» Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:18 am As a side note, I do get a massive frame rate drop between cell transitions. I suspect that's due to having six-year-old hard drives that are near death. I will soon be upgrading to a terabyte hard drive but if I had a SSD and uncompressed all the BSA's would that help?
I'm talking about repacking the BSA's at the lowest compression setting possible. My theory is CPU time to uncompress substantially large BSA files contributes to cell transitions micro shuttering. Micro-shuttering does not contain frames per second drop. An SSD will most likely reduce FPS drop, but not micro shuddering during cell transitions.
Take a look at this http://imageshack.us/f/213/snowseam3.jpg/ The textures look almost the same except for the light and dark contrast which isn't a shadow or lighting issue.
This http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/snowseam4.jpg/highlights two rocks with snow on them, one on the right one on the left. The rock on the right fits the surrounding textures fabulously. On the left the snow texture on the rock looks low-resolution and washed out.
I point these things out, hoping to find a solution, but if there isn't, that's fine.
System specifications
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OS: Windows 8 64-bit
CPU: Intel 2500K @ 3.2-3.7
GPU: Nvidia 670
RAM: 8 GB @ 1600
Motherboard: Not relevant
Hard drives: 320 GB 2X Raid zero
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
CPU: Intel 2500K @ 3.2-3.7
GPU: Nvidia 670
RAM: 8 GB @ 1600
Motherboard: Not relevant
Hard drives: 320 GB 2X Raid zero
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
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