The frameskipping and or stuttering is Bethesda's (gamebyro engine) fault thats for damn sure.
This.
No, no patience. This crap should have been fixed BEFORE release. No one should release a game in this state.
and this.
Game shouldn't have been released in the shape it is in now. If there was no dll user fix to this the outcry would be a lot louder, sadly its making the real issue a lot more docile than it really is.
Its both nvidia and ati cards with problems, everyone's hardware is acting up. Doesn't matter if you have an old card or a new one. Even with the dll fix it doesn't stop the games intermittent lag spikes and microstutters.
Really, how could it have been released like this.
All I can say is obsidian really dodged a bullet with the user-fix. What I wonder is why the hell its taking them so long to patch the game. If someone can do their own user fix in a day after release then oh em gee what the hell is going on over there at obsidian?