Skyrim creation kit is painfully slow...

[alphon5e]

I accept that loading the whole skyrim master file takes time, but everything in the CK is painfully slow, duplicating an object for example means that I have to wait 20 seconds for the CK to start responding again... opening the edit menu takes an age.

To be honest, if this can't be solved I'm considering not bothering with skyrim modding anymore.

 

Also my specs are reasonably good.

second gen i7 quad core 2.0ghz

4gb ram

ATI 6490m (ok this is bad I admit :P )

 

Is there anything I can do, or is it just the CK?

[SkoomaBoy]

Considering your PC specs it should go perfectly well, expect the Graphic Card I share similar hardware, and I can easily run 3DS Max, ZBrush, Photoshop and the Creation Kit altogether without any kind of hard lags, you might wanna try consulting the CK's troubleshooting wiki. Edited January 2, 2013 by SkoomaBoy

[alphon5e]

Considering your PC specs it should go perfectly well, expect the Graphic Card I share similar hardware, and I can easily run 3DS Max, ZBrush, Photoshop and the Creation Kit altogether without any kind of hard lags, you might wanna try consulting the CK's troubleshooting wiki.

 

Thanks, I'll do that.

Also, thanks for providing me with peace of mind about my hardware specs XD

[Alithinos]

I think it's because your processor is only 2ghz.

Now your processor has some other cool stuff,like 4 cores and multi-threading but unfortunately Skyrim's engine and the creation kit can't use them.

The software is limited to use only 2 cores and to not take advantage of multi-threading technology,so it can only use 2 singe-threaded cores.

And for that case 2ghz is low. I know that your processor should run it faster,but unfortunately Skyrim's engine is old and can't make use of modern technologies like some of those that your processor has.

:confused:

Edited January 3, 2013 by Alithinos

[Deleted1308005User]

I just some time ago switched to AMD 8120 Eight core Processor 3.10 GhZ and it seemed to speed up CK for me, before that it was slowly as snail riding backwards on tortoise's back.

 

Edit:

But well, changed motherboard to a bit better, so it might be that as well.

Edited January 3, 2013 by Guest

[LargeStyle]

I find that CK can "Not Respond" if you use it in a particular way...

 

What not to do is to type something into the search box while within a big category, or worse the ALL category as pretty much every single keypress will cause CK to scan absolutely everything before displaying your result. This'll put CK into a state of "Not Responding" which some people assume means it's on the verge / has crashed (which is wrong, it's just very busy).

 

What to do is to type into the search box while within a small category (even if it's the wrong category) so that the search takes next to no time to do, consequently stopping CK from not responding. If required, then select the category that you want to search in (after your text is in the search box) and it will streamline the search process, well for CK anyway.

 

It also generally pays to remember as many defining characters from items so searches can be executed easily i.e. when I search for locations I type "crac" for "Cracked Tusk Keep" or "bli" for "Blind Cliff Cave"... and so on!

Edited January 3, 2013 by LargeStyle

[FiftyTifty]

People don't know what they are talking about, aside from LargeStyle.

 

Try de-fragging your hard drive. Make sure to free-up any intensive CPU/RAM guzzling processes.

 

Sounds like your busy doing shiz.

 

Windows 7 takes up 1.5GB of RAM. Adding in an internet browser, listenin' to music whilst playing about in the CK, you will be hitting the pagefile pretty hard. 4GB of RAM ain't much for 7.

[alphon5e]

People don't know what they are talking about, aside from LargeStyle.

 

Try de-fragging your hard drive. Make sure to free-up any intensive CPU/RAM guzzling processes.

 

Sounds like your busy doing shiz.

 

Windows 7 takes up 1.5GB of RAM. Adding in an internet browser, listenin' to music whilst playing about in the CK, you will be hitting the pagefile pretty hard. 4GB of RAM ain't much for 7.

 

I think in that case I'll upgrade my ram to 8, Since I'm new to the CK I'm following tutorials and asking friends on skype at the same time. The problem is mostly the CK stops responding when ever I try to place a block, open it's properties, duplicate it or do anything else remotely functional.

 

It's also frustrating that the CK can't use more than 2 cores, my i7 is fine for anything else, such as rendering blender files in 4k... :/

[tyrannynexus]

People don't know what they are talking about, aside from LargeStyle.

 

Try de-fragging your hard drive. Make sure to free-up any intensive CPU/RAM guzzling processes.

 

Sounds like your busy doing shiz.

 

Windows 7 takes up 1.5GB of RAM. Adding in an internet browser, listenin' to music whilst playing about in the CK, you will be hitting the pagefile pretty hard. 4GB of RAM ain't much for 7.

 

I think in that case I'll upgrade my ram to 8, Since I'm new to the CK I'm following tutorials and asking friends on skype at the same time. The problem is mostly the CK stops responding when ever I try to place a block, open it's properties, duplicate it or do anything else remotely functional.

 

It's also frustrating that the CK can't use more than 2 cores, my i7 is fine for anything else, such as rendering blender files in 4k... :/

 

alternatively you could "downgrade" to windows XP which uses WAY less memory and is optimized for 4 gigs of ram. Up you you!

[EnigManic]

I agree that the CK is buggy and terribly slow. At times, it gets downright infuriating.

 

I'm currently working on a mod that overhauls Skyrim's economy. I have to edit records for almost every item in the game, which I don't mind doing.

But every few minutes, I double-click to open a record and the CK "fails to create the render window". So I can't open any records to edit them until I restart the CK. This adds hours onto the time it takes me to finish a mod.Even just loading a mod into the CK takes roughly 20 seconds. I really wish they would optimize the damn thing.

 

BTW, here are my computer specs:

3.12 gig Intel quad core processor

16gb ram @ 1866mhz

Radeon HD6850 graphics card

Edited January 17, 2013 by EnigManic