Hello! After struggling with this problem for quite some time, I have found a solution that works flawlessly! I currently have an I7-7700K that was paired with a 1080ti, and now paired with a 3070 and still experienced low candle FPS. I use mods such as Inferno, ENB Light, and Rudy ENB for Cathedral Weathers [Rudy/Cathedral ENB] (Which is the FPS killer in this situation) After a lot of tweaking and no luck with SkyrimPrefs.ini and Skyrim.ini, I played around with the enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini in order to troubleshoot the problem, as the d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll were not the cause of the issue. Rendering candles with only the enb .dll files consumed about 20% of my GPU vram (in game, so this scene is good) As soon as I installed the enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini from Rudy/Cathedral ENB, the candles took a severe performance hit, with my GPU usage at 99% and my FPS dipping below 30 (with iMaxParticles at 750) reducing particles only increased performance marginally, but GPU usage was at 99% still, which for an indoor environment is absolutely ridiculous. I realized the problem is from the effects from enbseries.ini (from Rudy/Cathedral ENB) In game I tweaked with complexparticles settings by hitting "~" key, and then opening the enbseries.ini in game. I stood in front of an arcane enchanter in Dragonsreach, with only 30FPS tops. I opened [ComplexParticleLights] and set "EnableBigRange=false" Result: candles not overly bright, still pleasing to look at, GPU usage went from 99% back down to 20% and I achieved solid 60FPS. TL;DR: in enbseries.ini: [ComplexParticleLights] and set "EnableBigRange=false" If anyone figures out a different way to solve the issue please let me know, but this did the trick for me and I'm still VERY happy with the aesthetics of this ENB.
