Modded skyrim long loading time

[Lord_Karango17]

So I recently downgraded to windows 7 because of a few issues I was having, and when I set up steam to recognise my game folder on the ssd, and went to play skyrim, the loading times were absolute garbage. It was noticable worse than when it was on an external hard driver, and looking at the HDD indicator in the cse, the game isn't really loading anything  in the loading screen.

 

Fast traveling from Whiterun to the stables right outside the walls took near enough 45 seconds, when it did not take much more than 10 seconds before.

 

I had to reinstall the mods after the move to windows 7, so a bad install can't be the case... I also used a save cleaner to clean out any bloat on the save file left over from uninstalled mods (very few there to begin with)

[Wed15septoid2]

It could be an optimization problem with some of your mods and the way windows 7 is handling things. Try running no mods if you are using Nexus Mod Manager.

 

[MatrixGrenade]

That is a normal thing that happens with modded games. Especially Bethesda games.

[Lord_Karango17]

Just now, Wed15septoid2 said:

It could be an optimization problem with some of your mods and the way windows 7 is handling things. Try running no mods if you are using Nexus Mod Manager.

 

I tried loading my save before reinstalling the mods, however it crashed while loading... Likely due to the save containing files that were no longer available to load...

[Lord_Karango17]

1 minute ago, MatrixGrenade said:

That is a normal thing that happens with modded games. Especially Bethesda games.

Yeah, but it was not a problem at all on windows 10. Its just happened since I moved to windows 7, and I don't see how windows 7 could mess things up...

[Wed15septoid2]

1 minute ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

Yeah, but it was not a problem at all on windows 10. Its just happened since I moved to windows 7, and I don't see how windows 7 could mess things up...

possibly when you started the save on windows 10 it saved it in a way that benefited the way that install was setup. so when you moved back to 7 the save wasn't optimized for the OS.

[Lord_Karango17]

17 minutes ago, Wed15septoid2 said:

possibly when you started the save on windows 10 it saved it in a way that benefited the way that install was setup. so when you moved back to 7 the save wasn't optimized for the OS.

Hold on a f***ing second... I think I figured it out...

While in the loading screen, I looked through task manager to see if anything was being taxed, and noticed unusually high usage on my external hdd connected via usb 2.0 (used for movies), and found that unusual, until I checked the settings panel of nexus mod manager.

 

I left the mod install directories as default, as it normally figures the best place to put them, however this time It installed the mods on a separate drive than the game, leading to god awful loading times...