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Extremely long exterior cell loading - Fallout 4 [Help pls!]

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Makes little sense because this started shortly after I upgraded from 670GTX to 1070Ti.
It's not exactly the game freezing, because on the bottom right of the game you can see the Bethesda icon loading and the music also keeps playing.

After it started happening, I re-installed Fallout 4 from scratch and played it without mods. I don't have heavy texture mods, only ones which add item settlements, some quest mods etc.

The problem seemed to have gone, so I started reinstalling the mods one by one. And everything was fine for some days.

Then after some days playing again, it restarted out of the blue.
I started a new game with a new character. The pauses always appear at exactly the same locations, hence I think it's happening when a new cell is loaded.

I still get the loading screens if I play at 800x600 with everything turned on low! (So it's definitely not shadows or godrays or what have you).

Can someone figure out why this is happening? Here I am playing in windowed mode so as to view task manager and gpu-z.
Unless I'm missing out something, no usage goes high enough to justify this.


 

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I think it has to be a mod is creating a problem in the world/save. That's not a behavior in the retail game and it's clearly not a hardware issue.
 
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You're right. I just disabled all my mods through NMM and the problem went away. It's easy to check since it happens in exactly the same places.
Now I'll start reactivating them, hopefully I find the culprit.

Edit:

I have all my mods enabled except Red Rocket Settlements now. As soon as I enable it, the problem starts.
Dangit it was one of my favorite mods because it allowed all Red Rockets to be settlements!
Anyway, it's much better playing without those annoying pauses.

Well, after an hour or so playing the game the problem came back!
What could it be now?
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A different mod? XD
 
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I used to get that same behaviour from the game when I had 8 GB of ram and my old gtx 560 Ti with 1 GB vram, i also remember I changed the ugrids settings and the issue was resolved but my loading times were longer.

Since I have doubled the amount of ram the system has and got a gtx 970, keeping the ugrids at default settings, plus lots and lots of mods, the game never did the cell loading on the go.

And since you have more vram and enough ram, I would suggest you try to tweak the cell buffer settings. There are tutorials on how to optimise the game on nexusmods, give those a look. Just my 10 cents on how I managed to make the game playable.
 
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i had this happen too, which was odd, because my entire system is Samsung 850 Evo based, never found a solution, but i wouldnt say "extremely" long, more like, longer than i would expect

mods are definitely gonna add to that. i see you figured that out tho
 
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