Random Pausing

[pafman123]

About every 30-60 seconds, Skyrim will suddenly, without warning, freeze for about 2-5 seconds (with music still playing) before returning to normal. There is no specific location or action that causes it; it happens all the time no matter what I am doing. I could be in a menu, in dialogue, in the overworld, in a dungeon, fighting, anything -- as long as it's running it will constantly lock up for short periods of time and then resume. It's barely playable and extremely frustrating. Any ideas what could be causing it or how to fix it? Here is my mod load order:

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

CLARALUX - More and Brighter Lights.esm

Omegared99-Compilation.esm

SkyMoMod.esm

JSwords.esm

WinterholdDestruction.esm

Shadow Striping Fix.esp

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

SoS - The Dungeons.esp

SoS - The Wilds.esp

Warmer Magic Lights v2 - Big.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

3DNPC.esp

83Willows_101BUGS_V4_HighRes.esp

Crimson Tide - Blood.esp

Skyrim Expanded Loot Tables.esp

IMAGINATOR - Visual Control for Skyrim.esp

iHUD.esp

1nivWICCloaks.esp

DragonplateHelmFix.esp

DynamicLoot.esp

HBetterBows.esp

maruMask.esp

Omegared99-WeaponSets.esp

ThalmorStandalone.esp

witchplate.esp

DeadlyDragons.esp

dawnstarsanctuaryoverhaul.esp

ExpandedWinterholdRuins.esp

Radiance.esp

Reaper's The Dark Tower.esp

SleepingDangers-SandsofTime.esp

Masters of Death.esp

Acquisitive Soul Gems.esp

Ash Pile Expiration.esp

AT - Faster Arrows Improved +100%.esp

AT - Merchants Arrows +25%.esp

AT - Recover +10% Arrows.esp

AT - Increased Progressive Damage (BS and CCO) +50%.esp

Better Dynamic Snow.esp

Headbomb's Better Sorting - Miscellaneous.esp

Headbomb's Better Sorting - Books.esp

Headbomb's Better Sorting - Ammo.esp

HelmsWithCirclets.esp

RichMerchants.esp

SkyRe_Main.esp

SkyRe_EncounterZones.esp

SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp

SkyRe_EnemyScaling.esp

SkyRe_StandingStones.esp

SkyRe_Plugin_BetterBows_1.4.1.esp

SkyRe_Plugin_HedgeKnightArmor_1.esp

SkyRe_Plugin_JaySuSSwords_1.3D.esp

SkyRe_Plugin_DaggerCraft_1.3.esp

SkyRe_Plugin_WarchiefArmor_4.esp

VariousGuardReplacer.esp

Populated Cities 2.esp

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Medium.esp

SkyRe_Vampirism.esp

spelltomeconjureetherealhorse.esp

Night Eye Overhaul.esp

Radiant and Unique Potions and Poisons.esp

The Dance of Death.esp

SkyRe_Combat.esp

100XCarryWeight.esp

UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

zzz_Jenassa_MAKEOVER_by83Willow.esp

Follower Trap Safety.esp

SkyRe_Races.esp

rcrnShaders.esp

WATER.esp

WATER - Get Wet.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

 

As well as a few graphical mods (HD 2K textures, RCRNv3, lush grass/trees, flora overhaul, and a couple misc ones like specific spider web and ice retextures).

 

As for my computer specs, I am running a Intel i7 Quad Core processor at 3.2ghz and an Nvidia GTX 580 with 16GB of RAM. It seems like it should be able to handle the load, and aside from the constant freezing, the game runs smooth as butter, so I don't think my rig is the problem. I am running a few .ini tweaks but they are nothing big, as far as I can remember I only enabled tree and environment self-shadowing and a few draw distance tweaks - IIRC the freezing started much, much later after I had tweaked my .ini files, so I also don't think those are the issues.

 

I did a little research but nothing I found helped me out much, so I'm hoping that someone here will be able to help. Thank you very much. :)

 

P.S. I am launching with SKSE and SBW, in case that makes any difference. I also noticed that my latest save file is almost 60mb - not sure if that is indicative of anything bad but most time I see people mentioning their save file size, they say it is around 10-20mb, so there might be something there.

Edited July 7, 2012 by pafman123

[pafman123]

Okay, so after a little digging, I am almost positive that the issue is caused by save file bloating, as I have found a few other instances of people having similar problems. However, none of the mods I have are the ones that were causing their save files to become bloated, and I don't know how to check which one is the culprit. It's also possible that I've already uninstalled the one that has caused the bloating because I haven't noticed any large increases lately, but it also hasn't gone down to a normal size yet, like other peoples have after uninstalling the offending mods. Any ideas how to get the size back to normal?

[Rennn]

How big is the save?

[pafman123]

Right now, my latest save is at 59.1mb. I've also noticed that it has been taking a significantly longer time to save and load than it was when I first started this playthrough. Checking back through my previous saves, my save file seems to be going up by anywhere from .5 to 1mb on every hard save I make. Is there anyway to check which files in your data folder are no longer associated with mods? I think I might still have some leftover scripts in my scripts folder from mods that I've previously uninstalled, and I'm tempted to clean them out in the hopes that that will fix the issue, but I'm not sure which scripts are associated with which mods. Edited July 7, 2012 by pafman123

[pafman123]

I installed the possessive corpses mod, went inside a tavern and waited 31 days. My save file went down by .7mb but I think that's all I'm going to get out of that mod. I'm going to go play some more and see if it is still bloating.

[pafman123]

So, I recreated my merged bashed patch, which ended up adding a few mods to it, and a couple things have happened after playing the game for a few minutes.

 

Any new saves I created (still on the same character) had their size drastically reduced. It went down from about 60mb to 3.4mb, so that seemed to be good.

 

However...

 

For some reason, the original freezing problem was much worse. The game still occasionally froze up, but it did so for at least 10 seconds, sometimes even close to 20 seconds. Loading also took much longer, and the time it took to create saves (both hard saves and quicksaves, although the autosave didn't seem to be affected) had been drastically increased.

 

Because of that, I figured I would try restarting the game. I closed it, then relaunched, and now when I try to load those new, unbloated saves, it tells me that my save game is corrupt and cannot be loaded. However, when I try to load my older, bloated savegames, it loads just fine. I continued to play for a couple minutes on my bloated saves, and they did not go down in size at all, and the save/load/freeze times were back to the way they were earlier. Any ideas what could be causing my game to behave so erratically?

Edited July 7, 2012 by pafman123

[gringo40life]

I am having the same problem, I don't have any save game bloating, I am using a number of the same mods as you but none that I have recently installed, being this problem only showed up recently, I have another side effect though usually sound will stop working (music will still be running) and npcs/textures won't load, then after a few seconds my game will freeze,

right now I only suspect something wrong with d3d9 (because I switch from enb/realistic to rcrn and the problem persisted), or a loose script will let you know if I figure anything out

[daver219]

I don't have a problem with file bloating, but I did have random freezes of the game as soon as Skyrim updated. It was getting ridiculus. I fixed the problem by removing the Unofficial Syrim Patch and going here and downloading a different patch Unofficial Skyrim Patch: http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/files/category/21-hosted-projects/

 

Ironically, after installing this downloaded patch via nmm and placing it as the first .esp file in the load order, the problem was solved. It ironically improved my load times, not sure why, and cleared two quests that had been completed but would not show as such? Anyway, I have had no problem with this patch thus far. Not sure if it would help in your case but thought I would throw it out there.

[bben46]

Here is a link to my mods troubleshooting blog. .

http://s1.zetaboards.com/bbenlibrary/topic/4751769/1/?x=0#post631601

 

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