So I recently started playing skyrim again, and I noticed that every 3 minutes or so I would get a 20 second pause in the game. I went back to an earlier save and was surprised that this never happened in those. Turns out, that the piece of crap mod "Sounds of Skyrim" has slowly been making my saves "Bloated" over time and my game has slowly become more and more laggy. Only problem is that its been a pretty long while since I installed that mod, and the only way for me to really get rid of the problem is by starting over from the beginning, making me loose a ****load of hours worth of playtime... Does anyone know how to keep my current save, while making them less bloated so I can get rid of this annoying pausing mid game? Thanks, this is annoying and it would be a shame for me to have to completely restart because of a horribly coded mod.  

What a sucky mod. Wish I could help you, there.  

Restart then use console commands to bring back your stats and items. Then just redo the quests for boredoms sake. Assuming yur using pc of course