Allo! for some odd reason, I've started having extremely annoying, frequent FPS drops lately. The game plays normally for 10 minutes, or an hour, or two hours, but then it starts to have drops which last 10-30 seconds (from smooth FPS to extremely stuttery 2-10 FPS), similar to the ones you have after saving but (obviously) much longer.

I did install new mods two days ago, however for two days worth of playing (12~ hours or so) it was fine, then today it started doing that.

I have all three DLCs.

Here is a list of the larger mods I have: Falskaar, wyrmstooth, Warzones, climates of tamriel, jswords, static mesh improvement mod, skyrim flora overhaul, skyUI, cloaks, immersive weapons, immersive armour, apocalypse spells, sperg, interesting NPCs, UFO, realistic lighting overhaul, CLO, and the 2K textures. (SKSE too of course)

They were all manually installed (this is about the fourth time I have skyrim installed on a computer with multiple mods and the first time with this problem).

My computer specs:

8 gb ram, i7 processor, nvidia 650m GPU. It's a laptop.

Things I've already done/checked:

heating issue - it's not one. stays at a stable 70 C, reaches 85~ C at the highest load. Laptop had new thermal paste applied 2 weeks ago and was checked for dust.

Drivers: all okay and not corrupt.

Windows memory problem: diagnostic came back with nothing.

gfx card in use: 650m, not the native intel 4k.

save games bloated: nope. I even used (after the problem started) a cleaner but it did not help.

When this happens: at random! in fact, I get -less- of it when I'm outside when the load is the largest. It happens anywhere, be it a tiny house in Whiterun, a dungeon, or the top of a mountain.

It is pretty irritating. I've tried lowering gfx settings heavily, but it did not work.

edit 1: if it's any help / a clue, this doesn't affect the menu when I press escape and want to save or change some settings, that is smooth.

Warzones I have heard is problematic.

Can you post your actual mod load order?

Aye, can do. here it is:

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

Hearthfire.esm

Dragonborn.esm

Falskaar.esm

Wyrmstooth.esp

ApachiiHair.esm

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

Jswords.esm

Sperg.esm

WARZONES - civil unrest.esm

Better Dynamic Snow.esp

(not too sure why the copy paste has turned to white here)

IceBreaker's Improved Reverb v0.025.esp

CLO - Custom Lighting Overlay.esp

FantasySoundtrackProjectCombatMusic.esp

FantasySoundtrackProject.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

JSwords_Load_Screens.esp

SkyUI.esp

Cloaks.esp

Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

Immersive Weapons.esp

JSwordsDistributionBalancePlugin.esp

DeadlyDragons.esp

FalskaarDawnguard.esp

posesivecorpses.esp

SFO - Expanded Diversity.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp

• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons.esp
• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dawnguard Interiors.esp
• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors.esp
• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors.esp
• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Minor Cities and Town Interiors.esp
• Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Weathers.es
• ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp Version 3.1 Active
• Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp Active
• Improved Dragon Shouts.esp Active
• Improved Dragon Shouts - Dawnguard.esp Active
• Improved Dragon Shouts - Dragonborn.esp Active
• The Dance of Death - Dawnguard Edition.esp Version 1.8 Active
• SPERG.esp Active
• TheEyesOfBeauty.esp Version 9 Active
• 3DNPC.esp Active
• UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp Version 1.2i Active
• UFO - Dragonborn AddOn.esp Active
• UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp Active
• UFO - Heartfire AddOn.esp Active
• Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp
• dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp
• WATER.esp Version 2.0 Active
• WATER DG.esp Version 2.0 Active

Pardon for the large copy pastes later on, figured it wasnt information that's too cluttery.

I've used all / a combo of these mods safely in the past, with WARZONES being the only one that's new. That affects Skyrim only though (the cell or whatever it's called), and the FPS drops happen everywhere, not just outside. might be it anyways? no idea.

Bah. I tried uninstalling ENB, FXAA injector (which I also had), I removed warzones (no CTDs luckily). Nothing changed, I still get the problems =/

What background programs do you have loaded and running whilst gaming ???

Any Antiviruses, game or ram boosters ???