I need to reduce my load order to increase performance. What should I get rid of?

[monesq]

Your honest opinions will be appreciated. I have seen my game stutter and general game play many times decrease. I am at the stage right now where if there are no new Quest mods, I am busy building larger and larger settlements, thus the plethora of settlement mods. I do not have the confidence to combine mods, even with tutorials I am afraid I will muck it, and my game, up.

 

This is my load order

[HadToRegister]

All of those Clean and Simple mods break the PreCombines, which in turn drags down your FPS.
Because it breaks buildings etc into separate pieces which causes a ton of lag

[monesq]

I could have sworn that those have been regenerated after the cleanup and before the mod was uploaded. Isn't there a way to clean up a settlement in the CK, regenerate the precombines and turn that into a patch? I really need to learn how to use the CK, this way when I decide to release some of my blueprints I can also include a patch that would fix any broken combines. What I find interesting is all the blueprints out there that basically eliminate everything in the settlement. I was under the assumption that people would not release mods like that, or the FPS hit would be minimal.

 

I have been playing this game since it came out and I become bored with all the "rustic" settlements I was building so I wanted cleaner versions. When I made that decision, I would start to scrap all the trash and buildings which I knew would impact precombines, but I took that risk. When I found the Clean and Simple mods, I was impressed. With minimal building, my FPS would still remain around the high 40s, low 50s using her mods. Now that I am getting into large scale settlements with more modern assets, my FPS goes down to the low 40s, worse when a settlement is attacked. Maybe I should simply avoid building walls around the settlement and build raised settlements, leaving the ground and trash as is, protecting my settlers, and not breaking precombines. I assume that you can scrap some items as intended by Bethesda, provided you do not use any scrapping mods. Is that assumption valid?

 

Thank you, as always, for your input. I tend to use this forum and you have kindly responded to many of my posts. Take care.