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[DakiniShaman]

Hey guys,

Recently I got Skyrim for the PC because I have a decent rig, and I figured it would handle mods well. Initially when I installed the game I began downloading graphics mods including the ENB mod and Project Reality that made the game look beautiful. Here is a screenshot from that time:

http://i.imgur.com/ZrpTqZI.jpg

However, I ended up downloading a mod (I can't remember which, though I think it was a later version of the ENB mod) that completely screwed up the lighting in my game. I wasn't able to fix it, so I ended up deleting all of the mods and reinstalling the game. Now when I download the very same mods and install them, my game looks like this:

http://imgur.com/h7xBBzX

I've read up on the situation and have seen people posting about the ENB mod making their game look too bright. Unfortunately, their game always looks way brighter than mine as if the mod has completely screwed the game's gamma up; mine simply looks like the ENB mod is making the game too bright on its own. I'm completely stumped, though, because Project Reality is supposed to make the game look like it did in the first screenshot. If I delete d3d9.dll, the game looks fine (though it looks like the vanilla game).

Anyone have any clue what's going on? I feel like it has to be because of the reinstall, although the fact that the mod I downloaded before screwed the lighting up is fishy. However, I deleted every file associated with Skyrim except for my saved game when I uninstalled it, so I can't see how anything from that mod would have made it through the reinstall.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone has to offer!

Edited by DakiniShaman, 12 April 2013 - 02:01 AM.

[BeyondTom]

You should use the version of enb series the mod was designed for. If a mod says enb version 0.119 and you download 0.157 it probably will not look the way the author intended it to. You also have to make sure the enb is compatible with Project Reality. There is a list of mods which work with the lighting changes under the mod description. You could always try playing with lighting values in the enbseries.ini or download the correct version of enb series.

 

(The reason your game looks like vanilla when you delete d3d9.dll is because it is vanilla. No d3d9.dll, no enb .)

[DakiniShaman]

Thanks for the quick reply! Unfortunately, that is not the problem. I uninstalled Project Reality, and I'm still having the exact same problem; in fact, the screen looks no different at all even though I just uninstalled a mod that was supposed to effect the game's lighting immensely.

[myztikrice]

What ENB are you using and what is your mod list? And have you tried making a copy of your Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPref.ini, deleting the old ones, and starting the game to get new ones?

Edited by myztikrice, 12 April 2013 - 07:16 AM.

[DakiniShaman]

I'm using ENB version .119. I've tried both the wrapper and injector versions to no avail.

Here is my mod list (I know I've got quite a few, but the graphics mods I'm using right now are the same ones I was using before the reinstall back when the ENB mod was working correctly):

Update
Dawnguard
HearthFires
Dragonborn
SPIKE
Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main
ClimatesOfTamriel
HighResTexturePack01
HighResTexturePack02
HighResTexturePack03
Convenient Horses
hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation
WATER
getSnowy
Skyrim Flora Overhaul
Better Dynamic Snow
StaticMeshImprovementMod
StaticMeshImprovementMod-DragonbornTernFix
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dungeons-Hardcore
ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Minor Cities and Town Interiors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dawnguard Interiors
RLO - Adaptive Interiors Vanilla Weathers Patch
SoundPropagationOverhaul

I did delete my entire Skyrim folder in "My Documents" (aside from my saved games), so when I reinstalled and started the game again I got new ones.

[LargeStyle]

If CoT and ENB aren't affecting you're game then they're obviously not working at all - the last screen you posted looked very vanilla style so...

 

Check that the mods are actually placed / installed into the correct folder location, and make sure you're Data Files option isn't greyed out on Skyrim launcher. Also perhaps reassociate Skyrim and NMM again, and double check your load order?

[DakiniShaman]

That isn't what the game looks like vanilla. As I said in a previous post, if I delete d3d9.dll from my Skyrim folder, THEN the game reverts back to vanilla. That last screenshot is what the game looks like with the d3d9.dll file in my Skyrim folder. The ENB doesn't show up in my list of mods in NMM but it never has before.

[myztikrice]

Did you make these changes in SkyrimPrefs.ini?

 

[Display]
bFloatPointRenderTarget=1
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bShadowsOnGrass=1

[DakiniShaman]

I had bFloatPointRenderTarget and bShadowsOnGrass changed, but not the other two. I changed them and unfortunately it did not help
My game looks very hazy/smokey, almost as if some weird filter is on it.

[korun]

For exemple if you are using Project Enb 1.X which is made especially for Climat of Tamriel, there is a few folder to install as well

 

Enb 0.119»»d3d9.dll 

+

Data»»»»»textures + 2 x .esp necessary for the enb to work fine»»»»in your data folder

Realistic

Cinematic

Fantasy

in each folder there is a 

Main »»»»»» all config file for the Enb + SweetFx»»»this must be in your main folder with the d3d9.dll

Optionals effects »»»as it says

Performance»» choose one

 

if you've done all of this and if you still have the smoke or kind of it's not a glitch it's the DOF, use [in performance folder] SSAO only .

for every Enb on Nexus you have different preset to use with the .dll.

 

 

then you can't use COT with RLO in the same place, interior or dungon, both are changing the lighting

 

usually load order is this:

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

 

ClimatesOfTamrielsounds.esp»»»V3

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Minor Cities and Town Interiors
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons
Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dawnguard Interiors
RLO - Adaptive Interiors Vanilla Weathers Patch

 

ClimatesOfTamrielNightLvlX.esp

 

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