A guide i owe to at least some people for multiple reasons.After that i'll just go silent since Online communication has been an exercise in frustration for me. I guarantee your Game will break many times before you even reach High Hrothgar. A clean re-installation will be required. I know, you saw the typical 4K video with HDT Clothes in 3rd Person Player Character walking while your Physics bounce and dense Trees.Such videos use 8GB of VRAM at least to even be able to Stream it.Don't get Hyped. Don't rush your Installations. For anyone else reading this, that has at least 4GB of VRAM and game is running lower than 50FPS i guarantee you are doing something wrong. A bit of Prologue: Looking at your Hardware from another thread i can tell, your Load Order is your main issue of an unplayable game.You do run out of Memory. It will CTD again and slow down in performance more as Save Games build.Script lag or scripts and quests getting stuck due to an unoptimized load order will ruin it more. I had used a Potato PC (Not Laptop) similar to yours and it was always 55+I am not surprised so many people even on High End systems manage to CTD their game and play lower than 50fps.I didn't have a single CTD on any playthrough in Skyrim Special Edition.Its just usage Error. I hope your RAM isn't lower than 8GB though 1. Tips: Don't adapt your Hardware and App Settings to your Mods. Toasters are inexpensive compared to a GPU, better use a Toaster. 2. ENB: ENB is not recommended for 2GB Graphics Cards. If you have at least 3GB than sure but you have to stay with 1K-2K texture size Range and don't play in 2K or 4K. More Details about ENB: It can run over 50 fps with a good and Light Load Order but you need to choose a very light ENB (One that depends on less Effects to deliver its Colorcrading) and disable most effects while also tweak the INI. You need to tweak Skyrim INI settings and your Drivers. Even without ENB or even in High End systems its the only way to guarantee an Optimized Game. Calibrate your Monitor and Driver Graphic settings. This makes huge difference in visual Quality. Do not double effects, its useless for any Hardware. It doesn't matter what app gives you the effect, just choose the best.Simply choose Performance (ENB allows you to increase Quality within the INI anyway if you want to) and what effect you can get from ENB tick it off in your Skyrim INI and Drivers or choose the least taxing option.You don't have to tune down your Driver settings on a Global scale. Just for specific Programm (Skyrim). From a technical perspective this is how you should manage any Program (Game). Don't let the results encourage you on a 2GB GPU. Adding more Mods later and as Save Games build will eventually cause it to slow down further.Its not worth it unless you have another 500mb up to 1gb spare because you need alot more room for the Game to ''Breath'' 3.0. Individual Mods 3.1. Not Recommended for Low End Systems: - High Poly Head. (Prefer Expressive Facegen Morphs and Skin/ Body Mod of Choice) You can achieve similar results with more work but less resource cost.- HDT Hair (Performance Killer even on High End Systems. Skyrim Engine was never designed for this). It needs an alternative .see CBPC Author working on New Project.- HDT SMP (Same as above. Looks like running well ''its unnoticable'' on High End Systems but from a Technical perspective its still not in a stable state).- HDT High Heels (Not as worse as above but redundant) RaceMenu High Heels does the same with 0 Impact.- High Polygon Armor Replacer for CBBE (People always find ways to stress test their Hardware. May as well hit them with a Maul). - JK's City Mods (Places alot of Objects around and increases Vertices Count that are too much for Low End Systems).- Skyrim Flora Overhaul (4GB VRAM and Medium End CPU at least required to run it effectively) On heavier load order with ENB maybe even 6GB.- Skyrim 2020 Parallax (6GB at least Recommended) - SMIM (Use only UV Fixes and Low Resolution options during Custom Installation on low End Systems) 3.2. Less Script/ Task intensive and Polished Alternatives: - Amorous Adventures (AA Plus relying on FG Framework, only Safe/ Clean/ Polished version not performing constant Background Tasks that wont cause issues later).- CBP (Redundant and with many issues) Use only CBPC.- Ultimate Dragons (Not Safe in regards to CTD issues with Special Dragon Attack Animation) Check Dragon War and others.- Ultimate Combat (Good but very script intensive and succeeded by modern alternatives) Check Enai and Simon Magus Combat Mods. 3.3. Will perform well only with an Optimized Load Order: - ELFX (ELFX Exterios plus ENB with ComplexParticleLights are not recommended especially not on low end systems). Prefer ELE-Relighting Skyrim with Weather Mod of choice. - AI Overhaul (A Load Order that isn't optimized will have trouble dealing with the tasks that will stack with each other and Script Lag is inevitable and will lead to broken saves).- Experience (Same as above during Combat and Kill XP or Cell changes and Exploration XP)- iEquip (Same as above) This is the Best UI Mod ever made btw.- Enhanced Blood Textures (With Decals Settings On results in lower iframes during Combat. On low end systems especially unoptimized L.O. its noticeable and waste of spare room).- Enchanted Weapons Recharging over time (Another background task to stack with the rest that will burden the Engine more if L.O is unoptimized). 5. Last tips: If you address these issues i guarantee on a Clean Save and Clean Installation maximum Playability.Use BethINI that does so automatically and configure its INI Output so it carries your INI's to your Mod Manager.Leave always room for more mods and plan so your configuration can be easilly compatible with them in the future. Most mods we use we don't even need to create an Ultimate and Customizable Gameplay Setup.Once we manage this we can separate it into Mod Manager Profiles and use any specific Theme Based Mods (For classes and Roleplay) on top of it without any issues. Have fun modding
