BlueSteelRanger Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Salutations again, Nexus! So. The other night, a section of my city had a huge power outage (2400-some people without power). I mention this for a reason. See, since that night, I have tried to play Skyrim AE as I usually do. Everything BEFORE the outage worked flawlessly, I even picked FNIS back up with no trouble. Now though, since the outage, I've noticed a lag so terrible that you can literally count frames almost. It's seriously bad. Movement on even the title screen options is choppy as all h-e-twin-toothpicks. I even tested another, MUCH smaller game on my Steam library to double-check if something was going on with the Steam client. Even that game lagged all to junk. I have tried the following things to rule out anything I might have mucked up. 1. Took out FNIS 2. Updated Vortex 3. Hard drive space cleanup (I always do this anyway and keep a good chunk of space free) 4. Full Skyrim re-install. The lag-to-end-all-lags persists. My mod list is kept fairly short, comparative to many other players I've encountered. Here it is. ...The Obvious Ones First... Official Patches Unofficial Patches SKSE SKyUI ---The Mod List---- Legacy of the Dragonborn --CC Patches --LotD Safehouse Teleport Immersive College of Winterhold --Relevant LotD Patch Skyrim Unique Drinks Tools of Kagrenac --Relevant LotD Patch Aetherium Armour and Weapons --Relevant LotD Patch Moon and Star --Relevant LotD Patch Realm of Lorkhan TheWulfPanda's Teleport Spells --Major Cities --Towns and Villages --Faction Teleport SPERG The Choice is Yours Hearthfire Multiple Adoptions SimpleJiub SimpleBarenziah Frost Resist Provides Warmth RaceMenu Trinity Restored Karliah Bug Fix Inigo's Perk Point Book Saeri's Aetherial Crown Just No Tails -And a small mod of my own making My apologies for the slight text wall. Still getting that "spoiler" bit down. Anyway, has anyone else been experiencing this? Has something I've got gone weird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronOfMpls Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Were there any Windows or driver updates since the outage? And have you restarted your PC since booting back up from the outage? (Either Restart in Windows, or any method that bypasses any "fast boot" option, so it fully restarts.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSteelRanger Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 5 minutes ago, AaronOfMpls said: Were there any Windows or driver updates since the outage? And have you restarted your PC since booting back up from the outage? (Either Restart in Windows, or any method that bypasses any "fast boot" option, so it fully restarts.) I shut down and reboot daily (Shut down at night or for periods longer than 4 hours) and I have automatic updates. I am double checking driver updates to make sure they went through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Have you run SFC (System File Checker) for the Windows files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSteelRanger Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 2 hours ago, 7531Leonidas said: Have you run SFC (System File Checker) for the Windows files? Can I ask where to find that? After the outage (during which, there was an arc between some of the underground hardline stuff), so I imagine something like that would have an effect somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 Just do an internet search for "windows system file checker". This is the first link that came up, from MS: ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSteelRanger Posted June 22 Author Share Posted June 22 Ah, okay, thanks. I'll read up on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSteelRanger Posted June 22 Author Share Posted June 22 Update: Found it, ran it. According to the things pulled up, some corrupt files were repaired. I'm going to check and make sure another half-citywide outage isn't going on, double-check my system and then give Skyrim a try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSteelRanger Posted June 22 Author Share Posted June 22 (edited) Second update: Nope. This thing is still lagging so badly I can count the frames. It's worse than Oldrim! I'm honestly starting to get kind of angry with this. The power outage situation is now entirely dealt with. I didn't get Skyrim to NOT play the bloody thing. ETA: Eureka! It turns out the outage messed with some driver updates. Ran a clean sweep, did a full update and we're in business. Note to self, and PSA if it helps: If your power goes out, when it returns, check your drivers and other updates. Edited June 22 by BlueSteelRanger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronOfMpls Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 11 hours ago, BlueSteelRanger said: Note to self, and PSA if it helps: If your power goes out, when it returns, check your drivers and other updates. Yup, there's a reason some of those updates say "Do not turn off your computer" while they're updating. Also, if you have a few bucks to spare, and brief outages happen enough... Consider buying a UPS for your desktop and/or your modem and router, so you have long-enough battery backup to shut things down properly -- or to keep going uninterrupted through a power flicker. ️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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