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Identifying bad-actor scripts in a heavy script load


VulcanTourist

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My game has, I suspect, become too script-heavy; either that, or I have a misbehaving script that is dominating the pipeline and preventing other scripts from being able to fire on time, like Smart Harvest SE and follower (Vilja) scripts. SHSE cannot consistently loot promptly, even soul-capturing is delayed, and my follower's behavior is erratic. This state of affairs also seems to be causing CTDs.

I found this mod, which gave me an in-game tool to assess script performance: Elephant's Script Latency Tester

It vindicated my suspicion: I'm seeing occasional script "lags" up to TEN SECONDS.

I still don't know how to surgically narrow it down. Every time I've enabled Papyrus logging I get a truly massive log file - e.g. 4MB for 2 minutes of play - filled with gibberish that makes no sense even to me. How do I identify the bad-actor scripts and then trace them back to the responsible mod(s)? My Scripts directory is crammed with more than 2000 script files, most of them very poorly or cryptically named.

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