I have 251 plugin installed (some are merged). The smoothness is a purely sutiuational thing, it doesn't depend on mods. And the hardware is a major factor, obviously.
I also envy you. With the amount of mods and the hardware I have, I tend to get lag all the time, not to mention the dreaded CTD's (no matter what I do, I never get rid of them).
I bet you don't use many script heavy mods liek Wet and Cold, Nature of the beast, Dual Sheath Redux and Frostfall, Clean Up Your Coprses, FNIS Sexy Moves, iNeeds, Creature Framwork, and the list continues. My hardware ain't that bad:
I had performance issues with my GTX 590. I could barely launch any ENB in the past, and I also had to lower some texture resulutions to have a decent FPS in towns.
Switching to GTX Titan X solved 90% of the issues (no other changes in the hardware). Switching to SSD solved the rest 10%
Obviously, no video card can execute scripts and I didn't change the CPU. So, for me the bottleneck was the video (geometry + textures, and the engine that is not well optimized for them).
The papyrus scripting engine works asynchronically with the rest of the game. So, scripts should cause lags, but they should do it in a different way, and you should observe these lags in a different way. They should be observed mostly as delays in the event processing.
So far, I never saw any technical proof that the script heavy mods themselves (without any external factors such as crowdy areas) can cause FPS lags. However, I always tested it with default ini settings. The rumor tells that the Papyrus tweaking can affect CPU hard enough, so it can't process even the basic game processing, so as a result the basic processing can cause natural lags in the end. Hard to make any judgements without profiling.
They should be observed mostly as delays in the event processing.
That it is. Even when I turn my character to go backward I see temporary lag. It is happening to me but it gets irksome to see that delays every minute or every few seconds. I just always tend to overmod my game and have this temptation not to skip mods I grew to like.
I switched from Geforce 650 GTX to Geforce GTX 980 Ti. The boost in stability and FPS is unimaginable on the same load order. Anyone seriously who wants to improve stability and FPS of modded Skyrim and have outdated GPU really should get better GPU of course if one can afford it and has money for it. And when you upgrade your GPU don't forget to upgrade ENBoost if you use it.
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intel core i7-4960X
16 GB RAM
Geforce GTX 650
I could barely launch any ENB in the past, and I also had to lower some texture resulutions to have a decent FPS in towns.
Switching to GTX Titan X solved 90% of the issues (no other changes in the hardware).
Switching to SSD solved the rest 10%
Obviously, no video card can execute scripts and I didn't change the CPU. So, for me the bottleneck was the video (geometry + textures, and the engine that is not well optimized for them).
The papyrus scripting engine works asynchronically with the rest of the game. So, scripts should cause lags, but they should do it in a different way, and you should observe these lags in a different way. They should be observed mostly as delays in the event processing.
So far, I never saw any technical proof that the script heavy mods themselves (without any external factors such as crowdy areas) can cause FPS lags. However, I always tested it with default ini settings. The rumor tells that the Papyrus tweaking can affect CPU hard enough, so it can't process even the basic game processing, so as a result the basic processing can cause natural lags in the end. Hard to make any judgements without profiling.
That it is. Even when I turn my character to go backward I see temporary lag. It is happening to me but it gets irksome to see that delays every minute or every few seconds. I just always tend to overmod my game and have this temptation not to skip mods I grew to like.
I left my Skyrimi ini as default as it was.
And when you upgrade your GPU don't forget to upgrade ENBoost if you use it.
Writing the video to another SSD
Tried FRAPS, Shadowplay and Bandicam, but wasn't happy with the results
P.S.: the flurry of magic projectiles shot at the Legendary dragon was epic!
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/54387/?
Was the table with the troll skull supposed to represent your troops advancing?