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Hi everyone, I'm looking for some guidance regarding two issues I'm having with Skyrim. 1. My GPU is bottlenecking my game, but really only in areas with lots of grass around 2. There's one cell that takes a comparatively long time to load and is prone to crashing As a bit of background, my rig is running Windows 7, I've got a i7-930 @ 2.8Ghz , a 2GB GTX-670 and 12MB of RAM. I also preface this by acknowledging that I'm running 100+ mods and I understand that this will impair my game experience to some degree. In respect of the first problem, one of the mods I'm running is Tropical Skyrim. This mod makes the grass quite lush and given that the problem I'm having with my GPU, I'm home someone can advise which settings (either via the launcher, or via an .ini tweak) I should adjust so that my GPU stops flogging itself when it has to render a lot of grass. My second problem arises in a player house mod I downloaded that I've stuffed with NPCs. I've seen this behaviour with other buildings/rooms that I've loaded with NPC's, but I'm curious as to what exactly causes the game to struggle to load and sometimes crash. I've been using Skyrim Performance Monitor to see if I can isolate what's causing the problem. Although the load time is high when entering the house in question, the CPU load spikes at 35%, but is constant around 17%, while the GPU load spikes at 60% but holds around 35%, figure which don't seem awful. Finally, as an aside, my FPS seems capped at 60. Is this normal? And can such a cap be removed?

Hello, so I would like to ask what is suddenly wrong with my game. Before I was always able to get around 45+ fps with ENB. Starting yesterday, my game began to stutter badly, almost out of nowhere. It even does this without ENB enabled. Things I have tried: Overclocking my gpu Disabling Vsync **Drivers are up to date **I switch from SSME to skse alpha, if that matters **I have an SSD so no defragging for me **I have not installed any mods since yesterday Here is my performance monitor log from a quick run-through around Solsteim: http://i60.tinypic.com/6p5mkp.png Here is an extended run through. My fps is all over the place and so is my GPU usage. Before, it always stayed above 45+ and usage was always around 90% in exterior cells. http://i62.tinypic.com/2qxsv0p.png

Did some extensive web-digging for tips on cpu optimization (I'm bottlenecked like f****): One disables the grass swaying animation, and the other tree swaying animation. If animations would use any resource out of ram, gpu, or cpu, I'm guessing it would be the CPU right? Skyrim.ini (must add) [Grass] fGrassWindMagnitudeMin=0 fGrassWindMagnitudeMax=0 SkyrimPrefs.ini [Display] fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000 to 500.0000 fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000 to 0.0000 Ater implementing these tweaks,my grass stopped waving and trees only at short distances. Skyrim Performance Monitor said my average cpu usage went down from 78% to 73%. I have 3 questions: 1. Can someone try this, and see if their utilization improves better/worse? 2. Why is my cpu bottlenecking my GT 640 when it rarely goes above 90%? 3. From what I've seen on various forums, am I correct in concluding that shadow resolution is not taxing on the cpu, but only the the distancel ; and I am safe is keeping shadow res at 2048? ----------------------------- Athlon 64 x2 4400+ @ 2.76 GHz GT 640 @ 1181/1016 4GB DDR2 667 @ 393.2 Mhz HP L1906 1280x1024

You know, people fixed Hole In The Wall when became clear Bathysphere was actively rigging the quest to make it impossible to avoid molerat disease. People have traditionally fixed Bathyspherical quest triggers so blatant you could directly turn down a quest and get the stupid thing anyway. There is one forced trigger that needs fixing, however, and it should be fairly simple TO fix. It's way. way early in the game, too. You ever want to get the Concord survivors settled before/without getting The First Step? Look, even on Depravity runs, I like The First Step (although I do wish I'd get sent to Tenpines a bit less often), but you should be able to just go into Sanctuary Hills and get the request for help from Sturges. Unless you talk to Preston first, however, Sturges will tell you he's busy. IT. MAKES. NO DAMNED. SENSE. So I am posting this in Fallout 4 Discussion and Mod Requests. The former because of the recounting above and the latter in hopes it gets added to Unofficial Patch or an ESLified standalone mod.

You know, people fixed Hole In The Wall when became clear Bathysphere was actively rigging the quest to make it impossible to avoid molerat disease. People have traditionally fixed Bathyspherical quest triggers so blatant you could directly turn down a quest and get the stupid thing anyway. There is one forced trigger that needs fixing, however, and it should be fairly simple TO fix. It's way. way early in the game, too. You ever want to get the Concord survivors settled before/without getting The First Step? Look, even on Depravity runs, I like The First Step (although I do wish I'd get sent to Tenpines a bit less often), but you should be able to just go into Sanctuary Hills and get the request for help from Sturges. Unless you talk to Preston first, however, Sturges will tell you he's busy. IT. MAKES. NO DAMNED. SENSE. So I am posting this in Fallout 4 Discussion and Mod Requests. The former because of the recounting above and the latter in hopes it gets added to Unofficial Patch or an ESLified standalone mod.

Hello fellow modders, lately i've decided to come back to Skyrim and try the overhaul named Requiem. After spending over a thousand hours in Skyrim, i've learned pretty much everything related to tweaks and modding. I've in need of a help tho. I was using ; e4500 2core 2.2 GHz 2gb DDR2 Ram HD 5750 1Gb back in the day and recently i received let's say a present; AMD fx4100 3.6 x 4 4gb DDR3 1k mhz HD 7850 2gb. both run on 1920x1080 res. 23" ISP. Problem is, i have to know how can i benefit most out of this rig. I'm well informed about modding and tweaking about anything for Skyrim and FO3 but i lack the technical knowledge about this particular hardware setup. I'm asking some advice for better tweaking ini files and ENB or not to ENB. Yes i DO tried several ENBs and some driverforced combos etc. I read everything and every website related to ini tweaks over years. Please take a look at my ini values and let me know if you can help changing some in favor of quality. My Skyrim.ini; and SkyrimPrefs; My load order; I know i seem like a lazy-arse but i'm not, i just got bored all those experiments, google searches etc. Please, do not mock me on this, i need help, so if you have time, i'm open to the suggestions. Cheers.