Anything i can do to stop the lag with my old processor?

Since launch, I've been using that same CPU (I-5 2400) with a 1050 Ti and 8gb ram in a 10 year old Dell Optiplex 790. As mentioned in another post, an SSD is a must have. Also, I have to run everything on Low except Textures on Medium. I switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10 about a year ago, and it didn't seem to hurt performance much.

In my case, the Steel Dawn update caused a big performance drop. It seems like every time Bethesda does an update that "improves performance" it had had the opposite effect for me, but the Steel Dawn update was the worst of all. I did some searching and ended up using a custom.ini like was mentioned in an earlier post, and it helped some. I think I found it in an Angry Turtle video, and it removes grass and foliage, etc.

All that said, the game still runs pretty stuttery for me. We could upgrade to an I7-2600 pretty cheap, but I don't know that the CPU is really the problem. Maybe we need a stronger GPU, or maybe the 1333 ram is holding us back. Sorry...I typed a lot but don't really have a solution :).

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