Screen movement lags behind mouse movement significantly

[Wulfen1723]

From one play session to the next (within the same day) is all of behaving in an unplayable way. Upon starting SSE (via using in Vortex the Script Extender 64 button) the cursor lags behind significantly behind me moving it and when opening a saved game the build-up is totally slow and subsquently (in-game) the build-up visual environments lag behind significantly, if I look left or right, for example. However as soon as I activate the system overlay (to save/load or to exit, for example) the cursor reacts completely normal again. 

 

I am at a loss what this may have caused this. Any ideas how to detect the root-cause for this behaviour? How to remedy this bug?

 

Many thanks for feedback.

[traison]

What's your fps at? Games made in the past 15 or so years have what is called Consolitis, and one of the symptoms of it is having user input checked in the render loop: less fps, more sluggish input.

[Wulfen1723]

Sorry for my late reply. Much to my chagrin I cannot identify the fps. (Whilest investigating this I realized that my graphics card AMD Radeaon with Adrenalin Software has not been working for months due to an incompatitbility with Windows 11 🤪 - However, this has not impacted gameplay performance in recent months. But this was my go-to app for checking fps) Could you recommend an easy, generic way of determining the fps perhaps?

[traison]

ENB, ReShade, Display Tweaks and RTSS.

 

ENB has its built-in. ReShade can be used without shaders to display fps. Out of these its probably the least intrusive one, and it works with CS. Display Tweaks works with CS, but it comes with a lot of weird hacks and its not clear what the "do nothing" setting is for them. RTSS is commonly used through MSI Afterburner, but considering MSI Afterburner's installer wants to push adware on you I'd say that's one to avoid. RTSS can be installed on its own, and contrary to common belief is capable of displaying lots of stats (including fps) just on its own. The downside of RTSS is that it doesn't work with CS, and it has one of the most unintuitive GUIs imaginable.

Edited March 30, 2025 by traison

[danna233]

If you have the Steam version, you can enable the display of fps in the game through it. There is also MSI Afterburner, an excellent program that measures the temperature of the video card and processor, shows fps.

[Wulfen1723]

Thank you for the inputs! Will go and try determine the fps again.

 

Also I reinstalled Fallout4 (for comparison) and it shows the same bug. Cutscenes/Interstitials work fine, but as soon as the actual game starts, the game just stops and does not react at all (Have to exit via TaskManager) Thus, I suspect the problem does not lie with some modding bug in Skyrim, but that - for whatever reason - the root-cause is related to something that affects any game. "Normal" Apps like MS Office work just fine fortunately.