broski32 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 After seeing an ENB featured on one of those youtube mod compilations I decided to try it out. Long story short, I decided it didn't look that much different from pre-ENB looks with my mod list and decided to remove everything ENB related from my Skyrim folder. Launched the game after cleaning that out and noticed NPCs seemingly now suddenly have a very taxing effect on my game's framerate. Before I could run a stable 60 FPS in a very crowded inn (15+ NPCs) and 45-50 in the market area of JK's Whiterun. Now I'm managing about 7-10 FPS in the same inns and 15ish Whiterun. However, other exterior areas like a battle that Warzones would implement somewhere randomly in the world with upwards of 20-30 NPCs doesn't seem to have nearly as much of a performance hit at somewhere between 30-40 FPS. As a footnote wide open areas or interiors with no or few NPCs still have upwards of 50 FPS and usually a stable 60 indoors. Before this issue started my in-game monitor would show about 10% CPU usage, 90%+ GPU usage, and 90%+ VRAM usage. At first it remained mostly the same with the exception of my GPU was now only operating at 60-70% capacity. However, launched in today and my frames are even slower and CPU is running around 70% with GPU running anywhere from 50-70% Specs:Intel® Core i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHzNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super32GB Memory Anybody have ideas on what's causing the bottleneck? Is there a certain way to properly uninstall ENBs that I just totally screwed up? Even so I'm not sure how that would effect NPCs on my system. Also, yes it is a heavily modded playthrough but nothing else was changed so I know it's not a conflict of mods. Installed ENBoost per instructions, then Eisvogel V2, and then removed all ENB related files/folders from the main skyrim folder with .exe's in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreyvsh Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 ENBoost it's kind of for LE. There are no .exe files in ENB. I would look at the vertical sync settings first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broski32 Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 Found the culprit. Pulled up my in game monitor and noticed there was a task running called "great discover.exe" that was ranking high on performance impact. Must have contracted some sort of virus at some point, but after uninstalling and cleaning out great discover I'm back to buttery smooth frames again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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