Skyrim lags and stutters when turning around or moving forward

[Iolya]

Hi, Nexus! I hope you can help me with a little unpleasant problem i have. The point is when i try to turn camera around or moving forward, i have FPS drops. Sometimes FPS drops even to 1. In cities or villages FPS drops are more intense and more often.

 

My PC specs are:

Windows 7 64 bit

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50Ghz

4 GB Ram

Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti

 

Definitely not the best PC but it's ok for Skyrim.

 

I'm using a lot of mods and there are some graphical mods among them, such as W.A.T.E.R., Skyrim Flora Overhaul and Climates of Tamriel. I also use Bijin Warmaidens, NPCs and Wives. (Disabling the last three reduces stuttering a little. (If someone could tell me how to copy full list of my mods, i would be very thankful).

 

My video settings are High, but i'm not using FXAA and my Decal settings are "Medium".

 

Hope you can help me with finding the solution)

Edited June 24, 2017 by Iolya

[LeddBate]

Yeesh, that's harsh. Yeah, your PC is just fine for Oldrim. Uhm, your Win 7 is 64bit. Oldrim is only a DX 9, 32bit game. I don't know... maybe that's an issue? It shouldn't be though.

 

Shot in the dark: Try switching to windowed mode while playing. Or, if you already are, switch the other way.

 

Other than that, here's some basic troubleshooting advice. If none of this helps, come back and we'll see what else we do.

Here are some things you should consider when you add more than a handful of mods:

 

1) Mod Conflicts. If your Skyrim crashes to the destop (CTD) the moment the loading screen appears, it is very likely you have a mod conflict. Add only one or two mods at a time (and test them) to avoid having to plow through dozens of mods trying to find the one that's causing your game to crash. Also, RTFM. Mod authors WILL tell you what other mods (and/or types of mods) that their mod conflicts with. But that doesn't do you any good if you don't read that info before installing. Sometimes a patch is available to prevent a ctd from happening (or to prevent the mod from conflicting in some other way, like overwriting some scenery and causing weird in-game effects like floating trees and Mammoths raining from the sky. (Yes, that happens.)

 

2) Overwrites. When NMM installs mods, it will often stop and ask you a question like: "Do you want this mod to install (whatever) over (whatever) that already exists due to (whatever)? with about eight different options. Again, many mod authors will tell you what options to choose when installing their mod. When those instructions are not present, I've found it is usually best to answer "Yes to all" or the equivalent answer offered.

 

3) Load Order. Load order is literally the order that the mods are loaded into your game. This is just as important as overwrites. A "poor" load order will cause lots of issues ranging from weird in-game effects to CTDs. You can manually alter your load order in the "Plug-In" tab of NMM, but there's a better way. Download LOOT and install it. Point it at your directory where your mods are and let LOOT sort them. Not only will LOOT give you a better load order, but it will warn you about mods that need "cleaning" of dirty edits in them. And you can do that with TES5Edit. It's quite simple to use. However, be warned that some mods have INTENTIONAL dirty edits. Cleaning those mods will likely break them. How to know? Simple, the mod author will warn you if his/her mod has deliberate dirty edits.

 

4 SKSE. SKSE is short for "SKyrim Script Extender." Many popular mods use really cool and helpful interfaces like MCM (Mod Control Menus.) These mods require SKSE to function. Download SKSE and watch Gopher's video (linked in the description at the SKSE site) for what SKSE does exactly and how to install it. Don't worry, Gopher explains it clearly and concisely.

[Iolya]

Well, unfortunately, changing from fullscreen to window didn't give me any difference. My load order is sorted by LOOT, so, i guess that's not the problem. The problem, i believe is in texture loading and it's hard for my PC to load the textures without freezing or stuttering. But... why? Is character replacers so demanding to VRAM? But than why it stutters even why i'm in the forest where there's no one but me and three wolves?

