The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

Following the 1st page stuff myself and I had one city where it pretty much rained animals.

I say rained there were about 4 :) but it was funny, didn't break anything and i've not seen anything since.
 
Hoping some of you gurus could help me out :),

I have a heavily modded skyrim that im really happy with at the moment. However im running into a strange performance issue that someone may be able to advise me on.

first of my specs.

Gtx 1080 running around 2070core
2600k @4.4ghz & have 32GB of 2133 ram.
the game is installed onto a 5400rpm storage drive that has all my games on
running at 1080p

I think that should cover every aspect that could contribute to this issue.

The issue itself is something im not unfarmiliar with however it's new to me in Skyrim, i am finding that my GPU isn't staying at 100% usage infact i can stand still at any given spot in the game and my gpu will fluctuate between 40%-99% usage in terms of FPS this correlates to around 17fps-35fps ISH however i have seen in the range 8fps-50fps but both are in extreme circumstances. I am perfectly happy to be playing the game at 30+fps however when it is dropping down to 17 every 20 seconds it's really immersion breaking. I have installed quite a few performance fixes none of witch have helped me.

I find that in game i am sitting at 9-10GB RAM usage, 20-75% cpu use & vram sits around 4.8GB

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Do think it looks great and hope i can get it running smoothly.
 
harry5522 said:
Hoping some of you gurus could help me out :),

I have a heavily modded skyrim that im really happy with at the moment. However im running into a strange performance issue that someone may be able to advise me on.

first of my specs.

Gtx 1080 running around 2070core
2600k @4.4ghz & have 32GB of 2133 ram.
the game is installed onto a 5400rpm storage drive that has all my games on
running at 1080p

I think that should cover every aspect that could contribute to this issue.

The issue itself is something im not unfarmiliar with however it's new to me in Skyrim, i am finding that my GPU isn't staying at 100% usage infact i can stand still at any given spot in the game and my gpu will fluctuate between 40%-99% usage in terms of FPS this correlates to around 17fps-35fps ISH however i have seen in the range 8fps-50fps but both are in extreme circumstances. I am perfectly happy to be playing the game at 30+fps however when it is dropping down to 17 every 20 seconds it's really immersion breaking. I have installed quite a few performance fixes none of witch have helped me.

I find that in game i am sitting at 9-10GB RAM usage, 20-75% cpu use & vram sits around 4.8GB

dv2PlD1.jpg

Do think it looks great and hope i can get it running smoothly.
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Are you running an ENB?
 
Michaeljcox24 said:
Are you running an ENB?
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I am, i have however tested this with the ENB off and i get the similar results i am wondering if it is actually a texture :( I have in fact run into a more annoying problem this morning i will quote from my NMM forum post.


Hello there everyone i hope you are all well :smile:,

I have spent the last few weeks modding my Skyrim and am happy with where i am at so far.

However something has hapend this morning that is really disappointing me; i am quite organised in my pc's file system so when i began working on installing my mods i decided the ideal directory for it to slot into my storage would be to put it in "D:/ModsLibrary/Nexus Mod Manager/ Skyrim....",

However much to my disappointment this morning upon turning on NMM to do some more work on my game to find the tool telling me that,

"This new version of NMM includes a major update to the way we store and install your mods which allow us to accomodate mod profiling (different playthroughs of your game).
In order for it to work NMM needs to REINSTALL or UNINSTALL all your currently installed mods.

Choose option 'YES' if you would like NMM to attempt to try and REINSTALL all your currently installed mods using the new method. The migration procedure is a lengthy process and it could require several minutes or even hours depending on your PC speed and quantity and size of your currently installed mods.
You may be required to interact with some scripted installers during the reinstall process.
NMM will also backup the current Bashed/Perkus/DualSheat pathches if presents, but you should re run various pathchers should your game crash at startup."

