REVOLUTIONARY TOOL MAKES SKYRIM TAKE LESS VRAM | Easy Guide and Tutorial | READ PINNED 

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: You do this AT YOUR OWN RISK. If you end up having issues you can safely disable the mod output though. I didn't notice anything personally when running Ro. This will just generate lower-resolution textures. Worst case scenario, might get some visual oddities or a corrupt texture. If a texture is corrupt, you'll need to locate the texture and delete it, otherwise you MAY get instability. Again, this is all at your own risk :)

Funny how all these popular mods use indiscriminate use of huge file, high detail textures, which we download, then have to run a tool to size them locally back down to how the game wants it. I have found this with many texture mods using 4k and also NOT using any compression like bc7. I had some mod textures that were over 80mb uncompressed for a single texture. That's crazy. When resizing back to 2k and using bc7 they are like 5mb. They mostly look exactly the same in game too. Cathedral assets optimizer will do this for you on your whole 'mods' folder OR for single mods at a time so you can pick and choose. I've not used vramr yet, but the idea is the same. Optimization is a huge part of game design that many modders seem to ignore. Use and learn these tools guys, it will make a difference. When you're out of ram, you're out of ram. It doesn't matter how expensive or fast your gpu is. It's simple capacity. Use it wisely and it will run good. 4k textures uncompressed for silly clutter items like horns and candles is just a crazy waste of finite resources. Almost no texture in this game will benefit from being bigger than 5-10mb each. Cheers.

Thanks so much for this spotlight, I really think modlist authors should add this as an option...

It's insane that any mod list could cripple a 4090 to 60fps or less, but glad this helps.

Thanks for showcasing this Biggie. People mentioned it in my stream today and we ran this at quality during the stream (took a while). Good news it it lowered VRAM usage from 18-20GB to 11-13GB on quality. I will also be running it at performance and including links to both for my list which will allow more people to play it. Awesome tool.

I can't recommend VRAMR enough. It shaved off 2 GB VRAM usage from Vagabond at Quality level, and I swear I can't see a difference in-game. 130 GB of textures were compressed into just 45GB. Amazing.

Man this is insane! I got a 20-30+ FPS boost using this after setting up PureDark's upscaler on my 3060 12GB. I'm using the Nolvus Ultra modlist with fake God Rays and physics turned off and medium ini preset.

Did this with licentia and originally was having it around. 30-40 with a ton of stutters and crashes. Did this and now it’s a silky smooth 60 fps. Highly recommend!!

I can now play ULTRA Nolvus on a 3070 at a pretty consistent 60 FPS with this and the puredark DLSS Mod. Really appreciate it!

Cathedral was gettng a bit dated so nice to see a new tool on the block. Some mods are excessively unoptimised. This'll save me DIYing it, cheers!

thank you for giving attention to this cause this will help my laptop with a 3070 ti kinda stay relevant untill i build my desktop in march

Thanks for the heads up, biggie! You're a benefit to the modding community.

Perfect timing. I was just looking for ways to get vagabond to run smoother on my machine. Thanks!

Gonna give this tonight after work on LoreRim. Guide was super nice and easy. Keep up the great work!

Might be able to actually run Halls now 🙏 thank you for looking out for us man you’re the best.

Thank you so much for showing me this it straight up halved the amount of vram used by Skyrim and i barely notice the difference in visuals.

Compressing now, I'm running Nolvus so will take about 3 hours 😅 Hope the results are worth it! I'll post an update when the compression is done. Thanks for the video biggie_boss!

Took forever to compress, but completely solved ny stutterering issues!

Thanks Biggie, I only have a 1660 Super right now and most lighter mod lists run ok but I still get some dips into the low 50s for FPS, this might help me shave a little bit of that off so I can get closer to 60 FPS+ consistently. I’ll be running it on Nordic Souls tonight to see if it’ll help during more intensive parts of the game.

Stumbled across this and I must say thank you so so much!!! Optimised all textures in game and hit a good looking ENB like Azurite Horizons 4 and boy oh boy,I'm enjoying my gameplay.Thank you!!

This might be exactly what I was looking for. Thank you 🙏🏼

Works like a charm! Gives atleast 10-20fps extra!

