Good Script to Improve Skyrim Performance?

[Wolfmight]

Anyone know any good scripts to improve the load/stutter performance of the The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim?
I have a decent system that runs it at a high FPS 50-60, but there are stutters when new objects come into view.

Have the same issue with Deus Ex (even worse really).

Gonna run a Data Disk Monthly script on the hard disk drive (which has 60% free space, 1TB, and 7200RPM).

Anyone have the same stuttering?  ah, maybe an SSD would be the real cure.

[Darlis]

First you should make sure that the stuttering is actually caused by the HDD:
- Watch the HDD activity LED on your PC's case. If there is a lot of activity while the stuttering occurs, it's likely the HDD.
- Reduce the resolution and disable anti aliasing. If the stuttering is gone your graphics card is too slow.
- Disable security programs while playing (after disabling the internet connection)

[Rohk]

You can always test to place Skyrim game files at the beginning of the disk and see if the stuttering has gone.

The bad thing on the standard data disk monthly sript is that it sorts the whole disk with "sort by name" and Skyrim folder will therefore be placed quite end of the disk. If you don't want to make a new script just add new zones for Skyrim and Deus Ex or your "games" directory before the last zone 3 on daily,weekly,monthly data disk sripts.

example of Zone for Skyrim that sorts files by their size (see other possible File actions):

Code:

  /* Zone : Skyrim */
  FileSelect
    DirectoryName("Skyrim")
    and not(
      (LastAccessEnabled(yes) and LastAccess(,1 month ago))
      or DirectoryName("VCredist")
      or DirectoryName("DirectX10")
      )
  FileActions
      # Sort the items from smallest to largest.
      SortBySize(Ascending)
  FileEnd

If you don't see any difference then maybe your graphic card's vram is too small or system ram, and the game needs to swap files between pagefile and ram/vram when loading new textures? But I don't believe you have "slow" gpu as you get decent 50-60 fps.

This post from BloodySword sums pretty well the best drive layout for systems with games and the problem with pagefile:
http://www.mydefrag.com/forum/index.php?topic=3666.msg21981#msg21981

... The cause is, while gaming, huge paging will occur. The drive must move its heads to the pagefile.sys and then to the game ressource files. Therefore it is much slower, even if you have much RAM. Today's games are not optimized for 64 bit. So the limit of physical memory is 2GB per process (working set) and the game won't get more than that. Paging WILL occur, even on a 64 bit system.