2. Option NO

"Choose option 'NO' if you want NMM to UNINSTALL all your mods and leave you to activate the ones you use again. (this doesn't delete your mods, it simply deactivates them'"

3. Option 'CANCEL'

"Choose the 'CANCEL' option if you would like to cancel this setup and not proceed with this new version. And you will need to reinstall the previous version of NMM you were using to be able to use NMM again.

It was after pressing YES to this that it has installed all of my mods into an alternate directory that just looks like a mess and is unorganized and absolutely not what i wanted not to mention not removing the other files taking up 40GB of space more.

I am using about 270 mods currently and really would not like to have to go through a whole manual reinstall procedure of them all though i do have the entire selection of mods backed up.

I have tried to backdate NMM that is currently (0.61.23) to an older version i found on the forums that i believe was the last patch before this mod profiling was introduced (0.56.1) however upon installing this NMM simply did not work and have reverted back to (0.61.23) I have also double checked all of my directory paths and i have nothing at all pointing to the directory it has chosen to use.

If anyone has any suggestions i would be hugely appreciative as i have exhausted all methods i can think of trying.

Kindest regards,

Harry :D
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This is really annoying me to be honest, not sure why it deems it necessary to install my mods into alternate places.
 
I've restarted and I've just received the Nightingale Blade at level 46+. Now various wiki's suggest there is a problem with this item that prevents it being improved with Smithing. Which is indeed the issue I'm having. I have also read that the Unofficial Skyrim Patch resolves the issue.

What are peoples thoughts on the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, does it play nicely? Am I going to open a huge can of worms if I subscribe to this?

Any thoughts gratefully received.
 
PlacidCasual said:
I've restarted and I've just received the Nightingale Blade at level 46+. Now various wiki's suggest there is a problem with this item that prevents it being improved with Smithing. Which is indeed the issue I'm having. I have also read that the Unofficial Skyrim Patch resolves the issue.

What are peoples thoughts on the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, does it play nicely? Am I going to open a huge can of worms if I subscribe to this?

Any thoughts gratefully received.
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Unofficial skyrim patch is practically mandatory now :P
 
harry5522 said:
I am, i have however tested this with the ENB off and i get the similar results i am wondering if it is actually a texture :( I have in fact run into a more annoying problem this morning i will quote from my NMM forum post.

This is really annoying me to be honest, not sure why it deems it necessary to install my mods into alternate places.
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I remember when NMM did that to me, it reinstalled everything in the wrong order and broke my game so I ended up having to do it manually. (Probably not what you want to hear).

I've started using Mod Organizer since and it's infinitely better, particularly if you're running loads of mods. It keeps your mods out of the Skyrim Data folder so it's easy to uninstall/reinstall them, change the load order etc and you're unlikely to break anything. Troubleshooting is as simple as unticking the mod you think might be causing the problem. Wonderful tool.
 
Wasn't their supposed to be an updated version of skyrim getting released soon anyway? with updated graphics and etc.
 
a66as said:
Wasn't their supposed to be an updated version of skyrim getting released soon anyway? with updated graphics and etc.
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28th Oct according to Steam. I wanted to start again with mods because it looks better, and it's currently the only game that can keep my attention more than 10 minutes :p.
 
harry5522 said:
I am, i have however tested this with the ENB off and i get the similar results i am wondering if it is actually a texture :( I have in fact run into a more annoying problem this morning i will quote from my NMM forum post.

This is really annoying me to be honest, not sure why it deems it necessary to install my mods into alternate places.
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When I upgraded NMM and did the uninstall / reinstall thing it completely borked my game. I had to completely delete everything and start afresh.

In my experience the only time you get really low frame rates is if your VRAMis exceeded from running too many textures. I can't see how this is a problem though if you're on a GTX 1080. i have also seen modifications to the ini and prefs.ini having huge impacts in fps (for the better if done right), to the point I use a custom one from Skyrim Tuner.
 
