Skyrim not using any VRAM (also crashes past Riverwood)

theausus · January 26, 2014

So I followed the STEP install guide and installed all the mods like they were listed, except choosing higher quality textures for most of the mods (I have a R9 290 with 4 gigs of vram). I used Mod Organizer as the mod manager. The only things I installed beyond the stuff listed in STEP were SkyRe, Frostfall, Falskarr, Wyrmstooth, Realistic Needs and Diseases, Grass on Steroids, Climates of Tamriel, and ELFX. (if I remember correctly that's everything) When I start a game and go anywhere past Riverwood, the LOD objects do not go away and the normal models do not load at all. Also, if I try to "wait" in Riverwood, the game freezes. Any help to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Here's my Skyrim Performance Monitor after the game froze upon trying to wait in Riverwood:

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I would prefer not having to spend six hours installing mods again.

Aiyen · January 26, 2014

Post your full mod list in spoiler tags as well please. AS well as full system specs etc. Also if you are using any post processing software or stuff like hialgo boost etc etc. need more info! :)

theausus · January 26, 2014

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The list above might be the wrong file. Here is the plugins file:

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Also, the full system specs should be listed in the screenshot of Skyrim Performance Monitor. If there's anything beyond those let me know. And I'm not using any post processing software.Â

EssArrBee · January 26, 2014

Umm... 818 FPS? I don't think you need that many. If you are using windowed mode then you need to open up Catalyst Control Center and turn the FPS limiter to like 60 or less. Skyrim doesn't like anything over 60 or stuff starts flying around.

theausus · January 26, 2014

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Umm... 818 FPS? I don't think you need that many. If you are using windowed mode then you need to open up Catalyst Control Center and turn the FPS limiter to like 60 or less. Skyrim doesn't like anything over 60 or stuff starts flying around.

That was just in the main menu. When the game actually loads it drops to like 35 (Which seems a bit low to me considering the hardware, but it might be because of not using the VRAM)

EssArrBee · January 26, 2014

Your GPU shouldn't be getting to 92 degrees unless it is running and it isn't running unless there is data moving through it to process. I'd say that SPM isn't registering your VRAM usage somehow because no CPU alone is running Skyrim at 35 FPS with your mod setup.

Do you have an ENB or SweetFX, some kind of post-processing effect install? Those can be tricky for SPM.

theausus · January 26, 2014

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Your GPU shouldn't be getting to 92 degrees unless it is running and it isn't running unless there is data moving through it to process. I'd say that SPM isn't registering your VRAM usage somehow because no CPU alone is running Skyrim at 35 FPS with your mod setup.

Do you have an ENB or SweetFX, some kind of post-processing effect install? Those can be tricky for SPM.

I don't have any ENB or SweetFX installed. Ironically, in my previous skyrim install (not using STEP but it did use RealvisionENB as well as many 4k textures) I got 40-50 fps.Â

I hypothesize that for whatever reason, Skyrim is making my GPU think my RAM is the VRAM and the reason for the sub-60 FPS is because it is having to send all the data through the PCIE bus, effectively creating a bottleneck and lowering the speed at which the game runs. If you'll notice, the GPU rapidly goes from 0% usage to 90-100% usage and back down. This evidence supports my theory that it is pulling things from the RAM, processing it, pulling more things, processing, etc...

Aiyen · January 26, 2014

The temperature is just what the driver reports... which is to be read correctly. It is essentially based on load. If the GPU runs at this given load ALL time time then eventually the temperature will reach that. It is not real time actual temperatures. For that you will need a probe and place it on chip or really close to it.. which is not really possible on GPUÂ´s without custom fit cooling solutions.

However if you ever closely watch how it jumps during various load amounts then you will see it makes no sense at all. Stuff inside a Computer does not go from idle temperatures to like 92C over the span of a few seconds or even minutes.. unless it is shorting out in which case you already reached the point of no return and something else (Almost certainly a resistor) on the card most likely is going to burst into charcoal.

But yeah something is wrong in this case.. SPM is not getting all the info it needs. Depending on the vendor of the card you most likely have access to some monitor software from that company that should work.

EssArrBee · January 26, 2014

Did you reset your INIs to default when you reinstalled Skyrim? Also, make sure you deleted the d3d9.dll from your Skyrim directory. Since you are using MO, make a new profile and start up vanilla skyrim with SPM and see if it better.

theausus · January 26, 2014

Well RAM problem aside (I will do some additional testing) the game will load objects past Riverwood with vanilla. Can anyone help me with why it isn't loading objects with STEP installed?

And concerning the temperature, I'm not worried about it. The way the new Catalyst overclocking is set up, it dynamically overclocks the GPU in order to reach a target temperature.Â

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