Suddenly Experiencing Minute-Long Load Times

[EnvyMachinery]

Every once in a while I return to Skyrim and start a new character. My latest run of this started at the end of December and I've been playing off and on since then with no issues. Yesterday, I booted the game up and my load times felt unusually long, even when loading small interiors. I tried looking around for help, but there's a flood of topics on load issues dating back to the game's launch, and all of them that I read had to do with people handling their mods and load orders poorly or having faulty equipment. The only advice I found worth trying was a disk defragment, which I have never performed on my PC.

 

So I ran that last night, and now things are somehow worse, in that even my saves and autosaves freeze the game for a solid 60 seconds consistently. I'm playing the Dragonborn DLC right now, and these freezes are even more bizarre considering loading black book areas does not show a loading screen, but instead loads the interior and then just freezes with the whole zone displayed as normal.

 

The only change I have made to the game between the last time it was stable and now is adding one single armor mod, and I have no reason at all to suspect that there's anything wrong with it or that it would cause an issue like this at all. I also checked the size of my save files, and they are all about 13 MB. I am currently running 177 plugins, the vast majority of which are armors, weapons, or other lightweight mods, so I highly doubt it's a system encumbrance issue.

 

That said, I'm totally stumped. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to reinstall and start a new character, but I'd prefer not to, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[-alpha-]

try running save scrip cleaner on your save.

probably bloated.

[allsunday]

You haven't mentioned anything about hardware testing and status so perhaps an examination is in order. Get CrystalDiskInfo and check the integrity of your HDD.

Also clean your save as mentioned by the previous post, get Safety Load if you already don't have it, and finally, make sure the RAM allocation in your enblocal.ini is set according to your system specs. Any 900 series Nvidia card and up normally should not use more than 64 or 128 as the ReservedMemorySizeMb but VideoMemorySizeMb must be calculated.

Also, my game won't even load at all if scrapheapsizemb in SKSE.ini is 256 or below.

[EnvyMachinery]

try running save scrip cleaner on your save.

probably bloated.

 

They aren't bloated. I ran the program anyway and cleared five orphaned scripts, but it's still behaving the same.

[downjonsie]

If your Skyrim is installed to an SSD, defragging can harm the files.

 

That's at least what I've picked up from numerous forums, and one of the SoT's developers guide.

[EnvyMachinery]

If your Skyrim is installed to an SSD, defragging can harm the files.

 

That's at least what I've picked up from numerous forums, and one of the SoT's developers guide.

 

I'll keep that in mind, but my current hard drive is HDD.

[smoe]

Du you run SKSE and NIO mods? What's the size of your skse savefile?

 

This mod helped me by reducing load time by quite a bit, although it wasn't as high as yours. I also had long load time especially when entering/leaving cities.

http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/3786-netimmerse-override-cleaner-skse-co-save-cleaner-utility/

 

 

[Varithina]

You can also give this a try, it works for me but may not do anything for you, go into your save game directory and either back up and then delete or just delete all but the last 10-20 saves do no forget the skse part of the save either, for each character you have, I use a save game manager so each character is in its own directory which makes it easier to do this.

[EnvyMachinery]

Du you run SKSE and NIO mods? What's the size of your skse savefile?

 

This mod helped me by reducing load time by quite a bit, although it wasn't as high as yours. I also had long load time especially when entering/leaving cities.

http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/3786-netimmerse-override-cleaner-skse-co-save-cleaner-utility/

 

I do use SKSE, but only for a few things. My philosophy on modding has always been to use as few scripted mods as possible because I had some bad experiences when I first started. As for NIO, I'm not sure if I've heard of it until now, so I'm pretty sure I don't have anything using it. My SKSE files are 1.6-1.7 MB.

 

I'll try out your link, thanks.

 

 

You can also give this a try, it works for me but may not do anything for you, go into your save game directory and either back up and then delete or just delete all but the last 10-20 saves do no forget the skse part of the save either, for each character you have, I use a save game manager so each character is in its own directory which makes it easier to do this.

 

So revert to a past save, basically?

[Varithina]

You can also give this a try, it works for me but may not do anything for you, go into your save game directory and either back up and then delete or just delete all but the last 10-20 saves do no forget the skse part of the save either, for each character you have, I use a save game manager so each character is in its own directory which makes it easier to do this.

 

So revert to a past save, basically?

 

 

No say that character has 200 saves going 1 to 200, in my case I would back up save 1-150 by zipping them up or other wise archiving them, then delete them from the save game folder, that would just leave save numbers 151-200, which are the latest saves.

[EnvyMachinery]

 

You can also give this a try, it works for me but may not do anything for you, go into your save game directory and either back up and then delete or just delete all but the last 10-20 saves do no forget the skse part of the save either, for each character you have, I use a save game manager so each character is in its own directory which makes it easier to do this.

 

So revert to a past save, basically?

 

 

No say that character has 200 saves going 1 to 200, in my case I would back up save 1-150 by zipping them up or other wise archiving them, then delete them from the save game folder, that would just leave save numbers 151-200, which are the latest saves.

 

 

I see. Well, I don't manually save often, so I only have a handful of saves in my folder.

 

Anyway, I should have tried out smoe's link before I responded, but I didn't think it would work since my saves are almost all the same size as the first ones. Whatever it did fixed the issue, though, and even my saves only take about a second now. Thanks to everyone for all the assistance.