There were a lot of conflicting comments here, I did some research, and apparently, if you're on an SSD or have low VRAM, this mod may hurt performance.
This caused my entire computer to freeze from playing Skyrim for 30 minutes or less(usually less).
I'm not talking like Skyrim freezing then having to use Task Manager to close it, I'm talking the entire computer becoming unresponsive and having to hold the power button down for 10 seconds to turn it off.
I have over 1000 mods so this is probably unique to my setup since I can't find any other comments mentioning this, but after getting rid of this I've played for close to an hour now with no freezing or crashing at all.
I was wondering why Skyrim had become so unstable after I'd played on my current save for over 70 hours without this issue, then checked the small number of mods I've added since beginning the playthrough and it's definitely this which caused this game-breaking problem.
I'm having this exact same issue and it made me worry that something in my computer wasn't working right; thanks to your post I was able to track the issue down.
I'm actually redacting my claim - it was due to a loose RAM stick that was causing this issue for me. Will try the mod again and test, because as you said NightAlliance, this has increased FPS for me and made skyrim a smoother experience overall. Will give it another shake and report back if any further issues.
I've disabled this mod along with 3 other mods to fix my freezing issue. So far so good, no freezes but I'm legit curious if I have a loose ram stick as well...
SE should run better, especially with the hundreds of mods aimed at improving performance.
Aside from the new lighting and... I wanna say baked in "HD Texture Pack"? Don't quote me on that last part. All that SE brings is better resource utilization. Get SE, click through any of the numerous "essentials" collections, and something like 1k Skyland and you should notice a performance increase against LE
Like others have been saying, this mod might lower your performance. I have a lower end laptop (gtx 1050, intel i5-7300HQ) and it was dropping my frames by a bit. My game is running on a HDD so I thought it would help, but it didn't. Still consider trying it though, your outcome might be different
I transitioned to AE this week and the load times are horrible. 6 minutes(!!!) to reach the Main Menu (several hundred plugins, mostly .esl patches).
With this mod, it went UP by 40 seconds on the 1st run. Maybe that's when it created the cache. On Second run I'm still at the same 6 minutes. It doesn't seem to work for me.
I have latest Steam AE, mods and AE are on SSD.
I'd appreciate any advice. Is it possible to speed up the 1st load to Main Menu?
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1.6.1130 will be updated as soon as SKSE gets updated within 48 hours
1.6.1130 is now supported with version 1.1I have about 800 mods and went from a solid minute load time to about 15-20sec.
In case it helps anyone else gauge, my machine: Ryzen 7 5800x, Radeon Rx 6750XT, 64GB, Fast SSD, Win 11. Skyrim SE 1.6.1170.0
I'm not talking like Skyrim freezing then having to use Task Manager to close it, I'm talking the entire computer becoming unresponsive and having to hold the power button down for 10 seconds to turn it off.
I have over 1000 mods so this is probably unique to my setup since I can't find any other comments mentioning this, but after getting rid of this I've played for close to an hour now with no freezing or crashing at all.
I was wondering why Skyrim had become so unstable after I'd played on my current save for over 70 hours without this issue, then checked the small number of mods I've added since beginning the playthrough and it's definitely this which caused this game-breaking problem.
Aside from the new lighting and... I wanna say baked in "HD Texture Pack"? Don't quote me on that last part. All that SE brings is better resource utilization. Get SE, click through any of the numerous "essentials" collections, and something like 1k Skyland and you should notice a performance increase against LE
With this mod, it went UP by 40 seconds on the 1st run. Maybe that's when it created the cache. On Second run I'm still at the same 6 minutes. It doesn't seem to work for me.
I have latest Steam AE, mods and AE are on SSD.
I'd appreciate any advice. Is it possible to speed up the 1st load to Main Menu?