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So I've been retexturing Skyrim and testing it out and everything seemed fine in the process but now I'm noticing microstuttering and very frequent and very heavy seemingly random lag spikes.

 

My PC:

intel i7 6700k 4GHz

MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8GB

32GB (2x16gb) RAM

1TB SSD

4K G-Sync Monitor

Windows 10

 

I play in 1080p and get 60fps most of the time, even with pretty much every single 4K and Parallax mods I can find.

 

I'm concerned that it is due to Windows 10 capping the VRAM usage to 4GB but I have no way of monitoring my VRAM usage because every program I've tried which allows this either doesnt work with Skyrim with enbseries or makes Skyrim crash at startup.

 

I'll be walking along or turning around and sometimes I drop from around 60fps to as low as 15fps! It happens in certain areas e.g. near Whiterun Stables but when I try to look for any patterns where these lag spikes occur, I can't notice any.

 

Does anyone have any ideas what might cause these lag spikes or better, have any idea how I can fix them?

 

I've tried playing around with ENBoost but to be honest, I'm not sure which lines of my enblocal.ini are essential and which I need to change..I don't want to mess up my ENB so if anyone can help me with that too that would be great.

 

 

I've done a clean install and only installed graphical mods etc so far...

SKSE
ENB Series
SkyUI
SSME
Safety Load
Stable uGridsToLoad
Memory Blocks Log
Bug Fixes
Crash Fixes
Realistic Ragdolls and Force
FNIS - Fores New Idles in Skyrim
XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended
HDT Physics Extensions
HDT High Heels System
HDT Breast and Butt Physics
No More Blocky Faces
CBBE
FemFeet Redesigned
Feminine Hands
Gender and Race Height
Demoniac Female Body Texture
SkySight Skins - Male Textures
Ethereal Elven Overhaul
Better Beast Races
CoverKhajiits
Feminine Khajiit Textures
Masculine Khajiit Textures
FAR - Forgotten Argonian Roots
Male Dragonic Argonian Textures 4K
Female Dragonic Argonian Textures 4K
83Willows Whiter Teeth 4 all - Orc Khajiit, Argonian, Werewolf
Realistic Teeth
Smile in HD
Freckle Mania
Better Makeup for SKSE
High Quality Eyes
Mikan Eyes
New Mikan Eyes
LiEyes
Lind’s Human Eyes
Lind’s Elven Eyes
Cherry’s Eyes
Eyes of Aber
The Eyes of Beauty
True Eyes
True Eyes for Elves
SG Female Eyebrows
True Brows
BROWS
BEARDS
ApachiiSkyHair
SG Hair Pack
KS Hairdos - Renewal
KS Hairdos - HDT Physics
High Resolution Scars
Scarface
XCE - Warpaint and Dirt
RAWR-paint
Battle Hardened Warpaints
The Neith Team Warpaints Set
Empyrean Warpaints
Empyrean Warpaints - Custom Series
Raven’s Warpaint
Weathered and Worn Warpaints
THEHAGs Privat Wartattoos - Facial Warpaints
THEHAGs Privat Tattoos
KJ Tattoos
Wet & Cold
Real Shelter
Footprints
Blowing in the Wind
Lanterns of Skyrim
Weathered Road Signs
Hold Border Banners
Unique Border Gates
Optimized Vanilla Textures
Skyrim HD
High Poly Project
