Strange Inconsistent Stutters while using a prefab modlist Fus (basics)

[The Joker]

I was wondering your thoughts on a problem Ive been having.

I downloaded FusRoDah from Wabbajack and everything works swimmingly great. However every so often while playing for over an hour Ill get two consistent issues.

The first, my screen will freeze and I have to go back to desktop and back into Skyrim Vr to get it Unforzen. It will be a battle every so often where Ill have to do it many times over (whiterun specifically).

Second is, random stutters. I mean like Ill play smoothly for an hour or more outside in the worldspace, or in towns, then randomly ill get a stutter in sound and gameplay that will hit every 10 seconds. It will persist until I restart the game.

So I also made sure to change settings accordingly based on guides online etc. Is there a particular setting I should be looking at?

I've been playing with the Fus list for a month now. Some days it will run butter smooth for 6 hours straight. Others I can go 45 minutes until these problems happen. It seems to be quite random. No crashes to speak of.

[EQOAnostalgia]

Idk, i don't use that crap. I refuse to pay for installing free mods, and it looks like more of a headache than it's worthwhile plus you need a f'ing NASA PC to run the mods they use. I install my own mods, and test my own modlist.

[The Joker]

Originally posted by Maranatha:

Idk, i don't use that crap. I refuse to pay for installing free mods, and it looks like more of a headache than it's worthwhile plus you need a f'ing NASA PC to run the mods they use. I install my own mods, and test my own modlist.

Thanks for the reply that did not help even in the slightest. Actually my guy, lemme bring you up to speed really quick from someone who does mod regularly, unlike you clearly because you are living in the past when PAY FOR MODS was a thing for like what, a month? Wabbajack does not require you to pay for ♥♥♥♥. It uses Nexus mods as its backbone. Cool story though thanks for all of that endless dribble about how you hate the system. And wabbajack is meant for convenience of changing the game while not sitting there for 20+ hours just modding it exactly how you like. Ya know what big brain I think I'll pop your answer as the Answer to the topic and ♥♥♥♥ why not life while we are at it.

[MommaBee]

Originally posted by The Joker:

I was wondering your thoughts on a problem Ive been having.

I downloaded FusRoDah from Wabbajack and everything works swimmingly great. However every so often while playing for over an hour Ill get two consistent issues.

The first, my screen will freeze and I have to go back to desktop and back into Skyrim Vr to get it Unforzen. It will be a battle every so often where Ill have to do it many times over (whiterun specifically).

Second is, random stutters. I mean like Ill play smoothly for an hour or more outside in the worldspace, or in towns, then randomly ill get a stutter in sound and gameplay that will hit every 10 seconds. It will persist until I restart the game.

So I also made sure to change settings accordingly based on guides online etc. Is there a particular setting I should be looking at?

I've been playing with the Fus list for a month now. Some days it will run butter smooth for 6 hours straight. Others I can go 45 minutes until these problems happen. It seems to be quite random. No crashes to speak of.

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what headset are you running? and are you running any heavy programs in the background? example: google chrome? music player? etc

[buttmunch]

I'm not a fan of wabbajacks. I tried a couple, one was FUS and I went back to a clean install and modding myself.

Performance is one reason to do that. You can install a mod or 2 and test things out. If something is a problem you'll know what mod caused it. With a wabbajack you'll have to start disabling things one at a time.

Unless you plan to run a large mod list its less time consuming to just start from scratch and install mods yourself.

Overall performance can be a bit unpredictable in skyrim/fallout4. I've found that there are a couple areas in each game that tank the FPS (cpu limited.) This isn't random, its location dependent.

You may also have a mod that is taxing your system occasionally but not in a predictable way. You need to determine if it is RAM, VRAM, CPU or GPU limited. FPSVR is a good utility that can help you figure out where the bottleneck is.

This game is old but can still be very taxing even on modern systems. It takes alot of testing and tuning to get it dialed in.

[The Joker]

Originally posted by MommaBee:

Originally posted by The Joker:

I was wondering your thoughts on a problem Ive been having.

