I've searched for this issue, haven't found anything exactly the same. Occasionally, at random times and places, the game will all of the sudden look like it's running at about 3fps. I can sometimes get it to correct itself by looking around or at the floor or wall, but when I turn the camera to look left or right, it does it again. I have to exit game and restart, then it runs fine. It doesn't happen too often, but it's annoying. It seems that most of the time it starts doing it when I try to turn the camera left or right, but sometimes when I load in to an area it does it too. Any ideas? Thanks.

This is a bug in the game, we can hope that the bethesda fix them.

Sounds almost like the issue on PS3, how big is your save file in MBs?

I was having problems like this and I noticed I had conflicting values between my .ini and prefs.ini. I changed those and had to delete all my old saves because they wouldn't load under the corrected settings even though I had not changed uGridstoLoad. If you've done any copy/paste jobs to your setting like I did I would start there. I was telling my game to run v-sync and to not run v-sync at the same time

Not too big, around 12MB.


I haven't done anything to my ini files. I deleted them a couple of times so it would rebuild them. This has been a random, occasional (like twice in a ten hour session) problem since day one, on all the characters I've made; I'll look to the left of right and the game will all of the sudden act like it's running at a really low frame rate, really bad. And it's random. If I restart the game, problem solved. I just don't know what's causing it.

I think it is a known bug. I've had that since the first days of playing. It happens on average once every 2-3 hours, I think. It is unconvenient to have to restart the game. But at least it's a workaround that works every time. I have the game installed on my SSD, so restarting and loading a savefile takes only 10-20 seconds total.

I must say, since I use TESVAL (the mod that optimizes cpu-usage), I have not had this issue. Might be a coincidence.

take a look at this thread, hope it helps

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1323347-how-to-fix-indoorcavedungeon-fps-drop/

Yeah, it's not that big of a deal to restart, but I would like to know what's causing it. I tried the mod you mentioned but it didn't do much (virtually the same fps at the test view in Markarth) for me, so I took it out.


Thank you. I saw this thread, but didn't know if it applied since I get it outside, too. Also, I'm kind of scared to mess with my settings like that.