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You all rock.. see top post for update. This community is amazing!

AF in the driver solved this issues nearly entirely... 95% improvement. I still feel stutter on the initial load and opening the map but incredible improvement. Will test other solutions just to be thorough to help anyone in the future with my issues. No Tuners running I keep my OS limited to the basics. AF was set to 16 surprisingly in the Gforce driver as I thought it had been modified... tested application controlled and off and both had same result (see top of this post) Ran your custom INI and *WITH* AF fixed as above I once again had stutter but about 50% as bad as it was before. Setting fullscreen borderless=true had no impact upping ReservedMemorySizeMb=1024 had a slight improvement ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false no impact Not sure what else to play with in your ini to once again remove stutter... my ini is stutter free now though with AF application controlled in drivers. Can anyone hypothesize what's going on here? Is a conflicting AF setting causing the stutters or is it merely putting more stress on and thus exposing the core problem? WITH AF fixed as above, and WITH the ini supplied by Spock... ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=false was a 95% improvement! EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=true on top of that appeared to improve further slightly, but may be placebo. Agree with you assessment of GPU dropping to zero... there are zero frames running during a stutter so GPU has nothing to do... effect rather than cause

Just noticed load time is 3x with ENB enabled... also sound has a delay in the main menu whereas with ENB off it does not. Not sure if that helps. Tried InitProxyFunctions=true no impact Performance Monitor on ENB Enabled Performance monitor ENB disabled.. same mods same save same run path and map usage

Yes, without ENB it is running flawlessly over the short term. Will test longer to see if I hit a crash. No optimization software. Had Avast up but I've disabled it to simplify modding issues. Okay on ENB Manager! Just used it to remove ENB cleanly as I didn't want to miss a file. Removed! I've tried Reserved Memory Size MB in every increment of 128 from the minimum to the maximum with no luck. Trying initProxy now Sure that Shift-B isn't the cause, but thanks on the heads up! Thanks everyone!

THANK YOU to everyone who helped out here! Still not 100% sure what's happening on a technical level (I imagine my symptoms will show up again if I put the textures under heavier stress) but solved the symptoms at least. Nvidia must have reset my settings when I reinstalled Skyrim and it changed Anistropic Filtering to 16x instead of being Application Controlled. Switching to Application Controlled fixed 95% of the issues. I used an ini posted by a user lower in the section and the stuttering returned even with the AF setting corrected... so there's more going on here than I can see. Memory Hacks and Reduce System settings as below once again alleviated the stutter. It would probably be helpful to find more of the root cause here, but this is at least a start! ORIGINAL POST --------------------- First off, thanks for putting together such a comprehensive set of mods.. I felt it was too nit picky but playing them all together really has an additive impact! TLDR: ENB is causing macro stutter on a near game breaking level. Ini tweaks have had no impact. Uninstalling ENB entirely and running the same Skyrim STEP setup is flawlessly smooth with no stutter. (1) will playing STEP Enhanced without ENB cause issues down the line? (2) Is there something I'm totally missing with ENB to fix the stutter? SYSTEM AMD FX 8350 4.00 GHZ 8 Core 12 GB RAM Windows 8.1 64 Bit Nvidia GTX 980 Solid State Drive INSTALL: STEP 2.2.9.2, including bashing and DynDOLODing Spent the weekend installing STEP and running into serious stutter then reinstalling STEP from scratch to make sure I didn't make any mistakes, which I am now completely sure I've done every single instruction precisely. Basically, when entering a save there is a gigantic stutter (macro stutter) that will freeze anywhere from 300ms to 5 seconds followed by a dozen more stutters as I spin my character around loading elements around me. Opening a menu or book will cause a similar hitch. Over time walking around as game items load into my RAM or VRAM the game smooths out, but maddeningly opening the map completely resets the behavior or going to an interior cell then exterior again. I also notice the effect is degenerative and after 30 minutes or so I need to restart Skyrim. I've tweaked every .ini field you have in your guides with no noticable change. Especially the [MEMORY] section of ENB trying out each setting and increment. Fullscreen borderless had no impact. Skyrim is playable but not enjoyable. Combat will stutter in particular as new spells or decals are used. I used ENB FXAA SweetFX Manager v4.1 to remove ENB entirely (to be sure I didn't miss a file) and launched the same setup and it is completely flawlessly silky smooth. Does anyone have a suggestion to get ENB up and running correctly? Would playing STEP without ENB cause issues down the road? Thanks! [PROXY] EnableProxyLibrary=false InitProxyFunctions=true ProxyLibrary=other_d3d9.dll [GLOBAL] UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true UseDefferedRendering=false IgnoreCreationKit=true [PERFORMANCE] SpeedHack=true EnableOcclusionCulling=true [MULTIHEAD] ForceVideoAdapterIndex=false VideoAdapterIndex=0 [MEMORY] ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true DisableDriverMemoryManager=false DisablePreloadToVRAM=false EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false ReservedMemorySizeMb=512 VideoMemorySizeMb=3714 EnableCompression=false AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false [WINDOW] ForceBorderless=true ForceBorderlessFullscreen=true [ENGINE] ForceAnisotropicFiltering=true MaxAnisotropy=8 ForceLodBias=false LodBias=0.0 AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions=false EnableVSync=true VSyncSkipNumFrames=0 [LIMITER] WaitBusyRenderer=false EnableFPSLimit=false FPSLimit=10.0 [INPUT] //shift KeyCombination=16 //f12 KeyUseEffect=123 //home KeyFPSLimit=36 //num / 106 KeyShowFPS=106 //print screen KeyScreenshot=44 //enter KeyEditor=13 //f4 KeyFreeVRAM=115 //B KeyBruteForce=66 [ADAPTIVEQUALITY] Enable=false Quality=1 DesiredFPS=20.0 [ANTIALIASING] EnableEdgeAA=false EnableTemporalAA=false EnableSubPixelAA=false [FIX] FixGameBugs=true FixParallaxBugs=true FixParallaxTerrain=false FixAliasedTextures=true IgnoreInventory=true FixTintGamma=true RemoveBlur=false FixSubSurfaceScattering=true FixSkyReflection=true FixCursorVisibility=true FixLag=false [LONGEXPOSURE] EnableLongExposureMode=false Time=1.0 BlendMax=0.0