squiggy048 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Hello guys, I dont post here often, but I was wondering if some of you could give me your views on Parallax mods. I myself love my Skyrim to look shiny and good, I use a nice pretty ENB preset and a wealth of 2K texture mods. I spend more time tweaking visuals than anything else in terms of mods. So this brings me to all these Parallax mod thingies. Ive had my eyes on them for a while, but seeing as I already push my R9 270x (2048) hard I figured - nah. So are parallax mods actually worth it for gamers ? or just for cute screenshots ? I figured if I wanted to add parallax mods I would need to drop something else. A high performance ENB preset without all the bells n whistles, lower screen resolution ? I dunno. Is it worth the effort ? I would love to hear what you all think, from your own experiences. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm by no means an expert but from what I've read... Keep your ENB, they will not work without it. Can't remember where I saw it but on the description for one of the parallax mods the author said that the effect has very little effect on fps. Think he said if all of Skyrim had the effect you would only loose a couple of fps. How much it effects vram I would like to know myself. I use the one for roads and maybe bridges I think and the difference on the roads is incredible. The cobblestone roads go from looking like a flat painted on rock to actually having a 3d effect. From: Project Parallax Remastered For those of you that already have an ENB preset, make sure that you have "Fix Parallax Bugs = true" in your ENB settings.There shouldn't be a noticeable performance loss, I play on a 4 year old 2.6Ghz dual-core processor and notice no fps hit from the parallax maps(this effect is cpu depndant). However, having ENB running in your system can have a large impact on performance no matter what settings are turned on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurusmaximus Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It's funny, I stumbled onto this post, and decided to try the Project Parallax mentioned above. Based on an hour or so of gameplay, I would say "yes', they are worth it. The difference is small, but noticeable, and I didn't see any drop in framerates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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