Game play only alternative to this?

[jldkrocks]

I'm one of those people who cannot play their games under 60 frames. I really like the detail in this guide but after spending 2 days on it my gtx 980 ti and my i5 4690k can only keep about 20-30 with super freezes every now and then. Is there a guide like this with just game play mods? 

[Neovalen]

Only getting 20-30 frames per second is not normal, did you install per the guide specifications? I usually get around 45 FPS outdoors / 60 FPS indoors with a normal 980 and a 3570K. "Super Freezes" aren't normal either, maybe a very small momentary stutter crossing a cell boundary (Skyrim problem in general).

 

Something is definitely wrong if that is your FPS.

[jldkrocks]

Only getting 20-30 frames per second is not normal, did you install per the guide specifications? I usually get around 45 FPS outdoors / 60 FPS indoors with a normal 980 and a 3570K. "Super Freezes" aren't normal either, maybe a very small momentary stutter crossing a cell boundary (Skyrim problem in general).

 

Something is definitely wrong if that is your FPS.

Even so I cannot play without 60 fps so it does not matter but thank you anyway

[hishutup]

I found that when the VRAM fills above 4GB it can cause some pretty wicked framedrop, testing in win 7 showed that its an issue with 10

Also with one of the releases of the graphic driver, the 980ti may get stuck in a lower power level, meaning the card wont go to base/boost clock. I occasionally have this issue now.

[tanzplagen]

Hi.

 

For gameplay only mods, my current favourite is Legacy of the Dragonborn (Dragonborn Gallery)  (ID 52248) + several of the 'Locate and retrieve all of the unique _______'s hidden somewhere in the world' mods that the Dragonborn Gallery mod natively supports.

 

In terms of the low framerate you mentioned, you can get a big performance boost by using smaller texture sizes for several mods.  I've got a 4GB nVidia 980 video card, and an old I7 980 CPU, and I can generally maintain 50+ fps, usually 60 indoors.  My mod setup is STEP Core + most of SRLE + Dragonborn Gallery and supported mods +3DNPC (ID 8429)/Inc NPCs (ID 36334) + most of Kryptopyr's other mods + lots of NPC makeovers (IDs 23755, 24273, 70194, 70547, 63473, 40038, 71054, 72626, 37861, 56599, 53152, 67359)

However, the first time I did a word for word SRLE installation I was getting a framerate similar to yours - about 20, maybe 25 -- this is at 1920x1080 resolution.  I have found that 1K-2K textures at constant 50+ fps looks a lot better than 2K textures at an inconsistent 25fps.

 

So I removed Immersive Patrols and OBIS, and the more tedious Survival type mods, as adding groups of additional NPCs -- especially outdoors -- uses a lot of extra memory.  And the rest of the framerate increase I got by just using smaller texture sizes.  Using the size below the SRLE suggested texture sizes for: Vivid Weathers, Vivid Landscapes AIO, and Noble Skyrim made a huge difference in performance for me, and it still looks fine.  To a lesser extent, the next size down texture for Realistic Water Two helps, but not as much as the 3 above, and it is a bit more noticeable in terms of loss of quality. A few of the other, less important mods I used the next smaller size, or performance size, especially for outdoor textures, or body part mods -- beards, brows, skin.  For any of the 2K textures that also had a 2K-1K combined version, I used that version.  I kept SMIM + all other mesh improvement mods, Skyrim Flora Overhaul, DynDOLOD, and most indoor-only textures at the full recommended size.

 

You can also get more fps by turning off some ENB effects, by turning Deferred Rendering off in enblocal.ini, or else by selecting Performance, instead of Normal Quality during Vivid Weather or Vividian ENB installation in Mod Manager.

 

 

Dan.