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I though this would fit in the Tech Support forum so if it doesn't, I'm sorry.

 

Since I've started playing Skyrim this year (I've played before but not this year) modded and unmodded, I had this weird thing happening. At first I thought it was something to do with shadows or particles, but no, it ended up being the autosaves. The thing that was happening was that everytime I travelled to a new place (inside or out), through a door or a transition of some type, I would lag A LOT for a short time. Alt-tabbing would help, so I thought it was my VRAM maxing or something. So I took off graphics mods and reset my INIs but I still got this stupid FPS drop (which made my game go at probably 5 FPS). However I realised that everytime that happened the autosave was going. So I turned autosave on travel off and... woah no FPS drop.

 

Does anyone know why? Did Beth just not care about autosaves or what? Again this was with modded and a fresh install. I just would like to know why because autosaves are important. However with me, I hard save compulsively so it doesn't matter.

 

Also for some reason, it also helped with my excessively long load times. I'm just really confused.

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I tried moving them before, it still happened. However I just tried turning autosave on travel back on and now it isn't giving me a drop... Well that's weird.

 

Edit: However I'm back to long load times. BTW no save bloat, my files are almost 6mb with mods.

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Autosave takes a second or two if you have mods that are heavy scripted. I have 37 MCM menu'd mods and takes maybe 4 seconds to get thru the papyrus cycle for a save.

 

ENB and other DX hooks can also impede loading times. These have to re-compile the DX dll on focus change, in the case you have alt+tabbed or whatnot.

 

Running low on memory, swap file, AV and many other things can come into the accounting.

 

ENB reclaiming its memory can also have a long pause if you've switched focus more than a few times in one session.

 

Just some observations you might consider. :) Good luck.

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Autosave takes a second or two if you have mods that are heavy scripted. I have 37 MCM menu'd mods and takes maybe 4 seconds to get thru the papyrus cycle for a save.

 

ENB and other DX hooks can also impede loading times. These have to re-compile the DX dll on focus change, in the case you have alt+tabbed or whatnot.

 

Running low on memory, swap file, AV and many other things can come into the accounting.

 

ENB reclaiming its memory can also have a long pause if you've switched focus more than a few times in one session.

 

Just some observations you might consider. :smile: Good luck.

 

I also had this problem while using a fresh install, and I mean FRESH. Deleted all saved games, skyrim docs folder, unistalled and reinstalled Skyrim and it still happened. I kind of moved on with it and said "whatever" because I wanted to play so I modded it again.

 

I have an overabundance of RAM (24GB), I have 2 GB of VRAM, I have AVAST free which isn't too bad. The only thing I can think of would be I don't have an SSD.

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What problem?

 

FPS drop? Too many things to consider here. Could be number of npcs loaded or LOD...totally depends on your load. consider that every steel armor that you had retextured with 2K or better gets applied to at least half the number of spawns, along with any body mods, so let's get the 4k involved...so much to load all at once.

 

:wink: Just sayin, pay attention what you consider safe.

 

RAM won't be a consideration from 4k (4096mb) on in most cases. Or maybe 3.12gb...

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Personally I suggest not using auto saves or quick saves. Basically turn off all auto type saving that you can. Shouldn't be a big deal if it lags a little bit the few times the game has built in auto saves. There aren't that many. There are a lot of places that say auto saves and quick saves can crash and screw up skyrim anyways.

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