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Okay so basically everytime I enter or leave a worldspace there is a high chance of me getting a very long or even infinite loading screen. It takes very long, around 4 minutes and once its done im in a weird parody of the worldspace im supposed to be in, as if a lot of it didnt load.

The game then crashes saying it ran out of memory despite the fact I have NVSE (which I run with MO2), NVSR, NVAC, Infinite Loading Screen Fix and the 4 GB patch, which I of course applied by running it as an administrator and then pressing a random button on the keyboard as ordered.

 

I also made sure there are no mod conflicts which there arent. There are no warnings whatsoever and the game runs (besides the loading screens) smoothly. As I have run out of options I hope the guys here can help me.

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"Video memory (VRAM)" is not the same as "system memory" (generally called "RAM"). Which is why we ask for the details about your system we do in the wiki "How to ask for help" article. You are running out of "video memory", unless you are using an "on-board video chip" instead of a separate video adapter card with it's own dedicated VRAM. An "on-board" chip uses "system RAM" for it's video processing, and it has to share that RAM space with the operating system, the game, and any other applications you have running in the background. If you only have 4GB (or only 1 or 2 more GB) of system RAM, then you are running up against this limitation.

 

Here is simple test. The game "loading screen" pops up when you change cells that were not cached in the video pipeline beforehand. Make note of an area where that seems to be a problem (but before the "loading screen" pops up), try changing your game "graphics resolution" to one step lower, and then load from a previous save away from that area (so it hasn't been "pre-loaded") and quickly travel to that area and see how the load proceeds. If it's quicker or "more complete" then dump your high resolution graphics mods and consider playing the game at the lower graphic resolution, adding more memory, or using an add-on video adapter with 4GB or more of VRAM.

 

If you provide the information requested in the "How to ask for help" article, perhaps we can provide some alternatives or more precise advice.

 

-Dubious-

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