Physical memory usage frequently hits around 2 gigs! What do?!

[darkdill]

My game is very mod-heavy, and I am suffering frequent freezes and lag spikes, especially in combat or in cities. Probably a case of too many NPCs and/or too many scripts, but seriously, shouldn't the game engine be able to handle that?

 

According to info I get from this mod, my physical memory is almost always going over 1 gig, and oftentimes is hitting around 2 gigs. The game's supposed to be able to handle 4 gigs, so why am I continuously getting freezes and lag spikes?

 

Will post up my BOSS list later. I'm also using a modified Skyrim.ini file based on suggestions given in the More Hotkeys Please topic to increase resources available to Papyrus. ATTK Power Loader doesn't seem to help much. I'm also using Skyrim Configurator to reduce some texture quality (I don't want to reduce quality on actors, though) for stuff like shadows and trees (although I'm unsure how you reduce the quality of objects on the horizon).

 

Of note, however, is that the slowdown seems to be at its worst whenever I'm looking at my followers. I've got 7 of them right now, all hand-made and non-scripted. I made some of them using ESM-ified versions of Ashen, Lunari, and Temptress races, as well as two from the Epic Elves race mod (the last two are a Khajiit crusader and an Argonian thief). That is just weird.

 

If any other info is needed to try and help the problem, I'll post it up when I get a chance. I'm writing this during a break, and I've gotta get back to work ATM.

Edited April 15, 2013 by darkdill

[Neuba]

I run Skyrim with a 2giga vram GPU and my physical memory (ram) is going over 2.5 normally. MIne is 8 GB of 1333Mhz clocked RAM. I'm around 2.8-3.0 gigabyte. I get some stuttering near windhelm because of the high resolution textures. If you are only using 1-2 Gigabyte RAM, I don't think, that this is the reason for your lags. Anyway, what kind of memory do you own?

[Malosar]

To the OP, you haven't provided any of your system specs nor any details on graphics enhancement mods you might be running. There's so much more to system performance than just how much RAM you have.