What am I doing wrong?

[Deathtoheaven731]

So after installing Project ENB for the first time, my game has been crashing more than it has been in a long time. Lowering my graphics settings has not been helping that much, nor has using a version of Project ENB without the SSAO. I even tried installing SSME, but that's barely making a difference either. What am I doing wrong here?

 

My rig:

AMD FX Quad Core Processor 4.2 GHz (not overclocked)

NVidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB GDDR5 RAM

16 GB DDR3 RAM
128 SSD (OS and Game are on this drive)

Windows 7 64 bit

 

My mods:

 

 

If you need any more information, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you very much in advance for any help you can offer me.

[Dibthelegend]

ENB generally causes crashes only when the memory isn't configured properly. Usually the cause is the reserved memory setting is set too high. A higher reserved memory size can reduce stutter, but also tends to cause instability. You can access these settings by opening up enblocal.ini in the main skyrim directory. For a 2GB card I would recommend putting that setting at : 64, 128, 256, 384, or 512.

Here are the settings I use w/ a GTX660:

[MEMORY]

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false

ReservedMemorySizeMb=384

VideoMemorySizeMb=2000

EnableCompression=false

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false

[Deathtoheaven731]

This is what I just found in my settings enblocal.ini:

 

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

ReservedMemorySizeMb=512

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false

VideoMemorySizeMb=1024 // VRAM + RAM - 2048

What should I change specifically?

[Dibthelegend]

ReservedMemorySizeMb=256

VideoMemorySizeMb=2000

[Deleted5770650User]

OP to set it to 2GB use 2048 instead of 2000

 

With this

VideoMemorySizeMb=1024 // VRAM + RAM - 2048

You need to do the math and enter the result here, but unless you have the RAM amount in KB that math wont work.

 

Try this

VideoMemorySizeMb=VRAM + RAM * 1024 - 2048

VideoMemorySizeMb=2 + 16 * 1024 - 2048 = 16384

 

That basically means 2GB + 16GB * 1024 (to get the number in MB) - 2048 (yes 2GB) = 16384 or 16GB

 

ReservedMemorySizeMb=256

VideoMemorySizeMb=2000

 

2000 is not 2GB in windows.

 

With Hard drives for example.

This is also the reason many people buy a new hard drive, say a 1.5TB hard drive and are stumped when windows reports it about 150GB less then 1.5TB.

Hard drive manufacturers report 1.5TB as 1,500,000,000,000 bytes.

Windows reports 1.5TB as 1.36TB, or 1,500,000,000,000 bytes.

 

Ram is similar,

If you have 8GB Ram you don't have 8,000MB it is actually 8,192MB

Edited August 8, 2014 by Guest

[Deathtoheaven731]

Okay, so I used VideoMemorySizeMb=2 + 16 * 1024 - 2048 = 16384 as chevyowner suggested and Ancestor's Glade, which was a bit crash happy, and no crashing so far. However, when I went to Whiterun, anytime I faced a bunch of NPCs my game starts to stutter a lot. Anything I can do to fix that?

Btw, I have AA, AF, and FXAA off.

[camaro_69_327]

This setting can reduce stutter , but can cause instability (according to Boris), but since i have it at MAX value i do not see any instability. Having a Clean trouble free OS is the first step....

 

ReservedMemorySizeMb=512

 

THE MAX value for the above is 1024 (1 GB) Try raising it ..only values i have seen used for this so far are ..128, 256, 512, 768, 1024. Makes sense as they are byte numbers.

 

What are you using for Vsync ?

 

Best choice... is Nvidia's @ Adaptive 1/2 refresh rate.