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

[Kaioken100]

Trying to figure out the reason for this weird bug forever. 

Simply put: frost and fire? Normal.

shock? Concentration spells take a second or two to start, sometimes work normally. Casts almost never show up unless spammed. They hit targets but the arc is missing. 

using voltage textures but bug was before installation.

using comprehensive first person overhaul.

using goetia third person magic animations.

the bug goes across vanilla spells and all modded ones that have the ‘arc’.

using mysticism & forgotten magic.

what could cause this specific oddity? 

[50shadesofgreen]

having the exact same problem did you ever find the solution?

[kkuramoto]

Also experiencing this exact same issue with most of the same mods except for forgotten magic. Still haven't found a solution though it seemed like there was no delay on shock spells for at least the initial few seconds when starting a new game so maybe something that gets loaded in is the cause. Really would like to see it resolved as it bugs the hell out of me.

[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.

[kkuramoto]

This helped me find the culprit! Using a similar method where I created a copy of my M02 profile and then began activating my mods in groups, I eventually identified a mod editing interior cells added by another mod to be the cause of the visual bug. The arcing fx spells work fine now that I have deactivated it.