Reprieve1917 Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Hey guys ! I am starting a new playthrough and I have been installing mods like crazy,especially graphical ones,my game takes a little to load and there is a huge frame drop after loading the world of skyrim,but my main issue is the game crashing every few minutes, so I made a load order of all mods I am using and I'm wondering if anyone here could help me out and tell me if any of these don't work well together and should be deactivated ! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werne Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Run BOSS to sort your load order (that thing is in dire need of some sorting) then make a bashed or merged patch. Also, don't force your hardware if it can't take the graphical mods, your game can have the most stable load order in the world but it will crash constantly if your hardware can't withstand the load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reprieve1917 Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 My hardwell is pretty good it can run it,but how do I make bashed/merged patches btw? and I ran boss once but wasn't completely sure what to do with it afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaidenUSA Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 What are the specs of your system? That would be very helpful in determining your issue. If I had to make an educated guess based on the info provided, I would say your video card is struggling and the subsequent swapping of data with your RAM is causing it to crash. It's been my experience that many Skyrim crashes are the result of insufficient VRAM. 1GB cards are fine for vanilla, but once you start going to town with higher res textures AND numerous mods, they will struggle. Once the VRAM limit is reached, they begin attempting to swap data with the system RAM. Even if you're using 64bit and have the increased memory available, a crash is inevitable because you're asking the RAM to do double duty. Then the speed of all your components comes into play, all the other stuff you have running, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werne Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 (edited) Exactly what MaidenUSA said, there are plenty of people thinking the game is buggy when it's their hardware that's killing them. Post your system specs. And bashed/merged patches are the most important things when running any mods. Bashed patch is made with Wrye Smash mod manager and Merged patch is made with TES5Edit. Bashed patch is a bit simpler to create open Wrye Smash, right-click, make bashed patch, right click it after that, select rebuild bashed patch (or is it build, something like that), then you have some options you'll have to figure out yourself and finally, wait until it finishes. Then just load it last. Merged patch is made like this (provided that TES5Edit didn't change much from FO3Edit/FNVEdit): - Start TES5Edit- Load your mods- When everything loads select all your mods, then right-click on the mod list and select Create Merged Patch- A small window will pop up asking you to name your patch, write something and click Create- Now when exiting TES5Edit another window will pop up named Save Changed Files, click OK- When starting Wrye Smash put your patch LAST in the load order and check it- Enjoy the game If TES5Edit can't create a merged patch, just make a bashed one. Edited May 2, 2013 by Werne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reprieve1917 Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 Processor: Intel® Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1 TB HD and Windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werne Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 (edited) Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Explains the framerate drop, likely the crashing too. This card is good, but not for what you want to use it. It has 1.3GB VRAM but the Skyrim you want to have requires 2GB or more VRAM and a better graphics card overall. So, don't force it, sort the load order with BOSS, make those patches I mentioned above, and your game will run great. Edited May 3, 2013 by Werne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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