Static Mesh Improvement (SMIM)
Project Parallax Remastered
Vivid Landscapes - All In One
Skyrim HD - Terrain Parallax Tribute
aMidianBorn Landscape
aMidianBorn Solstheim Landscape
Skyrim Flora Overhaul
Immersive Fallen Trees
Unique Grasses and Groundcovers
Unbelievable Grass Two
Vivid Landscapes - Cliffs and Creeks
Vivid Landscapes - Woods
TreesHD_Skyrim_Variation (only clutter textures & 2 vurt files from landscape>trees)
4K Tree and Parallax for Pines by Pfuscher
4K Parallax Treebark
Realistic Aspen Trees
Gildergreen 4K Parallax
Hybrids HD Plants and Herbs Retexture
True Textures - Birds Nests
Green Hanging Spanish Moss HD
Better Nirnroot
High Definition Ivy
Snowy Thicket
4K and 2K HD Juniper
Realistic HD Mushrooms
Deathbell HD
Renthal’s Textures (Hand-Picked)
Bellyaches Animals and Creatures Pack
Better Shaped Female Creatures
Highland Cow Retex
Rabbits of Skyrim
Vandr Presents - HD Mudcrabs
4K-2K HD Werewolf Retexture
Bones and Skeletons Retexture
SKELETON
TROLL
DRAGON PRIEST
FALMER
GIANT
DRAUGR
Hagravens
HAGRAVEN
Wispmother HD Retexture
WISPMOTHER
Seeker and Lurker - Creature Retextures
HD Horker
Happy Horker - Rustic Retexture for HD Horker
Ancient Automatons
Rustic Death Hound
Hale - Horse Retexture
HD PMR Shadowmere
True Wolves of Skyrim
True Meeko
True Elk of Skyrim
Sabre Cats of Skyrim
Bad News Bears
Atronach and Spriggan Retextures
Storm Atronach - Creature Retexture
Frost Atronach HD Retex
Ultra High Definition Enhanced Vanilla Dragons
More Dramatic Alduin Retexture
Caliente’s Vanilla Outfits for CBBE
Immersive Armors for CBBE
CBBE Dragonborn Armors
Dawnguard Vampire Armors CBBE
Ancient Nord & Savior's Hide Armors CBBE
Dark Brotherhood Shrouded Armor CBBE
Improved NPC Clothing
Rustic Clothing
Dragonborn Clothing HD
aMidianBorn Book of Silence
Black and Gold Elven Equipment
Unique Uniques
Frankly HD Stormcloak and City Guards
Auriel’s Bow - HD Retexture
Frankly HD Miraak
Dragon Masks Retextured
Realistic HD Pickaxe
Inhabitants of Skyrim - NPC Overhaul
RS Children Overhaul
Males of Skyrim
The Ordinary Women
Bijin Wives
Bijin Warmaidens
Bijin NPCs
Seranaholic
HD Clutter reTextures by Pfuscher
Rustic Clutter Collection
Ruins Clutter Improved
HD Urns Retex
Fences of Skyrim
Better Ropes for Skyrim
HD Ore and Ingots
HD Charcoal for Smelter
Enhanced Ore Veins
HD Stone Quarry and Clay Deposit
Leather, LeatherStrips, and Leatherrack
Upgrade for Large Imperial Tent
Book Covers of Skyrim
HD Ruined Book Retexture
Rustic Elder Scroll
MAPS
HQ Paper
Realistic Paper
Business Ledger HD Retexture
Retexture for Scrolls
Detailed Chests Texture Replacers
JS Dragon Claws
Rustic Windows
Rustic Wood Post and Light Post
HD Lantern Posts by Pfuscher
SkyFix - Unique Inn Signs HD
SkyFix - HD Blacksmith Signs
Rustic East Empire Company Signage
Insanity’s City Banner Replacer
Skeever Tail HD
Taproot 1K
Troll Skull 4kHD
HD Model Ship
Enhanced HD Dragon Bones
Silly Level of Detail - Wine Cellar
High Quality Food and Ingredients
Realistic HD Food