Thanks for the video Biggie. Tried it with a 2080ti and an i9-9900k with 64 gigs of ram, didn't make much of a difference with Vagabond probably due to it being so CPU bound. I'm thankful you can just disable the output instead of having to reinstall the game to get the higher quality textures back. Ironically aside from microstutter I think Vagabond runs better with the higher quality textures for me because of that bottleneck. Oh well, worth a shot.

I'm just running it now with 495 mods on Skyrim VR. I'll let you know the result. Good news, my game runs buttery smooth, I'll probably give the high-quality textures a go.

Awesome, playing Vagabond now, definitely going to try this.thanks!

dang this mod is amazing. really makes nolvus feel so much better.

This was very, very helpful on my setup. Thanks so much.

This took me well over 3 hours to finish with 2000 + mods. Edit - I use Nolvus and my CPU is old, old, old so my FPS can struggle at times. I estimate that I picked up 10-30 FPS in busy places and as much as 60 FPS in restricted locations like dungeons.

Hey bro little bit off topic from this video but would love to see a video about your favourite modlists/modlists in a nutshell. theres so many to choose from these days its hard.

Now we just need something that deals with triangle limits! Don't think that's possible though 😢

This looks awesome, I'll have to give it a try later! Thanks Biggie!

That the trick that i used to play licentia an fahluaan on my 6 vram 3060 laptop xD. Combined with fsr 3 i get + 80 fps outside lol

This reminds me of the old assets optimizer utilities, but I imagine it's better in some way given that it's been released more recently. Thanks for sharing. Tools like VRAMr and EasyNPC aren't shown off enough.

mod was hidden just over an hour ago :/ reallyyyyyyyyyy hope it makes a quick return

I tried it before and I got about instant -1.5GB VRAM with almost no visual quality loss since i run the game at 1080p resolution 😊

I love these small tips and tricks type tutorial vidoes very helpful

Wow this is pretty great, I use octagon to downscale my textures but this looks simpler to use.

Dipping below 50-60fps on a 4090 is a bit insane, like im sorry, but thats just.......

Excellent tip! Thank you so much.

Note to self, make a Synthesis "Patcher" that runs this tool, to automate things.

Great news!! TY Biggie :D !!!

Thank you so much biggie! I've really been wanting to use Ro or Eldergleam because of their visuals and then edit them to my liking but my 3090 is struggling to keep up lol

Very cool. I run a potato pc with the Eldryn modlist, so I'll take any opportunity to be kind to my performance

CAO is another great tool for this

Welp, time to clean install my Skyrim again God damnit, wish I found out about this before finding out about Cathedral

Great 5 days after this vid the mod page is closed for some reason or another.

Ah yes thank you Biggie ! I do have a strong Cell load lag with sound delay. Not sure if this will fix it but ! I'll give it a shot.

Still not available, wonder what happened. Tool seemed to work just fine when I tried it.

I tried this last night. I had better results with this, then loss less. I'm not sure entirely if I have noticed a fps gain, but there's way less stuttering and overall just runs smoother. Trying it on lorerim 1.6.

I'm tell Nico about this video during his next stream I wonder if he's used it before?

I quess this works for VR modlists too. Gotta test it out.

to understand how it performs on the lower performance machine - this is incredible!!!!! my machine ryzen 3600 and rx 570 4gb (yeah bro) and 32gb ram so i installed some 2k (mostly) mods with the texture of terrains, cities, armor, body/skin overhouls + grass and lighning stuff, and my cpu is chill with that, but my gpu... as soon as i get closer to Whiterun, i'm getting wild statters for a 5-8 secs, untill all the stuff is loaded as far as i can tell. another stutters are regularly appears across the busy places on map. my VRam is constantly full 4gb btw after going through installation from authors video on Quality mode - these stutters are almost completely gone, everything seems stable and i got +10/15 fps, but i barrely noticed any difference in textures >.

now this needs to go to Fallout 4 too

Isn’t it easier not to download textures in 4-8k, but to install 1-2k and then not bother with optimizing them? The main problem with large mod lists is not the texture resolution, but the number of additional objects they add by mixing different overhaul mods (like JK's mod + Ryn's mod for whiterun outskirts, for example), and increasing the number of draw calls, because of which the old Skyrim engine simply cannot cope with their number, regardless of your PC's specs.

niceeeeee we was just talking about this in chat

With this my 3090 can finally run nolvus nice.

