amartin903

My modded set up is as per the attached mod list. My dungeons and all interiors are just far too dark for my liking. I have Alternate Start on and it took several minutes to actually find the bed. I then started the game and found the cave you escape Helgen from, but anything not directly under one of the light sources is almost black. I've tried increasing fGamma to 0.800 and 1.000, but it made no noticeable difference. I've also tried editing the enbseries.ini file, both out of game and in-game, and raising the Environment settings - like AmbientLightingIntensityInteriorNight/Day, AmbientLightingIntensityNight/Day, DirectLightingCurveInteriorNight/Day to incredibly high levels just for testing, like 500.0 - however, it makes zero difference whatsoever to my in-game experience, which makes me think something is overriding these values. My installation is in my C:\ folder and there shouldn't be permissions issues or anything like that. Can anyone suggest a reason why my set up is so dark and how I could brighten it?

Problem appears to be solved, from this Forum post: http://forum.step-project.com/topic/9361-dyndolod-causes-severe-fps-drop-after-character-creation/ In essence, my character's name began with a "B", so I was using Shift + B to make it capital. Doing this apparently activates Brute Force for ENB which is mapped to Shift + B. Brute Force enables very high quality for effects and advanced algorithms, at huge performance cost. The solution was to simply enter my name, accept the performance hit, then accept my character and hit Shift + B again to disable Brute Force. FPS jumped up immediately.

Even further information - issue actually doesn't appear to be linked to the configuration of a character at all, but the name of them. No matter how I configure a character, if I use the default "Prisoner" name I get no slowdown. If I change it, I get the FPS drop. Really baffled by that! Any thoughts?

Some further information. The slowdown occurs if I make any changes whatsoever to the base Nord character, even if I change something to one option, then change it back. Base character acceptance = 40+ FPS. Any chances whatsoever to base character = 1-5 FPS.

I've been trying to set up my modded Skyrim for a few weeks now. I have Race Menu and Alternate Start installed, and I have tended to fly through the Race Menu screen simply accepting the default build. When this gets me to the dungeon, I have pretty good FPS (40+). I choose my life, sleep, wake up somewhere and I average at least 30+ FPS. However, when I thought everything was good to go, I started a new game and actually configured a character in depth first the first time (a Dark Elf, changing his skin colour, eyes, jaw, cheeks, hair colour and giving him war paint) on the Race Menu. As soon as I accept the character's looks, the FPS plummets to 1-5 FPS on the naming screen, and never improves. Any thoughts on what is causing this slowdown? I assume it is a character configuration mod, but I'm unsure which one, and if the issue is a conflict or if my laptop simply can't handle it. My laptop build is: Intel Core i7-4720HQ @2.60 Ghz 8GB RAM Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M My Mod Organiser Plugin details are attached.

Hi all, I'm fairly new to modding and am struggling with the Better Cities mod. I have Oblivion through Steam, and have it installed in C:\Games (not in Program Files). I have set up Wrye Bash, BOSS, OBSE 21.4 and OBMM. Wrye Bash is configured to recognise them all, so all the shortcut links at the bottom of Wrye Bash work as expected. As installed, to try and focus in on the problem, I just have the three Unofficial patches for Oblivion, Oblivion DLC and Shivering Isles, and Better Cities and Better Cities Primary Resources. When I use BOSS to configure the load order, this gives me the attached load order. Everything is fine when I start a new game. However, when I get to the Imperial City, I notice two small, but irritating/immersion breaking WTF mesh issues in the Arboretum and the Arena. I'm sure if there are two here, there are likely more elsewhere. Due to the file upload limit, I've only included the Arena one. What am I doing wrong? Note: Cross posted here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/54817-bananasplit-better-cities/page-872&do=findComment&comment=30874840