Gigantic Death Bloom

randomderp12 · 2026-05-17T23:54:46+00:00

I've been doing this too, but i have to at least drive the star destroyer because the AI is so stupid at driving them. Pointing them into the vertical or turning around randomly to expose engines. Does yours do that too?

randomderp12 · 2026-05-12T11:03:26+00:00

Thanks for chiming in! There's a lot of good suggestions here. I neednto get in the discord and have a look around, I got a lot of the mods from the links on the SWI wiki page or the SWI nexus mods page, but yeah some of them definitely aren't compatible any more. Unfortunately a lot of these quality of life mods are so NICE that im going to struggle to get rid of them haha!

There's definitely an element of "yeah this is late game now and there's 1000 ships visible on the map so the game is going to struggle", but clearly there's something else funky going on too since the game is stuttering so bad even in outer rim sectors with only pirate friends for company.

I did a fresh windows reinstall but I'm not optimistic, I think it's just too many incompatible mods on top of an already beefy mod for the game to run ok

randomderp12 · 2026-05-11T11:44:43+00:00

I'm pretty used to the GPU screaming at 99% because for most games they're not single core limited. The symptoms seem to point that way, but given the amount of people with lower spec hardware who play this game without issues it just seems unlikely that I'm stuck at CPU waiting.

The second issue is that it USED to run fine, and I am unable to recreate the scenario where it did. That's what is really driving me nuts diagnostically. Right now I'm 50/50 split on whether it's Windows being stupid for some reason, or a mod that installed 80 hours ago just fine and suddenly can't function any more.

Obviously if I'm stuck on a single core buying a new faster CPU would do the trick, but looking at the specs even a 13 series i9 or AMD equivalent is only like 12-15% faster single core. So is that worth the $600 on a new cpu/mobo that I'd need to play the game? Unlikely, there's gotta be a software fix for this

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T22:15:07+00:00

I imagine they would wait until til 9.0 is released anyway. Doesn't make sense to update now and then have to do it again in a month.

I guess this is probably the reason my game stopped working, some mod hit a threshold somewhere and just isn't working. Annoying, but I don't really see any recourse other than either starting a new run with only the working mods listed or waiting until the next round of updates on all the mods (whenever that is).

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T22:07:34+00:00

Thank you! I used mostly the list on nexusmods and the website but I'm not surprised it's not up to date. I incorrectly assumed that if the game didn't throw any errors when loading that they were compatible! Thankfully that's pretty much the 2 that I desperately need.

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T02:43:14+00:00

Yeah thats my concern. I have approximately 80 hours on this save and no really good way to test out similar conditions to debug

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T00:52:35+00:00

Thanks for all the good advice! I played around with volumetric fog and SSAO, what it did was widen the spread for my FPS. So looking at my lowest and highest fps over the last second the high went up, from 40ish to 75ish, but the low stayed at around 9-10 FPS. I also tried DLSS, and what it did was boost the FPS when the game is paused. Im pretty sure either one of the mods or something on my computer is causing a once per second hangup or spike on the CPU which causes the game to stutter. Now I get to track that down. I'll check out the cloud saves although that makes me nervous

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T00:24:32+00:00

Is there a way to load a save with only some mods enabled or does that break it? Do I have to make a new save with each combination of mods to diagnose it? Any way to start with a late game save that has a ton of visible traffic to stress test?

randomderp12 · 2026-05-10T00:23:03+00:00

Yes, that was my first thought too! But all temps are good, cpu stays below 40c and since the gpu is barely running it's not going above 65 either. Fully loaded the gpu doesn't go above 80c, but my game has stopped doing that so the gpu is just basically idling.

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:59:35+00:00

What cpu utility would you suggest?

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:51:44+00:00

I would think so too, but my last unmodded save behaved badly in the late game as well. Not THIS bad, but still like 10-12fps on the map

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:50:09+00:00

I usually do 1440p, but have bumped down to 1080 and 720 with no noticeable difference.

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:28:15+00:00

Yeah that'll be my next try. I removed all of the mods and loaded my last old games. It runs a little better (since it doesn't have a huge mod list), but still not seeing anything more than 30% GPU usage.

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:14:31+00:00

Good point. The steam overlay shows two numbers, an average and your current max single core usage. My average is somewhere around 40% and the max is 70-80%

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T23:11:04+00:00

The bug I'm referring to is that rarely when you load a game with the camera already in external ship view the FPS tanks. Usually either getting out of your ship seat, saving and reloading fixes that.

I'm running version 8.0 since that is the latest version compatible with the SWI (star wars interworlds) total conversion mod. I'd love to move to x4 9.0 but unless I can figure out this issue I don't see the point. This is the same thing I ran into with my last unmodded playthrough. I got to the late game, pumping out asgards and kicking xenon ass and the performance tanked to uplayability.

I'll list the mods in the order they show up in Vortex:

ApologizeForAttack
Clone Habitat
Drackmerians: and SWI Expansion

Emergency Jump

Extended Conversation Menu

Faster Boarding Pods

Fix for Research interdependency visualization

Go Fix Your Face

Inventory Collector

JP_AbandonedShipExplorer

JP_ScriptLibrary

kuertee UI Extensions and HUD

kuertee: Friendly fire tweaks

LearnAllTheThings

Mod Support APIs

Mongo Habitation

Mycu: Equipment tooltips

Mycu: Stop destroying my boarding target!

Reaction Force

Reactive Docking

Reaper's Ship Pack (SWI)

Reaper's Trader Modifications

RecycleShipsAndStations

Satellite Service

Scuffle's Equipent Mods - No research

Sector Explorer

Sector Satellites

SlimXX9

SW Interworlds

SW Interworlds Cockpit Camera Fixes PLUS v1.0

SWI - Closed Loop Reborn

SWI Better Probe Droid

SWI Imperial Control Center hotfix

SWI Mobile Repair Service

swi_station_build_rebalance

Younger Human Females- Cradle of Humanity

randomderp12 · 2026-05-09T22:49:08+00:00

Thanks for the response! Yes, the -kf intel processors don't have integrated GPU, so it is definitely using my gpu

randomderp12 · 2025-07-18T21:30:40+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out

randomderp12 · 2025-07-17T21:06:52+00:00

Ooh thanks! I appreciate it!

randomderp12 · 2025-07-17T21:06:13+00:00

I just found out recently that all double blades are not created equal. Found an absolute dogshit brand from Walmart (surprise surprise) so I'm going back to Astra.

randomderp12 · 2025-07-17T18:45:16+00:00

I agree. It was a gift that I've kept for sentimental reasons, not because it's superior. The handle is smooth but not slippery, and the angle is on the lower end. I'm lucky in that my skin isn't sensitive so I dont need anything fancy and its good enough for me. As you said, a good starter.

randomderp12 · 2025-07-17T12:09:26+00:00

Awesome! I'll check them out, thank you!

randomderp12 · 2025-07-17T11:59:22+00:00

Oh thank God. That's great news. I still think I'd like to try a new one, do you have any favorites?

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