Powerful rig but horrible performance

[greenknight1490]

Hi I have freshly re installed the game and have mostly only added lighting and texture mods (7 gig texture combined mod) along with the k enb cold version. Without enb I am only getting 40-60 fps outside and with enb on only 20-35 fps. Along with this many ctd's. here is my mod list and system specs. I have ran boss and used the skyrim texture optimizer both with little help to my performance. Appreciate any advice.

 

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

Dragonborn.esm

Skyrim Project Optimization - Full Version.esm

ETaC - RESOURCES.esm

Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm

SPIKE.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Better Dynamic Snow.esp

RevampedExteriorFog.esp

Windfull Skyrim.esp

Remove Interior Fog V2 - Skyrim.esp

Dark Dungeons for Dawnguard.esp

Further Dark Dungeons for ENB.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

Better Towns Textures.esp

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

Equip more Rings ( :cool:_EN.esp

PilgrimsDelight.esp

Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

Smoking Torches.esp

Footprints.esp

Footprints - Ash.esp

WetandCold.esp

SkyUI.esp

iHUD.esp

ArrowsNoGravity_Fast.esp

Cloaks.esp

hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

Immersive Weapons.esp

Inconsequential NPCs.esp

FireAndIceOverhaul.esp

Increased Merchant Stock x5.esp

SFO - Expanded Diversity.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

torches for realistic lighting.esp

ETaC - Dawnstar.esp

ETaC - Villages Complete.esp

ETaC - Morthal.esp

Unique Grasses.esp

EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

ELFX - Exteriors.esp

ELFXEnhancer.esp

WHITEX.esp

NoSneakAttackSound.esp

The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp

followers_stealthkills.esp

Quick Start - Skip the Opening Sequence.esp

WATER.esp

Purewaters.esp

Operating system Microsoft Windows 8 Pro

GIGABYTE G1.Sniper 3 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s ATX Motherboard Auc ZH

Intel® Core i7-3770K CPU @ 4.50GHz (architecture: x64; 3901)

Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 7970 GHZ OC 6GB

Sapphire Radeon Vapor-X HD 7970 GHZ OC 6GB (Both in lethal boost)

16gb G.Skills Sniper Ram (4x4)

Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F240GBGT-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid

Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F240GBGT-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid (Both in raid 0)

 

[AceGoober]

My suggestion: Remove ENB, add Unofficial Skyrim Patches for Dragonborn, Dawnguard and Hearthfire. Once those patches are installed, open Steam, right click on Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in the left-hand column, click Properties, click Local Files tab, then click the Verify Game Cache button.

 

Also, what resolution are you running? Have you updated to the latest AMD drivers?

[greenknight1490]

Thanks for the response. I am running at 1920x1080 and yes I am using the latest beta drivers. I have the skyrim patch but not the dlc ones, can that affect performance? I am only asking because I would like to continue using a enb and see others on youtube running them with much lower specs.

[Twitche21]

Go into enblocal.ini and change VideoMemorySizeMb= using this formula, "VRAM + RAM - 2048" the max is 10240.
Since I have 2GB VRAM, and 8GB system RAM, I changed mine to 8192.
This fixed a majority of my CTD's and crashes.

[greenknight1490]

Thanks for the vram advice this got rid of the ctds and cut my load times to less than a second but I am still only getting 20 fps outside with the enb turned on. I have removed every mod except the 4 patches and then pure water and a lighting mod. Still goes from a constant 60 fps to as low as 10. I dont understand.

[spookycandy]

Thanks for the vram advice this got rid of the ctds and cut my load times to less than a second but I am still only getting 20 fps outside with the enb turned on. I have removed every mod except the 4 patches and then pure water and a lighting mod. Still goes from a constant 60 fps to as low as 10. I dont understand.

 

I am wondering if K ENB isn't optimized properly. I would go into the thread for that ENB and ask there. I am running a rig less powerful than yours (new parts arrive tomorrow actually!) and only have one GTX 580 in my system. My graphics card set-up is no where near as good as yours and I am getting 20-30fps outdoors with tons of 4k texture mods (your mod list is tiny compared to mine). You should be getting a lot more than you currently are. Unfortunately since the issue appears to be with K ENB I can't help you. Here is a link to the thread.

 

It seems other people are having the same problems you are.

[greenknight1490]

So just did a complete fresh install and with o mods the complete vanilla game with sharpshooters enb only being added I am still getting 20 fps.

[greenknight1490]

So re-installed video drivers and switched to original sharpshooter version, now getting 90 fps. Thanks for the help guys I appreciate your time.