OhmesRaht Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) So I was wondering if having too many race mods installed at once can cause any issues (lowered fps, or anything else) outside of the race menu. Assuming none of them are active in the world, save for the one you are playing, is there a general limit to the number of races you can have installed at once (I currently have 7)? My knowledge of VRAM is extremely limited, but my fear before the prechache killer was that if i were to say.. toggle up and down through my races in the race menu, then each of the textures for each race would be loaded into the VRAM and could eventually cause my game to crash later (an hour or so into a normal playthrough on one of the races) due t it being maxed out with their unnecsary space. I think that precache sort of doused that issue, by unloading each texture from the engine (hence we can now load 300+ hairs at a single time in the race menu without fear of freeze or ctd). My line of reasoning is that if it does it for things like hair, maybe it does it for things like face, body, tint and toggling different races wouldn't cause issues in the VRAM department.If anyone has any knowledge about this I would be highly apreciative if they would share, because I don't want to break my Skyrim or damage it's playability, but I also don't want to be held back unnecesarily by a non issue :tongue: Edited February 21, 2015 by high_elf143 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 There's no limit. Since the information for most race mods is only called during character creation. However for the same reason there's no reason to have all of them active at once (activate just the one you're planning on playing or are actually playing) to free up space for more useful mods in your load order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhmesRaht Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Thank you so much. This helps greatly. Judos given :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kniggit92 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) It can cause issues if you swap race/gender a lot during character creation, since race/gender specific info is stored into memory unlike hair etc, but I doubt you'd usually do it more than two or three times and I doubt it would cause any issues unless you do it like ten times with ten races. Edited February 21, 2015 by kniggit92 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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