Realistic HD Beverages
True Textures - Savory Stew
Retexture for Soup
Retexture for Bread
Potions Replacer
Rustic Oven
Rustic Cooking Station
Rustic Dinnerware
Rustic Silverware
Rustic Pottery
Clothing Iron’s Retexture
Baskets and Woven Deco UHD
HORNCANDLES
SkySight - Smelter Ultra HD
Bloodstone Chalice Reborn
Rustic Soul Gems
Azura’s Star Retexture
Jewels of the Nord
Gemling Queen Jewelry
Septim HD
Not Really HD Keys
HD Linens
HD Sacks Retexture
SkySight - HD Hi-Res Pillow
The Notice Board Redefined
Barenziah’s Glory
Ash Pile Retex
PELTAPALOOZA - Pelts of Skyrim Expansion
Pelt by Pfuscher
Rugnarok
Hectrol SPIDER WEBS Deluxe
Dricks HD Egg Sacks
Spider Egg Retexture
Better Mammoth Cheese
Falmer Ear and Hagraven Claw
Rustic Monuments and Tombstones
Dragon Glyphs HD
Rustic Word Walls
Vivid Landscapes - Birthsigns (or Rustic Standing Stones)
Rustic Nordic Murals
Alduin’s Wall Texture
Stunning Statues of Skyrim
Rens HD Shrines
Arri’s Snow Elf Ruins Retexture
DOOR
HD Dark Brotherhood Door
DUST
SOUL
SPRAY
LEAVES
RAIN
DROPS
MIST
OIL
STEAM
Ultimate HD Fire Effects
Ultimate HD Torch
HD Torches Ultra
Realistic Smoke and Embers
Embers HD
Wonders of Weather
Animated Enchantments Overhaul
Deadly Spell Impacts
Electrify
Enhanced Blood Textures
Real Ice All-In-One
Quality Snow HD 4K
Enhanced Wetness and Puddles
Vivid Landscapes - Rocking Stones and Mountains Parallax
Vivid Landscapes - Rocking Stones and Mountains Two
Transparent Wave Spray Retexture by Pfuscher
Chimney parallax addon by Pfuscher
Vivid Landscapes - Tundra Region
Vivid Landscapes - Tundra Moss Revised
Vivid Landscapes - Volcanic Area
HQ College of Winterhold
Project Skyrim HD - College of Winterhold
4K Parallax High Hrothgar by Pfuscher
Dawnguard Parallax
Vivid Landscapes - Castle Volkihar
Vandr Presents - HD Falmer Pod
Vandr Presents - HD Imperial Tower
Vivid Landscapes - Imperial Forts
The Beauty of Skyrim - Dungeons
The Beauty of Skyrim - Caves and Mines
aMidianBorn Caves and Mines
Vivid Landscapes - Dungeons and Ruins
aMidianBorn Farmhouse
aMidianBorn Farmhouse and Roads Stonewall
Vivid Landscapes - Orc and Farmhouses
Beautiful Whiterun
Project Parallax - Whiterun
aMidianBorn Whiterun
Project Parallax - Markarth
Project Parallax - Windhelm
Project Parallax - Solitude
Immersive 4K Parallax Manhole by Pfuscher
Solitude Stone Rim 4K Parallax by Pfuscher
Detailing the Eldrich - Black Books
Detailing the Eldrich - Riekling Architecture
Northfire’s Skidmarks
HD Enhanced Terrain
AOF HD Tree LODs
The Skyrim Distance Overhaul LOD Improvement
High Quality LODs
Windmills Resized
SkyFalls and SkyMills
Climates of Tamriel
Skygazer Moons - Masser and Secunda Ultra HD
Vivid Clouds and Fogs
Real Skyrim Snowflakes
Expanded Snow Systems
True Storms (and patch)
Lightning During Thunder Storms (and patch)
Realistic Water Two
Watercolor for ENB & Realistic Water Two
ENB Water on Horse Trough and Blacksmith Forge
Enhanced Lights and FX
ENB Terrain Parallax Fix
RealVision ENB for Climates of Tamriel V

