Massive FPS Drop with ENB

[Deleted1719129User]

Don't get me wrong, I understand that ENBs are generally performance hungry, and some of them are more than others. However, my fps usually drops from 60+ down to less than 30 fps. It gets weirder: I've used ENBs past and the most intensive ones only costed me -20 fps. Not much has changed in my hardware since then. BTW, my specs are:

 

Intel Core i5-2500K CPU

Radeon 7950 4GB

16 GB RAM

 

Here are the things I've tried:

- Reverting drivers

- Downloading the latest drivers

- Reformatting

- Reinstalling skyrim

- Disabling mods

- Optimizing textures

 

Everything runs at almost 100 fps without ENB. I should note that I started using a 1920x1080 monitor, but I don't think the low fps started after using it (yes, I do know that higher resolutions costs more fps).

 

Any ideas?

[Aminados]

What ENB are you using?

 

Do you notice any FPS drops without ENB?

 

Are the FPS drops "place specific" ?

[vlaka]

i've found the latest enb's with the 'enboost' are really not that helpful performance wise.

Whenever I run them my game stutters and script based features like weathersense from frostfall causes the game to freeze for a few seconds.

 

I run a 2500k oc'd with a 580 oc'd and have never had this much problem with an enb before.

 

Try using older enb binaries like 119, 108hdr (no performance loss but wont look as good as newer ones) 112, 102, 113, 119.

[Deleted1719129User]

I've used most of the popular ENBs and they pretty much all have the same result. It's pretty consistent throughout the entire game. Without ENB, the game runs at almost 100 fps, with maxed out settings and the Official Hi-Res Texture Pack.

 

I think that the ones that use the older .dll's do run better, I just wanted to take advantage of the memory fix of the newer binaries.

[vlaka]

True Vision enb with enb binary 112 KAGE looks gorgeous.

Might want to give it a shot.

 

Personally I'm avoiding the enboost enb's.

[mattwoodmansee]

I also have this same problem. I am using ENBoost .233 at the moment along with Opethfeldt 7 beta 3. Most (90%) of the time I get smooth 40-45 fps outside and maxed at 60.1 inside. But sometimes when I start the game, or after a loading screen, my framerate drops to 3-5 fps. The framerate drops are not area specific. During this fps drop, if I press shift+f12 to deactivate the effect, the framerate is still at the same low rate.

The only thing that I've found to help is to Quit to Desktop then relaunch the game....

 

If anyone else out there can give

iftherestime and I some advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

Please dont comment with other ENB's to use, that just clogs the page with useless comments.

 

AMD FX-8100, GTX 660ti, 10gb RAM.

Edited November 10, 2013 by mattwoodmansee

[fiewiel]

Is this the bug where you leave a house/cave/dungeon (inside cell) your fps suddenly get halfed? Happens totally at random times?

[lefttounge]

I know this is an old post, but I feel like talking. I’ve used enbs such as Caffeine enb, an enb that I used for years and years, and had no fps drop at all, literally running circles around skyrim, only to come back after nuking and reinstalling my entire skyrim, for the enb to suddenly have crippling fps loss----mind you that I was using the same exact laptop as last time with no downgrade in my GPU, or any tech issues whatsoever.

With a 1060 NVIDA graphics card, I have no idea why this would happen. I can summarize it’s many things, I can name a few:

1. Your charger pack---the thing you use to charge your laptop; most don’t realize it, but the less output it has to power your laptop as you’re playing, the more fps loss you’ll have. I’ve had it so that I was using a crappy Walmart battery charger for my laptop, and suddenly my Skyrim’s fps had died and went to hell on me, I couldn’t do anything, in where I just was the day before on it. I replaced that with a better battery that had more watt power, and my fps recovered in full with no loss. Check to see if you’re laptop has an input of 100-240V~~60/50. 2.5A and output of 19.0V===9.47A (that’s what I use, and my brand is Insignia) and if it’s input is any lower than this, no doubt you’ll have FPS issue, because what your skyrim is running, your battery cant deliver on the same input. I bet many users had never realized this before. I found out my battery’s specs by looking at the information on the back of it.

2. Sometimes mod authors change their enbs and add a bunch of unnecessary crap that they really might not needed to add, which might make it take up more fps, that usually doesn’t happen, but it can.

3. Check to see if your graphic card’s properties hasn’t been set to “ultra” NEVER run your game on ULTRA. Ever! I say this even to the screen archers with good pcs; even if your pc can handle it, it’s still a vampire that will drain your computer for years every time you use it. Your computer can’t handle 12 years of you playing ULTRA settings on a heavily modded skyrim, it’s just not something one should be doing, and sooner or later you’re gunna burn something out---a broken graphic’s card on your laptop could mean it’s irreplaceable, and the costs to try and replace that are just not worth it. Playing on high is reasonable, and it’s what I do, that’s the most one should use.

4. Double enbs---sometimes some enb files might not’ve gotten deleted, check to make absolutely certain you have removed prior enb files before putting them in your folder, I found that sometimes stacked enb files may make your game overly bright in gamma, or times the enb itself just won’t work until installed properly.

I found that as you install Skyrim, the game actually seems to mold itself into the enb you’re using, in other words it starts to depend on that enb, and it’s files used for it, and when you go and remove enbs left and right, the game really hates that. In other words, enbs such as Caffeine must be added in first in a newly installed skyrim, that way you can look at what mods you install aren’t slowing your fps down as you play, you can catch that, instead of installing a new enb and getting that fps chaos all at once.

Looking at other users, I found that it seems like over 60% of users aren’t even using an enb, this includes even some well-known mod authors, you can see it in their pics. Enbs are a giant hassle that if you aren’t tech savvy in it, it can be a very stressful experience, and with Skyrim, it’s an outdated game, which demands you mod the game’s mods around what enb you’re using one at a time, and not midway through, otherwise fps can just die out on you from out of nowhere for no reason.