annoluce Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Ever been at night in a forrest with no "modern day lighting" around? It would be pitch black dark and you'd be happy to see your hand in front of your face, so it's still a bit friendly like this. You can easily correct that tho by installing another night level darkness which comes with CoT. Yes I've been at night in a forrest. With my telescope when I go star gazing. Indeed, in those moment I need a very dark night! But when playing I can accept a certain level of non-realism, for the sake of the game. Otherwise I'll be forced to walk with a torch all the time. It can be fun, but I'll chase the ultra-realism in a later moment, when I'll be finished with all main quest and DLC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 No worries, I tuned it with CoT night levels in mind, which range from 1 (vanilla) to 8 (black) ... my screenshots are with level 4, which I use. So plenty of room to adjust by reinstalling CoT and picking another level (or simply manually place all the night levels of the CoT archive in your Data folder, and activate one, check, change, until you find one that works good for you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annoluce Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Hi, I strongly suspect that something is wrong in my hardware.I had a test on my SSD, And maybe found a possible bottleneck. The r/w speed of my 1st M4 Crucial SSD (the OS one) is going HALF the speed it used to be when I installed the OS. It is now 80% full.I measured also my 2d SSD, and it goes at almost nominal speed: read / writeC: (OS)271 173245 12424 44137 104E: (2d SSD)498 200375 20025 50265 173 So this could be a problem since Skyrim runs on my OS SSD that has degraded performance.How can I fix my SSD performance and return it to nominal??I'll now try to run the game on the second SSD, with all mods enabled, to see if it goes better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Mhhh... SSD :OHere's an answer, too lazy to type it all out :Phttp://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?324766-Do-SSD-drives-slowdown-when-near-full And to Tie x and y together here's a quote reading through those comments... seems if you move it all to your other drive, youll just be moving the problem around instead of solving it ...The problem that TRIM solves is a problem that most people don't have, TBH. Most people will never write the full capacity of their drive, let alone write and re-write. If you are doing video editing TRIM can be quite helpful. It's also helpful for applications like Steam which are constantly updating (deleting, re-writing) large amounts of files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annoluce Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 (edited) Hi,finally after some 10 hrs tweaking, I found a good trade off between eye candy and performance.I tried several ENBs, Real, Reallike, Zoner, Real Vision, and others, and most of the Boris DLLs. Eventually, I landed to the ENB proposed by Prod80, which runs quite smoothly and is fully playable. I installed all mods suggested by the skytuner ENB, and coupled with Prod80 ENB, the result is quite good! (thank you Prod).I suffer from stuttering still. When I look a very dense scenary, for example down from dragonsreach, the pc suffers, and stutter occurs. Once all the textures are loaded though, then the same scene runs smooth. So I think is a RAM related problem.I start thinking that the problem resides in crossfire. I'm not convinced my crossfire is actually working, even with TESV profile. So I end up having just one HD 6870 1Gb ram which is not good for the game modded. I'm thinking about getting a brand new GTX 680 with 4 Gb onboard instead. That should work, because the crossfire cards do not share the memory, as usually reknown. Edited June 17, 2013 by annoluce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 glad you like it... ;)the original files are from Project ENB tho, I just modified about everything it has inside to what I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annoluce Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 glad you like it... :wink:the original files are from Project ENB tho, I just modified about everything it has inside to what I like. Hey Prod,I think this is by far the finest looking and smoother combination I tried. I tried maybe some 10 ENBs, and even though this one has not DOF, to me is far way better looking than Real Vision or other based on 0.168, because it looks more natural. Others look too cartoon like.I think you should definitely publish it, so that other users can benefit from this.I installed several mods, with COT, RLO, lighting FX, 2k textures and others, and found the balance. Now nights are dark but not too dark, days look gorgeous, and lighting FX in dungeons are really dramatic, and everything runs in perfect armony.We should publish my mod list and .ini files together with your ENB setup to give everyone the chance to try the setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prod80 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I have DOF... perhaps you disabled it... :smile: file: enbeffectprepass.fx in enbseries.ini make sure this is set EnableDepthOfField=true (also make sure you always copy all the files belonging to a single ENB... all of those files contain settings specific to that ENB, not just enbseries.ini) I cant publish it because its a completely overhauled Project ENB, and the author doesn't allow my tweaks to be publish (not under my name, and not under his because I changed to many things)... So, it's a private ENB, tread it as such.... but I am glad you enjoy it :smile: so far a few people use it and all of them are really happy with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annoluce Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 I have DOF... perhaps you disabled it... :smile: file: enbeffectprepass.fx in enbseries.ini make sure this is set EnableDepthOfField=true (also make sure you always copy all the files belonging to a single ENB... all of those files contain settings specific to that ENB, not just enbseries.ini) I cant publish it because its a completely overhauled Project ENB, and the author doesn't allow my tweaks to be publish (not under my name, and not under his because I changed to many things)... So, it's a private ENB, tread it as such.... but I am glad you enjoy it :smile: so far a few people use it and all of them are really happy with it... Ok, so thank you again for sharing this. It saved me from buyng a new video card!!Yesterday I was wandering into dwarven ruins and the visuals were breathtaking. really happy :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDH Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I have DOF... perhaps you disabled it... :smile: file: enbeffectprepass.fx in enbseries.ini make sure this is set EnableDepthOfField=true (also make sure you always copy all the files belonging to a single ENB... all of those files contain settings specific to that ENB, not just enbseries.ini) I cant publish it because its a completely overhauled Project ENB, and the author doesn't allow my tweaks to be publish (not under my name, and not under his because I changed to many things)... So, it's a private ENB, tread it as such.... but I am glad you enjoy it :smile: so far a few people use it and all of them are really happy with it... Hey,I'm having the same problem. can you send me that ENB? I'd love to try it since Real vision is sending me sub 20 fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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