d3d9.dll in ENBoost causing CTD - fresh clean install

[SMB92]

You also tried redownloading ENB and reinstalling that file? Also there is the injector version that doesnt need that file, you instead launch an exe that injects it into the game.

[JimmyS1985]

You also tried redownloading ENB and reinstalling that file? Also there is the injector version that doesnt need that file, you instead launch an exe that injects it into the game.

I'll try doing that again, right now I'm not in the mood. Last time I played around with injector version, watching slothability's install video I did everything the video told me to do but there was no evidence ENB was activated in the top left corner when I loaded it up, plus I don't like having to click that program everytime I play Skyrim, but it's surely superior to playing with no ENBoost at all.

 

I dl'd Windows 10 and installed it on my PC and installed the d3d9.dll file in ENB, sure enough it CTD's but as soon as I take that file out the game works fine just with no ENB active in the top left corner on the main menu.

 

Sucks for me because I'd really like get back to working on my character again, I've got over 8 months and lots of play into this character and he's finally getting strong enough to maybe go dungeon delving (he's been in training mode for the past 8 months since I started him, I play on legendary difficulty and enemies have smithed weapons so it makes dying to one or 2 hits a fact of life in Skyrim)

 

It's kind of weird that on my current PC on Windows 8.1 I ran ENBoost for months with no problems but as soon as I reformat that's when problems start to arise.

Edited November 1, 2015 by JimmyS1985

[SMB92]

Well if you're running as admin, reinstalled everything inc. DirectX 9 from MS, then i am iut of ideas also. Apart from a bad stick of RAM or something.

[JimmyS1985]

Injector is a ENBSeries tool for walkaround problems with Optimus, XFire, EVGA, D3D Overrider, Afterburn, Steam and other software which prohibit usage of d3d9.dll wrapper (ENBSeries mod). By default it "inject" enbseries.dll in to processes under [TARGETPROCESS] category of enbinjector.ini configuration file. If you have renamed executables of the game, add/replace them to enbinjector.ini.
In future all versions of the mod will have support of injector and injectors will have additional features, per game.

 

I got this off the ENB site, says it might be an issue with it being a Steam game. Never had an issue running ENB on Steam before but maybe this is the core of my problems?

 

Anyways again I haven't gotten back to working on the problem as of yet but just thought I'd share this piece of information for anyone facing similar problems to me.

[JimmyS1985]

This is getting depressing for me. I just tried to install the injector version of ENB, deleted all traces of the wrapper version. I removed d3d9.dll the program that was giving me problems and now it's CTDing even without the problem program installed

 

I followed this video by slothability

 

 

The only thing I wasn't sure i did right was I'm running an SLI setup. He advocates for people with 8gb of RAM or more (I've got 16gb of RAM), taking your total available graphics memory and subtracting 350 from that number if you're a Windows 7 or Windows 10 user.

 

I looked up that number and according to windows my total available 12226, I subtracted 350 as recommended by his video and put into my enbseries.ini file (or whatever it's called, I know I got it in the correct one, could have been enblocal.ini) 11876. Seemed kind of high number for available graphics memory, even for an SLI setup, I got two GTX 970's but I did as the author of the video recommended and deleted all traces of the Wrapper version and now it just CTD's no matter what I do.

 

I did NOT install M ENB as recommended in the video, I really don't want the graphical ENB mods but could that now be the root of my problems?

Edited November 2, 2015 by JimmyS1985

[Rockw]

had a simular problem after a recent reinstall of windows. enb would not load no matter what i did. the problem was a direct dll. i needed to install an older version of direct x and that took care of it. a new install of windows may not have it.

 

it was actually skse that needed the dll, but my enb was hooked into skse to launch and thus had the problem.

 

direct x version that worked was file version 6.0.2600.0 worth a shot. won't harm anything

[SMB92]

Okay lets reinstall the whole game. Then go download the MANUAL version of SKSE and all you have to do is copy the files to Skyrim folder, not data. Then get injector ENB and copy them files in to Skyrim folder. To be clear the only difference with ENB wrapper is the d3d9.dll launches with the game, that is the only file you need to delete if using Injector exe. Be sure to point ENB injector to SKSE launcher not TesV.exe or launcher. Reinstall DirectX from Skyrim DirectX 10 folder, but Steam should do this when reinstalling anyway.

 

If that doesnt work now then we will try a command prompt rebuild of Windows.

[JimmyS1985]

Well right now I'm really anxious to play Skyrim. I am a Skyrim addict and haven't played in over a week since the reformat. Here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to download all my mods to mod manager. Hopefully I won't be too close to the 3.1gb threshold but probably will and it will CTD a lot more often than it did, since I run 190 mods and lots of texture packs (I bought 2 GTX 970's specifically so I could run tons of texture mods in Skyrim and not have to worry about lack of GPU power). I'm going to work on this more at a later date.

 

Gopher in a video mentioned a mod that ups the threshold from 3.1 gb to 4.0gb, for someone who can not run ENB without it CTDing anyone have any ideas on this mod that I might try installing?

 

BTW I'm a little worried about Populated Skyrim Civil Wars, since I estimate over 100 NPC's are on the screen at the same time when I run that, do you think if I run into the 3.1 GB threshold that will be when it happens? I have a very powerful PC which was what was recommended by the mod maker, but without ENB installed I'm not entirely sure if it will run correctly now.

Edited November 2, 2015 by JimmyS1985

[JimmyS1985]

Just out of curiosity, I'm also having issues with another game, Company of Heroes 2 at the moment, and Steam recommends I install their folder in the default location, the C:// Drive if I'm having issues.

 

Early into this thread I made it clear that I'm installing my games on an external hardrive, an F:// drive.

 

It says right here on steam:

 

"It is not recommended that you install Steam to an external hard drive due to potential performance issues."

 

Right now I have steam installed on an external hard drive though.

 

Perhaps this could be the root of my problems? What does Skyrim Nexus think? Would suck but perhaps I might have to uninstall my hardrive and bring it with my on vacation whenever I need to go somewhere as opposed to bringing the games with me on an external hard drive. What do you guys think?

Edited November 2, 2015 by JimmyS1985

[JimmyS1985]

Good news so far, I haven't fully tested it out yet, but I moved Skyrim to the C:/ drive (along with my steam folder which also had Company of Heroes 2 and GTA V in it) and Company of Heroes 2 is now working, and I was kinda scared to mess around with Skyrim since it has been spurning me in recent days, but I just threw in the d3d9.dll file to test it out and it's working! ENB isn't working yet as I didn't install all the other files along with it, but the d3d9.dll file in the Skyrim folder just loaded up to main menu with no problems!