Texture mods compatibility

[virtualDrag]

Good day, ppl. My story begins with the happy gaming time when I was using w7 x32 having 2GB ram (I know, it's quite funny these days for gamers). Months later I bought more (total 4GB) and decided to switch to x64 for w7 to see it all. Installed Steam, Skyrim, mods, especially textures.

 

I installed 2 HighRes packs from bethesda and the following:

 

Better Dynamic Snow

Better Water

Breezehome lighing fix

Breezehome shadow fix

Crimson Tide Blood

Distant Detail

Enhanced distant Terrain

HD plants & herbs

HD workbench & grindstone

HQ snow texture

Kerplunk - Watery Rocks

Legible Road Signs High Res

Lush Trees

Lush Grass

More Grass

That's Ice

Terrain Bump

Realistic Lighting

Real Rain Basic

Real Glaciers Remastered

Real Mountains

Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM

+ A Quality World Map Installer v8.0 and Skyrim sunglare v3.0 HD via NMM

 

On the next launch I noticed, that I experience some short-time freezes for 2-3 seconds for a few times and then it turns back to normal. It occurs in any interior/exterior location every 2-4 grids (ini has default value of ugridstoload). On x32 and less RAM with the same mods (except beth's HighResTP) that didn't occur. After having scanned wiki for the HRTP contents I found out that it may conflict with the mods from my list.

The question is - can HRTP really be the cause of my freezes, as it replaces most of the things mods do as well? Or do they?

 

Just in case - my metal config:

 

 

Asus P5G41T-M LX3

Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

RAM 4,00 GB DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB

Power Block 450W

Playing 1280-1024 screen resolution fullscreen

 

Edited October 10, 2012 by virtualDrag

[Georgiegril]

Hi,

 

I am one of a number of people who do not use the Hi-res DLC, for the exact reasons that you describe. I found that by not using the DLC, I could increase my textures quality to high and add a number of mods that make Skyrim look awesome.

 

There are quite a few mods that in my opinion have better results and avoid the performance problems. Some of the ones I use are WATER, SMIM, Skyrim Flora Overhaul, HLP NIght Sky, and Rugged Rocks.

 

Your graphics card is somewhat better than mine, but your CPU is a litte worse, so I think you may have results similar to mine.

 

Another thing to check, though--if you haven't already disabled your autosaves, that could also be the cause of periodic freezing/lagging.