[waldojim]

kalellGp, on 15 February 2012 - 08:09 PM, said:

It should have automatically downloaded and installed through Steam a couple weeks ago. You can see what version you're using by looking at the bottom left of the save screen. Mine says 1.4.21.0.4. Your CPU is so good that it may have installed it and you didn't notice. Since it just improved CPU usage people that weren't having CPU bottlenecks didn't see much of an improvement.

For me it increased my performance greatly. There is a place in Markarth at the top of the steps in front of the Stonekeep entrance that was really bad. Before the patch I would drop as low as 11fps there. Now I get between 30 and 35. At the top of the steps in Whiterun before going into Dragonreach, looking down at the tree I would get around 18. Now I get around 38. Even out in the world I usually didn't get higher than 50, but now I stay close to 60. It's honestly the best performance patch for a game that I've ever seen.

Even the highest end i7's bottleneck with Skyrim. Though this might explain why the game has started acting retarded. I launch in, and am forced to alt+tab out and back in order to force the game to act normally.

[kalellGp]

I had to do that when I first got Skyrim, but I found a mod that lets me run it in windowed mode and forces it to full screen when I start the game. That got rid of all the stuttering I was having without having to alt+tab every time, which was good for me because I'm constantly entering and exiting to check mods I'm working on. I don't know if it will work for you (or if you want to put in the effort of installing it just so you don't have to alt+tab every time lol) but here's a link to the mod if you want to try it:

http://skyrim.nexusm.../file.php?id=24

After you've got the mod set up you just have to make sure you set the game to run in windowed mode and manually enter the res you want to use in the ini.

I knew Skyrim had CPU issues, but I didn't know they were so bad that people with high end CPUs were getting bottlenecks. Most of the people on Nexus with high end CPUs said they didn't get any performance boost from the patch. I assumed that was because their CPUs were already running the game without bottlenecks before the patch (that's what they were saying lol), but if the higher end CPUs also have bottleneck issues the patch must have just been focused on lower end CPUs.

[coastie65]

The only problems I am aware of with Skrim is the 30 Hr. wall in the PS3 version. It palys fine, until you hiot 30 Hrs. then it falls apart. I have been playing it on the PC with no problems and haven't as yet patched it, so don't know what the issue is.