Low FPS and Low GPU Usage. Help!

[106Nilsson]

Hi Nexus! I just decided to give 'ol Skyrim another go, but I am running into problems with FPS.

The game runs at about 15-25 FPS with both GPU and CPU usage hovering around 5-9% load. Also experiencing incredible long load times (5-10 mins sometimes) when entering a new instance or Fast Traveling.

This should not happen with my PC.

 

*CPU - i7-6700k @4.7GHz

*GPU - GTX 1080 FTW (8GB VRam)

*Memory - 16GB DDR4

*SSD - Intel 600P NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4

*OS - Windows 10 Home

*Monitor - Acer X34 Predator (G-Sync 100Hz, 3440x1440p)

*Game - Skyrim Legendary Edition Steam (Steam install dir)

*Edit* Baseline textures in mods is about 1K-2K. Only used 4K for some special items.

 

Did an almost complete S.T.E.P 2 Core modding, then added some personal favorites. Mostly new lands, weapons/armors and character improvements.

I am using Mod Organizer, SKSE, LOOT, WryeBash (bashedpatch) and TES5Edit (all launched from within MO)

0 Warnings or Dirty Plugins in LOOT, cleaned with TES5Edit.

 

Tried with and without ENB. Currently only using ENBoost set up like S.T.E.P recommends: http://wiki.step-project.com/ENBoost#Recommendations

Power Management in Nvidia Control Panel is set to "Prefer Maximum Performance".

VSync is off. (G-sync)

 

Sometimes, rarely, the GPU usage increases to about 80-84% and I get buttery smooth 100 FPS (limited cap set by MSI Afterburner). Sadly this only lasts a few minutes, then GPU Usage goes down to about 8% again and I get the usual 15-25 fps.

As for load times, the game itself is installed on system drive (NVMe SSD 512GB, 195 GB free) with Steam in Steam dir, but Mod Organizer and it's mods are on a 2TB 7200 rpm HDD (Perhaps this makes the load times sooo long?)

 

 

I can't wrap my head around what it is I am doing wrong... Please, help.

Tell me what I missed to include in this post as well.

 

enblocal.ini

 

[PROXY]
EnableProxyLibrary=false
InitProxyFunctions=true
ProxyLibrary=other_d3d9.dll

[GLOBAL]
UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true
UseDefferedRendering=false
IgnoreCreationKit=true

[PERFORMANCE]
SpeedHack=true
EnableOcclusionCulling=true

[MEMORY]
ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false
ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true
DisableDriverMemoryManager=false
DisablePreloadToVRAM=false
EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false
ReservedMemorySizeMb=128
VideoMemorySizeMb=15874
EnableCompression=false
AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false

[THREADS]
DataSyncMode=0
PriorityMode=0
EnableUnsafeFixes=false

[MULTIHEAD]
ForceVideoAdapterIndex=false
VideoAdapterIndex=0

[WINDOW]
ForceBorderless=true
ForceBorderlessFullscreen=true

[ENGINE]
ForceAnisotropicFiltering=true
MaxAnisotropy=16
ForceLodBias=false
LodBias=0.0
AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions=false
EnableVSync=false
VSyncSkipNumFrames=0

[LIMITER]
WaitBusyRenderer=false
EnableFPSLimit=false
FPSLimit=100.0

[iNPUT]
//shift
KeyCombination=16
//f12
KeyUseEffect=123
//home
KeyFPSLimit=36
//num / 106
KeyShowFPS=106
//print screen
KeyScreenshot=44
//enter
KeyEditor=13
//f4
KeyFreeVRAM=115
//B
KeyBruteForce=66
KeyDepthOfField=118

[ADAPTIVEQUALITY]
Enable=false
Quality=1
DesiredFPS=20.0

[ANTIALIASING]
EnableEdgeAA=false
EnableTemporalAA=false
EnableSubPixelAA=false

[FIX]
FixGameBugs=true
FixParallaxBugs=true
FixParallaxTerrain=false
FixAliasedTextures=true
IgnoreInventory=true
FixTintGamma=true
RemoveBlur=false
FixSubSurfaceScattering=true
FixSkyReflection=true
FixCursorVisibility=true
FixLag=false

[LONGEXPOSURE]
EnableLongExposureMode=false
Time=1.0
BlendMax=0.0