Georgiegril

Did you try kiev kev's suggestion? If you incorrectly uninstalled WATER, verifying the cache might fix it. But Skyrim vanilla has had issues with patches of missing water since it came out. List all your mods? Which patch? were you using/trying other mods before the problem started?

Well ENB mods can cause issues that remain eve after removal, but there are other causes, some mods, some not. There is a thread where the poster believes his recent stuttering was cause by his drivers (AMD); and NVidia drivers have also had a bunch of issues related to the new drivers and a change in the proper installation procedure. You could check those threads and try the solutions posted there if you think it describes your situation. If this happened just ofter the patch, you may want to check your basic graphics settings on Skyrim (the ones you access on the first loading menu) I know after the patch, Skyrim was kind enough to set those to what it considered appropriate, which from my view was too low in some areas and too high on others. It also reticked the FXAA, which I had disabled. Things like that could cause lags, etc, and you might want to check that as well, before moving on to more drastic measures. Also the pref.ini changes could help, especially if you think the problem began when they were changed. (I still think manual changes are better than copy-paste) More Drastic Measures: If you really want to determine the problem and hopefully solve it so that you can play without annoying interruptions, here is my suggestion: Uninstall Skyrim completely using steam and also the delete local content option, Then look in your computer for any skyrim related folders/files. May of these are in programs/steam/steamapps/ but there are also some in Username/documents/games (that where your savegames are, you will want to delete those, or at least move them somewhere that Steam wont find them. Remove all your mods. Then, reinstall the game through steam. Verify the cache. Start a new game with no mods. Do you find that you are still lagging/stuttering? Then it could be your computer rather than the game. Causes for that could be something simple, like your antivirus program updating in the background while you are trying to play. You can use a program like GBoost or GameBooster to she down unecessary processes while you play If it still is stuttering, you may have an issue with your computer's RAM. Not knowing your specs, but based on what you said earlier about the game working fine til recently, I am assuming your meet the basic requirements. However, if your computer's cache is full, it can limit the amount available in game, and the stuttering could be your computer waitng for RAM to be available. You can use a program like GPUZ to monitor your computers processes while you play. It should also tell you if any of your ram is no longer usable for some reason.The easiest fix for RAM is just to clear the cache, and that is probably the more common cause of RAM trouble, along with ram being resevered or utilized by other processes/apps. So then if you try playing again, and the lags continue, you may want to look at your card. First make sure you have properly installed your card's drivers, whichever type you are using. There are links discussing this on the nexus either in technical or general discussion. Then, use graphics monitoring software is appropriate for your card (I use EVGA precision for my NVidia cards, but there are others like MSI After burner, etc depending on your card.) take a look at the temperature of your card and the GPU clock values..are there sudden spikes or dips? Does the card drop into 2d suddenly? If you have these issues, post back, because there are a few things that might influence this, from a dying card, to a dying power source, to dust in your computer....(and more!) Anyway lets imiagine one of the above steps worked, At that point I would recommend playing vanilla until youexit the cave, and then adding mods back exactly as instructed by the mod author, read all of the readmes for every mod, looking to see if the mod has prerequisites or known conflicts with other mods.Run BOSS and then play for a but to check how the mod is working. Continue until you have all the mods you want or you get a problem. At that point, immediately work on mod troubleshooting. If you have corrupted files, the more travel saves, etc, the harder it will be to fix. Likewise, if you are planning to make changes to your pref.ini file, the safest thing you can do (after creating a backup) is to make only one change at a time and then test it in game before making the next. Anyway I didn't mean to write a novel. It's late hear, obviously I'm rambling. I hope something here will be of some help to you. If not, post back and I will try to be more coherent tomorrow!

I agree with Tetradite. I'm not a lawyer, but I did ace poli sci (lol). The only possible loopholes I can think of offhand (in the US) might be 1) satire (this could work, I guess, but you might not be able to justify hot chicks in bikinis)or 2) educational use. (much harder apply here, and the hot chicks would have to go, for sure.....) Turns out artists and money don't often meet. As a musician, I feel your pain. :confused:

No, you have it wrong, he is saying Tamriel, but his lilting, almost Mel Gibsonesque oratory talents distract you into hearing instead what is in your own heart. Don't hate the hater. :tongue:

I'm confused about why you need the mod authors to contact you before you endorse them.You can just click on the version number on the NMM mod interface, and it will take you to the mod authors web page...click to endorse, and you're done. I had let a bunch slide and then went bacl to take care of it...took maybe 10 minutes. I'm just suggesting that, because there may be authors who feel like contacting you for the endorsement is like digging for compliments.

if you have a copy of the old one, you can use it as a guide to fix the new one. However, I noticed a few new lines were added by 1.6, so it might be better just to use the old one as a guide, changing what you need changed, and also checking to make sure any lines you had added are replaced, if the patch deleted them (that also happened with mine). In doing that, you will install the patches from the old file. However, I'm a little unclear, are you patching from a laptop to a tower or different laptop? Unless you are working with the same computer that the ini files are from, you probably wouldn't want to copy your prefs wholesale.. Some of the settings will be specific to your screen, and your graphics driver, which might be different, so you would in that case be better off for sure doing manual adjustments of the new ini, thoughtfully based on the old one. Also so graphics changes can be made through your graphics driver interface, and not all of these are reflected in the ini files, so if the game isn't looking the same you might also want to look at that. Hope this helps!

