Issues with ENB

[Bandi427]

I wasn't too sure if I'm supposed to put this here, but this forum says to put technical support questions here. Recently, I have built a computer for my sister for her birthday, and gave her my old graphics card, which was a Sapphire Radeon 6850. It ran New Vegas, Fallout 3, and Skyrim just fine with a number of rather graphically demanding mods installed, including an ENB setting. With my old card in her build, I was left to buy another one. I chose the XFX Radeon R9 280x as my new card.

 

Due to shenanigans with Fallout 3, I had to reinstall it and play without mods for a bit and installed another ENB setting. Worked/works fine. I played Skyrim and even downloaded more hi res textures. Didn't touch any ENB settings. Works fine, probably even better than before.

 

I play New Vegas for the first time after installing my card, which had been about almost a month, and I install a new clothing mod. I launch the game, and it starts skipping. Heavily. I thought it was the mod. So I turn it off, and it still happens. I thought maybe I had something that was too demanding for my card, but then I immediately think that that can't be possible because the 6850 ran 2k/hi res textures just fine without skipping or stuttering for the most part, not to mention it even played Battlefield 3 at a High/Ultra setting at almost 60FPS without MSI Afterburner.

 

I turn my ENB setting for New Vegas off, and it works fine, but after about twenty minutes, it CTD's and says "out of memory". My card has I think 4GB of dedicated memory, I don't even see how that's possible. That over double of what my 6850 had, not to mention I have 12GB of RAM simply because I didn't want to give up the initial 4GB I started with two years ago.

 

So I uninstall New Vegas and all my mods, and run through which mods could possibly make my card have this problem. The answer was none of them. Turns out, any ENB setting on this card, whether I use the Wrapper or Injected Version, makes me stutter hard, down to like, 2FPS. Almost literally. I don't know what it could be. I've tried everything. I've Googled possibilities, thinking it was a memory leak, but I don't know if it's that. My Steam version of the game is correct, and obviously with that said, it's a legit Steam copy of the vanilla game; not the ultimate edition. I have all the DLC installed except for the pre-order packs.

 

If anyone can help me, please, give me a solution. Again I'm sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I felt it was mainly a technical support question about ENB as a whole than it is about New Vegas.

 

Other specs:

 

Intel i5 2500k processor @ 4.3GHz (overclocked)

12GB of DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz

PNY SSD 128GB

Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue @ 7200RPM

[yudhi108]

I'm currently running a 3gb GTX 780 no probs with Skyrim and some intensive mods. In a day or two, how ever, I will be receiving a 4gb r9 290x (got the sapphire triX oc version). I know you posted here hoping for help and I'm instead asking for help/advice, but please let me know if you think your GPU is the cause of some problems. I can return the r9 i'm expecting if I don't open it. I got a good deal on it (280 bucks, 1/2 the price of my 780), but am not wanting to have an extra $280 GPU laying around for no reason.

[Bandi427]

The 280x in literally every other aspect is a fantastic card. It has no problem playing Crysis 3 on high settings. I don't know if it's just something that has to do with New Vegas itself (which I think it is, because everything else runs fine), or if its just a graphical incompatibility for the 280x, which doesn't make sense, because Fallout 3 and New Vegas use the same ENB download from the official website, and Fallout 3 has no problem constantly hitting 60 FPS.