 

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So I've been retexturing Skyrim and testing it out and everything seemed fine in the process but now I'm noticing microstuttering and very frequent and very heavy seemingly random lag spikes.

 

My PC:

intel i7 6700k 4GHz

MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8GB

32GB (2x16gb) RAM

1TB SSD

4K G-Sync Monitor

Windows 10

 

I play in 1080p and get 60fps most of the time, even with pretty much every single 4K and Parallax mods I can find.

 

I'm concerned that it is due to Windows 10 capping the VRAM usage to 4GB but I have no way of monitoring my VRAM usage because every program I've tried which allows this either doesnt work with Skyrim with enbseries or makes Skyrim crash at startup.

 

I'll be walking along or turning around and sometimes I drop from around 60fps to as low as 15fps! It happens in certain areas e.g. near Whiterun Stables but when I try to look for any patterns where these lag spikes occur, I can't notice any.

 

Does anyone have any ideas what might cause these lag spikes or better, have any idea how I can fix them?

 

I've tried playing around with ENBoost but to be honest, I'm not sure which lines of my enblocal.ini are essential and which I need to change..I don't want to mess up my ENB so if anyone can help me with that too that would be great.

 

 

I've done a clean install and only installed graphical mods etc so far...

SKSE
ENB Series
SkyUI
SSME
Safety Load
Stable uGridsToLoad
Memory Blocks Log
Bug Fixes
Crash Fixes
Realistic Ragdolls and Force
FNIS - Fores New Idles in Skyrim
XP32 Maximum Skeleton Extended
HDT Physics Extensions
HDT High Heels System
HDT Breast and Butt Physics
No More Blocky Faces
CBBE
FemFeet Redesigned
Feminine Hands
Gender and Race Height
Demoniac Female Body Texture
SkySight Skins - Male Textures
Ethereal Elven Overhaul
Better Beast Races
CoverKhajiits
Feminine Khajiit Textures
Masculine Khajiit Textures
FAR - Forgotten Argonian Roots
Male Dragonic Argonian Textures 4K
Female Dragonic Argonian Textures 4K
83Willows Whiter Teeth 4 all - Orc Khajiit, Argonian, Werewolf
Realistic Teeth
Smile in HD
Freckle Mania
Better Makeup for SKSE
High Quality Eyes
Mikan Eyes
New Mikan Eyes
LiEyes
Lind’s Human Eyes
Lind’s Elven Eyes
Cherry’s Eyes
Eyes of Aber
The Eyes of Beauty
True Eyes
True Eyes for Elves
SG Female Eyebrows
True Brows
BROWS
BEARDS
ApachiiSkyHair
SG Hair Pack
KS Hairdos - Renewal
KS Hairdos - HDT Physics
High Resolution Scars
Scarface
XCE - Warpaint and Dirt
RAWR-paint
Battle Hardened Warpaints
The Neith Team Warpaints Set
Empyrean Warpaints
Empyrean Warpaints - Custom Series
Raven’s Warpaint
Weathered and Worn Warpaints
THEHAGs Privat Wartattoos - Facial Warpaints
THEHAGs Privat Tattoos
KJ Tattoos
Wet & Cold
Real Shelter
Footprints
Blowing in the Wind
Lanterns of Skyrim
Weathered Road Signs
Hold Border Banners
Unique Border Gates
Optimized Vanilla Textures
Skyrim HD
High Poly Project
