St-t-t-t-tuter, stutter, is, annoying, indeed Options

[Lopov]

Occasionally I suffer from sever stuttering in Skyrim, it always happens in wilderness and I have a feeling that it happens when distant objects are generated. It never happens in towns or inside any cells like houses, caves, etc. I tried decreasing the settings, changing advanced options in the launcher tab, I downloaded almost every anti-stutter fix on Nexus, tweaked my .ini file by changing IPresetInterval values but nothing changes.

It doesn't happen too often but when it happens, it's annoying and it doesn't occur in same areas, for instance yesterday I didn't have any problems in Darkwater Crossing but today it stuttered so horribly that I waited for a minute to "calm" down.

I don't use any particularly extensive mods so I doubt that's the reason, neither I have any programs running in the background which could slow my computer down.

So any advices to remove stuttering altogether or at least make it happen less often?

Thanks!

[Lopov]

ATI 4670, it's an old video card because my laptop is old too. But except Skyrim and occasionally FONV I never encountered CTDs in any other games that I've played.

[SubRosa]

ATI 4670, it's an old video card because my laptop is old too. But except Skyrim and occasionally FONV I never encountered CTDs in any other games that I've played.

I think that is a 512 mb video card? If so, that is woefully underpowered for a game like Skyrim. Especially if you using the high res texture packs. If you had a desktop I would say buy another card that has at least 2gig of video ram. But since you are on a laptop, that's not really an option. I would try removing the high res texture packs first, and if you still get CTDs, try lowering your resolution and other settings.