Alright - So what's anyone's guess?

[Prenihility]

As to why this game runs into 40-45 FPS sometimes in certain situations. I stand by the river looking at Mixwater Mill and if I back up further in full view of some trees, I get a performance hit.

 

Running an i5 6500 at 3.2GHz. A 4GB SSC 960. 8GB RAM. ENBoost installed ages ago. I really don't understand this game. I even turned Shadows down to Medium because it gave me a massive performance increase in Bruma in an areas where - again I was having trouble for some reason. Why? Well, I don't know. All I can really draw on is this game is to mathematical imprecision to what Id Software is to optimization and programming excellence. Fallout 4 actually runs better than Skyrim. Do I just have too many mods for LE? I even used Rivatuner to look at how much VRAM i'm using. And it never caps from what I remember. Never even gets dangerously close. I'm telling you, folks. Mixwater Mill. It apparently kills systems. It's like Crysis back in the day to a 9800 GT... Pff-ff-ff. This game... What a joke.

 

Also have Optimized Vanilla Textures and they don't seem to show up in LO. I got them after a user suggested I get them to help with Bruma Performance. I couldn't tell the difference. The problem is, I really, really want to play the game. But I don't at the same time because, you know. Reasons?

 

My Load order.

 

 

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Dawnguard.esm
HearthFires.esm
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp
BSAssets.esm
BSHeartland.esm
BS_DLC_patch.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel.esm
HearthFire Display Case Fix.esp
RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp
SkyUI.esp
RaceMenu.esp
RaceMenuPlugin.esp
FNIS.esp
dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp
Dual Sheath Redux.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp
dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp
XPMSE.esp
immersive roads.esp
Cloaks.esp
Run For Your Lives.esp
Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp
Illustrious HDT Cloaks.esp
HDTPhysicsWeaponSling.esp
KS Hairdos - HDT.esp
RaceMenuOverlays.esp
fallentreebridges.esp
TimingIsEverything.esp
ForswornHAIR.esp
MatchingCraftableForsworn.esp
MatchingSetFix.esp
MatchingSetFixes.esp
Unique Uniques.esp
CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp
Purewaters.esp
BSHeartland - Meshes.esp
BSHeartland - Textures.esp
SMIM-Bruma-Patch.esp
Unlimited Training.esp
SMIM-Merged-All.esp
BatTravel.esp
FNISspells.esp
Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

[MFitz56]

As to why this game runs into 40-45 FPS sometimes in certain situations. I stand by the river looking at Mixwater Mill and if I back up further in full view of some trees, I get a performance hit.

 

Running an i5 6500 at 3.2GHz. A 4GB SSC 960. 8GB RAM. ENBoost installed ages ago. I really don't understand this game. I even turned Shadows down to Medium because it gave me a massive performance increase in Bruma in an areas where - again I was having trouble for some reason. Why? Well, I don't know. All I can really draw on is this game is to mathematical imprecision to what Id Software is to optimization and programming excellence. Fallout 4 actually runs better than Skyrim. Do I just have too many mods for LE? I even used Rivatuner to look at how much VRAM i'm using. And it never caps from what I remember. Never even gets dangerously close. I'm telling you, folks. Mixwater Mill. It apparently kills systems. It's like Crysis back in the day to a 9800 GT... Pff-ff-ff. This game... What a joke.

 

Also have Optimized Vanilla Textures and they don't seem to show up in LO. I got them after a user suggested I get them to help with Bruma Performance. I couldn't tell the difference. The problem is, I really, really want to play the game. But I don't at the same time because, you know. Reasons?

 

My Load order.

 

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

Dragonborn.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp

BSAssets.esm

BSHeartland.esm

BS_DLC_patch.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

HearthFire Display Case Fix.esp

RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp

SkyUI.esp

RaceMenu.esp

RaceMenuPlugin.esp

FNIS.esp

dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

Dual Sheath Redux.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

XPMSE.esp

immersive roads.esp

Cloaks.esp

Run For Your Lives.esp

Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp

Illustrious HDT Cloaks.esp

HDTPhysicsWeaponSling.esp

KS Hairdos - HDT.esp

RaceMenuOverlays.esp

fallentreebridges.esp

TimingIsEverything.esp

ForswornHAIR.esp

MatchingCraftableForsworn.esp

MatchingSetFix.esp

MatchingSetFixes.esp

Unique Uniques.esp

CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp

Purewaters.esp

BSHeartland - Meshes.esp

BSHeartland - Textures.esp

SMIM-Bruma-Patch.esp

Unlimited Training.esp

SMIM-Merged-All.esp

BatTravel.esp

FNISspells.esp

Dual Sheath Redux Patch.esp

 

1) Make sure you have NOTHING running in the background while playing. THAT is a common cause of slow FPS.

2) You mentioned ENBoost, good. Make sure you have Crash Fixes 12 - it will also help your memory.

 

You definitely don't have too many mods. I have many more than you do without your problem. Otherwise, if my suggestions don't help, you're back to eliminating a few mods at a time until your FPS goes back up. I'd suggest starting with Dual Sheath Redux because then you could also get rid of the patch (2nd mod) and you could turn the esp for XPMSE off (effectively a third mod).