Static Mesh Improvement (SMIM)
Project Parallax Remastered
Vivid Landscapes - All In One
Skyrim HD - Terrain Parallax Tribute
aMidianBorn Landscape
aMidianBorn Solstheim Landscape
Skyrim Flora Overhaul
Immersive Fallen Trees
Unique Grasses and Groundcovers
Unbelievable Grass Two
Vivid Landscapes - Cliffs and Creeks
Vivid Landscapes - Woods
TreesHD_Skyrim_Variation (only clutter textures & 2 vurt files from landscape>trees)
4K Tree and Parallax for Pines by Pfuscher
4K Parallax Treebark
Realistic Aspen Trees
Gildergreen 4K Parallax
Hybrids HD Plants and Herbs Retexture
True Textures - Birds Nests
Green Hanging Spanish Moss HD
Better Nirnroot
High Definition Ivy
Snowy Thicket
4K and 2K HD Juniper
Realistic HD Mushrooms
Deathbell HD
Renthal’s Textures (Hand-Picked)
Bellyaches Animals and Creatures Pack
Better Shaped Female Creatures
Highland Cow Retex
Rabbits of Skyrim
Vandr Presents - HD Mudcrabs
4K-2K HD Werewolf Retexture
Bones and Skeletons Retexture
SKELETON
TROLL
DRAGON PRIEST
FALMER
GIANT
DRAUGR
Hagravens
HAGRAVEN
Wispmother HD Retexture
WISPMOTHER
Seeker and Lurker - Creature Retextures
HD Horker
Happy Horker - Rustic Retexture for HD Horker
Ancient Automatons
Rustic Death Hound
Hale - Horse Retexture
HD PMR Shadowmere
True Wolves of Skyrim
True Meeko
True Elk of Skyrim
Sabre Cats of Skyrim
Bad News Bears
Atronach and Spriggan Retextures
Storm Atronach - Creature Retexture
Frost Atronach HD Retex
Ultra High Definition Enhanced Vanilla Dragons
More Dramatic Alduin Retexture
Caliente’s Vanilla Outfits for CBBE
Immersive Armors for CBBE
CBBE Dragonborn Armors
Dawnguard Vampire Armors CBBE
Ancient Nord & Savior's Hide Armors CBBE
Dark Brotherhood Shrouded Armor CBBE
Improved NPC Clothing
Rustic Clothing
Dragonborn Clothing HD
aMidianBorn Book of Silence
Black and Gold Elven Equipment
Unique Uniques
Frankly HD Stormcloak and City Guards
Auriel’s Bow - HD Retexture
Frankly HD Miraak
Dragon Masks Retextured
Realistic HD Pickaxe
Inhabitants of Skyrim - NPC Overhaul
RS Children Overhaul
Males of Skyrim
The Ordinary Women
Bijin Wives
Bijin Warmaidens
Bijin NPCs
Seranaholic
HD Clutter reTextures by Pfuscher
Rustic Clutter Collection
Ruins Clutter Improved
HD Urns Retex
Fences of Skyrim
Better Ropes for Skyrim
HD Ore and Ingots
HD Charcoal for Smelter
Enhanced Ore Veins
HD Stone Quarry and Clay Deposit
Leather, LeatherStrips, and Leatherrack
Upgrade for Large Imperial Tent
Book Covers of Skyrim
HD Ruined Book Retexture
Rustic Elder Scroll
MAPS
HQ Paper
Realistic Paper
Business Ledger HD Retexture
Retexture for Scrolls
Detailed Chests Texture Replacers
JS Dragon Claws
Rustic Windows
Rustic Wood Post and Light Post
HD Lantern Posts by Pfuscher
SkyFix - Unique Inn Signs HD
SkyFix - HD Blacksmith Signs
Rustic East Empire Company Signage
Insanity’s City Banner Replacer
Skeever Tail HD
Taproot 1K
Troll Skull 4kHD
HD Model Ship
Enhanced HD Dragon Bones
Silly Level of Detail - Wine Cellar
High Quality Food and Ingredients
Realistic HD Food
