DaRmaZat Recently, Skyrim SE was available at a high discount because of the QuakeCon convention organised by ZeniMax. Anyway, I did not hesitate a second to buy it, but soon discovered that Bethesda Studios did not finish their home work. Possible fixes will be added regularly on this page.
So far I’m really enjoying my second playthrough of the Skyrim story with the Special Edition. Finally, Skyrim is now a perfect match for my 4K monitor. Below I will regularly add some stuff that you probably might want to check out to make the experience even more special.
Stuttering/Low FPS
By default, the game has a low FPS/stutter issue, especially noticeable in boss fights and dungeons. This is related to the bad V-sync implementation in the Havok physics engine.
To fix this, go in Windows Explorer to –> Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SkyrimPrefs.ini and open the file with your preferred text editor.
Change the line iVSyncPresentInterval=1 into iVSyncPresentInterval=0. Actually, this disables V-sync in-game, so you now need to implement it again using another method to avoid possible screen tearing.
That’s why you need to add in Skyrim.ini the desired one of the following lines as well:
[HAVOK]fMaxTime=0.0333 is for 30fps, for slower computersfMaxTime=0.0166 is for 60fpsfMaxTime=0.0133 is for 75fpsfMaxTime=0.0111 is for 90fpsfMaxTime=0.0083 is for 120fps (that’s the one I selected)fMaxTime=0.0069 is for 144fpsfMaxTime=0.0042 is for 240fps+, for high-end computers
Last but one step, you now need a third party V-sync. Download the latest Fallout 4 ENB version from here. Extract the “WrapperVersion” folder and copy the 2 “.dll” files and the “ENBLocal” and “ENBSeries” files into the SSE folder, located onder your Steam Installation folder –>SteamApps –>Common –>SSE.
Now open ENBLocal.ini, change in the [LIMITER] section “EnableFPSLimit=true” to false, and set “FPSLimit” to the value of the fps of the [HAVOK] section above plus 1. So in my example, FPSLimit=121. Also change in the “Engine” section “ForceVSync=false” to true.
Finally last but not least step, don’t forget to set your GPU’s V-Sync setting also to ‘Always On’ and enable ‘Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling‘ when both your Windows and video driver version support this feature. To enable it, right click on Desktop -> Display Settings -> scroll to the bottom -> click on Graphics Settings -> Click the button to be ON at the first section called ‘Hardware-Accelerated Gpu Scheduling’ and reboot your PC.
When you own an AMD Radeon graphics card, also don’t forget to check this post. Voila, that’s it to remove the graphical stuttering in your Skyrim SE.
