Hi,

I'm having the weirdest low FPS issue. I'm running Skyrim with a lot of mods (over 80 at this time) and with an ENB, and everything was fine until today.

Now I'm getting only about 20-22fps at all times (inside, outside, in a fight), and it's not good enough - aiming is hard as it is. What's more, the FPS do not depend upon graphical settings at all (tried changing to lowest, tried changing resolution), nor on the ENB being enabled (I even tried removing it altogether, no change).

Now for the funny part: if I load an older save, it runs smooth as butter (40+ fps at all times) - I have chacked all saves I have and it seems it was fine up until yesterday evening. I have not installed any new mods recently.

I have just now checked the save sizes, and it's somewhat worrying:

yesterday, 9PM - 10 064 KB

yesterday, 10.30 PM - 12 303 KB (this is the last one that seems to run fine)

today, 10 AM - 16 215 KB

today, 11:30 AM - 17 250 KB

Sooooo... is there anything I can do besides re-playing that bit and watching the save sizes?

I don't want to go back to that save (gained 5 levels since...), but I might have to. I have tried running the save cleaner, the texture optimizer, no change :/

My specs:

i7-2600k (@4.5GHz)

8GB ram

GTX680

Update: I have also noticed that while playing that old save (with the good fps) the CPU usage in task manager is about 25-30%, but after loading one of the later ones the usage is only 15-20%.

Sounds like save bloat. You mentioned you did not install any mods recently, but what about uninstalling/disabling mods? That can usually clutter your save.

Other than that, try the basic stuff like update drivers, patches, mods, verify cache, etc.

Quick question, did you try anything different in your session from the good save to the bad one?

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Nope, I did not unistall or disable any mods in that time.

Drivers are all up to date and system is well maintained. All mods are of the newest versions (I only installed the game last week or so and started over, after a long break )

Well, I started building a home near Falkreath in that time.

I did not know that save bloat could cause FPS issues. Aaaanyway, there isn't any way to fix save bloats, is there? I'm going to give the "How to REMOVE ALL embedded scripts from your savegame - Tutorial by flexcreator" guide a try (it's on skyrimnexus, but I'm not allowed to post links yet ), and if it does not help I'll play from the good save to see if it gets broken again.

Uh, don't. "Save cleaners" should be avoided at all costs.

What deaths soul said

May I see what mods you have installed? Do you use BOSS?