Issues with ENB and Graphic Mod list + 200 mods

[BIZZnice]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm running into issues with getting my Skyrim set up. I'm been trying quite a bit on my own and have watched several videos and read through several pages. I also used to be into modding back in 2011 and 2012 but over the last several years had taken a break. ENB mods and Memory issues was not something I faced back then. I also was modding very lightly back then because I was using just a basic laptop. Since I feel I have built a pretty nice PC to be able to handle modding Skyrim. But I want to make sure I can stabilize the game and continue to play. Here are some specs before I get started:

 

i7 6700k 4.6ghz

 

32gb 3300MHz ram

 

SLI GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X

 

Windows 10 64-bit

 

Samsung 4k UHD monitor

 

SSD

 

So I'm pretty sure I should be able to get a ENB mod set up and a good solid listing of graphical mods. I started myself just installing here and there and getting back into thing, but then I came across the RealVision ENB page with the mod list, I cleaned my skyrim and reinstalled it. I went mod for mod down the list and chose the different mods I wanted to go with. My choices is ELFX for lighting and Climates of Tamriel just like with Skyrim Tuner has laid out, this is perfect for me because I used those mods anyways.

 

I started with my main files, Skyrim.esm and all DLCs including the graphics DLCs. I then installed the MOD DLCs that I wanted, Moonpath, Forgotten City, Falskaar, and Summerset Isles. From Skyrim Tuners listing I installed about 22 of his graphical mods in the order that he has shown. So at that point roughly about 30+mods installed with some others like SkyUI and Alternate Start. Earlier I was up to about 85 mods in total but it was a improper mix of mods but I was still able to succesfully play. I can't even load Skyrim with the 30 graphical mods. My crash logs says it is related to memory that it was at about 5.5gb. So that is pretty high I would think and greater than the 3gb or 4gb threshold for memory. I'm lost as to how others are able to install 200+ mods, with the 30+ I have where is there room or memory to do so. I tried to install the ENB for RealVision and edit the Memory tweaks in SKSE and in the enblocal but no luck it still won't boot.

 

At this point I am going to try again, I uninstalled skyrim and deleted all previous folders.

 

I will give it a try again, but I just don't understand why I wouldn't easily have the bandwidth to handle installing 200+ mods and especially when only about 25 are related to graphical mods.

 

I want to get this thread started, please let me know where I have gone wrong, if I need to paste up any ini files please let me know

 

thanks in advance

 

 

[ymf331]

enb is supposed to actually help with that if it's set up right. couple other things you might try are crash fixes and skse memory patch. if all that doesn't work, you might have to sacrifice some texture resolution or try out 64-bit skyrim.

[BIZZnice]

I have the crash-fixes installed as well, I edited the SKSE.ini for 64 bit as well but no luck

[Novem99]

 

Windows 10 64-bit

 

Samsung 4k UHD monitor

 

 

Here's the problem. If you are playing the non Special Edition of Skyrim on a Windows 10 OS there is some kind of a 4GB VRAM cap (not to mix up with the 3.1GB RAM cap!). DX9 games like Skyrim are only able to make use of 4GB VRAM when played on Windows 10.

 

So if your playing on a 4k monitor you'll hit the 4GB VRAM limit quickly.

[BIZZnice]

I think the 5.5gb number was the ram itself not even the vram.

 

The reason I'm using skyrim and not SSE is because there is better mods and mods on original skyrim is not ported over to sse

 

But I was able to have about 85 mods installed originally. They weren't installed right and were just a mix of mods not really selected mods that work well with one another and I was able to run it with no ctds it just wasn't as beautiful graphic wise so I started doing better research and came across the enb mods and graphical mods that should go with another.

 

So realistically with my setup what do you think is a safe number of mods to shoot for?? And why are others with older hardware getting 200+ mods?

[BIZZnice]

Okay so I went through again following the RealVision ENB page and tutorial installation, I missed some patch details and finer details going through it myself and I wasn't downloading the latest ENB which I noticed the versions had ENB boost but the earlier version from RealVision's page did not. So that should provide a boost.

 

I have 54 installed mods:

 

GameMode=Skyrim

Skyrim.esm=1

Update.esm=1

Dawnguard.esm=1

HearthFires.esm=1

Dragonborn.esm=1

Falskaar.esm=1

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm=1

moonpath.esm=1

HighResTexturePack01.esp=1

HighResTexturePack02.esp=1

HighResTexturePack03.esp=1

SkyUI.esp=1

RealisticWaterTwo - Waves - Falskaar.esp=1

Skyrim Particle Patch for ENB - Flame Atronach Fix.esp=1

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp=1

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp=1

CoT-WeatherPatch.esp=1

TrueStorms.esp=1

TrueStorms-CoT-WeatherPatch.esp=1

Supreme Storms - Cot Version.esp=1

CoT-WeatherPatch_DB.esp=1

CoT-WeatherPatch_Snow-40.esp=1

CoT-WeatherPatch_SupStorms.esp=1

CoT-WeatherPatch_NL3.esp=1

TrueStorms-SupremeStorms-CoT.esp=1

mintylightningmod.esp=1

MintyLightningMod_COT_Patch.esp=1

EnhancedLightsandFX.esp=1

ELFX - Exteriors.esp=1

immersive roads.esp=1

SDO Full-LOD - Waterfall Effects.esp=1

RealisticWaterTwo.esp=1

SDO Full-LOD - The Morthal Swamp Complete.esp=1

fallentreebridges.esp=1

RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp=1

SMIM-Merged-All.esp=1

RealisticWaterTwo - Falskaar.esp=1

Watercolor_for_ENB_RWT.esp=1

ELFXEnhancer.esp=1

moonpath_questdata.esp=1

SDO Full-LOD - Whiterun Trundra Creeks.esp=1

Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp=1

Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin.esp=1

SDO Full-LOD - Giant Campfires.esp=1

SFO - Dragonborn.esp=1

ELFX - Moonpath.esp=1

Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp=1

I haven't played with any ENB settings, but I am running at 55 fps and there are quick dips down to about 45, but usually hovers around 45-55 inside I'm at 60fps.

I have a lot of other mods to install such as weapon and beast textures and crafting or needs mods, I'm thinking that the install order wont matter as much because they are more individual esp files. I will try a few mods at a time and go from there to see if I can get the rest of my mods installed, but I'm very pleased with the graphical appearance of RealVision.

[BIZZnice]

Okay so I have 170 installed Mods and still able to run smoothly at 55 fps. I think the ENB boost played a major role and was something I was missing before because I was downloading an older ENB version that did not contain ENB boost