I m running on customised setting: High texture, low radicur blur, low shadows(but shadow distance is 3000 high mode). I use skyrim 2k and vurt overhaul. I get about 30 FPS to 60 in cities depend on where i am and i dont stutter there. But outside, especially in riften forests, i stutter. This is only in first person view, but 3rd person is smooth. FPS in these areas is 25 to 40.

Rig:
quad core i7 2630QM 2.0ghz, 2.9ghz turbo boost
4gb ram
ati 6570HD 1gb

my settings can run bf3 on high pretty well.

But why do i stutter in skyrim?

Well, lets see. Your CPU is slow for Skyrim (specifically), as Skyrim is quite CPU intensive. You have only 4GB of ram, most likely running on a 64bit windows which is the bare minimum to have for Skyrim alone, and you are trying to put in textures that are 8x the normal size, requiring a lot more memory.

If your game does not lag without these mods, then play it that way or upgrade your computer. If it does, I'd suggest you post the difference in framerates, and any other mods you might have installed.

Most probaly youre cpu, skyrim is very cpu intense. try oc some more and close unneeded aps (helped me alot)

I agree. My performance increased dramatically from overclocking my older Core 2 Quad Q660 2.4GHz to 3.6GHz. If you read my sig you'll see my GPU specs, RAM, OS and overclocks. I don't have a monster gaming PC, it's very mediocre. However, I am able to run Skyrim compeltely maxed out at 1080p with 4x MSAA, 4x SS Transparency AA, Vsync On, uGrids=7, shadowDistance=6000 & forced SSAA (highest quality). I use Realistic Water Textures mod (ultra textures), Bellas Better Faces (highest texture res), Better Bodies mod & the biggest texture size offender, the official Hgh Resolution Texture Pack. My FPS never drops below 35fps (I use the built in frame limiter with NVidia beta drivers 290.53 via NVidia Inspector).

The reason I just said all this is you don't need the best hardware out there to run Skyrim maxed out and beyond, while having a solid 30+fps framerate. As the poster says in the above quote, it's important to disable all unneccessary process/apps from running before you launch Skyrim. This is even more important considering you're using texture mods that eat up all of your GPU's dedicated memory & when that's full, your 2.5-3GB RAM (OS is already using at least 1GB).

Use Gamebooster (free app) to disable any unnessessary apps. It's easy and I use it just for Skyrim. I stopped all stuttering from the 64hz bug (may be affecting you too) by using D3DOverrider which comes with RivaTuner at Guru3d. This forces tripple buffering and vsync.

Your GPU is not that great either, you should consider overclocking it. The main offender of your stuttering is you have WAY TOO MANY textures being put into your GPU's dedicated memory, then RAM, then hard drive pagefile. Moving many gigs of texture data between at least two of those or maybe all three will cause some MAJOR lag and stuttering.

Best bet if the above advice doesn't help, you need to disable some texture mods to free up GPU memory.

If you're using the "full" version of Skyrim HD and a 1080 resolution (or thereabouts), then switch to "lite", you won't notice the difference and it'll free up vital VRAM.

Consider tweaking your shadows down as they're rendered on the CPU.

If you are getting stuttering in first person but not third person, then try the fixes in the link in my signature.

Hi.

I′m having annoing stuttering as well.
I tried many fixes told by the community, but can′t get it run fluently.

System:
Windows 7 Prof
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3GHz
Geforce GTX 560 Overclocked
4 GB RAM

I had put off everything.
My CPU has a usage peak at 4% when doing nothing.
I had set all Skyrim settings to the minimum. e.g. put off shadows, disable water reflection, user lowest textures, disable AA/AF, put every graphiccard setting to performance where possible,
Playing Skyrim in Window mode with 1024x768 resolution.
Unplugged Internet, disabled Antivir and Spywarescanner

But when running Skyrim, i have every 2-5 seconds stutters while simply walking around the world.
How does that come?
On Steam the minimum requirements:

• Betriebssystem: Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 oder 64 Bit)
  
• Prozessor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz oder vergleichbar Prozessor
  
• Speicher: 2 GB System RAM
  
• Festplatte: 6 GB frei HDD
  
• Grafikkarte: Direct X 9.0c kompatibel Grafikkarte mit 512 MB RAM
  
• Sound: DirectX kompatible Soundkarte

what are those requirements for? Render one picture and crash the game?? wtf...

would be nice if anyone could help. I don′t want to overclock my CPU, because Skyrim already should run!

Here a Picture of the CPU usage while playing with the "Settings" told above: (12% CPU overal usage because skyrim was quit when the screenshot was taken)
http://i40.tinypic.com/vgomxe.png

It might be the CPU, but i dont stutter in 3rd person even in the most intense areas such as the riften forests. It only happens in first person. B1gbadDaddy, the link you gave me helped the stuttering. Thanks a lot. I still have some stuttering but it aint that bad.

