I have the same problem. The game sometimes has "special moments", where the FPS drops randomly to zero and the sound stops playing until a few moments later -- anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds usually. When the game springs back to life, all of the actors on the screen suddenly sprint to their new locations and I continue on my merry way.

It doesn't usually occur during combat, mostly while I am moving, leading me to think it is some issue with loading things dynamically, maybe? I'm not really sure. I'll try turning down my view distance and see if that helps. My view distance is currently set to "50".

My PC specs are similar to yours, except my graphics card is a Radeon HD 6850, I think.

Oh, also, I am playing the game in borderless windowed mode, and during the lag moments, I can still use things outside of the game just fine, like I can browse the web until the special moment ends and get back to playing, lol. Maybe I will try exclusive fullscreen mode too and see if that helps. I'll post back here in an hour or two probably.

Thanks!

Okay, I think I may have noticed something else. This issue does not occur when I am playing solo in an instanced area, at all. It happens more frequently in large towns. So I think it has to do with loading players? Is there any debugging tools I can use to troubleshoot this further or any other information I can look for to provide more insight?

Thanks again!

Also having a similar issue, just for a fraction of a second, my FPS will drop slightly, not enough to make the game unplayable, but just enough to be annoying and prevent me from experiencing the beautiful graphics fluidly. Still happens on Minimum settings too, running a FX 6300 OC @ 4.2 and R9 270x

*what

I'm using Windows 7 64-bit as well.

I am going to try using the "Resource Monitor" button in task manager to see if anything is specifically a problem as far as system resources go. When the servers are back online anyways.

It may be related to textures and other effects.

I've noticed that some of the bloom effects can seriously impact performance... and then there are times when I notice a little 'seam' in the world. At that point, performance takes a major hit.

Keep an eye out, I guess, for any effects that are causing the slowdowns? Or seams that may result in display errors?

on part of stutterings, only times ive experienced those on my rig, was when i was using v-sync. Nowadays, if necessary, i rather limit fps with nVidia Inspector (instead of in-game setting or driver).

For AMD cards, tehre is a proggy called RadeonPRO, it should have framerate limiter built into it. http://www.radeonpro.info/

I know this wont fix your problem, but just thought ill mention it anyway.

I have experience this now a lot, especially in Balfoyan, I drop 10frames for a split second, no matter what direction im coming from always the same spots, its just drops the frame and stutters sometimes for a few steps, I run a AMD 7800 with 16GB ram and i7

I can run with maxxed out setting and never had this issue in the beta, V-sync on or off makes no difference, its like walking over a pot hole not sure why, id think its loading or some buffer issue but cant figure from where, my PC doesnt even work that hard to run this game plus I mean I have been in Cyrodill with 60+ people on a side in battle and had no frame spikes like this...

I have similar issue with fps. I have noticed it drops way down during bigger event fights with lots of special effects. Then after about 1 hr of play it randomly drops way down and stays there. My temps on gpu, mobo, and cpu are way below critical temps. I have tried many different tweaks. It does not matter whether the graphic settings are high or low.

This is becoming very frustrating!

I have made sure all drivers are up to date.... went through complete re-installs for some.