Periods of lag occur every few minutes, go away if I "pause" t

[irfna]

I have recently installed a fair amount of mods and started a new game, only to find that I get hits of extreme lag (5 fps or so) every few minutes. It doesn't matter what I'm doing: wandering the wilderness, standing still in an empty house, fighting for my life, etc. They last a random but very long period of time unless I "make them go away". I've found that hitting escape to pause the game, waiting a second (going in and out quickly sometimes doesn't work), then hitting escape to resume play fixes the problem... for a few minutes. This seems rather absurd, and I've been disabling all the new mods I've added except one. Since I'm using a cobl race and would like to have the various cobl features, I haven't disabled it. So, it seems cobl might be the culprit. I've tried the 3gb fix (using windows xp) to no avail, as well.

 

I have been driven to acts of terrible cruelty, wandering the outdoors simply to find rabbits, murder them with my bare fists, and feast on their raw flesh. I'm little more than an animal, driven into a senseless rage by the need to "buffer" my game every few minutes. Please, save me from this awful fate.

 

This problem is completely new, and all the mods on this list except things added by cobl were present before without it. I was playing for hours straight with no crazy lag spikes. Although why cobl would cause this, I have no idea.

 

 

Oblivion.esm

Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm

Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On.esm

Cobl Main.esm

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esm

Mart's Monster Mod.esm

Enhanced Daedric Invasion.esm

TamrielTravellers.esm

FCOM_Convergence.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

HorseCombatMaster.esm

UnnecessaryViolence.esm

VampireFaceBugFix.esm

Cobl Races TNR.esp

Cobl Races TNR SI.esp

TweakedGenericFaces.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Better Cities .esp

Oblivion.esp

Francesco's Optional Chance of Stronger Bosses.esp

Francesco's Optional Chance of Stronger Enemies.esp

Francesco's Optional Chance of More Enemies.esp

Francesco's Optional Leveled Guards.esp

FCOM_FrancescosNamedBosses.esp

Natural_Weather_by_Max_Tael.esp

Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp

MIS Low Wind.esp

Atmospheric Oblivion.esp

Living Economy.esp

Living Economy - Items.esp

Cutthroat Merchants.esp

Streamline 3.0.esp

Enhanced Hotkeys.esp

DLCOrrery.esp

DLCVileLair.esp

DLCMehrunesRazor.esp

DLCSpellTomes.esp

DLCThievesDen.esp

Cobl Glue.esp

Cobl Si.esp

Oblivion WarCry EV.esp

FCOM_WarCry.esp

Oscuro's_Oblivion_Overhaul.esp

OMOBS Optional Combat Settings.esp

FCOM_Convergence.esp

FCOM_DurabilityAndDamage.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Wilderness Life.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - More Passive Wildlife.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Extra Wounding.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Vindasel.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Farm Animals.esp

Mart's Monster Mod - Diverse WaterLife.esp

TamrielTravellers4OOO.esp

ShiveringIsleTravellers.esp

FCOM_MoreRandomSpawns.esp

FCOM_MoreRandomItems.esp

Scribe Supplies.esp

VaultsofCyrodiilBC.esp

DLCFrostcrag.esp

Knights.esp

MannimarcoComplete.esp

MannimarcoRevisited.esp

MannimarcoRevisitedOOO.esp

xuldarkforest.esp

xulStendarrValley.esp

xulTheHeath.esp

XulEntiusGorge.esp

xulFallenleafEverglade.esp

xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp

xulChorrolHinterland.esp

xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp

xulBravilBarrowfields.esp

xulLushWoodlands.esp

xulAncientYews.esp

xulAncientRedwoods.esp

xulCloudtopMountains.esp

xulArriusCreek.esp

xulPatch_AY_AC.esp

xulRollingHills_EV_withoutWheat.esp

xulPantherRiver.esp

xulRiverEthe.esp

xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp

xulImperialIsle.esp

xulBlackwoodForest.esp

xulCheydinhalFalls.esp

xulAspenWood.esp

xulSkingradOutskirts.esp

xulSnowdale.esp

OOO-Snowdale Patch.esp

Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp

Harvest [Flora].esp

FG_Merchant Inventory Realism V 1_5.esp

P1DkeyChain.esp

ReneerNPCSneakMod.esp

Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp

RealisticForceMedium.esp

RealisticMagicForceMedium.esp

Egress.esp

Is It Safe.esp

Advanced Magecraft.esp

Vector.esp

Fizzle.esp

RshAlchemy.esp

Enchantment Enhanced.esp

EnchantmentRestore.esp

SM Combat Hide.esp

Toaster's Brutal Stealth.esp

No psychic guards harder v1.2.esp

RenGuardOverhaul.esp

cancelattack.esp

Deadly Reflex 5 - Timed block and 150% damage.esp

Duke Patricks - Actors Can Miss Now.esp

Let There Be Darkness - Cyrodiil + SI.esp

Let There Be Darkness - Knights.esp

Let There Be Darkness - Mehrunes Razor.esp

Cobl Races.esp

Cobl Races - Balanced.esp

Better Cities - Full City Defences.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Cities - Unique Landscape Barrowfields.esp

Better Cities - Unique Landscape Chorrol Hinterland.esp

Better Cities - Unique Landscape Cheydinhal Falls.esp

Better Cities - Unique Landscape Skingrad Outskirts.esp

Better Cities - VWD of the IC.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Imperial City FPS Patch.esp

Better Cities Full FPS Patch.esp

Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp

lumi_enchantments_subtle.esp

FCOM_Archery.esp

UnnecessaryViolence.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

VFBF Quicksave.esp

test.esp

 

 

[Hickory]

First of all, Cobl is not a CPU/GPU intesnive mod, unlike some of your others, so you can rule Cobl out as the culprit for your drop in fps. What is more likely the case is (a) that you have finally tipped your system over the top, or (b) it has nothing to do (directly) with your game and more to do with your operating system. Make sure you scan for viruses, malware etc. Clean up all temporary folders, defrag... you get the picture.

 

Also, I have to ask: what is test.esp, and could that have any bearing?

[irfna]

Ya, I doubted it was cobl because it didn't make any sense. I started a new game and don't have the lag, and I think I have a pretty good idea what the cause was. I was using wandering encounters, which runs its script every 5 minutes. It seems that even after removing the mod, there must have been a vestigial empty script still being triggered on all those NPCs every 5 minutes, causing the lag.