Stupid question about huge lag spikes

[wolfboy22]

I have been having problem with huge lag spikes. My question (Probably really fucking stupid question) is that my skyrim folder is 52 GB big but most of it is just files that are not being used by any mods, could a lot of files that are NOT being used by any mods still lag my game because my skyrim folder is HUGE?

[Guest]

Usually game lags are produced by bad scripts.

The amount and the size of files has a very limited impact.

 

If the drive is rotational it may slow down a little (just a little) the loading of the cells.

 

 

Another possible impact is when you are using very high res textures, uncompressed. (Many MegaBytes.) In this case when the texture is loaded (and it can be loaded during the normal game-play) you may have a small lag.

[yatol]

nope

 

an image need 1go of texture

you turn around

you freeze because there's too many textures to load in the ram

 

during turn, that image need 100 more mo of texture

that one 150

that one 50

ram is full, follower is no longer on screen, game overwrite some of its textures

next one 100

follower is back on next one, game overwrite unused textures to load follower textures

etc etc

 

scripts can waste so much cpu power it slow down textures loading too

 

 

 

 

[Shadowhawk827]

BAD scripts can slow down the game as CPU said.  What everybody who loves bashing scripts seems to forget is the CK is just an object oriented programming interface.  EVERYTHING is turned into coding when it's saved.  Scripts just have a higher chance of causing issues because it gives the modder a chance to directly write that code.  Some do it well, others don't.

 

I'd be inclined to blame too high a texture load also.  Don't also forget to consider other programs running in the background however.  Ones doing downloads in the background in particular can take up disc drive and system resources temporarily.  Sometimes Anti-virus and Firewall software can get over aggressive and eat resources also, but I'd never advocate shutting them down.

[wolfboy22]

Thank you for the help guys but I think I'm just going to do a fresh reinstall. 70% of my skyrim data folder is just junk laying around, or mods that I don't even know that exist. So i should just free up some memory.