The 560M is nearly as fast as a desktop 5770, so we should be seeing much better performance than this out of the box, especially on Nvidia hardware.
I want to check some things. Some are simple and may come off like silly questions.
Do you see 8 threads in Task Manager?
Are you on Power Saver?
Have you done any shadow tweaks?
Run CPU-Z while Skyrim is open and report the CPU speeds.
Run GPU-Z while Skyrim is open and check the Sensor tab to make sure the 560M is at full 3D clocks.
I'm also curious to know what kind of performance to get on the default driver your machine shipped with originally.
I havn't done any shadow tweaks. I'm in "High Performance" setting. I took these CPU and GPU pics whil running the game in Windowed Mode, at 1440x810 (it was still very bad).
I downloaded the latest stable (not beta) driver for my GPU, but will install it after I hear your thoughts on the pics above. I said it before and I'll say it again: I'm a downright noob who wants to have some fun, so forgive my ignorance towards everything. Thanks for the help, man.
EDIT: Read the description in this
video. That's the performance I should be getting.