CTD seemingly due to Animated Armoury

[[R.U.N]Warmaster [RUS]]

I have recently downloaded Animated Armoury and tried both the stadard edition and DAR edition. I have had more sizeable mods on like Immersive Weapons and Immersive Armor and I have barely had any CTDs because of them. I used FNIS, FNIS PCEA2, XPMS, Nemesis, Dual Sheath Redux, and all the while I used Animated Armoury the game crashed either in approximately 30 seconds, or upon opening inventories or spell menu.

[[R.U.N]Warmaster [RUS]]

Allright, a strange occurence, or rather a pleasant one, happened. I've been playing AA DAR edition for 20 minutes without CTDing, but my PC is humming loudly. So, I think the problem may be the limitations of my hardware. What is strange is that I do not have Immersive Weapons or Heavy Armory on. From weapon mods I only have Diamond Weapon Smithing and Skyrim Spear Mechanic, and I did not CTD yet. I am going to go and see for how long I will not crash.

Edit: I also added XPMSE, because when played with Skyrim Spear Mechanic I grew tired of a spear sheathed on the hip, and how it looks in first person view.

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The loud 'humming' could be caused by your computer doing something else in the background (such as an update, or maybe a virus scan). None of your weapon mods should be giving you a major performance hit.

As for your problem, it may be that animated armory actually isn't your problem (its easy to misidentify which mod is causing an issue, especially when it comes to crashes as I've learned the hard way).

I have a question: do the crashes occur in specific spots?

As for crashing when opening a menu, that's normally caused by there being a bugged item in your inventory. Though if you also crash when opening a spell menu, that may not be the case.

What are your system specs? Its possible you may just barely meet the requirements to run this game. Does the game run better if you tune your graphics down? What are your graphics set at?

[[R.U.N]Warmaster [RUS]]

My PC is really old, I've got a ATI Radeon 6770 HD (1GB VRAM,) 8 GB RAM, 1 TB Hard Disc Drive, and a 2.9 GHz AMD X7 series chipset. And yes, I wholeheartedly support your thought that my PC is probably not up to the task. When I tried to play Skyrim for the first time I thought I will not be able to launch it. I thought about buying a new PC, or a gaming laptop, even found a good one at iBuyPower, but I decided to wait before buying it. When I get a new job I'll think about getting a new stronger computer. What's funny is that I bought The Witcher 3 with all the DLCs, and I won't be able to run it until I upgrade to a new computer.

About the AA, it runs smoothly now, but I still expect an occasional CTD. 1 straight hour of playing without CTDs just passed, and now I know that it is surely NOT the AA.

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I ran this game on a computer that was made in the late 2000s, and I was still able to run the game (as well as it could anyway, as stated, I did get three crashes on day 1).

If your PC can't handle Skyrim, I would recommend avoiding graphics mods. There is a few out there that can increase your performance (including this one texture mod that DOWNDGRADES your textures to give a more cartoony look, sadly the name of it escapes me right now).

I would avoid any mods that do things like increase resolution or polygon count, or mods that increase the number of npcs or items on screen. Also, avoid script-heavy mods. You should still be able to run most equipment and quest mods though.

As for weapon mods, I suspect Heavy Armory may be easier on performance than Immersive Weapons. That's because it doesn't come with its own textures, surprising as that may be. The mod just applies the vanilla weapon textures to the new weapon models, this means the textures for the weapons should always be the same resolution as the vanilla weapons in your game. If you want to see a demonstration of this, go download the 'blueknight glass' re-texture and install it. Then, open up your game and use console commands to summon in some of the glass weapons heavy armory adds. Note that the mod also changes all those weapons to blue and black too. This is one of the reasons why I prefer Heavy Armory over Immersive Weapons; its 100% compatible with any weapon retextures you have! Besides, Heavy Armory feels more polished to me, and in line with the vanilla game. Oh, and there's a patch to apply Animated Armory's animations to the new weapons (though some work better than others, its a bit weird seeing people wield a shortspear like a rapier).

If you can, you may be able to get an fps clock open in your game (I think steam has this feature, though it won't work if you're running your game through mod organizer). Using that you can test out various mods and see how much of a performance impact they have on your game. You should be aiming for 60 fps, if you can, though I think 30 is still high enough to be playable.

[Master Talon]

this game came out in November 2011 that isn't in the late 2000's so how did you play this game in the late 2000's when it wasn't out yet?

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this game came out in November 2011 that isn't in the late 2000's so how did you play this game in the late 2000's when it wasn't out yet?

I didn't say I played it in the late 2000s, I said I got the first computer I played this on in the late 2000s. Opening it up to salvage the components, the disc drive had an ancient sticker with 2009 printed on it. I think I got the computer sometime in 2008 or 2009. That meant I would've owned that computer for three or four years before I got Skyrim. Originally, I played Oblivion on the thing. And yes, I'm not a 'version chaser', as my programming professor put it. I literally didn't replace the thing until 2017, and that was solely because it finally fried on me. Yeah, I definitely got my money's worth out of that machine. Oh, and it ran windows 7. I completely skipped over windows 8 and 9. My previous computer before that ran windows xp (though the original versions of the machine ran windows 98 apparently), and that was the first computer I ever owned. I think I got that sometime around 2000. Funny story, I ran Arkham Asylum on the thing, even though my computer didn't meet the system requirements. I literally played the entire game in slow motion, unaware that wasn't how the game was supposed to work (I thought the game was just made to look dramatic). When I got my second computer and played the game on that, the game seriously ran at least twice as fast. On a side note, I've actually considered restoring both those computers a few times. Yes, I still have them, though the first one is just a case and a motherboard; when I moved on to my second computer I removed all its components and transferred them to the new machine, because I couldn't afford new components. The original hard drive from that thing burned out long, long ago. I don't think I own any of its parts anymore, besides maybe its RAM chips.

[Master Talon]

miss read it sorry my bad and yeah nothing ever really lasts do they sadly