Battle of Whiterun - Massive stuttering

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Whenever I try and walk into the area around Whiterun to do the Battle of Whiterun quest I get massive stuttering. Not traditional stuttering often associated with v-sync, but the game locks up for a second or two, then plays for a second or two, and continues intermittently. It is completely unplayable. I do have some mods running which may be the culprit, I thought it was Warzones, so I uninstalled it through the NMM. However, that did not fix the problem. Also, I have to admit that I did not do a clean save uninstall as I carelessly did not read the directions. I was having some problems with Warzones so wanted to get rid of it anyways. Prior to the Battle of Warzones there was a Warzones skirmish that I had to keep walking around as it was causing my computer to lock up just west of Whiterun. I have a i2500K (not overclocked) and a GTX 680 so my computer should be beefy enough to handle it. I run a fair amount of mods, but not way over the top or anything like that, just the 2K retexture and Bethesda Hi-Rez update.

 

I should mention that the game runs perfectly everywhere else other than in this area. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? I do a lot of modding, but not the most technically minded guy in the world, I just usually am good at following instructions.

 

Please help! I DO NOT feel like losing this save.

[Deleted4404112User]

I have the exact same thing! But my warzones are working fine. Try fast traveling out of the battle of whiterun then going back to windhelm because the quest completes itself. If you have the female followers mod then disable it. I think that was causing the problem for me.

[6string]

that worked. Bizarre. But actually, when I traveled to Windhelp I got a CTD immediately after the loading screen came up. The following time I fast traveled to Riverwood and it worked. However, I jsut got a freeze up after walking back to Windhelm to check things out. I'll hope that problem goes away.