Someone's badly wrong with your setup if you're getting this. I run with:

Intel core i3 530 (non-OC)
Gigabyte GTX 460 1Gb (OC)
8Gb
W7 64 bit
nVidia Beta drivers (have you got these?)
1080p res
Everything ultra apart from shadows (medium) and AA (2x). 16xAF via nVidia CP, and Performance AO. Triple buffering via D3DO, and FPS cap via Inspector (50).

I get a solid 50FPS+ outside (apart from obvious places like Whiterun steps), and pretty much the same inside. Try running GPU-Z in the background while you're playing (tick the box in the application so it monitors) and check the "max" per monitor when you exit out. Let us know the results. Also defrag your PC, get Steam to verify your game files, delete your .ini files and let them be recreated. Are you running any mods? Turn them off. Also turn off the new DLC packs if you have them installed.

Skyrim is taking 2.5Gb of your memory , Franzisco LOL

??
You know that this are overal-use-stats of the system? Means that the 2,5GB memory include Windows and serveral other things.

You took the screenshot after you finished playing Skyrim, though? Seems very high for "idle". See what processes are running and especially ones in Startup (I use CCleaner to disable all the rubbish). Are you on 64 or 32 bit, by the way?

oh common people. Thats a [censored] timeline.
I left skyrim and took the screenshot 2seconds after leaving it. The use-stats of the system NOT running skyrim are not shown there.
But for those who can′t get it, here is a pic of the system NOT running Skyrim: http://i41.tinypic.com/jj2qnn.png

By the way: I run a 64 bit system

That looks a lot better! In which case, try everything I suggested in my first post and let us know the results.

P.S. Memory is pretty cheap these days so worth thinking about adding to your 4Gb.

My fault, I was tired and wasn't reading that right. Clearly there is an issue with your system or you hit a nasty Skyrim bug.

Steam say: Fragmentation: 0%
And here is the PIC of the GPU-Z: http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/12/02/16/40.png

You said, i should add some RAM. But why? there are 1,5GB left of the 4GB when playing skyrim.

Don't tell people to "defrag your PC", especially if you don't know what type of drive they have, SSD's don't need to be defragged. and no, you don't need more memory. Clearly you have some other problem with the game.

Can you change the GPU-Z info so it shows the "max" per field? The longer you run Skyrim for with this monitoring, the better. Also let us know if you recreated your .ini files. With Steam, get it to verify your game files. A separate utility like SmartDefrag might help, I use that occasionally. I asked about your nVidia drivers too.

The memory was just a suggestion, not really Skyrim-related! I got 4Gb of DDR3 for not much more than ￡20 recently which is a bargain.

I'm sure you're a very nice person and I can see you're trying to be helpful (like I am) but don't talk to me like that, please. I appreciate what you're saying as far as defragging and SSDs but there are better ways of communicating.

GPU-Z: There is no checkbox for "MAX". Just can check to "Run in the Background" and "Write to Logfile". Else i would do it. Maybe you got an older version.
Skyrim.ini′s: Yes, i deletem them.
Nvidia driver: I had a Radeon HD4890 lately (i got the same stuttering with it). The nvidia GTX 560 is new, and runs the newest driver.

but why are u so fix on the GPU? The Pic shows that the GPU-load does not go higher than about 40% while i′m stuttering around the world.

The Problem seems to be the CPU, like in the first pic shown. But this CPU should easily run the game, especially when i turn all settings to the minimum.
Another problem could be, that the RAM is not fast enough.

Edit:

Check the Gamefiles with steam. Steam told me that 4 files could not be tested and will download them.
??? I did a complete new Installation 2 days ago.

With GPU-Z, you can use the drop-downs in each field to show the "min", "max", "average" etc, the default is the "current" setting. Try the nVidia beta driver (290.53? or something) if you're not already using it.
Yes, your CPU should be fine. I don't know how it compares to my i3 (which is only dual core) but it should easily be able to cope. RAM, I use bog-standard Crucial cheap memory so I wouldn't think that would be an issue. This is why I'm focussing on your GPU.

When you delete your .ini files, and restart the game, what does it classify you as? High? Ultra? Medium?

It sets to High.

Found the Option for "MAX" values in GPU-Z.
The 4 Files that seem to miss: Seems like these files are just the HD Texture DLC that i deleted......
Will run Skyrim when the DLC is loaded...


EDIT:

Here are the MAX Values of GPU-Z: http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/12/02/16/4kz.png

Looking at your "max" GPU-Z values, how long were you running Skyrim for? Were you inside and outside, trying to thrash the game as much as possible? How long do you play for before the stuttering happens, and is it location-specific? It all looks fine, apart from the "Memory Used" seems a little low to me for "vanilla Skyrim", (311Mb), maybe someone else could confirm?

Also, did you try the beta drivers I've mentioned twice now?

Yes, i tried the beta nividia driver.
Noticed that i had Cool&Quiet enabled, so i turn it off.
Still no better performance.

I always run the lowest gamesettings while trying to fix that problem. No mods enabled
The stuttering appears right at the start of skyrim and while walking around the world. No matter the location.

Don't talk to you like what? telling someone to defrag their drive is just pointless nodays. It's not the 90s anymore