Realistic HD Beverages
True Textures - Savory Stew
Retexture for Soup
Retexture for Bread
Potions Replacer
Rustic Oven
Rustic Cooking Station
Rustic Dinnerware
Rustic Silverware
Rustic Pottery
Clothing Iron’s Retexture
Baskets and Woven Deco UHD
HORNCANDLES
SkySight - Smelter Ultra HD
Bloodstone Chalice Reborn
Rustic Soul Gems
Azura’s Star Retexture
Jewels of the Nord
Gemling Queen Jewelry
Septim HD
Not Really HD Keys
HD Linens
HD Sacks Retexture
SkySight - HD Hi-Res Pillow
The Notice Board Redefined
Barenziah’s Glory
Ash Pile Retex
PELTAPALOOZA - Pelts of Skyrim Expansion
Pelt by Pfuscher
Rugnarok
Hectrol SPIDER WEBS Deluxe
Dricks HD Egg Sacks
Spider Egg Retexture
Better Mammoth Cheese
Falmer Ear and Hagraven Claw
Rustic Monuments and Tombstones
Dragon Glyphs HD
Rustic Word Walls
Vivid Landscapes - Birthsigns (or Rustic Standing Stones)
Rustic Nordic Murals
Alduin’s Wall Texture
Stunning Statues of Skyrim
Rens HD Shrines
Arri’s Snow Elf Ruins Retexture
DOOR
HD Dark Brotherhood Door
DUST
SOUL
SPRAY
LEAVES
RAIN
DROPS
MIST
OIL
STEAM
Ultimate HD Fire Effects
Ultimate HD Torch
HD Torches Ultra
Realistic Smoke and Embers
Embers HD
Wonders of Weather
Animated Enchantments Overhaul
Deadly Spell Impacts
Electrify
Enhanced Blood Textures
Real Ice All-In-One
Quality Snow HD 4K
Enhanced Wetness and Puddles
Vivid Landscapes - Rocking Stones and Mountains Parallax
Vivid Landscapes - Rocking Stones and Mountains Two
Transparent Wave Spray Retexture by Pfuscher
Chimney parallax addon by Pfuscher
Vivid Landscapes - Tundra Region
Vivid Landscapes - Tundra Moss Revised
Vivid Landscapes - Volcanic Area
HQ College of Winterhold
Project Skyrim HD - College of Winterhold
4K Parallax High Hrothgar by Pfuscher
Dawnguard Parallax
Vivid Landscapes - Castle Volkihar
Vandr Presents - HD Falmer Pod
Vandr Presents - HD Imperial Tower
Vivid Landscapes - Imperial Forts
The Beauty of Skyrim - Dungeons
The Beauty of Skyrim - Caves and Mines
aMidianBorn Caves and Mines
Vivid Landscapes - Dungeons and Ruins
aMidianBorn Farmhouse
aMidianBorn Farmhouse and Roads Stonewall
Vivid Landscapes - Orc and Farmhouses
Beautiful Whiterun
Project Parallax - Whiterun
aMidianBorn Whiterun
Project Parallax - Markarth
Project Parallax - Windhelm
Project Parallax - Solitude
Immersive 4K Parallax Manhole by Pfuscher
Solitude Stone Rim 4K Parallax by Pfuscher
Detailing the Eldrich - Black Books
Detailing the Eldrich - Riekling Architecture
Northfire’s Skidmarks
HD Enhanced Terrain
AOF HD Tree LODs
The Skyrim Distance Overhaul LOD Improvement
High Quality LODs
Windmills Resized
SkyFalls and SkyMills
Climates of Tamriel
Skygazer Moons - Masser and Secunda Ultra HD
Vivid Clouds and Fogs
Real Skyrim Snowflakes
Expanded Snow Systems
True Storms (and patch)
Lightning During Thunder Storms (and patch)
Realistic Water Two
Watercolor for ENB & Realistic Water Two
ENB Water on Horse Trough and Blacksmith Forge
Enhanced Lights and FX
ENB Terrain Parallax Fix
RealVision ENB for Climates of Tamriel V

