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JK's Skyrim is a popular settlements overhaul that is beautiful but heavy on mid to lower end systems. I've made a version that removes some of the statics, reducing draw calls, and therefore (theoretically) improving performance.

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Why make a "Reduced Cut?"

    I've used JK's Skyrim as a cities overhaul for as long as I've modded Skyrim, and while I think it's fantastic, it adds a lot of clutter that can use up pc resources if you're not running a beast of a machine. I noticed that I was getting around 40 FPS in Rorikstead with my RTX 3070 and Ryzen 5 5600, and decided to look into "reducing" the assets added by JK's to improve performance a bit while still keeping the intended aesthetic of his mod.
    Dozens of hours in Creation Kit and approximately ~two million game launches later, I've come up with my own personal take on JK's Skyrim and have experienced much improved performance on my setup! I'm releasing it now with the intention of continually fixing, tweaking, and improving upon my own cut with the hopes that other modders may appreciate my work also. Perhaps it might enable players with less powerful machines to enjoy JK's Skyrim with less compromise, though your mileage may vary. I make no promises this will solve your performance issues, or that you will agree with all of my choices of which assets to disable/reposition!
    As it is a patch, it requires the original JK's Skyrim. Of course, full credit goes to jkrojmal for the original mod and for all their fantastic contributions to the Skyrim community. Thank you for giving me permission to make this patch! 


Will this improve my Performance?

    It should! As I stated above, your mileage may vary. I will provide more screenshots of the changes I made and the impacts they had on my FPS. This may save you only a few frames or it might make a huge difference, please let me know your results.
    My Specs
      GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
      CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor 3.70GHz
      Installed RAM: 32.0 GB
    My Results
      Rorikstead
        Before Reduced Cut: 46 - 58 FPS
        After Reduced Cut: 55 - 60 FPS


Patches Provided
  • Cities of the North: Morthal and Dawnstar (Arthmoor's Dawnstar version)
  • Creation Club (Fishing + Pets)
  • Fabled Forests
  • Fortified Ramp to Castle Dour
  • Fortified Whiterun
    + Lanterns for Fortified Whiterun
  • Great City of Winterhold (v4.0)
  • Icy Windhelm
  • Majestic Mountains
  • Rodryk's JK's Arthmoor's Dragon Bridge
  • Skyrim Landscape and Water Fixes


Compatibility and Load Order

    All I did was disable statics to reduce draw calls, as well as reposition a few of them to fill in gaps. It should be compatible with anything as long as you get the load order correct. Anything that references the statics I disabled should simply re-enable them or revert them to their original positions without issue.JK's Skyrim - Reduced Cut should be loaded AFTER JK's Skyrim SLAWF patch and Rob's Bugs Fixes.


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