Holy crap, so I'm a bit surprised and disappointed. I ran FRAPS in the background in a indoor/cave area in skyrim and was averaging about 30-32 FPS?! WTF, no wonder why I feel its been slow in outside areas, it's probably doing like 15fps if that! My system should be plenty powerful to run it faster. Could it be my nvidia inspector settings? I am also running everything on ultra.

meegja, I have the exact same video card as you. I want that kind of FPS lol. I mean you have way more RAM but shouldn't really matter too much from 6GB vs 16GB in a video game too much.

@ Treed

No, you have enough system RAM. I use mine mostly for making my 3D Art
But with Skyrim it's a bit like a lottery: you can run it good or not. And it's proven now that system specs are not saying that much when it come to Skyrim. There are people with ultra high system specs yet they can run Skyrim not full. And there are people with normal system specs who can run Skyrim just fluidly. Other then the minimum system specs for Skyrim, there is no way of telling on how Skyrim will run on a system.

But I just now did look at the Nvida Inspector screenshot you provided and there is a setting that can increase your fps with 15 or more: disable Ambient Occlusion. Ambient Occlusion was working fine with the 1.4 version of Skyrim. But since the 1.5 version it does not do anything anymore (or just a tiny tiny little bit) so I disabled the AO in the Nvidia settings screen which resulted in a 15 to 20 fps increase but same image quality.

Meegja, you are a genius my friend! Wow what a difference. Indoor areas now averaging like 75-100 FPS. Can't wait to see how outdoor areas play like. Thanks a lot man!

Okay, good to hear!