ENB mods run fine, but I get random hangs or sudden half second freezes.

[chaserobinson73]

As the title says, I can easily run an ENB with my rig at 60 fps constant, but for some reason every couple of minutes I get random half second freezes or hangs. It's like a sudden burst of lag or something and it can happen at any time, whether I'm just jogging around Majula or I'm fighting multiple enemies with explosions going off around me. The situation does not seem to matter.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this or what causes this? I would be very grateful for some help on this issue.

 

 

Also, my rig for reference:

 

AMD FX 8150 @ 3.8GHz

Nvidia GTX 670 2GB

Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133

MSI 970A - G46 ATX AM3+

2 Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200 RPM HDD's

Rosewill 550 ATX12V / EPS12V

[postal001]

Sounds like you're running out of vram and the game is forced to load textures from the HD. Try disabling high res texture mods to test.

[chaserobinson73]

Sounds like you're running out of vram and the game is forced to load textures from the HD. Try disabling high res texture mods to test.

 

It happens when I have no texture mods installed whatsoever. That being said, I think it might be likely that I am running out of VRAM. Without any mods installed at all, including ENB's, there are very rare times when icons for items don't load in the inventory screen because my HDD doesn't read in time. The game doesn't lag at all during those times, though.

 

I do find it odd that I would run out of VRAM on a game like Dark Souls because of textures. I play Skyrim with over 100 mods installed using 2k textures on near everything and using an ENB and I don't experience hangs quite like this.