Octopuss

Wait, are you actually checking (V)RAM usage for even the smallest changes after you add or update a mod?

If Brumber didn't mention it, you wouldn't be able to tell a difference at all :P Just enjoy and don't care for numbers too much.

I don't think 99% of people even know you can create rules of any kind for BOSS, let alone about BUM.

I've just installed this, and totally love it. Removing all traces of combat music makes the game so much more better! Not to mention the damn bug where the game keeps on playing combat music over and over until you shut the whole game down. 11 out of 10 points from me.

Wasn't the patch also fixing some errors in WAF? I think there were some wrong values for something... but not really sure.

Interesting read. So are you saying we should avoid mods like JDR soundtrack compilation? It's kind of nice, but it consists of several 30-40MB wav files. What would you say the memory hit of such mod is?

LOOT is superior to BOSS in every imaginable way, but! you do need to know your load order a bit more personally, and add a bit of extra rules in the metadata editor. Knowing what should load after what is enough in most cases (but you can do more than that). It will work out of the box, but there might be some very minor undesirable conflicts. LOOT also made me use TES5edit after adding mods to see what's overwriting what, and make changes accordingly. For example, I realized Book Covers Skyrim was making changes to cells, deleting records made by ETaC. I guess the conclusion is that LOOT is what people should use, but it's not as automated as it might seem, and a bit of extra knowledge is needed.

These win over anything hands down for me.

Clearing the cache doesn't help, and neither does refreshing the page, relogging,... nothing. All I can do is restart the browser. Sigh.

Oh this. That's all the files the browser saves for future use, basically "cache". I don't think that's supposed to help with slow scrolling?... I thought there was a feature that cleans what Firefox currently has saved in memory.

Oh do not use Driver Sweeper. It's outdated by at least 5 years or more. This is what should be used nowadays. Try to downgrade the driver just for the heck of it.

I don't think it's physical memory problem, because then you would likely be getting BSODs rather than out of memory messages by the OS. But you can just download Memtest86+ (+!) and keep it running overnight just to be safe. What about the graphic driver? Did you install it roughly at the same time the problem started by chance? Doesn't hurt to try to go back to old one temporarily. I can't imagine life without Process Explorer really. I think if anything is really leaking memory, it will defnitely show up. edit: lol what's up with the forum and image preview BB codes?

Clean ram rache? Where do I find it? I wasn't aware anything like that existed. And in the mess v29 is it's bloody impossible to find anything :/

One thing that completely puzzles me about Cabal's architecture mods is the textures, despite being 2k resolution, look completely blurred and almost upscaled (while they really are not). I recently tried the farmhouses and Whiterun, and quickly ditched both, because numerous objects looked (exaggerating a bit now) like a cocktail of colours fresh out of blender even from medium range, let alone from close up. SRO has its problems, but is still standing strong.

I am not 100% certain about this, but I believe the cached memory is just stuff that was loaded in case it's needed. See how cached and available are almost the same number? I believe it gets instantly unallocated when something asks for memory. It doesn't make any sense why the OS would yell about being out of memory, though. At all. Did you disable page file by chance? Have you checked running services? Just because you shut running programs down doesn't mean there isn't ton of services running in the background (as in, non-system ones). Lots of stuff is loading at startup. (see below) I know I had this problem a few times in past (during the last few years), and it was always something really broken somewhere. Like a program (or worse, a driver) with major memory leak. I suggest replacing Task Manager with Process Explorer (it tells you so much more), and when you are at it, to look at other utilities Sysinternals offer. Like Autoruns for example.

I use both the mods and really do like them a lot. I just wish there was a way to "ungrit" the Windhelm textures, because the black "filter" that seems to be covering them to achieve that effect makes them look less detailed than they are, and is hiding lots of detail. But I respect the artist's decision.

I use Firefox, but it seems unrelated to version (I always keep it updated, and currently it's... 29.0.something I believe). I also believe this problem has been present ever since the new forum was launched.

I really don't like the new textures at all, they feel completely out of place, and the colours are often pretty weird (maybe I am half colourblind, but greenish plastic looking house walls, uh, what?...). Besides, they are one 1k in resolution, which sticks out quite badly when most everything is 2k. And don't you dare trying to go closer to walls... Luckily you can make it use vanilla textures (actually, whatever your mods are). Interiors feel perfectly fine, I don't notice any lack of clutter or anything.

This is quite funny. After changing my opinion about the mod after looking at the screenshots and the big gallery posted before, I actually played a little with it... and within an hour switched back to SRO, coming to the (well, mostly) same conclusion. THE BROWN! It's everywhere, and makes the walls almost completely blend in with dirt on the ground, and generally all surroundings. It felt like I had some brown SweetFX filter slapped onto the game. If only the walls were white-gray like vanilla, it would be almost perfect.

I remember now what I had in mind regarding the writes. part I: Introducing the SSD Endurance Experiment part II: The SSD Endurance Experiment: 200TB update part III: The SSD Endurance Experiment: Testing data retention at 300TB part IV: The SSD Endurance Experiment: 500TB update part V: The SSD Endurance Experiment: Data retention after 600TB The whole test apparently took ~7 months (while the SSDs were writing data pretty much nonstop), so this is as real as it gets. Actually, the test might not be over yet, llol. "I used to be scared of writes like you, but then I took a flash chip to the knee."

It really is completely random, and sometimes it goes away after opening different page and then opening the forums again, but... there's no apparent pattern to it. Could it be Flash related?

Scrolling the forums randomly slows down to crawling without any apparent reason. Is that a known problem or something?

Writes are not a concern at all. Realistically, even with heavy load, you will replace a SSD with something faster much sooner than it would "die" (I think someone calculated it to like 20 years, or even more - not exactly sure).

Could this knowledge lead to being able to repack the DLC BSAs with optimized textures instead of having those as loose files?

Sometimes completely WTF things happen... But with 8GB of RAM there shouldn't be much pagining going on at all. I mean I don't suppose you have 30+ programs running when playing Skyrim. The thing is, some paging always takes place, but it really is super small amounts of data (and especially if you have plenty of free RAM) - I think we're talking about a few MBs at most here or something similar. With 120GB SSD I can understand the capacity concern. But you can always just limit the size to 2GB or something, just to be sure. It looks like _some_ page file is better than none (there are some rare cases of programs that flat out refuse to start when a page file isn't present for example), and if you don't have crap ton of stuff running, it's usually perfectly enough. I still don't get how having the file on the other disk would cause performance degradation of THIS scale. That makes no sense. I mean, even if the disk went to sleep while you were gaming and then had to spin up upon zoning, it would add maybe 10 seconds maximum, not a minute... :O_o: I guess there are no bad sectors on it? I am trying to think about all variables that affect performance I can, like old slow disk, super heavy fragmentation, disk in sleep mode, etc., and not even all of that together should be causing such loading times. Heh, not even having all the game files on that disk.