FPS drops with modded skyrim

[Tio Cenora]

I have right now 153 mods installed, obsidian weathers and visceral ENB. I always go for 2k textures.
The thing is, I am having FPS drops to like 40 at Riften, Falkreath, even though my cpu is not at 100% usage, my GPU gets around 85% and consuming 10,6GB of RAM. Is there a way to fix it or is it normal at modded games to have frame drops at some cities?

My setup:
Ryzen 2200G
GTX 1650 Super 4GB
16GB RAM (2x 8GB)

[Vlad 254]

Riften is a known FPS killer with many having drops all the way down to 15-20 FPS. My system, which far from a NASA PC (RTX2070, i7-8700) drops down to 40ish in some parts of the Riften area.
If you're getting 40 that sounds about right.

[HazakTheMad]

Those places always get fps drops, mostly because of the trees.
They are notorious for it.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Nothing you can really do about it. Game engine is old and outdated so there is locations that have very heavy fps drops. If it doesn't crash, you'll get used to it.

[Tio Cenora]

Thanks, everyone =)

[SpeedFreak1972]

It also depends on the mods installed I mean if you have tons of 4k, 8k or even higher textures, etc the game will suffer.

[unknown]

Download and install these mods, and you may gain some FPS.

eFPS - Exterior FPS boost

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54907

eFPS - Official Patch Hub

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54998

eFPS - Anniversary Edition

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/58727

[tulle040657]

SSE Engine Fixes got rid of my fps drops in Riften

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Originally posted by tulle040657:

SSE Engine Fixes got rid of my fps drops in Riften

+1 on this

[Tio Cenora]

Originally posted by 76561198059153825:

SSE Engine Fixes got rid of my fps drops in Riften

I am using this as well, to try to fix a strange infinite loading screen that happens only when I fast travel to Whiterun, weird bug...

[Tio Cenora]

Originally posted by unknown:

Download and install these mods, and you may gain some FPS.

eFPS - Exterior FPS boost

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54907

eFPS - Official Patch Hub

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54998

eFPS - Anniversary Edition

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/58727

Thanks, I will try these

[StreamWhenGuy]

Use BethINI [www.nexusmods.com] to optimize INI files. Choose High preset instead of Ultra as well as recommended tweaks within the tool. High preset is good enough.
eFPS is good.
Use lighter trees mod, such as Enhanced Vanilla Trees. [www.nexusmods.com]
Use lighter grass mod, such as Northern Grass [www.nexusmods.com] or/and Cathedral Landscapes. [www.nexusmods.com] You can combine the two using Northern Cathedral Grass [www.nexusmods.com] patch.
Use less dense grass by tweaking iMinGrassSize to something like 50, 60 or 70. The higher the number, the lower the grass density and the more FPS you will gain. Cathedral Landscapes has its own provided INI for that.
Use No Grassias [www.nexusmods.com] to get rid of grass patches where there shouldn't be any, increasing performance.
Use Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods [www.nexusmods.com] for the same reason.
If you use DynDOLOD, pick a lighter preset especially for tree LODs. I personally don't see the point in ultra trees rather than killing performance for little to no visual difference.
If you're using city overhaul mods like JK's Skyrim, then nothing will help you I'm afraid.
If you're really into it, you could try generating grass cache using No Grass in Objects. [www.nexusmods.com] Doing that may potentially increase performance since all grass will be pre-cached.
Yeah, and ENB is performance hungry on top of that.
Yeah, and any AI overhaul mods decrease performance since this poor engine can't keep up with calculating their AI package all at once.
Yeah, and mods that increase the number of triangles and draw calls will make your game suffer, too. *cough* 3D Trees and High Poly Project *cough*

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[Tio Cenora]

Originally posted by StreamWhenGuy:

Use BethINI [www.nexusmods.com] to optimize INI files. Choose High preset instead of Ultra as well as recommended tweaks within the tool. High preset is good enough.
eFPS is good.
Use lighter trees mod, such as Enhanced Vanilla Trees. [www.nexusmods.com]
Use lighter grass mod, such as Northern Grass [www.nexusmods.com] or/and Cathedral Landscapes. [www.nexusmods.com] You can combine the two using Northern Cathedral Grass [www.nexusmods.com] patch.
Use less dense grass by tweaking iMinGrassSize to something like 50, 60 or 70. The higher the number, the lower the grass density and the more FPS you will gain. Cathedral Landscapes has its own provided INI for that.
Use No Grassias [www.nexusmods.com] to get rid of grass patches where there shouldn't be any, increasing performance.
Use Landscape Fixes for Grass Mods [www.nexusmods.com] for the same reason.
If you use DynDOLOD, pick a lighter preset especially for tree LODs. I personally don't see the point in ultra trees rather than killing performance for little to no visual difference.
If you're using city overhaul mods like JK's Skyrim, then nothing will help you I'm afraid.
If you're really into it, you could try generating grass cache using No Grass in Objects. [www.nexusmods.com] Doing that may potentially increase performance since all grass will be pre-cached.
Yeah, and ENB is performance hungry on top of that.
Yeah, and any AI overhaul mods decrease performance since this poor engine can't keep up with calculating their AI package all at once.
Yeah, and mods that increase the number of triangles and draw calls will make your game suffer, too. *cough* 3D Trees and High Poly Project *cough*

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peepoLeave

Thanks for the tips =)

[HazakTheMad]

No grass in objects doesn't work on 1.6 though.