Shock spell fx is delayed, sparks = few seconds to appear, thunderbolt never appears unless spamming and then only for a second

[Kaioken100]

So Ive been dealing with this bothersome bug for ages now and cant figure out the cause. Thus far in order to try and fix it I have:

 

Upped imaxdesired particles in pref ini from 750 upwards all the way to 10000 with no change

Tried disabling realistic waters 2

Tried disabling climates of Tamriel

I have no idea what other mod would do this and make issues for shock fx specifically, could it be immersive sounds?

Could a replace such as voltage perhaps fix it?

 

Any ideas on why this has happened and how to fix it would be very appreciated.

[vampdude909]

What animations are you running for casting? If you have a formID that's shared across mods, it maybe a texture edit error?

[Kaioken100]

None in first person, goetia in third person, issue is the same in both forms and is random. Sometimes it does load right away, sometimes it doesnt, sometimes a flash comes late sometimes it never does, really odd bug.

[PopDog77]

I investigated this and thought I'd share my findings. For me, the culprit was anything patching JK's College of Winterhold and Immersive College of Winterhold. Any patch from "JK's College of Winterhold (Immersive and Obscure) Combo Patches" page the JK's and ICOW patch from "The Great City of Winterhold Patch Collection". Unsure why and whether people posting on reddit/gamefaqs from 5+ years ago had the same cause but it's definitively the cause for me, for now at least. A reddit user said that setting the iMaxDesired (under "particles" in SkyrimPrefs.ini file) to 6000-9000 (or assuming higher) helped them. They had to change the SkyrimPrefs.ini file on a separate profile for that character created by MO2.

I created a new profile on Vortex for testing with all mods disabled and added groups of mods until I found the culprit group. And then narrowed it down by disabling mods from that group until I found the offender. If you don't use those patches/mods but still have the issue, try this method of narrowing down the culprit.