Syonryoken Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 hi I am running on a i7, 4gb ram, and Nvidia GTX 560m SLI. For some reason, recently whenever I play, the game will run at a smooth 30 with enb and everything but every 30 secs it will freeze for literally a second then return to normal speed. Any ideas as to why that would happen? help would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I'm willing to bet you're running low on RAM. With that rig, you're probably running ultra-ish settings but you don't have the RAM to support it. But maybe I'm wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 I'm willing to bet you're running low on RAM. With that rig, you're probably running ultra-ish settings but you don't have the RAM to support it. But maybe I'm wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) Nice freakin' lag, Nexus. Edited March 31, 2012 by Morwyn Kelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun188 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) I get the same thing with my single 560 and i7. I have 4gb ram too. The game runs great for a while but then after playing for around 10 minutes, I get random 1-5 second freezes before going back to 40-60 fps. I don't know what causes this, it seems to happen more often when I travel long distances, fast travel or leave/enter a city but even in those cases, it happens at random times. Some times I get 30 minutes between them but other times I get them every few minutes. Purging cell buffers(pcb) doesn't seem to make a difference. Edited March 31, 2012 by shotgun188 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) Pretty sure this is a RAM problem - or lack thereof. It's having to swap piles of information back and fourth because it's running out. Try this tweak: Add/modify the following to your Skyrim.ini: [General]iNumHWThreads=4fMasterFilePreLoadMB=40.0000iPreloadSizeLimit=52428800bUseThreadedMorpher=1bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1bUseThreadedTempEffects=1bMultiThreadMovement=1bDisableAllGore=0bTrackAllDeaths=1bPreemptivelyUnloadCells=1 The important function for you here is bPreemptivelyUnloadCells making the engine purge areas and material it doesn't need, freeing up some ram. Good luck. And btw, max out the ram on your motherboard and run Win7 x64 Home Premium. Trust me, you'll be glad you did. Your system is beefy but it's crippled by the low ram available. Edited March 31, 2012 by Morwyn Kelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun188 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Wouldn't that make AI in other parts of Skyrim stop? If it does than lots of events will be buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorwynKelm Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 It doesn't affect AI on scripts that have already fired. This is why mucking with things like uGrids makes such a mess and will inevitably bork your game. bPreemptivelyUnloadCells will only affect cells that can be freed up because they are no longer needed. It's vital for low-ram systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun188 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 It doesn't affect AI on scripts that have already fired. This is why mucking with things like uGrids makes such a mess and will inevitably bork your game. bPreemptivelyUnloadCells will only affect cells that can be freed up because they are no longer needed. It's vital for low-ram systems.Maybe me setting that value to 7 was what caused my problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GomuGomu64 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Download this ENB Series Had the exact same problem, but after downloading that ENB Series patch, and adding my vendorid and deviceid, everything runs smooth without a single drop in quality or framerate. I recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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