Hello.

So, the first time I played Skyrim, when it came out, I got stuck at the quest where you have the dragon tied down in whiterun. I wasnt able to continue after many attempts at it, so I just quit the game. Now, im on a new computer, pretty sick one, and I thought that I would start a new character and go at it again, now with all the dlc included. Well, I cant even get past the ride to Helgen at the start. As soon as the ride starts (before I can even see anything) I hear the sounds of something going wrong, and when the picture actually comes on im in the air, the cart is flying all over the place. The NPC's are talking like normal, however the cart never arrives at Helgen, well, it did at one of the tries, but it was just crashing into the wall for 5 minutes until I left.

I read something about too high fps could cause problems, so I forced VSync to be enabled for Skyrim in the graphic card settings and thus limiting my fps to 144 (im using a 144hz monitor), and I can confirm that my fps is below 144 using MSI Afterburner to show me the fps ingame. However, it still happens. The cart flies around, gets stuck in rocks.. and what not.

What do I do? The game is updated to the latest version automaticly through steam. All the dlc is activated.

Thanks.

You probably need to clamp your FPS down further - the game seems to have physics problems with framerates much in excess of 60 FPS.

I just discovered that Skyrim has VSync ON by default actually, even though I cannot see the option to turn it on/off anyhwere. So I forced it to be OFF in the graphic card settings in hopes that this might do it, but no, its still the same crazy ride at the start.

It kind of svcks if you actually cant play the game with more than 60 fps, if that is true then I dont know if I even want to bother with it. To limit my fps to 60 fps, can I do this in a config file or do I simply have to lower my Hz to 60?

Ok, figured out I could limit my fps with MSI Afterburner which is a progam im already using. Limited to 60 and now the ride is fine, so I guess ill try to play it with 60 fps and see how it feels. I hate playing games with less than 100 fps, but meh, lets see. Thanks!

Some folks have had luck playing at rates above 60 FPS - the best thing to do is keep increasing your maximum framerate until the physics start wigging out again, and then dial it back.

I raised it to 70 and some odd items here and there take off like an airplane, so it seems like anything above 60 is not good :/ Well, its very smooth even at 60 so it should be fine.

This exact thing happened to me on my Xbox just yesterday.... Yesterday is actually the 2nd time it has happened to me since DB, I don't know if having a high FPS has anything to do with it if it can happen on Xbox. It may just be a rare bug.

Lowering my FPS fixed it for me, so it seems to have been the cause of at least my problems.

Yours might have just been a bug. Framerates on the XBox run around 30 FPS.

Yeah I know. I was just saying that if it happened to me having only 30 fps maybe having high fps has nothing to do with it but you're right, for me it is probably just a bug. It is rare of course, I have done that opening ride into Helgen at least 100 times and it has only happened twice. But the way the OP describes it sounds exactly how it happens with me which is why this thread caught my attention.

It's a pretty common problem on high-end PCs that can push the game well beyond its limits. And when it happens on these machines it can happen anywhere and at any time in the game.