Massive FPS drop when near some FX effects

[Halde]

Hi all!

Issue is pretty much in the title. It's mainly noticeable with fire, such as many candles, or the cooking fire in inns, and especially Flame Atronachs, due to often being up close to them, also I summon them myself. I play in 1st person mode, and if up close my fps drops to about 10. I'm running about 100 fps most of the time in the open world. This fps drop also occour if close to freezing FX such as the crystals that Ice Wraiths leaves on the ground. There may be other effects, but not so far. It's noticeable that normal camp fires and flames in the torchbowls (I don't what their called, they appear for lighting purpose in many place, for instance the entrance to Whiterun, made of metal). Maybe this is just because of the scale of the flame. Also casting Flames, Firebolt and having fire in hands doesn't affect fps noticeably. 

Is this just Skyrim? I'm running a laptop, but with a RTX 3070 TI (with MUX switch), so I believe I should be able to run everything smoothly on that account, but perhaps not. 

Hope someone can help call this.

~Best regards

Halde

[Halde]

I should note that I'm running ENB and thus the post-processing part of the guide. Been running with Light preset. I've tried changing to Milk Drinker, with no or very minor change in fps.

[z929669]

1 hour ago, Halde said:

I should note that I'm running ENB and thus the post-processing part of the guide. Been running with Light preset. I've tried changing to Milk Drinker, with no or very minor change in fps.

It's not clear if you are running the Step SSE 2.2.0 build or not.

Note the instructions for Embers XD ... use 'Optimized'

Have you installed likewise?

Beyond that, reducing the particle lights will help but will also reduce the benefits of using ENB for these effects. See 'Details' tab under BethINI Setup ... setting to 5000-6000 may be realistic.

[Halde]

About Embers, yes, reinstalled the mod to make sure. 

I will try reducing particle lights!

[z929669]

Other than reducing particle lights even further, the only other option would be to not use ENB, as these performance issues are all related to ENB. Disabling certain ENB effects in ENBSeries.ini should resolve.