The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Forum

I have ia32-crossover_11.3.1-1_amd64.deb inside Debian 6.0.3 in a i5-3570K, with a Radeon 7970 and 32 GB of DDR3 RAM. I also have 3 screens (1080p TN panels). I am using AMD's catalyst proprietary driver (the latest stable one, 12.10).

I can play Skyrim in a Windows 7 partition with everything maxed out, with no problems. Using "Flawless Widescreen" to get a proper 3-screen setting is also ok.

I am trying to get Skyrim to be playable in crossover, and even when putting the graphical options in the minimal setting, the game stutters considerably, when moving the mouse and / or the character.
One thing of note is: if I keep the view point stable, that is, if I don't move the mouse and don't hit any of the WASD keys, the game plays beautifully, even when there is a lot going on the screen, and even with the graphical options turned to the Medium preset.

This happens when using a single screen (as set using xrandr). Whenever I start the game and have 3 screens up, it switches to a single screen (one of my side panels, which is irritating, so I just set my central panel as the only one set, and fire up the game, and it is fine).

I have installed using the tie file, and have tried changing the MouseWarpOverride registry to enable, force_enable, disable, force_disable, edge, force_edge, with no apparent effect.

Since the mouse tweaks didn't work, and the graphics seem fine when not interacting, I am stumped. Has someone had this issue, and how did you fix it? I would say that the game as it is for me is "masochistically playable". :)

I forgot to add an important detail: if I move the mouse slowly, there is no stutter. But after a certain threshold speed, the image stutters, and it does so in certain "intervals". I think that what happens is that I hit some kind of buffer limit, and that makes me lose some frames, and then the games refreshes ok, but if I keep moving, the buffer fills up again, and the game stutters again, and so on.

Another thing I notice is that the image seems to "jiggle" during the stutter. I am not 100% sure if this is not some optical illusion, but I think that every time the stutter happens, the image is moved slightly back, in the opposite direction than I was moving the mouse. So it seems as if someone has jiggled the mouse at some point. (This is why I tried to tweak the mouse registry settings).