What's your experience with Ugridstoload?

[Yizzin]

Greetings,

 

I thought it was impossible but after a monstrosity amount of test I can safely say that my Skyrim is beautiful and 100% playable with no repulsive CTD (yeahi)

 

But there's one last thing I know I can do to dramatically improve the look of my game. Yes, I'm talking about tweaking Ugridstoload to 7,9, or 11.

 

First, I've got a pretty decent computer:

 

-i7 4790k @4,4Ghz

-GTX 970 Gigabyte @OC1450mhz

-Vengeance 16GB of ram 1600mhz

 

As I said, my game is 100% playable with no CTD, I've got like 120mods running, a lot of textures and some other things. But whenever I tweak my Ugridstoload value to a higher one, let's say 9, eventually my game crashes. I stress the game with console commands "tcl" and "player.setav speedmult 1500" and I just test how much time it takes before my game breaks, and yes, it breaks, and the reason is not other than Ugridstoload, which it's quite strange due to the fact that I'm using SSME.

 

I've tried solutions such as "Real ugrids to load solution" link: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48387/? and "Stable ugrids" http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41592/?, I still get CTD when I tweak my Ugridstoload. So my question is why? there are people claiming that they've played for hundreds of hours with Ugrids to 7 or 9, and they get no issues.

 

At this point, do you play with Ugrids? Have you had any issues? How you made your ugrids stable?

 

Thanks for your comments!

 

 

[saurusmaximus]

I never had any stability issues when I increased it ( I never tried it above 9) but I did have a problem with save game bloat after I did. My saves started running 30-40mb at like level 25, which is too high for my setup. I did start having ctd issues from that, the large saves, but it was caused by changing my ugrids.

[tejano2828]

I am sure you aware that the higher the number the more memory you need..

 

Skyrim caps off at a certain point and crashes try this memory fix Gopher talks

about it and I have been using it as as long as you have lots of ram you shouldn't have

any issues. I believe I am running Ugrids 7 my game runs very stable with 255 mods

 

here is the link..should check out his other ugridstoload video very informative.

 

[Shubal]

Dyndolod kind of makes higher grids obsolete and at no real cost to performance.

[Yizzin]

@tejano2828: I have that patch since I start modding my game. I just wrote that above... that is called SSME. I saw that video like 3 times, I know how it works, my game crashes, and when I track the memory usage with the .log file it doesn't reach 512mb, so it shouldn't crash, but it does.

 

@Old Hand: My problem is not related to my savegame, it works fine. But if I increase my Ugrids to 9 my game will crash, otherwise It won't crash.

 

@Shubal: I have that mod installed. Although it's good it's not so great comparing it to Ugrids, I've tested it and see it by myself.

 

Anyways, I won't die for not increasing my ugrids, but it could be a nice feature to improve, my computer can handle that and more.

Edited June 22, 2015 by Yizzin

[saurusmaximus]

I've always used Stable ugrids to load. As I said, my game didn't crash because of increasing my ugrids settings per se, and to be honest, I'm not 100% sure my increased ugrids was the cause of my troubles, it was one of several things I did to stabilize my game. I also didn't feel that the increased ugrids setting made that much difference in the way my game looked, so I put it back to 5. But as always, that is a subjective thing. I really don't see why you should be having any trouble with your setup, you have a superior machine to mine and I could pull it off; unless you are already taxing your rig with lots of HD textures and enb.

[Shivala]

What I learned from a few modders is that a lot of mess has to do with script processing or memory filling up. With more grids loading, your machine has to do more, and if the scripts can't be handled correctly you can get savegame bloat and/or memory is full and you get CTD.

 

There was a definite correlation for instance with CTDs and savegame bloat when I used ugrids on 7 or 9 and using convenient horses (script heavy when I used in January) So I always check if mods are lean in that sense.

[ferferga]

You need to modify your memory patch through SKSE to extend the memory engine. If you don´t do this, you will crash.

[yudhi108]

Yizzin, will you please post your load order? Good job on getting a good game going with no CTD. I've got a great game going but too man CTD's. I think it's the SL mods. It was the first major build I did that was pretty successful. I'm sure I could do a better build now but I'm too lazy. This build does work just not as good as I want.

 

 

 

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