[LeddBate]

Try an experiment. Disable all mods (except the unofficial patch and DLCs) in your NMM plug-in tab. Load into a save. You'll get a warning about missing content, just ignore it. Is your stuttering gone? Then it's got to be one or more of the mods giving you issues. re-enable ten mods at a time and keep reloading. When your game starts to stutter agian, you've found at least one of the problem mods.

 

If the stuttering does NOT disappear, then it's possible you've got a corrupt game install.

 

Anyway, here's an advanced guide for troubleshooting your game. Don't try to take it in all at once. Just read it a bit at a time and apply what seems appropriate to your issue(s). If any of this guide helps you, give Darstyler a kudo. It's his guide.

Here is a list of things you may do to stabilize your game :

/// Useful informations :

• Dangerous mods list.

• CTDs troubleshooting page on Reddit very usefull informations concerning CTDs...

• Verify gamecache.

/// Load order / mods conflicts :

• Use L.O.O.T once and click on the "sort plugins buttons".

• Create a wryebash patch including leveled lists.

• Create a merged patch with Tesedit excluding leveled lists

/// Settings / memory :

• Have you installed the skse patch ? >> memory blocks log.

• Backup your ini files and delete the files. Skyrim.ini / SkyrimCustom.ini / SkyrimPrefs.ini found in C:\Users\Utilisateur\Documents\My Games\Skyrim then use your vanilla launcher to autodetect and use best settings for your computer.

/// Cleaning and correcting potential bugs :

• Clean your master files to eliminate potential problems.: Gopher's videos cleaning your masterfiles on the Nexus Tesedit page.
  Start Tes5edit, simply untick everything, (right-click/select none) and add only a tick to the esm/esp you want to check + update.esm, Tesedit knows what to do and will load all the dependencies automatically.
  - Begin with loading only Skyrim + update, ITM / UDR + save ctrl +s and close.
  - Then load Skyrim + update + Dawnguard, ITM / UDR + ctrl +s and close.
  - Then load Skyrim + update + Hearthfire, ITM / UDR + ctrl +s and close.
  - Then load Skyrim + update + Dragonborn, ITM / UDR + ctrl +s and close.

• The method above can be used to clean mods. If I'm correct LOOT should tell you which plugin you should clean. You may load all your mods with Tes5edit and use the (right-click in the left pane) apply filter to show conflict losers. Wait till Tes5edit has finished. Caution : don't try to modify anything while using this filter, it's not intended for.

• In the left pane, Expand the subsections and examine conflicts. Once an entry is expanded to the bottom and selected, the right pane shows which mods modify the entry. The last one on the right is the last loaded in your load order and the conflict winner.

• Expand the following subsections, depending on where the problems occur. Cells for CTDs inside buildings, grottos, etc... and worldspace for exterior. The goal is to target mods that edit the same places and conflict. Open the bloc note and write those mods.

• Once done, close Tes5edit and open each mod with Tesedit, one by one and use the UDR cleaning procedure (Gopher's videos cleaning your masterfiles on the Nexus Tesedit page) to ensure all the deleted references will be transformed in disabled references = no CTDs from this point.

• If you suspect a mod in particular, using the conflict looser / winner method above, you can decide to change its load order or uninstall it.

/// Save game :

• Don't uninstall mods at mid-game, there are no clean save in Skyrim but using save script cleaner can help removing orphan scripts.

/// Meshes healer :

• Read here, this is potentially a cause of CTD that you can resolve by following the mod procedure on this page.

[Iolya]

Well, by practical consideration i've managed to figure out that for some reason Climates of Tamriel caused all the trouble. I've disabled it and now Skyrim became more.. smooth. Thx for your advice, LeddBate)

[skannerz22]

that's normal for your computer specs it's your frame rates

 

get ENB and cleanmem they both can help with outdated or low end computers struggling in memory/fps/crash/freeze related problems

 

alternatively you can slow your turn speed sensitivity giving your computer more time to react

Edited July 1, 2017 by skannerz22