ViggyNash

I can't pinpoint what mod it is, but My water shaders don't work anymore. As in I cannot see the water at all, so it looks like fish are floating between some featureless bumps in the terrain. I've tried reinstalling my water mods and textures mods. What is the best way for me to begin diagnosing this? edit: Turns out that fire shaders don't work either. Not sure why because other custom shaders, such as sun effects, do work.

I didn't reply earlier because I got busy for a bit, but I seem to have solved the problem. I think, I'm not totally sure on this, that it had something to do with the ENB preset being installed incorrectly. It wasn't that my system couldn't handle the preset since it now runs b/w 50-70 fps on average without slowdown over time.

I'm looking at the "GPU usage" value, which I assume is Afterburner's measurement of the overall utilization of the card. As for the clock speed, no I haven't been checking that. I'll add that on the display and see what happens with that. e: Throttling implies a heat problem though, right? I'm definitely not having heat issues since i'm staying under 60c. Something like FO4 will push the temperature to 70, in which case the fans audibly kick into high gear, but that's not the case with Skyrim. I'll still test the core clock, but It's not throttling in the way I understand it.

I reinstalled skyrim and stuffed it full of mods. It runs incredibly well off my 760... for 10 minutes. I've read some other threads about gpu slowdowns, but it seems that they're mainly caused by GPU overheating, but that's not the case here. I use Afterburner's on screen display to keep track of a few vitals, including temp and GPU usage, and the temperature never goes beyond 60 (anyway, I'd hear it before it became an issue). The interesting thing is this: the GPU usage begins at >100% because I increased my TDP via Afterburner. For a while it stays there. But once I start to notice the fps slowdown and check the GPU usage, it's dropped to 30-50%. It's like it decides to just fall asleep. It isn't a memory issue either because I keep track of that too and I've changed my settings so that it never hits the VRAM limit. Has anyone seen this issue before? Any ideas on how to fix this? As a side note, this is purely a Skyrim issue. FO4 does not have this problem and neither does any other game I've played.

After using hundreds of mods across FO3, New Vegas and Skyrim, I really want to get into modding with FO4. However, with the official modding tools still in the works, we can't do things the easy way just yet. But obviously there is a way, given the wealth of mods already on the nexus. I'm not all that interested in texture or similar content mods. What I want to do is make simple functionality changes, like the Weight/Val mod. Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to get started?

For anyone working with the final release, I managed to get NMM working with a few compatibility changes. 1) Set the program compatibility to WIndows 7 (weird stuff happened when I tried Windows 8 ). 2) Set to run as administrator. I'm not sure if running as administrator is necessary.