Severe Magic Lag

[skyler544]

As the title states, I'm having severe lag with Magic; specifically, switching from spell to spell causes a "hang" in which the game is completely frozen or worse, just my character's hands are frozen for anywhere from a split second to 2-3 seconds. Occasionally this can last for up to 10 seconds. I have no idea what could be causing it; I have an intel Core 2 quad core CPU @ 2.83 GHz, 4gb ddr3 ram, GTX 570 with 1280 MB GDDR5, and a 5200 RPM 500gb Western Digital hard drive. I have used BOSS and and Wrye Bash. this is a new character and I parted with a load of mods before this new character in an attempt to alleviate this magic lag. My only suspicion is that it has something to do with "Equipping Overhaul," as in third person I sometimes note a "flicker" of the geared up weapons as if they're briefly unequipped then reequipped when switching from a weapon to magic. Other than that I don't know what could be causing this as I have great framerates at all other times (never below 50, generally 60), even when flying the Dev Aveza (great mod by the way, I highly recommend it to anyone with a stable game). Anyone who helps will forever be immortalized as the heir of Shalidor and mentor of magic users everywhere. Or just a really appreciated stranger. Something like that. Load order in spoiler tags

 

 

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[gamefever]

If you have modified your Skyrim.ini or SkyrimPref.ini

 

you need to throw them out and get back to factory.

 

Consider removing RLO.

 

If you need a lighting overhaul...

Pure Weather and Pure Water have some reduced texture variants below the level of the HD texture packs.

 

Google

Skyrim Particles

 

"" Dust

"" Fire magic

Ice magic

Leaves

Rain

Snow

 

Your basically looking for reduced particles and magic

 

Also get

Underwater Grass Remover

 

Get SKSE

find the data\skse folder

make this file....SKSE.ini

 

write this.

[memory]

defaultheapinitialallocmb=768

scrapheapsize=256

 

hmm

 

Get One Tweak...

 

Also get LOOT...its better than boss.

 

Defrag your hard drive.

Edited November 25, 2014 by gamefever

[skyler544]

thanks for the assist; I've uninstalled RLO, installed low res particles, and LOOTed. the results are not bad at all. I'm now speculating that the largest part of the problem was perhaps the way that RLO causes equipped magic to cast light, and that was the worst of the slowdown? anyway, I had the SKSE mem patch already as well as the grass decreaser, but lower res grass can only help with that. All in all, much better!