I downloaded FusRoDah from Wabbajack and everything works swimmingly great. However every so often while playing for over an hour Ill get two consistent issues.

The first, my screen will freeze and I have to go back to desktop and back into Skyrim Vr to get it Unforzen. It will be a battle every so often where Ill have to do it many times over (whiterun specifically).

Second is, random stutters. I mean like Ill play smoothly for an hour or more outside in the worldspace, or in towns, then randomly ill get a stutter in sound and gameplay that will hit every 10 seconds. It will persist until I restart the game.

So I also made sure to change settings accordingly based on guides online etc. Is there a particular setting I should be looking at?

I've been playing with the Fus list for a month now. Some days it will run butter smooth for 6 hours straight. Others I can go 45 minutes until these problems happen. It seems to be quite random. No crashes to speak of.

-
what headset are you running? and are you running any heavy programs in the background? example: google chrome? music player? etc

I went quest 2 route years back during the Covid outbreak. So I've been sticking it out with it. As for background programs, I turned pretty much every non-essential thing off.

However I did set Virtual desktop to High priority to allow smoother streaming. But I may have to turn that down as it does chew up the computer GPU usage. My router is right next to the gaming tower, and I have a short Ethernet cord I think its a Cat6

Two specific steps I use when going for long VR sessions are, NVIdia control panel, turn off that overlay. I also change my computer to high performance in power settings. I do use MSI afterburner. I also open the side of my tower and turn an exterior electronics fan on high and have it blast in there for the session just to guarantee temperatures stay down.

[The Joker]

Originally posted by buttmunch:

I'm not a fan of wabbajacks. I tried a couple, one was FUS and I went back to a clean install and modding myself.

Performance is one reason to do that. You can install a mod or 2 and test things out. If something is a problem you'll know what mod caused it. With a wabbajack you'll have to start disabling things one at a time.

Unless you plan to run a large mod list its less time consuming to just start from scratch and install mods yourself.

Overall performance can be a bit unpredictable in skyrim/fallout4. I've found that there are a couple areas in each game that tank the FPS (cpu limited.) This isn't random, its location dependent.

You may also have a mod that is taxing your system occasionally but not in a predictable way. You need to determine if it is RAM, VRAM, CPU or GPU limited. FPSVR is a good utility that can help you figure out where the bottleneck is.

This game is old but can still be very taxing even on modern systems. It takes alot of testing and tuning to get it dialed in.

Yeah I actually discovered Wabbajack this past year after 8 years of modding pretty much every game I could. To get the perfect skyrim list takes months. Just to customize FUS perfectly with my own "downgraded textures" and additional content it had taken me 2 weeks. Modding is fun but such a time suck.

See the probelm is, I know everything works crystal clear even in the areas that do eventually bug out (whiterun). Sometimes Ill go for 2-4 straight hours running from cities to wilderness or dungeons with no lag spikes or anything, then randomly Ill get those stutters. Its super frustrating because as far as I can see there is no real cause for it. Even pulling up TM shows all resources are being dedicated to skyrimVR and VD.

FpsVR never heard of that. Ill check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

[buttmunch]

Sounds like running out of VRAM.

Another thing to try is using processlasso to bind background processes to to different cores than the game itself. Windows scheduler likes to move processes around alot and this can cause issues on multi CCD AMD systems. I don't know if it matters much on intel.

Either way you can make sure the game isn't sharing cores with anything else.

[The Joker]

Originally posted by buttmunch:

Sounds like running out of VRAM.

Another thing to try is using processlasso to bind background processes to to different cores than the game itself. Windows scheduler likes to move processes around alot and this can cause issues on multi CCD AMD systems. I don't know if it matters much on intel.

Either way you can make sure the game isn't sharing cores with anything else.

I looked at my vram to just reconfirm.

Avail Graphics mem is: 24,478 mb
Dedicated Video mem : 8,192 mb
System vid: 0mb
Shared system mem: 16,284 mb

[hugorunebln]

I started with Wabbajack and FUS and nearly gave up. Lagging, lagging, lagging.
Then I did a fresh install with Vortex and slowly added only the few mods I really need, such as Bruma. This is the real thing, at least for me.