FPS Problems....please help me...new here

[PhoenixShadow32]

What's up everyone? So I recently got a new laptop and installed skyrim on it. It's a good laptop but not great. I am having some FPS problems. So after I installed the game and I played it I get around about 20 fps 25 fps max when I am indoors, but I want to mod it. Now the problem is that when i do mod it, I get 16-ish Fps and once again 25 FPS max indoors. I was wondering what mods or any setting changes I could install to increase the FPS and still have the game in a beautiful form.

My Laptop's specs are: http://imgur.com/Xt8nm8B

Mods I have Installed so far: http://imgur.com/gMGFVHS

 

I really want to keep realistic lighting, realvision ENB and climates of Tamriel. Unless someone can provide better mods than these considering my laptop's specs.

 

I am really open to all suggestions, but in the end I still want the game to look pretty yet have enjoyable FPS

[chanchan05]

What about GPU? Your link doesn't provide that info. And no, ENB and laptops don't mix. A performance ENB like RealVision will hit you by around 10FPS. It won't matter if you don't have any mod at all, except ENB. You'll get that hit. So basically, if a PC is getting 50 FPS, using RealVision will make it play at 40FPS, and so on. So your drop to 16FPS from 25FPS is sort of something you should expect using an ENB. Considering that you only get 25FPS on a vanilla install, I'm guessing your graphics chip is pretty low end (I also just bought a new laptop, but I'm getting 40FPS on a newly installed Skyrim with no mods on high settings, and then 25FPS outdoors on medium settings with about 250mods), which means it's practically impossible for you to get beyond 20FPS constantly when you have an ENB. You could also try lowering the details preset. Are you using high settings? The more mods you add, you'll find you have to lower your settings to medium, or even low in some cases.

 

I suggest keeping Realistic Lighting Overhaul (I personally prefer Enhanced Lights and FX, but that has a performance hit) and Climates of Tamriel, but ditch the ENB. Try using this instead of an ENB: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/48554/?

 

Also take a loot at

 

Skyrim Project Optimization: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32505/?

Skyrim Performance Plus: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/6387/?

ENBoost: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38649/?

Hialgoboost: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15123/?

 

Check this thread out as well: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1340369-skyrim-memory-patch-fixing-ils-ugrids-ctd-freezes-for-real/

[Rennn]

You need to get rid of the ENB. If that doesn't help enough, get rid of WATER as well. Those are what's mainly hurting your framerate. Mostly the ENB though.

That laptop only has an HD 4000 series integrated graphics chip, it's not really meant for gaming. There are no tweaks that're going to make good performance possible with a good ENB on that laptop.

 

Imo, that "I Can't Believe It's Not An ENB" mod looks worse than vanilla as well...

[chanchan05]

@Rennn - depends on taste. I used to use only vanilla, but after putting "I can't believe it's not ENB", I like it better. Of course I tweaked it to my own tastes using IMAGINATOR though. I like how punchy the colors are. The vanilla game looks so dull and gray in comparison to my game now.

 

ENBs take too much of an FPS hit with my heavily modded game, getting it to 20FPS and sometimes below so that's a no go. Haven't tried a performance ENB like RealVision, but I didn't bother.

Edited February 21, 2014 by chanchan05

[PhoenixShadow32]

So as it turns out that I get 60 FPS indoors without any mods and 50 max 32 avg and 30 min FPS outdoor. When I loaded the Realvision ENB the fps drops down from 30 fps min to 12 FPS min and the avg went from 32 to 15. So yeah it was the realvision ENB. Thank you everyone for their help. Now I have only one question. What is the best user friendly ENB based on my FPS?

[Rennn]

So as it turns out that I get 60 FPS indoors without any mods and 50 max 32 avg and 30 min FPS outdoor. When I loaded the Realvision ENB the fps drops down from 30 fps min to 12 FPS min and the avg went from 32 to 15. So yeah it was the realvision ENB. Thank you everyone for their help. Now I have only one question. What is the best user friendly ENB based on my FPS?

 

All ENBs pretty much use the same underlaying code. They'll perform similarly, the only way to really optimize them is to turn effects off or make them much lower quality.

There are a few ENBs where people have actually re-written some of the methods of drawing effects, but they don't really have better performance either.

 

My advice: Don't use an ENB.

If you *do* use an ENB, make sure to disable depth of field and sky lighting. Probably best to disable sunrays as well, if you can tolerate it.

Those three things have massive performance impacts for relatively minor effects.

Also, if you use an ENB you can safely disable all antialiasing in the Skyrim launcher.

[PhoenixShadow32]

"disable depth of field and sky lighting. Probably best to disable sunrays as well, if you can tolerate it.

Those three things have massive performance impacts for relatively minor effects.

Also, if you use an ENB you can safely disable all antialiasing in the Skyrim launcher"

Could you please tell me how to disable those 3 options?

[Rennn]

"disable depth of field and sky lighting. Probably best to disable sunrays as well, if you can tolerate it.

Those three things have massive performance impacts for relatively minor effects.

Also, if you use an ENB you can safely disable all antialiasing in the Skyrim launcher"

 

Could you please tell me how to disable those 3 options?

 

Not really, I haven't used ENB for a a few months, the .ini structure has probably changed.

 

Antialiasing can be turned off in the options part of your Skyrim launcher, ofc.

[CaffeinatedOrange]

Your laptop is far from good. Far from it.

 

Remove ENB or at least disable graphical enhancement and use it as ENBoost instead. Also remove any high res textures you may have installed, which does include Vivid Landscapes (especially it as it has parallax textures),

 

You perhaps try I Can't Believe It's Not An ENB if you absolutely HAVE to have some sort of fancy enhancement, but IMO you'd be better off trying Imaginator+Dynavision instead. I did actually get an FPS boost with that SweetFX preset, but I have quite different hardware than you do.

[Skyrabbit]

"disable depth of field and sky lighting. Probably best to disable sunrays as well, if you can tolerate it.

Those three things have massive performance impacts for relatively minor effects.

Also, if you use an ENB you can safely disable all antialiasing in the Skyrim launcher"

 

Could you please tell me how to disable those 3 options?

 

If you are using an up to date ENB try pressing shift and enter together whilst in game and you should get a set-up menu. You will find a series of check-boxes where you can deselect the options you wish to disable.

 

I notice in your mod list that you are using Pure Waters and W.A.T.E.R. You should probably choose only one of these. My preference is Pure Waters.

I also notice that you do not have the Unofficial Skyrim Patch (USKP). Some mods need USKP to work correctly. It is also worth having anyway. (imho) There are also unofficial patches for Dawnguard etc.

 

You can find them here. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19/?

 

Hope this helps.

 

Edit. I agree with most of the other posters that you should probably not bother with ENB for graphics, only use ENBoost.

 

Here. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/38649/?

Edited February 22, 2014 by Skyrabbit