Trying to Get ENB to work

[snelss0]

I am trying to get my Viridian ENB to look just like this video:

 

 

 

 

Yet my sun doesn't ever do sunsprite effect or volumetric rays. It never goes through trees or clouds like you see on the videos for any enb period. I am wondering why? I would love to have this effect. Am I doing something wrong in the install of my enb?

 

Here is my process

 

 

1. Download various texture mods and install according to instruction, LOOT, Clean if needed, then Wrye Bash.

2. Download the latest enb files from enbdev.com

3. Extract and open the Wrapper version. Copy d3d9.dll and enbhost.exe to skyrim game folder.

4. Download Viridian ENB, activate mod in NMM.

5. Go to skyrim\data and open Viridian ENB folder, then install the enb.

 

 

 

Is there something I'm missing here?

Edited October 21, 2014 by snelss0

[volnaiskra]

Why only d3d9.dll and enbhost.exe? In the copy of the ENB zip file that I have, the Wrapper folder contains about 16 files and 2 folders. I think you should copy all of those into your Skyrim game folder too. Then, install Viridian and let it overwrite whatever it wants to overwrite.

[snelss0]

I was just following directions from one of Gophers videos and he didn't say to do that, so I never did. I'll give it a try and see if it does it. I'm reinstalling skyrim atm so we'll see once I get all my mods reactivated.

[snelss0]

I am using a laptop, does that matter? here are my specs

 

 

CyberpowerPC Laptop Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz

RAM 16GB

128gb ssd

1TB hard drive

Nvidia Geforce 870M 16gb

 

 

[volnaiskra]

It's not your specs. A slow laptop might result in the game to chug slowly when ENB is installed, but it shouldn't result in entire effects being missing. It sounds to me like ENB isn't installed properly.

 

It could also be something else conflicting with ENB. The most likely candidate is antialiasing: ENB isn't compatible with MSAA antialiasing (a.k.a. 'real' antialiasing). So, you need to make sure that your skyrimprefs.ini has:

iWaterMultiSamples=0

iMultiSample=0

 

(But feel free to keep bFXAAEnabled=1)

 

You also need to make sure the settings for skyrim in your nvidia control panel don't force any antialiasing:

nvidia control panel>Manage 3D settings>Program Settings tab>Skyrim> and make sure that :

 

Antialiasing - mode = Application Controlled

Antialiasing - Transparency = off

Vertical Sync = use the 3d application setting

 

(that final one will make sure your driver doesn't try to force vsync, because vsync should be set in the ENB ini settings instead)

 

 

Finally, are you using any other Skyrim plugin/hack that uses a file such as d3d9.dll, such as the 3Dvision Helixmod, SweetFX, or post process injector?

[snelss0]

1. As for my install, I have recently clean wiped my skyrim as well as a steam friend of mine. We have both installed the EnB in the same exact way with no other mods active. His has all features (including DoF, Sunsprite, Rays..) and mine does not. Only thing mine seems to have is color setting changes.

 

2. So my 3d settings for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (tesv.exe) are these:

 

 

Ambient Occlusion: Off

Anisotripic Filtering: Application-Controlled

Antialiasing FXAA: Not supported for this application [greyed out]

Antialiasing Gamma Correction: Use Global setting (on)

Antialiasing Mode: Application Controlled

Antialiasing Setting: Use Global Setting (application controlled)[greyed out]

Antialiasing Transparency: use Global Setting (off)

CUDA-GPUs: Use Global Setting (all)

Maximum pre-rendered frames: Use global setting (use the 3d application setting)

Multi-display/mixed-GPU Acceleration: Use global setting (Multiple display performance mode)

Power Management Mode: Use global setting (adaptive)

Shader Cache: Use Global setting (on)

Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample option: Off

Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias: Allow

Texture Filtering - Quality: use global setting (quality)

Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: Use Global setting (on)

Threaded Optimization: Use global setting (auto)

Triple Buffering: use global setting (off)

Vertical Sync: use global setting (use the 3d application setting)

Virtual reality pre-rendered frames: Use the 3d application setting

 

 

 

3. As for additional hacks, no. Just what the EnB would come with.

[snelss0]

I ended up messaging Boris about it and he said that it's just because Nvidia has crappy drivers for laptops regardless of the laptop quality. We'll see what else he has to say about it.