Daytrader said:
God if i had a 1080 i would want 60fps at 4K let alone 1080P, i max out 60fps 1080P easily on my 780ti even.
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Lol at vanilla sure it runs at like 700fps, properly modded no chance.


Michaeljcox24 said:
When I upgraded NMM and did the uninstall / reinstall thing it completely borked my game. I had to completely delete everything and start afresh.

In my experience the only time you get really low frame rates is if your VRAMis exceeded from running too many textures. I can't see how this is a problem though if you're on a GTX 1080. i have also seen modifications to the ini and prefs.ini having huge impacts in fps (for the better if done right), to the point I use a custom one from Skyrim Tuner.
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Yeah my Vram is only using about 4.7GB ive set it to 8GB in the enblocal files and the skyrim ini files. Going to re install it all later going to try with ugrids5 instead of 7 really glad i backed up all of my mods as don't want to download 85gb again over nexus haha also stoked that i kept my wyrmstooth from those many years ago :D seeing as it seems to be gone for good now??.

Fulax said:
I remember when NMM did that to me, it reinstalled everything in the wrong order and broke my game so I ended up having to do it manually. (Probably not what you want to hear).

I've started using Mod Organizer since and it's infinitely better, particularly if you're running loads of mods. It keeps your mods out of the Skyrim Data folder so it's easy to uninstall/reinstall them, change the load order etc and you're unlikely to break anything. Troubleshooting is as simple as unticking the mod you think might be causing the problem. Wonderful tool.
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I have Mod Organizer however i never used it as thought NMM was the way forward. I will however when i re install all my mods tonight use Mod manager organizer instead :).
 
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harry5522 said:
Hoping some of you gurus could help me out :),

I have a heavily modded skyrim that im really happy with at the moment. However im running into a strange performance issue that someone may be able to advise me on.

first of my specs.

Gtx 1080 running around 2070core
2600k @4.4ghz & have 32GB of 2133 ram.
the game is installed onto a 5400rpm storage drive that has all my games on
running at 1080p

I think that should cover every aspect that could contribute to this issue.

The issue itself is something im not unfarmiliar with however it's new to me in Skyrim, i am finding that my GPU isn't staying at 100% usage infact i can stand still at any given spot in the game and my gpu will fluctuate between 40%-99% usage in terms of FPS this correlates to around 17fps-35fps ISH however i have seen in the range 8fps-50fps but both are in extreme circumstances. I am perfectly happy to be playing the game at 30+fps however when it is dropping down to 17 every 20 seconds it's really immersion breaking. I have installed quite a few performance fixes none of witch have helped me.

I find that in game i am sitting at 9-10GB RAM usage, 20-75% cpu use & vram sits around 4.8GB

dv2PlD1.jpg

Do think it looks great and hope i can get it running smoothly.
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Ah, I have the same issue. I'm guessing you have a lot of mods? Especially ones that add lots of objects to areas?

My gpu is hitting 60% tops and the cpu is averaging 45-65% on average and yet framerates are only 40fps in place, in other places its as low as 30fps. Doesn't matter what resolution I'm running at or even even what card I'm using its always the same. Clearly there is a bottleneck somewhere and it isn't the hardware.

Best guess is its DX9 and the lack of draw calls hopefully Extended Edition with the 64bit engine and DX11 will sort this out. :)
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Ah, I have the same issue. I'm guessing you have a lot of mods? Especially ones that add lots of objects to areas?

My gpu is hitting 60% tops and the cpu is averaging 45-65% on average and yet framerates are only 40fps in place, in other places its as low as 30fps. Doesn't matter what resolution I'm running at or even even what card I'm using its always the same. Clearly there is a bottleneck somewhere and it isn't the hardware.

Best guess is its DX9 and the lack of draw calls hopefully Extended Edition with the 64bit engine and DX11 will sort this out. :)
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Think it entirely depends how well supported the new edition will be :P and yes running hundreds of mods :)
 
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