Skyrim Mods Thread

Anyone experiencing FPS drops ( Hovering around 15 to 25) between Riverwood and the stones you first encounter in the game?

I removed 2k HD textures, WATER, SFO,lush trees and grass with no avail. :nuts:

I don't know if it's the CPU limitation with this damn engine but I'm sure my frames were higher at one stage.

Using ENBoost too.
 
Immersive armors is the biggest one I can think of. A few small mods perhaps too.

Edit: there's frostfall too but I'm not sure this is script lag. My fps tanks in certain locations, not weather related.
 
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Megaman said:
Anyone experiencing FPS drops ( Hovering around 15 to 25) between Riverwood and the stones you first encounter in the game?

I removed 2k HD textures, WATER, SFO,lush trees and grass with no avail. :nuts:

I don't know if it's the CPU limitation with this damn engine but I'm sure my frames were higher at one stage.

Using ENBoost too.
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That particular spot, as you run past embershard mine entrance is a notorious crash zone. I don't know why but for some reason as you move between the cells that meet there it's always dodgy.
I think maybe it's just a highly populated cell. There are a number of spawn points there that spring into life as you cross that boundary, including spawns that fight each other, wolfs v rabbits, the duelling mages, vigilant v flame atronach etc on the opposite side of the river.
The duelling mages spawn is a real performance killer.
 
Woodstock said:
That particular spot, as you run past embershard mine entrance is a notorious crash zone. I don't know why but for some reason as you move between the cells that meet there it's always dodgy.
I think maybe it's just a highly populated cell. There are a number of spawn points there that spring into life as you cross that boundary, including spawns that fight each other, wolfs v rabbits, the duelling mages, vigilant v flame atronach etc on the opposite side of the river.
The duelling mages spawn is a real performance killer.
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This is true. In particular, when you encounter the 2 or 3 wolves. I had crashes here every single time I fought them, couldn't get to Riverwood on my last install but with this new install it appears fine.

The FPS drop I encounter isn't due to cell loading but rather heading towards the stones. If I head the other way its fine :confused:

I know the game engine sucks monkey balls, it'll most likely be utilising 60% of my GPUs as only one CPU core does the work.
 
Megaman said:
This is true. In particular, when you encounter the 2 or 3 wolves. I had crashes here every single time I fought them, couldn't get to Riverwood on my last install but with this new install it appears fine.

The FPS drop I encounter isn't due to cell loading but rather heading towards the stones. If I head the other way its fine :confused:

I know the game engine sucks monkey balls, it'll most likely be utilising 60% of my GPUs as only one CPU core does the work.
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Can you post your load order? Are you using any mods that add lots of wildlife?
 
A few:

Immersive creatures
Birds of Skyrim
More village animals

and a couple of others I can't think of.

Can post load order, will have to be some time though.
 
It's hard to say without looking at your load order. Reason I asked about wildlife is just because of the cells you're going in to. One tip I would give with immersive creatures is to turn off additional spawns except, if you choose, ore guardians and spider eggs. Those one wolf/slaughterfish spawns are being turned into 5 creature spawns. Turn off Goblin faction war as that's a resource/crash fest and faction patrols for same reason. Add them all up and it's a huge resource hog. Birds of Skyrim is a bit crashy too tbh. I'm not familiar with more village animals. The only settlement east of Riverwood before Falkreath is the mill on the lake shore and iirc there are only chickens there so I doubt that's the cause.
Do you use sands of time? immersive patrols? any mods that add patrols or additional spawns?
 
Well here is the load order as promised.



Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
Dawnguard.esm
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
HearthFires.esm
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp
Falskaar.esm
JSwords.esm
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp
Chesko_Frostfall.esp
Better Dynamic Snow.esp
Clanking Armor.esp
newheavyarmorsound.esp
Rooster At Dawn v1.0.esp
Skyrim Shadow Striping Fix.esp
83Willows_101BUGS_V4_HighRes.esp
arrowsstick.esp
Auto Unequip Ammo.esp
BirdsHFclean.esp
Birdsofskyrim.esp
Dead Body Collision.esp
enhanceddistantterrain.esp
extra encounters.esp
MVABasic.esp
new guards.esp
Radiant and Unique Potions Poisons and BOOZE.esp
SDO Full-LOD - The Morthal Swamp Light.esp
shootingstars.esp
Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp
Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp
Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp
DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp
Footprints.esp
Footprints - Ash.esp
JSwords_Load_Screens.esp
skyui.esp
AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp
BlackSacramentArmor.esp
BlackSacramentDBReplacer.esp
Cloaks.esp
Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp
1nivWICCloaks.esp
1nivWICSkyCloaksPatch.esp
Dread Knight Weapon Set.esp
Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp
Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp
Immersive Weapons.esp
JSwordsDistributionBalancePlugin.esp
lefthandrings.esp
More Interesting Loot for Skyrim.esp
prvti_heavyarmory.esp
Dr_Bandolier.esp
betterriften.esp
Run For Your Lives.esp
whiterun spruce by revan1199.esp
whiteruntrees.esp
lightweight potions and poisons.esp
AchieveThat.esp
Book Covers Skyrim.esp
BlockSparkles.esp
Differently Ebony.esp
Distant DetailHF.esp
gold renamed.esp
Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp
SFO - Dragonborn.esp
Convenient Horses.esp
dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp
dD-DG-DB-Immersive Creatures EBT Patch.esp
dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp
dD-Reduced Wound Size.esp
unreadbooksglow.esp
aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp
Better distant LOD waterfalls V3.esp
Better Forests and Environments.esp
CityForestV2_6.esp
tavefalkreath.esp
detailed outskirts.esp
SoS - The Dungeons.esp
SoS - The Wilds.esp
SoS - Civilization.esp
UltimateCombat.esp
Locational Damage.esp
The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp
private_nokillblur_test.esp
TheEyesOfBeauty.esp
dd - realistic ragdoll force - realistic.esp
rcrnShaders.esp
RCRNdgdb.esp
RCRNvolumetric.esp
EnhancedLightsandFX.esp
ELFX - Dawnguard.esp
ELFX - Dragonborn.esp
SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - The Wilds-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - Civilization-PatchRCRN.esp
Spells Cast Light.esp
WATER.esp
WATER Plants.esp
WATER DG.esp
WATER DB Waves.esp
WATER Falskaar.esp
barenziahquestmarkers.esp
CryptHeroScaleHideSA.esp
SkyCompleteLegendary.esp
Farm Animals_HF.esp
SMIM-Merged-All.esp
 
How did you sort your load order? Have you used LOOT to sort it? It doesn't look right at all. Are you using Mod Organiser or the Nexus Mod Manager?

There's no bashed patch which you need as a number of those mods alter level lists and will need a patch.
You have a lot of script heavy mods going, honestly mate getting all those mods to run together is never going to be smooth.

I don't recognise some of the mods in your list, but you need to download LOOT first and use it to sort your load order, then use wrye bash to make a bashed patch.
Pay attention to what errors/warnings LOOT gives you. I'm sure there are a lot of mods in your load order that conflict with each other.
You have RCRN which will conflict with Sounds of Skyrim as it is a weather affecting mod. You have a lot of mods that add spawns. Footprints can bring your system to a crawl.
 
Using BOSS and it works a treat. Haven't tried LOOT or MO.

I left WYRE bashed patch out as I'm just testing the game out, performance and CTD wise but I suppose it may hinder my tests.

Some mods do conflict but their current load order is expected.

RCRN and SOS work fine together as they are patched.

SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - The Wilds-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - Civilization-PatchRCRN.esp


I'm not progressing in game until a few tweaks are in place and the game is running fine so I'm happy to restart on a fresh save as I'm still adding/removing mods.
 
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Megaman said:
Using BOSS and it works a treat. Haven't tried LOOT or MO.

I left WYRE bashed patch out as I'm just testing the game out, performance and CTD wise but I suppose it may hinder my tests.

Some mods do conflict but their current load order is expected.

RCRN and SOS work fine together as they are patched.

SoS - The Dungeons-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - The Wilds-PatchRCRN.esp
SoS - Civilization-PatchRCRN.esp


I'm not progressing in game until a few tweaks are in place and the game is running fine so I'm happy to restart on a fresh save as I'm still adding/removing mods.
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The BOSS masterlist is over a year out of date, they stopped working on it. It has been superceded by LOOT so you'd be better using that instead. It also gives better feedback than BOSS did and will point out some conflicts/errors etc. Might help you figure out what the problem is.
 
Every time I see SoS mentioned here I'm thinking "Ahh good ol' rage, primary mod to get stable before anything else is Schlongs of Skyrim"
 
Enb wrapper greater than .236 was breaking my game upon start up but I managed to get the lastest version working by comparing the enblocal.ini with the working ini of .236 and amending the settings.

Performance boost between the two was noticeable.

I think I'm done modifying this game now. Time to get into it.
 
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