Constant micro-stutter and can't reach 60 FPS, GPU and CPU not even 50% load

[Maicol0815]

Hi!

I decided two days ago to start modding my newly cleaned and installed Fallout 4 (because of previous save corruption issues).
So, this is a completely clean folder. I started modding using MO2 so the FO4 root folder would be untouched (except for ENB, but I've tried completely disabling ENB and it doesn't fix it).
First thing I noticed after installing all the must have mods, when starting a new game, completely new, I got microstutter and my game CANNOT reach 60FPS even-though, even with mods (a lot of 4K textures and an ENB), my GPU and CPU load is BELOW 50% (like all cores on CPU, Core #0, #1, #2, #3). I have a GTX 1080 Ti and an i7 6700K OCed to 4.5GHz.

I tried launching the game completely naked, without mods or ENB and still microstutter and can't reach 60FPS, even-though my CPU and GPU are pretty much still idling because there's nothing to strain them.

People have said previously that disabling god rays can fix this (never used to have this problem and I've always had god rays disabled before). But, since most people know at this point, Bethesda made it so that you CAN'T disablo god rays because it sets itself to Low over and over. Now, the thing is... If I go in-game and type "gr off" in command console, then "gr info" to make sure it's off, it says it's off.
I've tried changing bVolumetricLightingEnable=1 to 0.
I've tried every single god ray disable fix possible, and I still get my issues. At this point, I'm not even sure god rays ARE on and that the issues originate from somewhere else...

I'm just so confused...
Recently has a similar problem with Skyrim SE, where randomly after a loading screen the game would decide to only load the GPU 50% and the same with CPU. But that issue forced the game down to 30 FPS, instead of my constant 60, so I doubt it's related...
Idk if it's just this FO4 build that's broken, or if Win 10 is broken, or if Nvidia drivers are broken... It's all a guessing game at this point.

Anyone here who can come with any intellectual comments or new ideas as to how I can fix this extremely frustrating issue?

[HadToRegister]

Well, I'm using a nVidia GTX750Ti, an older card, and I can get at least 40fps, and I have GR set to medium, and Shadows (which are the framerate killer) to medium.

Now, somebody will have to correct me on this one, but MO2 uses a Virtual File System, does it not?
Which means that the mods exist OUTSIDE of the Fallout 4 DATA folder, and are accessed virtually somehow, correct?

Could that be causing the micro-stutter?

 

The accessing the mods outside of the Data folder?

[Maicol0815]

Well, I'm using a nVidia GTX750Ti, an older card, and I can get at least 40fps, and I have GR set to medium, and Shadows (which are the framerate killer) to medium.

 

Now, somebody will have to correct me on this one, but MO2 uses a Virtual File System, does it not?

Which means that the mods exist OUTSIDE of the Fallout 4 DATA folder, and are accessed virtually somehow, correct?

 

Could that be causing the micro-stutter?

 

The accessing the mods outside of the Data folder?

 

 

It creates an entire virtual copy of the game's root folder, and adds all mods to it in the priority order you set (so that the mods overwrite in the correct order) and then runs the same. So your game isn't even running from the actual root folder, but has a virtual copy of it, which is essentially the same as adding the files to the real folder, so shouldn't cause performance issues.

At least that's how I understood it from Gopher's videos on the matter.

 

But, guess what... I launched the game through Steam, no F4SE, game ran at 60 FPS, no microstutter...

Tried running to game with launcher and .exe through MO2, to make sure it wasn't an issue with MO2 itself. It refused to launch, giving me an error "V:0(a bunch of zeroes)065432. No idea what's causing it an all topics I found on it were unclear on how to resolve it or had no solution at all..

Decided to run F4SE through MO2. Suddenly, 60 FPS, no microstutter.

Enabled my modded profile. 60 FPS, no microstutter....

 

It appears fixed, for some dumb reason.

I did follow what one topic said about that error, to delete the .ini files in Mod Organizer 2, for me they're located at 'D:\Program\Mod Organizer 2\Games Data\Fallout 4\profiles\Main', so whatever the %basedir% is ser to and then in profile...

Not sure if this fixed it, could have been an issue caused by the INI configurator in MO2, which I recently learned can break the ini files...

Not touching that again xD

 

Now, come to think of it, maybe deleting the ini files for Skyrim SE will fix the issues I'm having with that...

I'll get back here and edit this here comment if it fixes it for SSE too, just so people have something to go by if they get a similar issue and this actually fixes it...

Edited October 28, 2018 by Maicol0815