Ambient Occlusion not working with 290.36 drivers

[oZEPPELINo]

I updated to the most recent Nvidia drivers yesterday optimistically considering they added AO support for Skyrim, however I can't get AO to enable. When I add TESV.exe to the Nvidia Control Panel from my Steam folder, it doesn't even show that AO is an option. Enabling it from Nvidia's list of games didn't work either; although I was at least able to tick the setting for AO. I've also tried enabling it using the Nvidia Inspector tool to no avail. Any suggestions on how I can make this work?

 

Here's my computer specs:

 

Win7 64-bit

E8400 C2D

4gb DDR2 800

GTX570

1TB WD Black

[oZEPPELINo]

Hey guys, after playing with it for a few hours I got it to work. Here's what I did:

 

First of all, I could not get AO to work with the new nvidia drivers 290.36, this is using the nvidia inspector.

 

-Add the TESV.exe to nvidia inspector, do not use the drop down list that contains "Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim"

-From here all or almost all the graphic options should be disabled.

NOTE: If you use the 4GB Skyrim mod, then you must add this file to the profile we are about to create.

 

-Go back to the nvidia top 5 tweaks article and change your settings to be exactly like theirs.

 

-Launch Skyrim

 

-Here's what messed me up and I'm still not 100% how to get around it.

-If the game throws the message to the effect of not being able to load some things and you might lose data; the game will load fine, but AO will not be enabled!

-If the game loads with no thrown message, then AO should be enabled.

-It seems like choosing "continue" over selecting a specific load file has less of a chance of throwing this message.

-Also, it looks like loading saves from after the effect was applied do not throw this message either.

 

This has worked for me and I hope it works for you, best of luck!

[Cougar88889]

I still can't get ambient occlusion working at all. I have trauled the internet and tried everything but nothing has worked. In Nvidia control panel I have Skyrim in the drop down menu but it has no icon just a blank window icon, I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it? I've tried a clean install of the 290.36 drivers but still nothing. HELP I really want AO in this game :(

[Cougar88889]

Here's a screenshot to show what I mean:

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1396/skyrimc.jpg

Edited December 4, 2011 by Cougar88889

[StrengthOfTwoBears]

Im having this problem too. going inside a building the lights and windows are bright enough but the light fades quickly to dark shadows. the light is not being bounced at all. i just updated my drivers to 296.10

 

im using windows 7 64-bit

geforce gtx560

 

i tried adding tesv.exe to the programs list and it just showed the already existing "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" program.

i tried setting Ambient occlusion to performance, quality, and off. with no luck.ill try setting it to nvidias recommended settings next.

 

i remembered reading somewhere that the save files save a lot of weird information including stuff about graphical settings.

in the read-me of one ENB they said to load, save, exit, and reload your game when uninstalling the mod and they said that this step is highly recommended. weird

so i tried starting a new game and the problem is still there.

but ill keep trying. let me know if you guys get anymore info

[spanian77]

Guys AO is broken due to Skyrim 1.5 update,Beth knew that but releashed the patch anyway..Nvidia knows it too.That (and Skyboost mainly..) is the reason I use 1.4.21 and I am stuck with it.