ENB CTD Fix!

[Twitche21]

So I was having frequent CTD's and freezing, and I finally found the main culprit yesterday. I couldn't find any threads or posts suggesting this fix, so here ya go.

Open up enblocal.ini in your main Skyrim directory and find "VideoMemorySizeMb="
Change the value using this formula: VRam + SystemRam - 2048 = (the max is 10240)
Since my main video card has 2GB VRam, and I have 8GB system ram my I changed VideoMemorySizeMb=8192
Also you might want to change ReservedMemorySizeMb=512 assuming you have over 1GB VRam, If not put it at 256.
With cards with 3GB or 4GB VRam, you can raise this to 1024 to 2048, I haven't done much research on the matter.

That's it!
So far I've only had one freeze while casting a fire spell, and that was yesterday. If it happens again, I'll look for a fix for that, too.
But so far today, ZERO crashes and CTD's.

I still get some frame stutters when turning in dense areas, so I'm still looking to perfect my game.
But this is the most stable I've been able to get it after HOURS of tweaking and researching.
If anyone has any suggestions or wants some advice for Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini tweaking let me know! :smile:

Here are my values for enblocal.ini if anyone is interested.
I'm using FPS Limiter (huge help) which is why the ProxyLibrary=d3d9fl.dll and EnableProxyLibrary=True (I changed the name of the DLL so I could use it with the ENB Wrapper DLL)
If you use FPS Limiter, my antilag.cfg settings are, RenderAheadLimit=1 and FPSLimit=35. This smoothed out my game quite a bit. Set RenderAheadLimit=0 if you get CTD's.

[ PROXY]

EnableProxyLibrary=true

InitProxyFunctions=true

ProxyLibrary=d3d9fl.dll

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

UseDefferedRendering=true

ForceFakeVideocard=false

[PERFORMANCE]

SpeedHack=true

[MULTIHEAD]

ForceVideoAdapterIndex=false

VideoAdapterIndex=0

[MEMORY]

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=true

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false

ReservedMemorySizeMb=512

VideoMemorySizeMb=8192

EnableCompression=false

[WINDOW]

ForceBorderless=false

ForceBorderlessFullscreen=false

[ENGINE]

ForceAnisotropicFiltering=true

MaxAnisotropy=16

EnableVSync=true

AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions=false

[LIMITER]

WaitBusyRenderer=false

EnableFPSLimit=false

FPSLimit=60.0

[iNPUT]

//shift

KeyCombination=16

//f12

KeyUseEffect=123

//home

KeyFPSLimit=36

//num / 106

KeyShowFPS=106

//print screen

KeyScreenshot=44

//enter

KeyEditor=13

//f4

KeyFreeVRAM=115

[ADAPTIVEQUALITY]

Enable=true

Quality=1

DesiredFPS=20.0

[ANTIALIASING]

EnableEdgeAA=true

EnableTemporalAA=false

EnableSubPixelAA=true

EnableTransparencyAA=false

[FIX]

FixGameBugs=true

FixParallaxBugs=true

FixAliasedTextures=true

IgnoreLoadingScreen=false

IgnoreInventory=true

FixSsaoWaterTransparency=true

FixSsaoHairTransparency=true

FixTintGamma=false

RemoveBlur=false

FixSubSurfaceScattering=true

FixSkyReflection=true

FixCursorVisibility=true

Edited November 1, 2013 by Twitche21

[JohnTheBomb]

Cannot thank you enough mate. I was starting to crash pretty much every 15 mins, now I can play for hours on end again :smile:

 

Thank you.

[Twitche21]

Cannot thank you enough mate. I was starting to crash pretty much every 15 mins, now I can play for hours on end again :smile:

 

Thank you.

No problem man! I'm really glad this helped you out. :)

 

Also I forgot to mention in my original post the max ReservedMemorySizeMb is 10240.

[myztikrice]

This is mentioned as something you should do by pretty much every single ENB setup out there.

Edited November 1, 2013 by myztikrice

[Twitche21]

This is mentioned as something you should do by pretty much every single ENB setup out there.

It's something that's easily looked over. They also don't mention this could be the cause of CTD's.

Literally no one suggests this fix in all the forums I've scavenged. I wasted a lot of time not knowing this was the problem.

[IthilgaladHalfElven]

dude..... i had no idea.....

 

Not only did you fix my constant crashing, but you improved my FPS from 30 with low ENB settings, to 40 with Quality ENB settings. I want to hug you

[SirTeeheeTinklezson]

I did everything outlined here, but I still crash.

[Taphos]

My friend thank you for this, it has helped my game out immensely. I have a severely modded-out game with a rampant killer ctd, and this has all but stomped it out. Crashed once after about 4 hours last night, where before I couldn't go 15 minutes.

[Deleted7211160User]

This has helped a lot!

[Bublybub]

You are A GAWD MAH MAN, thank you so much!! :dance: