Certain things stop working. (Scripts)

[Havoc1337]

Hello there,

 

I was wondering if maybe someone here has had a similar issues. When I play my heavily modded Skyrim, at a certain point things start breaking. It's often hard to tell, but it seems to me that scripted events no longer trigger. E.g. picking up the first unusal gem, opening dragon claw doors, DoT procs, mod spells, reading a dragon word, absorbing dragon souls, mining etc.

I am able to (sometimes) resolve this by saving and loading the game, upon loading everything seems to execute at once, I get a load of prompts and sometimes teleport around randomly. The camera also sometimes gets stuck. So I tend to reload an earlier save.

This solution is getting less reliable as I progress further, and the problem occurs more frequently.

 

Have I over-modded my game? Can Skyrims script engine just not handle the load anymore or is it more likely a skse issue? Skyrim itself runs rock solid, I get very rarely a CTD (usually when trying to save when too much is going on) and sometimes the occasional freeze when fast traveling or just loading into a new cell.

 

It'd be lovely if someone has any knowledge of similar issues, would be helpful before I try prying apart my game and potentially having to abandon my save.

 

 

[myuhinny]

A heavily modded Skyrim with lots of script/high script using mods is one of the fastest ways to break/kill your game. Too many scripts firing off at the same time can cause lag break things CTD's conflict with other scripts.

[Fotogen]

Hello there,

 

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Have I over-modded my game? Can Skyrims script engine just not handle the load anymore or is it more likely a skse issue? Skyrim ....

 

It's Skyrim engine. SKSE (newest version has script memory patch) actualy makes things better.

 

I have only AMD FX 8350 and nVidia 650ti so I have to be extra careful what I install.

- only "medium" textures. So 2K (lite), not full HD (4K)

- graphics settings: "shadows" kill my game. Others things are in general OK. Can use ENB, but bust be very careful with anything related to shadows.

- I don't use armor/body models with super high number of vertexes(polygons). And yes, 2K textures only.

- if mod has scripts, i check how it is implemented. I specialy check for "OnUpdate", code that gets executed periodicly (every X seconds). Another good(or bad) sign is how often mod author used Game.GetPlayer().

[Havoc1337]

I think I might have figured it out, it was probably SXP (Skyrim Experience Mod) at fault.

It makes it so that you gain exp for everything you do and use the exp to level up skills in a menu instead of the "learning by crafting 9999 daggers" method. But it was polling every 2 seconds to add exp from my actions, I just adjusted it to poll every 10 seconds and haven't had an issue in 2 hours. I hope it'll hold.