I know the name is misleading, but I'm not a bot. Please listen to my story~ I'm certain many of you veterans are holding back with the power of Greyskull from breaking their teacup at the mere sight of the title, as there are many threads like this one. IF my problem is posted in another thread, please refer me to that thread and lock this one, however, after searching around a bit I have yet to read a situation that's similar to mine. (either that or I looked past it / misunderstood it) SO: I apologize for the upcoming wall of text, but here we go: For about a week now, I've been trying to get my Skyrim working with quite a large amount of mods, I'm not gonna lie. I've followed the S.T.E.P guide for a major part, but I also wanted that "extra" bit: not just make the game prettier, but have some extra stuff. Now, you might go: "Ah, there we go. he must have capped the 3.1 gb limit. Easy solve. Next!" I indeed know about the 3.1 gb limit, but this might not be it, bear with me. I installed the 'ENBoost performance mod' the other day, after learning that it would channel the use of memory a bit different, allowing for more mods. I even enabled an ENB (since I was going there anyways) Here's the thing: I boot the game via skse_loader (which in its turn is launched via ModOrganizer) The game loads just fine, the ENB pop-ups show themselves, and when I click 'New game', the game DOES in fact load in. The game starts, SkyUI tells me there are an x-amount of menu's added to the MCM, so everything IS in fact in place (the ENB seems to work too) I get to the character creation (which, at this point, I can fill out blindfolded) and my character is made. Now, this is the point at which I make a savegame (I do this before and after character creation). HOWEVER: when exit to desktop or main menu, and I reboot / load the game AFTER character creation....I get an ILS. For a long time I was thinking that this was caused due to the fact that the amount of data to be loaded at once surpassed the 3.1 gb limit, thus causing the game to be stuck on the loading screen. I installed Skyrim performance monitor, just to see what's what. I got everything setup and the screens display themselves in-game. I click 'Load' and to my big surprise, my CPU percentage just drops down and fluctuates between 0% ~ 1%. My GPU percentage hangs somewhere around 10% and my memory ram also plumets; My system just slips to idle. I would like to know: - ARE these the symptoms of an ILS (and am I just that st00pid), or is this "unusual"? - Is the amount of data required to load still exceeding 3.1gb, THUS unfolding the situation into question #1? - If not: What could be causing this and what could be a potential cure, if any available? ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Some additional info: - When starting a new-game, with the ENBoost mod, the used Ram sits around 300-400 mb (not a whole lot, but this may be because it's a scripted piece of the game and some mods do not come into play untill after <event X> ? ) - I have 217 files installed in ModOrganizer (the majority being S.T.E.P. material), some of these files are patches of which I was not quite sure how to oeverwrite manually, so I loaded them as a mod. I don't know if this counts as a mod, or if it simply focuses on the main mod, overwriting (I've only scratched the surface of ModOrganizer, and am by no means an expert on it's intricate, yet pleasant workings) Some mods I HAVE overwritten manually with patches etc. Sidenote: I auto unpack BSA's, which are automatically deleted after doing so, so I have NO BSA's listed, only the esp's / esm's . - All mods are cleaned with TES5Edit and I have Bashed all necessary mods with Wrye Bash, and merging mods where prompted - I use BOSS to auto-sort my plugins - My Ini's are edited to S.T.E.P. format+ENB (plus a 'Skyrim flora overhaul'-grass "texure" addition. - When loading a game, it is not After a pure, white frame (just one, you see it for a split-second), that my system drops to idle state. - In light of ENBoost, I'm using Sharpshooter's ENB, with version 0.200, as found on the ENBseries page. - I am using 'Texture pack combiner' (amongst other things),containing all three "required" texture packs, and some optional mods, but I have used the 'optimizer textures' by 'Ordenador' to scale them down to 1k. - Next to the above mentioned mod, I'm using some other "heavy artillery", however the mod list, as provided, is kind of how I want to keep it, if possible. I really do want to keep those mods in, including stuff like 'Midas magic', 'Magic duel reborn', 'enhanced blood textures', the animations, RLO and CoT, amongst others. - My actual skyrim directory (the Steam one) is - save for the addition of ENB- and SKSE files - in pristine condition --------------------------- --------------------------- For the sake of instant-completion, I have added my Ini's, plugins.txt, modlist.txt and my load-order (sorted by Boss, I reckon) as attachments (I hope I'm not breaking any rules by doing so?) in hopes that one of you kind souls is benevolent enough to take a shot at it, perhaps the problem lies there somewhere without me having seen it. Some final Tombstone data -- My rig: - MSI Z77 GD-65 MoBo - 16 GB of DDR3-1333 Ram (though only 8, at best, is used if I'm not mistaken, what with ENBoost and all (?)) - Intel i7 3770 CPU (not the 3770K, for what it's worth) - nVidia GTX 680 ~ MSI Twin Frozr edition (2gb GDDR5) - Western Digital WD1002FAEX HDD of 1TB (believe it's coded 'Caviar Black', or 'Caviar green') I think that's all the info for now (?) And with that said: Who can shine some light on this modded conondrum? Any help would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: Removed spoiler tags, for sake of hiding the meat of the story unintentionally. EDIT #2: I have 0 (that is Z-E-R-O) clue on how to read a Papyrus log. I don't know how to look for an issue, even though there are hints as to what the problem could be. Atm. it's a lot (basically all of the log) consisting of something with Twilight Vampires. But whether it's mod-based, or something native-gone-wrong because of a mod....I has no clue :x
