distortedrealms

Well I get this too but usually around the 120-140 save point and lvl 20-25 which like you is frustrating because all that work down the drain you know. Comparing the plugins I use that we share are Ineed, Skyui, Eyes of beauty, Kshairdos, Usleep, and RaceCompatibility.esm. I don't want to blame any one mod but in my playthroughs that lasted well past lvl 50 and 100's of hours in I was using the old single Unofficial single patches with the rest of the above mods.....interesting. I am tesing a new game now with limited hdt, no bodyslide, no Death Alternative and keeping all plugins below 250 (even including unchecked ones from Visual transfer tool) So here is hoping.

Skyrim is not lacking in new lands, realms, and dungeons, but what is does lack is something that always makes fantasy media all that much better imo, floating islands, and landmasses. islands floating up high with grass, and trees on top, castles in the sky, or entire mountains with dungeons within. It is possible to do sadly the CK is like reading an alien language to me otherwise I would be on this. But modders have done this concept before, just look at the mod on Nexus 'Death Mountain by Oblivionlaserie' The cornerstone of this amazing mod is a huge floating mountain with a fortress/castle on top protected by dragons and an army of skeletons below. It always makes my jaw drop when I am near (And since I use Dyndolod, you can see the mountain from across the map) I have seen all the available mods on nexus/all other mainstream sites and while there are some good ones like smaller player homes etc, the noteworthy and larger landmasses seem riddled with ctd issues, or completely abandoned, save for Death mountain. A simple picture if you will: You take your flying ship, and travel the sky over Skyrim, fighting dragons, and witnessing the cloud whales from that newer creature mod, and making stops along the way to villages and cities in the sky to trade, and rest....That is my skyrim fantasy, and it would give a higher degree of fantasy aesthetics that is solely lacking in the sky above skyrim. So I plead to all modders out there, give us landmasses in which to fly to, and make skyrim look beautiful not just on the ground, but also above. Cheers http://img09.deviantart.net/836d/i/2013/346/6/9/floating_islands_by_peterprime-d6xokq2.png

Last year I upgraded to a evga gtx 970 from a 750ti and the game was amazing, 150 mods and in third person I could move around with hd packs and have no stutter on mostly ultra settings. The last six to eight months my game has slowly become more...unstable with ctd in places where many npc were in battle (warzones) and increasing stutter even with low resolution textures. Skse memory patch, and enboost configured correctly (and memory blocks log showing no where near the memory limit), and anti-aliasing was ridiculous even on high, with texture shimmer, and edges everywhere when moving to the point the game was almost not worth it to play. I thought my card was going south, and I reinstalled skyrim many times, countless new games, etc. Honestly I was about to wipe my pc and start over when for the hell of it I rolled back my driver to one from last year when i remembered it being playable and lo and behold, four days later stable and smooth as it can get. Turned out to be the drivers from the last year or so. If your having issues with Skyrim, try rolling back to a previous driver and do a clean install, it may be the source of problems in skyrim. Cheers

Okay, after watching your tutorial and reading all I could about this program I gave it a go. In MO I chose an older profile that was prone to instability (Game randomly ctd when entering doors, freezing, odd glitches, etc) even with enboost configured correctly, and so too the SKSE memory patch with memory block logs showing the green light. So I deleted the Bashed patch I had for that play through and loaded up the 150 or so mods into the smash program, and just for the hell of it I did an automatic patch to see if it were that simple. Load up a new game within that profile and guess what, I just played for hours with no problems, almost all issues seem resolved, and the leveled lists are doing great as a bashed patch would, no juggernauts one shotting me at lvl 11, just a stable, balanced game so far. I love that you made this program! Seriously, I bow to you sir. Cheers

The program just does not want to open for me, in MO or by itself, it just goes into an endless loading cycle with a tiny dark box that becomes nothing. Any ideas? I really need to try this amazing thing out. EDIT: Ok, I moved the root folder to a different directory and the program works. I had it in the same directory where my TES5Edit folder was so no idea why it was not opening but it is now so problem solved. Cheers

You need a better pcu to get the most out of your 970, right now you are bottle-necking. I suffered the same with a i7 3.5ghz with the 970 ever since I bought a 4.0ghz the pcu and gpu play nice keeping me above 60FPS majority of the time.

Oh, this sounds great, eagerly await.

I also have a 4790k + gtx970 and had the same stutter problem, and I used some of the tweaks in this thread and they reduced significantly the stuttering, but not completely. Then I thought to myself, when I had a 3.6 ghz cpu, and a 2gb 750ti, I barely had problems with stuttering with much the same mod set up. So why, with the new more powerful elements in my rig was this happening? I noticed the stutters would happen when elements loaded in the cell in the distance and today it hit me that back then I used some ini settings to counter this and I had forgotten to add them after a re-install. Go to http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48387/? and read all that he says, and add the tweaks best suited for your rig. I applied the settings closest to my specs and now the stuttering is not even noticeable, if at all there. Only pauses I still get is when I have multiple followers loading through a door at a time with aft but I can live with that.