Alan47 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Hello everyone, I'm using the latest version of Realvision ENB. I love the way it looks, but I've got a peculiar problem with it. When I play the game, at the beginning it is running with about 25fps. Not terribly high, but my GTX 550 can't really do more with Realvision active. I'm perfectly fine with that. However, as time goes by, my framerate starts to drop dramatically. For example, when I start Skyrim and load a savegame from Whiterun (exterior), I get 22-25fps. However, when I play for an hour or two, visit some areas, then come back to the very same place (!), the FPS drop below 10, which makes the game almost unplayable. The funny thing is: when I save again, completely exit Skyrim and re-load, I'm back to 22-25fps. It's also noteworthy that the problem seems to be limited to exterior areas only, interiors (houses, caves...) are always running just fine. Does anybody have an idea what could be going wrong here? One reason I can think of is textures, but I'm running the game with VANILLA ones which should be small enough. Also, I figured that some other mod could potentially cause CPU overload over time, but according to my CPU meter (i5 @ 3.3GHz), the CPU usage is nowhere near 100% (more like 50%), whereas the graphics card is running at 100% GPU usage. I'd be grateful for any advice. If you need more technical information, please let me know. Thank you, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerdave69 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I can't say what is causing it but I will suggest using HiAlgo Boost. It makes a big difference for me. I am actually running HiAlgo Boost and a mod from their website called HiAlgo Chill together. The Chill program keeps the cpu from getting hot which can cause what you are describing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anikma Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 In the exterior world there are a lot more things that your computer needs to handle compared to interiors. Whats type of CPU do you have? It may just be that your computer can't handle the mod well enough. I can't say what is causing it but I will suggest using HiAlgo Boost. It makes a big difference for me. I am actually running HiAlgo Boost and a mod from their website called HiAlgo Chill together. The Chill program keeps the cpu from getting hot which can cause what you are describing. I'm no computer wizz but I find it hard to believe that a program alone could cool down you CPU. The best it could possibly do is to stop any resource-hungry processes. Again, I may be wrong but if you really want to keep your CPU cool just pull of one side of your computers case and point a desk-fan in there. That's what I had to do until I got my new case. Anyway good luck, -Anikma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan47 Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) @gamerdave69: Thanks for the suggestion, looks interesting indeed! Will check it out! @Anikma: I can say for certain that my game is not CPU-bottlenecked. As I've written in my first post, I'm using an Intel i5 @3.3 GHz and Skyrim uses its capabilities to about 50%, which should not cause any real trouble. But the thing is, I'm starting to think that you are right about the overheating stuff, except that in my case, it affects the GPU, not the CPU. I'll try the HiAlgo Boost stuff, maybe it helps. Thanks guys! Any further suggestions are welcome as well! Edited March 31, 2014 by Alan47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_69_327 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Hi, "" whereas the graphics card is running at 100% GPU usage."" you are GPU bound (bottleneck). Download Skyrim Performance monitor. Run it while playing and have a look. As you say over time your FPS drops. As you load more and more, the GPU will start to swap textures out to the HDD, I will venture a guess that you are overfilling your GPU. Try turning some things off for your ENB. [shift] + [enter] in the box (second one) you will see global settings for things like...BloomAdaptationDepthOfFieldAmbientOcclusionDetailedShadowSoftParticlesParticleLightsSubSurfaceScattering there are a lot more then this but i list some of the true FPS killers...lol Post your System specs, a BOSS log (in spoiler tags) , and it may help to see your ENB local and series INI's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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