Skyrim freezing please help!

[ManicFirestorm]

Hello, as the title states Skyrim keeps freezing up every 15 minutes or so. I'm fairly new to modding but followed Gophers guide on youtube which, from what I've heard, is a way to get a good start. Any help or advice that can be given would be greatly appreciated, I'd like to enjoy my game without worrying about crashing. Thanks in advance!

PC specs

i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz

8GB Ram

Radeon R9 290

Below is my load order using LOOT.

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

3 3 Dawnguard.esm

4 4 Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

5 5 HearthFires.esm

6 6 Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

7 7 Dragonborn.esm

8 8 Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

9 9 Falskaar.esm

10 a Wyrmstooth.esp

11 b ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

12 c moonpath.esm

13 d RSkyrimChildren.esm

14 e LrsamwaysModFeatures.esm

15 f HighResTexturePack01.esp

16 10 HighResTexturePack02.esp

17 11 HighResTexturePack03.esp

18 12 Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp

19 13 TouringCarriages.esp

20 14 dragonborn with lute.esp

21 15 SkyUI.esp

22 16 iHUD.esp

23 17 SMIM-FurnitureChestSnowFix.esp

24 18 SMIM-DungeonsCliffsIceSkirts.esp

25 19 EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

26 1a Skyrim Bigger Trees Full.esp

27 1b ELFX - Exteriors.esp

28 1c ELFX - Dawnguard.esp

29 1d ELFX - Dragonborn.esp

30 1e Moss Rocks.esp

31 1f Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

32 20 DibellasCompulsion-NudeSpell-1-1.esp

33 21 ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp

34 22 WetandCold.esp

35 23 WetandCold - Ashes.esp

36 24 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

37 25 AOS.esp

38 26 3DNPC.esp

39 27 Prometheus_No_snow_Under_the_roof.esp

40 28 Better Dynamic Snow.esp

41 29 AmazingFollowerTweaks.esp

42 2a Book Covers Skyrim.esp

43 2b PinetreeLodge.esp

44 2c SDO Full-LOD - The Morthal Swamp Complete.esp

45 2d PWwaterfall.esp

46 2e Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp

47 2f Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp

48 30 ELFXEnhancer.esp

49 31 Immersive Weapons.esp

50 32 Helgen Reborn.esp

51 33 SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB + FS + WT.esp

52 34 Skyrim Immersive Creatures - DLC2.esp

53 35 BHTNF_Eli.esp

54 36 ELFX - Weathers.esp

55 37 WATER DG + DB.esp

56 38 RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp

57 39 Purewaters.esp

58 3a WATER-RND Legendary Patch.esp

59 3b Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

60 3c SDO Full-LOD - Waterfall Effects.esp

61 3d Cloaks.esp

62 3e SMIM-FarmhouseFlickeringFix.esp

63 3f SDO Full-LOD - Whiterun Trundra Creeks.esp

64 40 moonpath_questdata.esp

65 41 Immersive Followers.esp

66 42 SMIM-ShackRoofFixes.esp

67 43 Chesko_Frostfall.esp

68 44 RND_HearthFires-Patch.esp

69 45 SofiaFollower.esp

70 46 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

71 47 WATER Plants.esp

72 48 Argonian Access.esp

73 49 SDO Full-LOD - Giant Campfires.esp

74 4a ELFX - Moonpath.esp

75 4b 1nivWICCloaks.esp

76 4c 1nivWICSkyCloaksPatch.esp

77 4d SplashofRain.esp

78 4e Footprints.esp

79 4f RND_PureWaters-Patch.esp

80 50 WerewolfPerksExpanded.esp

81 51 RND_Dawnguard-Patch.esp

82 52 RND_Dragonborn-Patch.esp

83 53 RND_AnimalLoot.esp

84 54 RND_USKP-Patch.esp

85 55 Convenient Horses.esp

86 56 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

87 57 dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp

88 58 DeadlyDragons.esp

89 59 SkyFalls Dragonborn Small waterfalls.esp

90 5a SMIM-ShackRoofFixesDragonborn.esp

91 5b RSChildren - Complete.esp

92 5c RSChildren_PatchUSKP.esp

93 5d moveit.esp

94 5e RSChildren_NonPlayableOverride.esp

95 5f CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp

96 60 RSChildren_PlayableOverride.esp

97 61 LeftHandRings.esp

98 62 LeftHandRings - Dawnguard.esp

99 63 Brevi_MoonlightTales.esp

100 64 Prometheus_NSUTR Falskaar Dock.esp

101 65 WATER - Sir Crabalot Returns.esp

102 66 WerewolfMastery.esp

103 67 DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp

104 68 dovahkiinrelax.esp

105 69 ToL_Core_by_Brevi.esp

106 6a vImmersiveBeds.esp

107 6b ArmorOfIntrigue.esp

108 6c Archer's.esp

109 6d hunterarmor.esp

110 6e AOS2_EBT Patch.esp

111 6f AOS2_WetandCold Patch.esp

112 70 AOS2_DD Patch.esp

113 71 AOS2_CoT3_1_patch.esp

114 72 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

115 73 ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound.esp

116 74 ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

117 75 ExpandedSnowSystems-CoT.esp

118 76 ESS Patch for CoT DG Patch.esp

119 77 CoT-WeatherPatch_ESS.esp

120 78 Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

[Alaratt]

I have only been modding skyrim a couple months now so I'm no expert but do you need a COT-sound.esp with the COT-dawnguard-patch.esp AND a COT-sound-Dawnguard-Patch.esp? Would be the first place I would start, doubling up on patches is bad. Also I have a lot of the same mods you do and I don't have a lot of the patches you do.

[staadskart]

My money would be on the different NPC mods and the SkyFalls/SkyMills, those are what mostly make my game freeze/crash. Also make sure you un-check footprints, I've had that mod completely as unusual as it sounds that mod has crashed my game like SkyFalls/Mills did. So if I were you I'd check these things first before doing anything drastic.

 

Also like Alaratt said, check your patches. LOOT I believe will tell you if you need patches or have unnecessary ones. If it doesn't, you may want to consider using BOSS. It's fine to use both, they're just

a little different but a lot of the times one program will tell you what you need to do.

 

Look at your NPC mods, you have Amazing Follower Tweaks, Interesting NPCs (3dNPC) and Immersive Followers. Between these my bet would be AFT and IF are conflicting, as

both edit some of the Vanilla NPC's giving them the ability to be a follower. I recommend AFT over IF, there are a lot of Interesting NPC patches if needed and it is pretty compatible with many of

the other mods, plus I think that is a very excellent mod to keep. I'd also leave the Children mods unchecked and check them off separately.

For your lighting mods you have ELFX and CoT, if I were you I'd go with CoT. I believe these mods can conflict without certain patches, but I do like ELFX Interiors and I believe their is a way

to get CoT and that together. Look into it before you do anything. I'm not certain about the compatibility between them, someone else may be able to advise you better on this one. I just wouldn't

doubt them conflicting as they are both mods that have changes to lighting.

 

Also you have two different water mods, Purewaters and WATER (There is a WaterTwo btw). I recommend Purewaters, but I do believe WATER Plants works with it. I'd leave it unchecked and then check it

if you have the game working just to test it by itself.

 

I have also experienced issues with the DynaVISION mod before, I know they say it has low FPS impact but for some reason it is most definitely not the case for me.

It really put a damper on my performance, but if you are using make sure you edit the ini as the page description tells you to. Typically I steer clear of this mod

and ENBs if I'm going to have an extreme amount of mods.

Edited November 9, 2015 by staadskart