It seems like Ro is often touted as The graphics modlist but I'm struggling to see what if any advantages it has graphically over other lists like Elysium or Nolvus

I always look for the "1k" option when installing a mod, but I will try that. Have a 4060ti and 60 FPS everywhere but you never know when Skyrim hits the VRAM limit.

1827. Now I'm listening.

pretty cool tech!

sick little tool :O

will this work for Nolvus? I have 6 gb VRAM, 16 gb RAM, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz, and NVIDIA GEFORCE 1660 GTX SUPER.

Mod hidden on Nexus

vramr not working for me on eldergleam. it asks me to point it to correct folder with all the exes witch i do eldergleam root folder has all the games exes for the modpack. but it doesnt work just keeps asking me to point it in the right direction even tho i have

Vagabond here I coooooome

the fact that the mod got hidden... UGHHHHH

Thanks for this! Have you tested this with nolvus yet?

I did Everything but when i click to run vramr on mo2 nothing happens. It works fine on Wildlander, Im using Nolvus and its unresponsive. Pls Help i googled this shit and noo answers

Are you going to add this to your modlist when it's released?

So is this better than just going through Nolvus manually and finding any texture mods that have lower resolution version available and manually replacing them? For example., 4k to 2k, 2k to 1k? I was considering doing that as tedious as it may be. Even though I can barely play Nolvus.

Hey man I need help please I did everything but it didn’t make the output folder into a zip it’s just a folder do I have to make it into a zip because right now it’s just folders it’s like this vramr/output/textures do I zip the folder and if so which one do I zip the output folder or the textures folder? Thank you.

Would this work with Wildander? Would love to bump up the settings

Im trying this with project skyrim, and yeah it works - i have 20-30fps more, but there is some issues, corrupt map texture for example, so.. its not perfect, but still a great tool

you know which game needs lower vram usage? new vegas.

vramr says searching for all skyrim exes and when i point to the folder where skyrim exe is it doesnt work just pops up the locate exe again

should we use this before or after lods?

For anyone wondering how long it takes, it took me around a hour and half on nolvus ultra using the quality option, i7 10700k @ 4.8ghz

Nothing happens when i try to start vramr :(

Better than Cathedral assets optimizer grumpy? Also a great tool.

I wonder how well this program would make Ro run on my i7 10700k and 3060 ti lol

I did this and the mod overwrites a huge portion of the modlist when enabled yet Im seeing 0 difference in FPS with it enabled. Trying to run it again just makes the textures file in the output 0kb. Im running the NOLVUS modpack if anyone has any idea how to fix this, I didnt see many people talking about it in their discord server I also don't know if its just because VRAMr changed, but I only got a textures file from the output and not a zip file

So if it's a 4K texture does it drop it down to 2K if it's for quality?

This plus lasso and magpie guarantees 60 fps.

So I downloaded this but the presets aren’t there it automatically put the quality preset on, I know this from running vramr after everything been compressed granted I haven’t tried it yet but I’m interested if this is normal? I found the output file but there is no options there

good stuff

Mod is hidden now :(

Sweet!

will i be able to see vram usage of skyrim with the msi afterburner overlay or are the modded textures loaded into normal ram or pagefile? my idea is to use afterburner to make the decision if to use vramr or not. dunno if eldergleam modlist fills the whole vram of my 4090.

Don't mod Skyrim to hell and all your vram issues will magically be solved

Sorry but is this safe to uninstall/delete if you do install it and want to remove for any reason?

how should i run the game after this is downloaded? With the previous modlist run button or with the vramr button?

You think I'd be able to get a stable 60fps@1440p on a 3070TI using this? I usually hover around 30-40.

This method doesnt work. i ran the setup which took a long time and the output is just a folder not compressed. i cant use that in MO2

So umm.. i got a huge modlist like 200gb lol. How huge is your modlist? I hope mine wont be converted to like more 100gb lol

Can anyone tell me where my executable is located if I'm using nolvus

Wouldn't there be a further performance increase if you packed the textures into a bsa archive? I saw up to 20% better performance in Fallout 4 just by replacing loose textures with a bsa version, and allegedly, the game loads faster with bsa files as well, although I did not test that.

Does this mess with Parallax?

I’m trying to use this now, but the operation I see looks nothing like that. Lol

I ran everything as instructed in the video. However, it did not create the files with performance, quality, or the output one. Any suggestions?

This is dope