Game is extremely laggy; didn't use to be

[Phigon]

To all who will offer help and advice, I'd like to say thank you in advance.

 

I own Skyrim through Steam on my laptop. I haven't played it in a while (honestly, probably a year or so), but have decided to get back into lately. Since I last played so long ago, I haven't downloaded any new mods, and it ran fine with the ones I did have (which weren't many to begin with). When I first started playing again (this past Friday) it ran fine for about an hour, but not the screen will freeze for lengthy periods of time whenever I move a few steps forward or change the camera angle. I tried deleting all my mods, and that didn't help. After that I tried starting a new game, which didn't help either. So I uninstalled Skyrim from Steam and redownloaded it. Both vanilla Skyrim and Skyrim being launched through SKSE still result in the constant freezing. In some of my tests, in beginning a new game, some weird things have happened too. For example, on one test when I got to the chopping block and put my head down, the dragon showed up, but never landed. He just flew around Helgen while the executor just gazed at me... another time, the horse carriage stopped where it normally does, the thief said "Why are we stopping?!", but the guy who talks through most of the ride didn't say his "Why do you think?" line, and we just sat in the carriage, with nothing happening. I could look around, but we never got unloaded from the carriage.

 

Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but there you go. Here are my laptop specs:

 

Windows edition: Windows 10

Processor: Intel® Core i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz

Installed memory (RAM): 6.00 GB (5.89 GB usable)

System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M with 2GB Dedicate J VRAM

 

I'm not sure how to check what version Skyrim is currently in.

I use NMM version 0.63.1

I have no DLC

I'm using whatever version of SKSE comes with NMM, so I suppose that's 0.63.1 also?

I don't have anything like BOSS or LOOT, nor do I know what they are.

 

And like I said before, I deleted all my mods from NMM itself, so if they're still a problem, I don't see how.

 

Again, thank you to anyone who can help me out with this. I really want to get back into Skyrim with some of the mods I was using before!

[ymf331]

sometimes you could run into problems if you install in program files on windows 10, so while you have skyrim uninstalled you could maybe put everything in c instead. if you want to install mods, mod organizer, loot, and xedit are pretty much a requirement. they're not really that hard to use, but obviously when you install multiple game-modifying plugins there's a certain level of incompatibility that you have to fix. a few things that will improve your performance are skse memory patch, crash fixes, and project optimization. theoretically, based on your specs, you should be able to run 2k textures fine (might not want too many scripts going) but you CAN find optimized textures on the nexus. they're basically scaled-down versions of high-res textures that pretty much look the same on a computer monitor.

[Project579]

Crash Fixes, SKSE and ENBoost are a must for skyrim stability as well.

[Phigon]

Crash Fixes, SKSE and ENBoost are a must for skyrim stability as well.

 

Yea I have SKSE. Where do I get Crash Fixes and ENBoost?

[Project579]

Tutorial:

Create a file called skse.ini in Skyrim\Data\SKSE\ if you don't have it already, then write inside (remove other lines that might be inside the file):

[General]

ClearInvalidRegistrations=1

EnableDiagnostics=1 ;<----you can leave this to 0 turn to 1 if debugging

[Display]

iTintTextureResolution=2048

[Debug]

WriteMinidumps=1 ;<----you can leave this to 0 turn to 1 if debugging

After that download and install Crash Fixes: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/?

Download and install Bug Fixes as well: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/76747/?

After having installed it navigate to Skyrim\Data\SKSE\Pugins\CrashFixPlugin.ini

Modify in CrashFixPlugin.ini UseOSAllocators=1 follow the instructions above this line to make it work. You will need to download and install SKSE Plugin Preloader Link: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75795/?

ENB can be used without graphics modification (ENBoost) it will improve performance and stability, for more info visit http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/73618/? :

First download the latest ENB ( http://enbdev.com/download_mod_tesskyrim.html ) in the archive, extract from the wrapper version: enbhost.exe, d3d9.dll, enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini to your Skyrim directory (where TESV.exe is located)

In enblocal.ini edit:

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false ;<-----set this to true leave to false if you have an ENB.

UseDefferedRendering=true

IgnoreCreationKit=true

ForceFakeVideocard=false

[MEMORY]

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false ;<-----make sure this is set to false is obsolete and will interfere with Crash Fixes or SKSE memory patch (causes crashes especially in Win10)

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false ;<---------Set to true when experiencing CTD's even while ENBoost features are enabled, mainly intended for AMD-users.

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false ;<------make sure this is set to false only works when ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true as previously sad this only causes problems

ReservedMemorySizeMb=64 ;<-----if using an ENB you know what goes here otherwise increase if you experience some stutter.

VideoMemorySizeMb=4064 ;<-----Users should download and run Boris's VRamSizeTest tool. Run the VRamSizeDX9.exe. Windows 7 users subtract 170 from the value provided and use that value. Windows 8/8.1/10 users use the value provided. If AutodetectVideoMemorySize=true this value is ignored and auto-calculated.

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false ;<-----set this to true if you want auto VRAM size calculation

If you feel like skse or Crash Fixes are not working correctly create a shortcut with this argument and launch the game from it (if you are on ModOrganizer add to the SKSE executable the -forcesteamloader argument)i suggest you do this even if there are no problems:

[saurusmaximus]

Another thing to try is updating/reinstalling your video drivers