 

 

 

 

This being caused by your G sync monitor, and adaptive v sync and you need to lock refresh rate at 60 hertz to eliminate the issue.

 

Skyrm requires a refresh rate no higher than 60 hertz because otherwise it creates issues with CPU driven physics.

 

If you read up on it you will find the havoc engine does not play well over 60 hertz refresh rate.

You may have to experiment a little bit with the actual refresh rate in order to Solve your specific issue.

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I run a GTX 980Ti on 6GB, WIn 10 and an i7 processor with buckets of RAM and a 21:9 GSync wide monitor.

 

Pick yourself up a copy of NVidia Inspector (google it - it's free - requests donations). STEP give a guide on how to use it. This will allow you to set a cap of 60 FPS for a start which does resolve quite a few issues, plus other things. Secondly, in the ENBLocal.ini, (because Win 10 makes a mess of the 32 bit games with its new "compression layers"), you need to set these lines:

 

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false
ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true
DisableDriverMemoryManager=false
DisablePreloadToVRAM=false
EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false //I found using 'true' adds nearly 1GB Memory Load in places! EEK!
ReservedMemorySizeMb=384 //this is purely my preferred setting
VideoMemorySizeMb=3714 //Win 10 memory bug max = 4096. Knock 350 off and set to 3714. [sadly this is the limit - no point using any higher]
EnableCompression=true //just experiment with true / false if you continue to experience stuttering after setting the above
AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false // set to false for "VideoMemorySizeMb" to take effect

 

You can tinker with ReservedMemorySize to fix micro-stutter but don't set it too high. There are guides in STEP and other places for that line.

 

I get pretty much 60FPS on a 2k everywhere except for Whiterun, WIndhelm, and Solitude where it staggers a bit. Sadly the 32bit limit means you are up against Win 10's memory abomination if you have a lot of mods and textures. I tried the 4k parallax stuff but it was a bit too heavy for my 980Ti and my giant pile of mods (almost as adventurous as yours)!

 

I do get weird collapses to 10FPS from time to time - Dragon's Bridge with JK Skyrim is one. But there seems to be nothing I can do to fix it short of wait for the texture packs to load. I understand texture packs like to use contiguous blocks of memory, so that might be a cause of that.

 

I look forward to the new release in October: 64bit! Yay!

 

Hope this helps you.

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This being caused by your G sync monitor, and adaptive v sync and you need to lock refresh rate at 60 hertz to eliminate the issue.

 

Skyrm requires a refresh rate no higher than 60 hertz because otherwise it creates issues with CPU driven physics.

 

If you read up on it you will find the havoc engine does not play well over 60 hertz refresh rate.

You may have to experiment a little bit with the actual refresh rate in order to Solve your specific issue.

 

 

Oh right...I thought G-Sync was supposed to improve microsuttering. So should I turn off G-Sync and/or V-Sync?

 

I believe I have already turned off V-Sync and I have tried to cap my FPS at 60 using the ENBlocal.ini, how else can I cap the frames?

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I run a GTX 980Ti on 6GB, WIn 10 and an i7 processor with buckets of RAM and a 21:9 GSync wide monitor.

 

Pick yourself up a copy of NVidia Inspector (google it - it's free - requests donations). STEP give a guide on how to use it. This will allow you to set a cap of 60 FPS for a start which does resolve quite a few issues, plus other things. Secondly, in the ENBLocal.ini, (because Win 10 makes a mess of the 32 bit games with its new "compression layers"), you need to set these lines:

 

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false //I found using 'true' adds nearly 1GB Memory Load in places! EEK!

ReservedMemorySizeMb=384 //this is purely my preferred setting

VideoMemorySizeMb=3714 //Win 10 memory bug max = 4096. Knock 350 off and set to 3714. [sadly this is the limit - no point using any higher]

EnableCompression=true //just experiment with true / false if you continue to experience stuttering after setting the above

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false // set to false for "VideoMemorySizeMb" to take effect

 

You can tinker with ReservedMemorySize to fix micro-stutter but don't set it too high. There are guides in STEP and other places for that line.

 

I get pretty much 60FPS on a 2k everywhere except for Whiterun, WIndhelm, and Solitude where it staggers a bit. Sadly the 32bit limit means you are up against Win 10's memory abomination if you have a lot of mods and textures. I tried the 4k parallax stuff but it was a bit too heavy for my 980Ti and my giant pile of mods (almost as adventurous as yours)!

 

I do get weird collapses to 10FPS from time to time - Dragon's Bridge with JK Skyrim is one. But there seems to be nothing I can do to fix it short of wait for the texture packs to load. I understand texture packs like to use contiguous blocks of memory, so that might be a cause of that.

 

I look forward to the new release in October: 64bit! Yay!

 

Hope this helps you.

