Rage

So I just ran the LOD process again real quick, with Happy Little Trees this time, because IMO I think HLT looks better with less density now, but also disabled Grass LOD generation and only selected Tamriel. First process through LOD4 ran super quick. It is easily much faster than it was before. Seems that generating Grass LODs really causes it to bog down, so I am going to avoid grass LODs.

I will have to look more into my LODs then, but I thought I had got all of the performance-based LOD options I could. Not sure what else could be causing it. I will share my full load order after this generation process. On another note, I generated LODs using specifically the High preset and running just Tamriel with Seasons, and there was no negligible performance difference. This was with the same setup, but just the Tamriel worldspace.

So I finished that generation process, booted up the game with 120GBs of LOD Data, loaded outside a random place in Markarth and noticed my FPS was idling at 40 while sitting in one spot. Exited the game, disabled the plugins, did the same thing at the same spot and it went way back up to 90-100 FPS. This can't be the only solution to generating LODs... tanking 50-60 FPS just for LODs is absurd. I did install the performance LODs, and I couldn't tell if it helped much but the LOD generation process did seem a bit faster. But my performance says otherwise. For these, yeah I am concerned for support on SoS. I believe Fabled Forests do have support for them in Seasons as it mentioned SoS support on the mod page using Turn of the Seasons.

Too late.... Running it through another generation process again. I still had 60GB of headspace on that drive. I should mention that the program deleted it, not me. I also made a few tweaks and used higher/lower-detailed billboards and kept Level0 for LOD4. Going to see if this makes more of a difference, which it should...

Low and behold, after 5 and 1/2 hours, it is finished but now it's taken ages to zip up the files... I hope this isn't stuck. EDIT So. Lovely. It just prompted this error, which is false, then proceeded to delete ALL OF THE FILES IT JUST FINISHED DOWNLOADING.

Just finished summer and is now processing Winter and Spring. I believe this is the last bit of this process. If it is, I won't worry about processing it again unless I absolutely need to. But I'm going to save this post for future use. I think I'll go a bit more into detail with settings here after I am finished with this one.

Noted, I will give those a try. But yes, file size is generally a concern for my needs. I don't have much space on my computer and only about an extra 200GB, plus I need to upload these. Once these are finished running, if they do finish, I will definitely try those settings. I'm not really all that concerned anymore about using 3D trees, just because personally I don't notice the difference. My eyes are bad enough, so doesn't mean anything to me. 😅

Will do, thank you for bringing that to my attention. I've been letting it sit for the last three hours and I noticed it has finally moved in to the spring and summer seasons. I am generating seasons too by the way.

So I reset the settings for the DynDOLOD program, ran a test run and it only generated about 1GB of LOD data. Reapplied the settings from the guide on this site and it is now back to taking ages. Generally, all workspaces process fine and in a reasonable amount of time of course. But, the Tamriel workspace is taking ages and has not passed level 4 LODs in the last hour. I'm suspecting it's because I used Level0 for LOD4, but I am not sure. All settings in the screenshots of the guide are 100% replicated.

Yes, I am running 155. I'll post it in the forum.

Unfortunately, no luck. I think this may be an SOL situation, and that something is just not right with my DynDOLOD config. I may try resetting it to the default settings and giving it a go.

Okay, I see what you mean. Yeah, I do have NVIDIA software running in the background. But killing these processes only brings them back online.

Not sure what you mean by driver software, but I do have the latest versions of my drivers. If you mean something like Afterburner, I can add an OC clock to my GPU real quick. But yeah, in terms of generation, I'm on LOD level 4 for tamriel right now and each coord is taking about half a minute to a minute to complete.

That doesn't sound quite good, I imagine that's the case?

I'll check Fabled Forests's tree LODs here in a bit, going to see if I can finish up this current gen process right now. It's been running for 2 and a half hours with 50GBs already.