Trying to eliminate consitant stutter on modern hardware with heavy modded game

[natranr]

So, to start off, I have W10, Core i5 4670K @4.3GHz, 2400MHz 16GB, and Radeon RX 480 8GB.

 

Here is my load order:

  0  0     Oblivion.esm
  1  1     Harvest[Containers].esm
  2  2     Harvest[Containers] - Havok Crates Add-on.esm
  3  3     Harvest[Containers] - Player Home Add-on.esm
  4  4     Harvest[Containers] - Flat-Top Barrels Add-on.esm
  5  5     All Natural Base.esm
  6  6     Progress.esm
  7  7     StarX Vampire Deaths.esm
  8  8     RealisticLeveling.esm
  9  9     Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp
 10  a     UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp
 11  b     Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp
 12  c     DLCShiveringIsles.esp
 13  d     Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp
 14  e     DLCBattlehornCastle.esp
 15  f     DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp
 16 10     DLCThievesDen.esp
 17 11     DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp
 18 12     DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp
 19 13     DLCMehrunesRazor.esp
 20 14     DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp
 21 15     DLCVileLair.esp
 22 16     DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp
 23 17     DLCHorseArmor.esp
 24 18     DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp
 25 19     DLCOrrery.esp
 26 1a     DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp
 27 1b     DLCSpellTomes.esp
           DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp
 28 1c     DLCFrostcrag.esp
 29 1d     DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp
 30 1e     Knights.esp
 31 1f     Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp
 32 20     Harvest [Flora].esp
           Harvest [Flora] - DLCVileLair.esp
           Harvest [Flora] - Shivering Isles.esp
 33 21     ProgressRacial.esp
 34 22     ProgressRBSP.esp
 35 23     All Natural - Real Lights.esp
 36 24     ProgressSBSP.esp
 37 25     ProgressGSD.esp
 38 26     ProgressMBSP.esp
 39 27     xulRiverEthe.esp
 40 28     xulTheEasternPeaks.esp
 41 29     xulAncientYews.esp
 42 2a     xulCloudtopMountains.esp
 43 2b     xulBravilBarrowfields.esp
 44 2c     xulLushWoodlands.esp
 45 2d     Better Dungeons.esp
 46 2e     xulCheydinhalFalls.esp
 47 2f     xulSilverfishRiverValley.esp
 48 30     All Natural - SI.esp
 49 31     Oblivion_Character_Overhaul.esp
 50 32     WindowLightingSystem.esp
 51 33     Alluring Potion Bottles v3.esp
 52 34     Unique Landscapes.esp
 53 35     xulBlackwoodForest.esp
 54 36     xulBeachesOfCyrodiilLostCoast.esp
 55 37     xulColovianHighlands_EV.esp
 56 38     xulChorrolHinterland.esp
 57 39     xulArriusCreek.esp
 58 3a     xulSnowdale.esp
           Weapon Improvement Project.esp
           VA_BetterGold.esp
 59 3b     AliveWaters - Slaughterfish Addon.esp
 60 3c     AliveWaters.esp
 61 3d     xulAncientRedwoods.esp
 62 3e     xulJerallGlacier.esp
 63 3f     Sounds of Cyrodiil.esp
 64 40     All Natural.esp
 65 41     xulEntiusGorge.esp
 66 42     xulCliffsOfAnvil.esp
 67 43     xulBrenaRiverRavine.esp
 68 44     xulTheHeath.esp
 69 45     xuldarkforest.esp
 70 46     xulAspenWood.esp
 71 47     xulRollingHills_EV.esp
 72 48     xulFallenleafEverglade.esp
 73 49     xulSkingradOutskirts.esp
 74 4a     xulStendarrValley.esp
 75 4b     xulPantherRiver.esp
 76 4c     Immersive Interiors - Imperial City.esp
 77 4d     CapesandCloaks.esp
 78 4e     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Arboretum.esp
 79 4f     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Arena.esp
 80 50     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Elven Gardens.esp
 81 51     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Market.esp
 82 52     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Talos Plaza.esp
 83 53     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Temple.esp
 84 54     AliveWaters - Koi Addon.esp
 85 55     Dynamic Map.esp
 86 56     ProgressArmorer.esp
 87 57     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Green Emperor Way.esp
 88 58     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Prison.esp
 89 59     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - The Arcane University.esp
 90 5a     Enhanced Vegetation [110%].esp
 91 5b     Consistent Beggar Voices.esp
           Kart Hair Replace v01.esp
 92 5c     Immersive Interiors.esp
 93 5d     Immersive Interiors - Bravil.esp
 94 5e     Immersive Interiors - Landscape Addon.esp
 95 5f     Distant Chapel Bells.esp
 96 60     Better Bell Sounds.esp
 97 61     GOSH.esp
 98 62     Side's EAX Control.esp
           Improved Fires and Flames - Increased Sound.esp
           Real Lava 1.3.esp
 99 63     RoadLights.esp
100 64     xulImperialIsle.esp
           Grass Overhaul.esp
101 65     Ravens and Seagulls.esp
102 66     Falling Leaves.esp
103 67     Falling Leaves - UL LushWoodlands Patch.esp
104 68     ImpeREAL City Unique Districts - Waterfront.esp
105 69     Ducks and Swans.esp
106 6a     Glowing Wonders.esp
107 6b     xulPatch_AY_AC.esp
108 6c     Trade and Commerce.esp
           Grass Overhaul_xUL_Imperial_Isle_patch.esp
109 6d     FarmAnimalsofCyrodiil.esp
110 6e     Harvest [Flora] - DLCFrostcrag.esp
111 6f     ImprovedSigns.esp
112 70     PTFallingStars.esp
113 71     StarX Vampire Deaths.esp
114 72     Think to Yourself.esp
115 73     Populated Prisons.esp
116 74     Ls More Butterflies and Fireflies Not In Interiors 5.0 Quarter.esp
           Harvest[Containers] - Vanilla - Ore Respawn.esp
117 75     Immersive Weapons.esp
           Harvest[Containers] - SI - Ore Respawn.esp
           Harvest[Containers] - Player Home Add-on.esp
           Harvest[Containers] - Havok Crates Add-on.esp
           Harvest[Containers] - Flat-Top Barrels Add-on.esp
           Symphony of Violence.esp
118 76     Brucevayne's Sound Sets.esp
119 77     RenGuardOverhaul.esp
120 78     OblivionReloaded.esp
121 79     Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp
122 7a     ChaseCameraMod.esp
           All Natural - Indoor Weather Filter For Mods.esp
123 7b     Bashed Patch, 0.esp
124 7c     Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul.esp