Forgive me, you have 2 skyrim.exes? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding) Are you playing a steam version?

What card? Which update? What are you using to monitor your fps? Have you tried a frame rate limiter? Did you update your driver or make other changes to your game or your computer just before the problem started?

I have had this problem creating merchants for cavern isles. The only way I have found to avoid it (also seems like it is around 32 to me) is either to sell them your stuff (so you get their money :biggrin:) or to completely close out of the game and then go back in--this should set them to their default chest amount.

Huh, I thought they were saying "the sweetrolls are done!" Guess it was just me. Anyway,the elder scrolls wiki lists the following as the dremora's dialog: You'll meet your end, mortal. You will bleed! I smell weakness! There you are, weakling! A challenger is near! I honor my lord, By destroying you! Another; who seeks death! Hiding will not save you now! (if line of sight is broken) You returned? foolish mortal! (if reappeared again from sneaking) But who knows, your Dremora could be Highlander fans....

Some people call it early release. I call it advanced beta-testing. :tongue:

Re: Set preferences to run as administrator. (right click on nmm icon) Also, you may find this thread useful

Sounds like an issue with your sound card, maybe? What are your graphics specs?

If you think you know the mod that caused it, you could try completely uninstalling it not just disabling) and then verify your cache through steam. Just a thought, hope it helps!

Do you happen to have any dragon-related mods?

I stand corrected. (Can't find the "properly chatised" emoticon, must be there somewhere....) Thank you, Flummox! :smile:

No worries, you can change it whenever, even mid-battle. :biggrin:

Question, if you enable the quest in your journal, do you get to the quest marker but no one is there? (just trying to understand exactly what is going on)

Not at all, Yafi. I 100% agree with Blitzen--- your solution could be the perfect one for some, and are absolutely worth consideration by anyone who is experiencing issues that you address. Beyond that, I believe that your contributions (not just this one) on the forum have provided creative, thoughtful and useful strategies that increase the happiness (at least gaming-wise) of many.

My advice is to read up on various ways to change your graphics without a mod. RookieNoob's guide includes tweaks for both low and high end graphics, and good explanations of how they work. The Geforce skyrim tweak guide has 20 pages of ways to improve skyrim, and how it will affect your performance. I have a 9800GT 512, and my skyrim has gotten much nicer thanks to both of these. Another note...you will want to make sure your drivers are working optimally. This guide for proper driver installation(NVidia changed the process, but wasn't very good at telling anyone) goes through what you need to so step by step. Hope this helps!

Thank you, that is good to know. :biggrin:

Here is a EVGA forum thread that discusses a possible solution for PhysX not uninstalling as it should. (not EVGA specidic)

@Blitzen, I agree with your assessment. Any tweak you add may or may not work in an individual case, based in part on the specific variables present in the user's situation such as previous changes made, hardware/software settings and capabilites, etc, and you provide a good example of that. That is what I was trying to point out with my previous posts...in my own case, I have made changes in other .ini settings to pretty much max out my VRAM, and because of that this would not be appropriate. However, for others it might be exactly their solution, and it is great to have this tweak on the forum for people to consider. The only way anyone can know for sure if a given tweak is useful is to test it in their (computer) environment.

Well Wars in Skyrim was removed from the nexus by the author, as I understand it, because of a large number of issues in peoples games. I think there were conflicts between Warzones and WIS, too.... Unless someone happens to read your list and knows of a mod that could cause your issue, you are looking at basic mod troubleshooting. You could try removing all of them (exactly as instructed by the mod author) then verifying your cache, and then adding them back in one at a time (using BOSS for load order), or you could try removing them one at a time (again, completely uninstalling exactly according to the mod authors instructions.) If you decide for the second way, my votes for mods to begin removing would be the WIS mods, then Warzones, Convenient Horses, UFO (if you've ever incorrectly removed that mod it can cause huge issues, please read that readme for sure!), and then anything else that affects NPCs, horses, your worldspace, or anything you changed just before the problem arose. Good luck...

After looking at your errors, if I were going to try a shot in the dark, I would try uninstalling the Mounted Casting mod (following mod authors uninstallation instructions.) Also, I have read somewhere that the unoffical skyrim patch may cause some issues with 1.6. You might want to revisit that authors website to make sure your version is compatible with skyrim. Just a coupla guesses. I also agree with Blitzen's advice....