ENB Binaries causing major fps drops

[xXEl3mXx]

Not sure if it will help you but just for comparison: i5, 960 2GB - 30 -40 FPS average with ENB and its AO turned ON. 40 -60 without AO.

 

Same cant be said about area around Riften. There I never get more than 40 with AO and not more than 50 without AO.

 

All that even with use of SSE Fixes by meh321 and only 70 .esp mods. (all tho almost all textures in game changed)

Thing is what most people seem to not get is i'm not running an ENB Preset, i'm running base ENB with all effects turned off and "Use Effect" off and its making my fps tank to the low 40's in some areas down from 80-120 with no extra mods installed not even a weather mod nor a lightning mod.

[zajkoajko]

I would consider if it can be PSU as somebody mentioned before. 550 is probably not enoug.

Do you have such issues with other games ? I mean given the HW you have are you experiencing less FPS than other people with same HW in those games ?

[xXEl3mXx]

I would consider if it can be PSU as somebody mentioned before. 550 is probably not enoug.

Do you have such issues with other games ? I mean given the HW you have are you experiencing less FPS than other people with same HW in those games ?

My brother has an I7 7700 with an MSI GTX 1060 6gb Gaming X, with a corsair vs650 we're basically identical except for the CPU and the MOBO with DDR4 ram, And in other games we're getting generally the same performance apart from a few fps for the fact that his CPU/RAM is far stronger, we both run Witcher 3 100~ fps on ultra with vsync turned off.

[JimmyRJump]

 

Not sure if it will help you but just for comparison: i5, 960 2GB - 30 -40 FPS average with ENB and its AO turned ON. 40 -60 without AO.

 

Same cant be said about area around Riften. There I never get more than 40 with AO and not more than 50 without AO.

 

All that even with use of SSE Fixes by meh321 and only 70 .esp mods. (all tho almost all textures in game changed)

Thing is what most people seem to not get is i'm not running an ENB Preset, i'm running base ENB with all effects turned off and "Use Effect" off and its making my fps tank to the low 40's in some areas down from 80-120 with no extra mods installed not even a weather mod nor a lightning mod.

 

 

With a 1060 GPU, having drops to 40fps is normal. And a 500W power supply is fine, as long as it's not a generic brand with just 70% of accuracy, but one that has a decent amperage on the 12Volt rail. With your rig, you'll probably sit around the 400Watt mark in overall use when gaming wihout any overclocking going on.

[xXEl3mXx]

 

 

Not sure if it will help you but just for comparison: i5, 960 2GB - 30 -40 FPS average with ENB and its AO turned ON. 40 -60 without AO.

 

Same cant be said about area around Riften. There I never get more than 40 with AO and not more than 50 without AO.

 

All that even with use of SSE Fixes by meh321 and only 70 .esp mods. (all tho almost all textures in game changed)

Thing is what most people seem to not get is i'm not running an ENB Preset, i'm running base ENB with all effects turned off and "Use Effect" off and its making my fps tank to the low 40's in some areas down from 80-120 with no extra mods installed not even a weather mod nor a lightning mod.

 

 

With a 1060 GPU, having drops to 40fps is normal. And a 500W power supply is fine, as long as it's not a generic brand with just 70% of accuracy, but one that has a decent amperage on the 12Volt rail. With your rig, you'll probably sit around the 400Watt mark in overall use when gaming wihout any overclocking going on.

 

So general consensus is drops to 40 is to be expected, Well thats fine if its normal then, might as well have just stuck to oldrim as i left it because of the drops to 40 :p was hoping SSE wouldn't have that problem but i guess i was wrong lol

[xXEl3mXx]

So i'm not really sure if this is even relevant at all anymore but, I did some testing on W7 just to make sure W10 wasn't f'ing me around or to check if there was a bad driver install but the results are exactly the same, But i did bother to check my system resource usage while i was testing on W7 and i noticed something that seems a little odd to me,

Anyhow, I was monitoring my GPU Usage, Vram Usage, CPU Usage, CPU Temp and GPU Temp, While running with no enb files installed my CPU was hitting 50-51% usage full stop, which is basically the 4 cores it can access being fully utilized so nothing strange there, my gpu was running at 70-99% which is good as well (just in-case its not clear i was running with the framerate uncapped),

The odd part starts when i introduce the ENB files, with just d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46.dll or w/e added and having it generate the default enblocal.ini/enbseries.ini files and enbseries folder and ALL effects turned off via ticking their boxes and making sure that "use effect" was ticked off as well, my cpu hit 36% usage at max and my gpu hit 49% at max,

So armed with that knowledge there's a few things i can guess as to whats going on, Either ENB is seriously taxing my CPU causing it to bottleneck my GPU and causing these massive FPS drops, the ENB files for SSE are in the very early stages of being optimized, or there's some bad driver f*#@ery going on which i highly doubt as the W7 installation was fresh with brand new and updated drivers,

What i'm gonna try to test next is to see if changing the cpu affinity in task manager works and or changing the priority of the executable.

UPDATE:

So i had a look at the CPU Priorities and Affinities with ENB files loaded which had basically no effect, Noticed that SSE is utilizing all 8 cores to about 40-50% each though so definitely not only using 4 cores, What i did notice however, After removing the ENB files was that CPU 0 through 2 so CPU 0/1/2 were showing a lot more usage about 20-35% increase in usage on those 3 cores, But alas no Affinity combination yielded any results, no drops nor any increases.

Edited January 2, 2018 by xXEl3mXx

[JimmyRJump]

I don't understand half of the googly-moogly about the ENB and binaries and how you go about things.

 

For starters, when I install an ENB, I first install Boris Vorontsov's binaries (the two dll files, nothing else) and then copy the enbseries folder and its two ini files from the ENB I want into the game's install directory. Voilà. Nothing else. No ticking of boxes anywhere, no generating of "default" ini files, etc...

 

I'm also on Win7, by the way.

[xXEl3mXx]

I don't understand half of the googly-moogly about the ENB and binaries and how you go about things.

 

For starters, when I install an ENB, I first install Boris Vorontsov's binaries (the two dll files, nothing else) and then copy the enbseries folder and its two ini files from the ENB I want into the game's install directory. Voilà. Nothing else. No ticking of boxes anywhere, no generating of "default" ini files, etc...

 

I'm also on Win7, by the way.

Ah yeah basically if you install the 2 dll's and no other files from presets the ENB generates default files, with a few effects turned on, the ticking of boxes happens in the GUI to switch on effects or switch them off,

 

But anyhow it seems there's no way to resolve this as i have been in contact with Boris who also claims this is pretty weird but as far as he's concerned its a CPU bottleneck, as modding the dx11 engine takes a toll on the CPU he says.

[hellfire28]

Someone told me that certain areas - Solitude, Riften, etc. are more CPU bound than others. You may be slowed down there due to your processor. I have an FX 8370 @4.4 and it happens to me. I'm using Mythical ENB @4k and I get 30-40 fps in many outside environments (all indoor running 60, of course). This is with a 1080ti. I think your issue may be two fold - CPU needs a possible upgrade and Skyrim SE just can't handle post processing effects all that well. But if you're getting 50 fps you really have nothing to worry about...

[rainy101]

did you check if its forcing anisotropic filtering used to have a big fps drop when inabled in old skyrim

Edited January 6, 2018 by rainy101