When I was testing EMC2 and DMS, I was getting constant bad stuttering. I removed those now and I only get consistant minor stutter which is kind of annoying, but manageable. I am trying to eliminate it all.

 

For Peformance enhancing plugins, I use: OSR, Engine Patch, and 4GB memory patch.

 

I am thinking it's got something to do with my sounds and music. So maybe remove all tags on my music files, and get a better combination of sound effect and ambient sounds mods that work better together.

 

I use OSSO, SoC, Symphony of Violence and GOSH with out the ambience plugin as that conflicts with All Natural which is needed for Immersive Interiors and updates to that.

 

I also have Creative ALchemy Universal setup with EAX for Oblivion enabled, the EAX OBSE plugin and Side's EAX control mod.

 

With all the information I relayed, anyone know what I need to fix in order to make the stuttering go away?

 

I'm also considering disabling Vsync.

 

Thanks!

 

-Natranr

 

Edit: Also forgot to mention that I am using Oblivion Reloaded V6.4.1 for the time being and will update when I can confirm that it will not CTD for me. Also I would like to use Detailed Terrain which since it edits the shaders wouldnt be compatible with 6.5 though it might work with 6.4.1

Edited June 27, 2018 by natranr

[jones177]

Hi

 

I had stutter on a heavily modded game back in 2007. The only time it didn't stutter was standing still. If I turned around the frame rate went up & down and the game stuttered.

After running a few tests I found that that if I turned or moved it was an i/o event. Basically the information added with mods had to load in real time even just turning around.

 

My solution was to go from a standard hard drive to a 10,000rpm hard drive. Ones like the WD Raptor have write bust speeds equal to SSDs(even in 2007). This got rid of all my stutter & prevented me having stutter on all the Bethesda games(up to Fallout 4) with the exception of ENB stutter that had to be fixed with ENB updates.

My last WD Raptor died in 2016. I tried to replace it with a WD 5tb Black, that was the fastest consumer HD at the time. It was a total failure(stutter) with my heavily modded Bethesda games & I had to replace it with a 1tb SATA SSD.

 

Even a SSD needs ini tweaks.

 

First make sure you are using:

 

ENB/ENBoost. (to free up ram)

Oblivion Stutter Remover(for other viewers of this post)

 

For my new game I am using these guides.

 

http://wiki.step-project.com/User:Hishutup/OblivionGuide

http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_9.html

 

The aim is to free up resources for your sound mods.

 

Later