Guide Talk:Troubleshooting

Some additions to the troubleshooting guide. Some of the tweaks/ fixes still need to be tested/ verified.

Papyrus Tweaks

An issue with installing many mods, especially script heavy ones, is that the default Papyrus ini settings are not fully capable of handling the additional stress. This tweak should increase stability, and needs to be added to the Skyrim.ini file under the [Papyrus] section. Your Skyrim.ini can be found in Windows 7 under the \Documents\My Games\Skyrim directory.

[Papyrus]

fUpdateBudgetMS=1.6

fExtraTaskletBudgetMS=1.6

fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=1000.0

bEnableLogging=0

bEnableTrace=0

bLoadDebugInformation=0

iMaxMemoryPageSize=8192

iMinMemoryPageSize=256

iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=8388608

Thanks go to Lumaan on the S.T.E.P. Community forums finding these!

Esmfy .esp Mods

Some mods, especially those that modify navmesh, and/or add new cells are buggy as of the latest (1.5.26) patch. Converting the .esp to a .esm may fix these problems.

Quad Core Fix

Force Skyrim to use 2 cores, can fix stability issues sometimes.

Skyrim Stability Mods

64hz stutter removal

TESVAL

Stability Software

gamebooster/ defraggler/ ccleaner, turn off notifications for antivrus/ firewall.

FPS Background Booster

Skyrim Extended Launcher

This is a modified launcher the acts a pre-launcher to either the default skyrim launcher or for the SKSE. The advantage of using this launcher is that you can increase the priority of Skyrim as well as modify its CPU affinity. Both of these tweaks can imporve stability. In addition to these tweaks, the launcher can also launch specific saves immediately.

You can get the launcher here on Skyrim Nexus.

Steam

Steam has been known to also decrease stability. Below are some tips to reduce Steams potential instability when running Skyrim.

1. Turn off Steam Cloud Synchronization. This can be done by right clicking on the Steam icon in your taskbar, selecting settings, and then choosing to disable steam cloud synchronization. However, you should be aware that by turning off this feature, steam will no longer create backups of you Skyrim saves.
2. Turn off Steam Overlay. Steam overlay is a in game overlay that allows access to steam communities in game, as well as the ability to take steam based screenshots. Turning this off can also help with issues whilst using ENB 0.110+ such as AA not working and bad texture shimmering. This can be disabled by right clicking on the steam icon in your taskbar, navigating to Libraries, right clicking on Skyrim, navigating to settings, and then

Turn off cloud sync, turn off overlay, run in offline mode.