 

Thank you, thats really helpful information. It seemed like my game was totally screwed so I've done a clean reinstall (thank god I was only doing a test run!). So if I run into the problems again, I'll definitely take your advice into account and I also need to read STEP more in depth.

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Thanks! Don't turn off G-Synch! That's the most amazing thing - works a treat! It makes my game as smooth as butter but the high FPS spikes started sending things a bit wonky with flying interior objects, etc..

I gather Skyrim likes to run at 30 or 60FPS and NVidia Inspector is really neat at forcing a cap without using the ENB FPS cap which is a bit iffy on holding the cap.

I also like to keep my 980Ti card at 75 degrees C max, as I prefer to maintain my investment rather than barbecue it. NVidia Inspector allows me to do that easily, too.

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Thanks! Don't turn off G-Synch! That's the most amazing thing - works a treat! It makes my game as smooth as butter but the high FPS spikes started sending things a bit wonky with flying interior objects, etc..

I gather Skyrim likes to run at 30 or 60FPS and NVidia Inspector is really neat at forcing a cap without using the ENB FPS cap which is a bit iffy on holding the cap.

I also like to keep my 980Ti card at 75 degrees C max, as I prefer to maintain my investment rather than barbecue it. NVidia Inspector allows me to do that easily, too.

 

Thanks again, thats also really helpful :) Yeah I was going to say..I didn't really want to be turning G-sync off so great, I'll leave it on! :) I'll have to use NVIDIA inspector more and add a cap if problems persist.

After doing some more careful reading of STEP, I've found that increasing ReservedMemorySizeMb in my enblocal.ini may help with my stuttering. I wondered why Tetrachromatic ENB was smoother than RealVision - turns out that option in the enblocal.ini for Tetra is set to 512 whereas the default for RealVision ENB is less than this, so I've bumped it up to 640 and even though I've done a clean reinstall and got rid of all my textures now, it seems to be smoother...I'll just have to see what happens when I put my textures back on and perhaps I need to keep experimenting with my enblocal.ini.

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Out of curiosity, I lifted my NVidia Inspector cap to 80fps, and reduced the reserved memory size down. I think the result is a smoother game. So it's worth experimenting (brave last words before game crashes....) :teehee:

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Same result did the stuff you guys said to do and am still getting micro stuttering
When i put enb in and it enabled a enb filter "a thing that changes the screen color " its just made it worse went outside from the cave and it's a whole lot worse. Before I tried these settings it was perfectly fine, good 60fps all the time but when i go into caves and dungeons it micro stutters really bad.... Here are my specs

AMD FX 4300 3.80Ghz "4 core all unparked "
AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB
8GB DDR3 1600mhz
1920x1080 60hz HDMI

I also tried setting FPS limiter to 59fps on the Radeon crimson driver and a few moments ago i tried setting fps limiter to 59 fps and selected 60Hz monitor on the Radeon Pro program and the same result
Here are my settings for the Radeon crimson driver

This is the SKSE of skyrim
https://i.imgur.com/2h12y6v.jpg

This is the original games .exe
https://i.imgur.com/ZyBtvgz.jpg

any help would be great

I still need to look but is there any thing on Nexus that could help my issue with the micro stuttering in Caves and dungeons
and its only on those to types nothing else the rest of the games run amazing

and remember i have skyrim legendary edition latest version

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Ok so i have a Update ...... I also removed ENB from the game because it just made the problem worse so why have it

When i start the game and load the same save i noticed that " yes it's still bad the same as 5 mins ago " after a few mins of playing i see it starts to smoothen out less and less Micro stutter so i left the cave went outside no Microstuttering... I went back into the cave and i went around to find those spots in the cave " i was eyeing that frame counter " and i notice when i do stutter it goes to 61, 63, and 65 fps at different times... but most of the time after it smoothen out it's steady at 60FPS


So what i do know is the havoc game engine can't handle anything higher then 60 FPS or it will stutter
I don't get it i tried setting the fps CAP under Radeon Crimson control panel i also tried the Radeon pro
What i have not tried was setting it in the INI

Going to try that next after i hit post

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