Skyrim setup for 2018
Entry posted by DeepBlueFrog
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I spent most of the past year improving performance of my load order, especially load times.
Using the CrashFix plugin and SKSE Plugin pre-loader helped a lot. So did carefully editing out redundant or script heavy mods I didn't need that much after all.
The hardest mod to part with was Rigmor of Bruma. In spite of the great storytelling and scripted events, changes to the environment were just too great for my system to handle. Removing that one greatly reduced loading times.
As for an ENB, I am still using SnowFall Weathers (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/79335). Seeing random snow falls all across Skyrim is just too compelling. I will post my custom settings for that ENB later.
I broke down the load order roughly by types. Positioning of the mods was done over time, using TES5edit to verify conflict winners.
Here are some of the things I did to improve stability and smoothness this year.
- Replaced windowed mode by borderless full screen mode (I tried disabling the FPS limiter but that screwed up the physics engine and sent objects flying all over the place)
- Created a TESMerged plugin in addition to a bashed patch
- Installed mod to remove smoke effects on loading screen (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/7901/? )
- Enabled pre-loading of SKSE plugins (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75795/? ) and the CrashFix plugin (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/? )
- Disabled Rigmor of Bruma (I love that mod but the toll on my game was just too much)
In addition, reducing the quality of Ambient Occlusion effects in ENB and lowering the distance of level of details improved smoothness of the game in general but did not have an impact on loading time.
Running the skyrim performance monitor (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6491) showed I am running well below the limits of my RAM and VRAM, so that wasn't the issue.
I also tried to run the SKSE launcher and skyrim executables in administrator mode, but that had no effect on load times.
Edit:
Two more things I did today to make my game even smoother.
- Optimized my textures using Optimizer Textures (Ordenador) (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12801/)
- Generated LOD objects for all my mods with spectacular effect and very little performance impact using Dynamic Distant Objects LOD - DynDOLOD (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59721/)
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