occasional major slowdown on loading an exterior cell

[Aluminumfoil]

Sometimes when I transition from an interior cell to an exterior cell, I experience major performance loss for no apparent reason. Quitting Skyrim and reloading the game always solves it. Like, a few minutes ago: 40 fps inside Shriekwind Bastion. Zone to the exterior, and all of a sudden I'm getting 10 fps. Save. Quit. Reload. Back to 40 fps.

 

It's not that bad of a problem, since the workaround takes all of thirty seconds and it only happens maybe 1/10th of the times I transfer from interior to exterior. Still, any ideas what is causing this and how I might fix it?

Edited December 3, 2011 by Aluminumfoil

[xaliqen]

Sounds like the game might not be unloading previous cells from memory often enough to maintain optimum performance on your system.

 

You'll probably want to experiment with a purge cell buffer mod when one becomes available.

 

In the meantime, try pcb as a console command when you experience slow-down.

Edited December 3, 2011 by xaliqen

[Aluminumfoil]

Alright, thanks :) I'll update here when I encounter the problem again with a report on whether or not that fix worked, in case other people are having this problem.

[Aluminumfoil]

disregard, not actually sure whether it worked or not. Need more testing. Edited December 4, 2011 by Aluminumfoil

[xaliqen]

Alright, let us know if it helps. Another thing to check is your ini files, just make sure it's loading 5 or less under uGridsToLoad and that uExterior Cell Buffer is 36 or less. If you have more than 4 gigs of RAM, you could also try the 4 GB Skyrim laucher.