improving graphics

[tweedledee111]

50 FPS with ENB? - not too bad :cool:.

If you want to try one of the mods suggested by me with your current setup, please ensure that everything is compatible. Detailed Terrain and Tree LOD e.g. doesn't work with SFO (if you still have SFO installed - doesn't look like that actually?).

 

Btw, IF you still use SFO - have you adjusted your skyrim.ini settings (not skyrimprefs) under [Grass]:

 

iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=15 (y, its Texure, not texture, bethesda's error :yes: )

iMinGrassSize= xx (use a value between 20 and 50, higher values give less density but better performance)

Edited December 13, 2014 by tweedledee111

[urumizawa]

50 FPS with ENB? - not too bad :cool:.

If you want to try one of the mods suggested by me with your current setup, please ensure that everything is compatible. Detailed Terrain and Tree LOD e.g. doesn't work with SFO (if you still have SFO installed - doesn't look like that actually?).

 

Btw, IF you still use SFO - have you adjusted your skyrim.ini settings (not skyrimprefs) under [Grass]:

 

iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=15 (y, its Texure, not texture, bethesda's error :yes: )

iMinGrassSize= xx (use a value between 20 and 50, higher values give less density but better performance)

owww i removed SFO i am using "lush trees and grass" instead (with vanilla trees as their trees doesn't look good)

well i disabled the speedhack thing wich removed many graphical effect and that (i think) is the reason my fps increased

and i installed skyrim performance monitor from your suggested mods and its really great so far (i didn't test the fps impact on skyrim tho)

Edited December 13, 2014 by urumizawa

[tweedledee111]

Well, that's a bit weird... Usually u have less and less fps with more and more graphical effects :geek: ... Have you removed ENBoost completley or just adjusted the enblocal.ini in order to make it work with your actual ENB? If the latter everything should be fine, then you probably just profit from Skyrim's better VRAM usage with the patch. Or did you mean you ENABLED the pure memorypatch, thus getting rid of some graphical hodgepodge wich was too much for your system? "UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true"?

Edited December 14, 2014 by tweedledee111

[urumizawa]

Well, that's a bit weird... Usually u have less and less fps with more and more graphical effects :geek: ... Have you removed ENBoost completley or just adjusted the enblocal.ini in order to make it work with your actual ENB? If the latter everything should be fine, then you probably just profit from Skyrim's better VRAM usage with the patch. Or did you mean you ENABLED the pure memorypatch, thus getting rid of some graphical hodgepodge wich was too much for your system? "UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true"?

thats what i am saying i set it to true wich disabled it, boosted my fps and removed many graphical effects

i messed with the other ENBlocal settings too tho but that didn't have a big effect on my fps

 

i ll just try enabling it again and disable few things manually such as the sun rays thing (i gotta find it 1st)

[dayglo98]

The settings you are looking for are in the enbseries.ini file, in your Skyrim folder.

[EFFECT]
UseOriginalPostProcessing=false
UseOriginalObjectsProcessing=false
EnableBloom=true
EnableAdaptation=true
EnableDepthOfField=false
EnableAmbientOcclusion=false
EnableDetailedShadow=true
EnableSunRays=true
EnableSkyLighting=true
EnableReflection=true
EnableImageBasedLighting=true
EnableSoftParticles=true
EnableParticleLights=true
EnableLens=true
EnableSunGlare=true
EnableSubSurfaceScattering=true
EnableWater=true
EnableUnderwater=false
EnableCloudShadows=true
EnableVolumetricRays=true
EnableProceduralSun=true
EnableMist=false 

Depending on what version of ENB you are running (I mean when you start the game, it should stay ENB 0.264 or something) you can press shift+f12 in-game to have the ENB menu popup. (The menu doesnt show on my pc though, if I have the Skyrim performance monitor overlay running)

 

From there you can tweak settings on the fly, but remember to click on 'save configuration' then 'apply configuration' for some of the changes to take effect. I recommend bringing up the console in-game by pressing the ~ key first. Also for this to work you will have to run Skyrim as Administrator or else the changes you do in the ENB popup menu won't do anything.

 

Are you running SKSE ? If so it is SKSE that you will have to run as Admin.

Edited December 14, 2014 by dayglo98

[camaro_69_327]

correction to the above post...:)

 

[ Shift + F12 ] turns OFF the ENB.

[ Shift + Enter ] opens the IN-game menu.

 

Once opened tweak away, once you get used to it , it is extremely powerful. For settings that are not just True/false, you can ...Click , hold that click, move mouse and a circle with a line appears, rotate around the circle and you change the setting. The RED part of the circle shows where the setting started. it IS easy to acdently let go and lose where you were, SO I have gotten used to making a mental note of what the setting WAS before clicking, IF you get lost, dont "save" just "load and it will bring in all the settings the way it was.

 

PIC this is showing the circle thingy...:)

 

PIC ...one way to have some of the good graphic goodies but NOT have the big hit to the FPS is to go thru and lower the setting for things. < High, medium, low> (look at pic it will make sense).

 

PIC...yes, ENB will work with PrecisionX (or MSI Afterburner) and SPM all on the screen at one time. This way you can see your FPS and VRAM load real time.

 

Get to tweakin...

[dayglo98]

oh my bad yes it's shift+enter to toggle the ENB menu hehe, thanks. I guess I'm missing a checkbox or something in SPM though, because if I activate the overlay I won't have the ENB menu.

 

That is with ENB 0.264 and SweetFX. Good tip about lowering the high/med/low settings too, thats what I do and I dont see any diff between high and low.

[camaro_69_327]

oh my bad yes it's shift+enter to toggle the ENB menu hehe, thanks. I guess I'm missing a checkbox or something in SPM though, because if I activate the overlay I won't have the ENB menu.

 

That is with ENB 0.264 and SweetFX. Good tip about lowering the high/med/low settings too, thats what I do and I dont see any diff between high and low.

Sure there is a difference between High VS low.....A few FPS...:)

 

Check my SIG about SPM and ENB..i am also using ENB 264/ sweetFX

[tweedledee111]

:cool: looks like everything is on a good way here, fine.

[dayglo98]

:cool: looks like everything is on a good way here, fine.

thanks for that wall of text you posted previously, even though my desktop pc is tweaked a lot already I still read all of it and I might look into shadow stuff to see if I can squeeze some more performance. About grass mods hurting your performance, did you try verdant grass ? Installed it yesterday and it's amazing and didnt hurt my performance much.

 

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