Looking for performance-friendly texture overhaul

[LucidGamer137]

For a while, I used Osmodius' 2K texture pack, and it was absolutely beautiful (not considering the rare seams one could spot), although it caused a bit of a performance problem for me.

 

I use an Asus Strix ROG laptop model GL502V, which has an NVIDIA GTX 1060 GDDR5 3.0 GB graphics card, 12 GB of RAM, and an Intel i7 7700HQ 2.8 GHz CPU (quad-core).

 

By no means is my computer weak stuff, but with all of the mods I use (Open Cities, True Storms, Total Character Makeover, Spells Emit Light, Skyrim Flora Overhaul, Reverb and Ambiance Overhaul, Realistic Water Two, Enhanced Lights and Effects, Complete HAR [vanilla armor retexture and remodeling], SMIM, and several AI improvement mods) I think its possible that Osmodius just overdid it in terms of performance cost. I used to also use Verdant, however the funky lighting on the grasses (causing them to appear pitch black inside of any interior and at night) led me to uninstall it; the grasses added by the Flora Overhaul look nice enough. For the most part, things like the roads in villages and in the open world, any nasty looking vanilla textures, and possibly things like buildings could use texture upgrades, the thing that bugs me the most though is the washy-looking road textures used in most cities. Since deactivating both Verdant and Osmodius, my framerate never drops noticeably below 60 FPS, however, while using Osmodius and Verdant, in areas that were heavily wooded or had a lot of grass textures, my framerate would stutter between 30 and 50, and while it never really got bad enough to interfere with gameplay, it was a bit irritating and slightly disorienting. Certain weather events added by True Storms would occasionally dip the framerate down by around 10-15, in high-strain areas. My graphics drivers are up to date, and I've turned down a handful of less noticeable graphics options in Skyrim itself to help save a bit on performance. If anyone can give me a good list of texture mods that really have a negligible performance impact, I would love to see it. I looked into Skyland but didn't care for how it left the actual cities untouched. Thank you!

[QuagaarWarrior]

Well you can manage the impact of grass mods through tweaking the ini files. Obviously the less dense the grass the less the performance impact. Just remember that some grass mods come with an ini file that will need to be adjusted whereas others rely on the Skyrim uni files for set up.

For textures try Noble Skyrim. It has a performance option which i think is a mixture of 1k and 2k textures. It is on the Oldrim nexus only so make sure you are using the special edition files