How Do i disable MSAA, SSAO, FXAA and AF?

[refmon]

ENB is telling me to do this. I know most of them can disabled through steam but I wasn't able to find one or two of them. It's also telling me to use "Application-controlled" in videodriver but I'm not really sure what that means.

[Lord Garon]

A slight misinterpretation, I think. Those four acronyms are the names of graphics processing functions which can be turned on/off in three basic places; Skyrim (or Skyrim mods), your video card control panel (Nvidia Control Panel or Catalyst Control Center for AMD cards, for example), and the ENB itself.

 

If you are turning these off as part of the instructions for installing an ENB, I would suspect that the ENB author wants you to disable these settings in both Skyrim and your video card control panel (the ENB will do them instead).

 

Fire up the Skyrim Launcher and click the OPTIONS button. Set both Antialiasing (AA) and Anisotropic Filtering (AF) to OFF. Click on the Advanced button and make sure FXAA is NOT checked. Okay-->Quit.

 

Fire up your video card control panel (video driver control). I can get to mine (CCC) by right-clicking on the Windows Desktop or going to START-->All Programs-->AMD Catalyst Control Center-->Catalyst Control Center. Nvidia should be similar.

 

It might get complicated here, since many video drivers have several options. You can click on the different tabs, but look for a 3D or Gaming option. Find a tab which has settings similar to the ones you're looking for, Anti Aliasing for instance. You can usually set these to ON, OFF, some other options, or "Application Controlled". You want the last one.

 

Be aware that many video drivers support custom settings for particular games and you need to set Skyrim (tesv.exe) for the ENB.

 

Let us know what video card you have and which ENB you are installing for more detailed info.

 

EDIT: Don't be offended, but I thought I should expand all the acronyms in case they're spelled out in the driver:

SSAO - Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (not supported by Skyrim, will be a driver setting)

FXAA - Fast Approximate Anti Aliasing

MSAA - Multisample Anti Aliasing (Skyrim uses this method, but just calls it AA)

Edited July 22, 2014 by Lord Garon

[refmon]

Thanks for the help, I'll look into more when i get back. This is also my first enb and this one is popular so I decided to check it out, I just hope I can keep a steady 60 frames.

 

I'm trying to use the enb realvision and I am using Geforce GTX 660

Edited July 22, 2014 by refmon

[Sexyowl]

I have the same card and have kept away from ENBs because the I don't think the card handles it well. Recently I started using Gameplay Performance ENB and I am still getting lots of stutters and CTDs. Will love to know how yours will run.

[refmon]

So the regular mod runs at 30-40 fps and the preformance version runs at 50-60 fps. I'm also not using any sort of graphics mod so sadly I don't think I can use this. Does anybody know of some easy to run enbs? I'd really like a realism enb

Edited July 22, 2014 by refmon

[Lord Garon]

I have to say something here; don't JUST chase numbers in Skyrim.

 

My modded setups run anywhere from about 30 to 60 FPS outdoors. I had one setup that was perfectly playable at about 25FPS in many places. The whole point of modding is to get a game YOU like, not keep some arbitrary FPS during a Civil War battle. Many things impact the FPS available from an ENB. If you like that ENB, go to its mod page and look around or post in the Comments and see if a minor tweak can improve playability without sacrificing looks. A small change in appearance can sometimes give a large performance boost.

[refmon]

It looks great but the constant 20 fps dips just pull me out of whatever I'm doing.

[FiftyTifty]

Limit the game to 30fps.

 

Add "iFPSClamp=30" to Skyrim.ini under [General]

 

Win.

[Lord Garon]

Sure, large and sudden FPS drops are no good. I was just talking generally. Good luck, in any case.