Difference between res lag and script lag?

[Wapoww]

Just a simple question. I've been playing F4 with mods for years, but I need to know one thing.

 

My game has been lagging, I assume it's because the mods (because without it it runs smoothly). I use mods that affects resolutions, and mods that affects script. It lags sometimes, the game stutters. How do I know if the game lags/stutters because of the resolutions, or because of the script? If it's because of the script, I need to upgrade my RAM do I?

[Tlam99]

Stutter is more texture resolution related.

Scripts may cause severe frame drops or freeze or loosing controls.

[Gameplayer]

I covered the topic of RAM in quite a bit of detail in the topic "Steam is eating your memory"

 

RAM is a good cheap route to go to make SkyrimSE/Fallout 4 and well a whole mess of modern games run better, about 32 Gigs worth should be enough for all current games to not be memory starved.  Actually will improve FPS quite a bit and smooth out game play a lot.

Even on old DDR3 RAM, performance is greatly enhanced for those two titles.

End-user reports show that DDR4 with decent graphics card can have triple digit FPS results.

2K resolution for Skyrim/Fo4 max settings @60 fps with ENB and Mods can be achieved with 32 Gigs of RAM and a 8 Gig VRAM video card, even with old DDR3 RAM.

 

Fallout 4, does not like movies running in the background while other games not as much an issue....causes stutter.

[Wapoww]

Those explains a lot. My pc spec is now doo-doo

[steelpanther24]

12 hours ago, Wapoww said:

Those explains a lot. My pc spec is now doo-doo

Using @Gameplayer's set up for steam at a minimum.  I haven't noticed much of an improvement, but I long ago left ENB stuff.   I haven't tried it again, but I know that it has cut down alot wrt steam hogging tons of memory and bandwidth.

[Tlam99]

Try setting framerate to 59, not 60.

[Wapoww]

On 8/16/2022 at 6:33 AM, Tlam99 said:

Stutter is more texture resolution related.

Scripts may cause severe frame drops or freeze or loosing controls.

Tbh, now i'm thinking about it. idk what's the cause. I'm playing f4 right in 30 fps. sometimes it will freeze and go back to 30 again. The menu loading screen sometimes freeze for 2 or three seconds then it will play the loading animation again.

 

I have only 8gb of ram