Hi folks,
Thanks for all the work the folks at STEP have and are doing. And thanks for all the detailed sleuthing that is going on in this thread.
I joined just to post my two cents. After the explosion on nexus when gopher announced the problem I installed Performance monitor and checked out what was happening with my crashes. True enough it was guaranteed reproduce-able crash. I had many textures installed and I always get the biggest textures available for a mod. Since realizing this, the only change I made was switching Skyrim 2k hd textures by Nebula, from FULL to LITE. And now the crashes are.... less. I am still crashing after a sudden spike, even though I don't ever go over 3gb in ram now.
Example: If I use the carriage to fast travel from whiterun to markarth with FULL textures, it goes from around 2.4, then there is a steep dip to under 2GB (probably the loading screen with some flushing right?), and then in a matter of 5 'samples' as measured by Performance Monitor, there is a huge spike which ends at between 3.1-3.3GB of RAM and... crash. Now that I have the lesser textures installed, I can witness the same pattern at lower levels. So from whiterun to Markarth with lower textures it goes from around 2.1GB, dips to just over 1GB and then spikes to around 2.8GB and then... crash. Looking at the graph on performance monitor it follows the same pattern, but at lower numerical values. Flat, dip, spike above the original flat line, crash...
Could it be the spike alone and how the program and the PC handle it together?
The crash with the lesser textures is harder to reproduce and happens less frequently. My numbers are approximate, and if this information is useful I can get more detailed information from the monitor.
I did not alter anything in my 224 mod setup (Unreal ENB included) other than changing the textures mentioned above, but my performance monitor results are consistent with what is being reported here and smaller textures does appear to have helped.
Specs:
Intel i5-3570K @ 3.40GHz
16GB RAM
Nvidia GTX680 4GB
Nvidia drivers 314.22WHQL
Thanks!
