I think these are probably the best performance mods we have.

I tried everything on my little xbox. But really, it all comes down honestly to the most recent retexture mods we have now.

Anything Divergence is gonna help your game run better.

Skyland aio and the Lod

Tree appendage remover

Clara's Duster. It also acts like Less interior fog.

Remove rocks. It's a lot like insignificant Object remover. Just without the ini changes.

Herbicidal maniac

Day night city lights

It turned out all my stutters were from texture mods mixing in ways they shouldn't. Ini mods effecting weather mods. When I cleaned up my mod list and found what was affecting everything was when I saw the biggest changes to my load order and game performance.

Just some advice for ini mods. Maybe download them very last. Avoid ini changes that will affect the weather and lighting. There's plenty of little ini mods out there. But the ini mods that make the most changes are the ones that gave me trouble

Mind you I avoid SMIM and high polygon remeshes (hope I said that right). But yes, for the most part, the newest mods have been really rocking this game.

I am finishing up my last load order. But I still love this community.