Some realistic graphic preset...

[BerzerkingLemur]

Hi,

It's my first post here, but i'm lurking into depths of Nexus quite a few years now.

I ended putting gameplay mods into this Bethesda... masterpiece and i finally decided to install some visual mods. I installed few textures and enhanced water and the time came for some ENB.

I'm aiming at realistic presets, so i decided to install NAC and Photorealistic ENB:

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/7657?tab=description

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/17344

Maybe i was doing something wrong, that's why i'm describing what i did, step by step. I did almost everything according to this instruction:

"I N S T A L L A T I O N:
Please delete any previous Reshade or Enb before installing NAC Enhancer: enbseries andreshade folders, dxgi.dll, enblocal.ini, enbseries.ini, reshade.fx, d3d11.dll, d3dcompiler_46e.dll

1• Download the v0.317 Enb binaries and drop ONLY d3d11.dll and d3dcompiler_46e.dll into the Fallout 4 main folder, where the game's .exe are.
2 • Download manually NAC Enhancer and drop all the files into the Fallout 4 main folder, where the game's .exe and the Enb binaries are.

Press Scroll Lock to toggle the effect
End to open the menu
del to toggle DOF
Minus (numpad) to toggle the FPS"

Almost, because there are no 0.317 v ENB binaries in download section, it's obsolete. So i downloaded archive (v0.344) from download/F4 section:

http://enbdev.com/download_mod_fallout4.htm

I dropped all the files manually from NAC archive into F4 main folder and started the game. Scroll lock doesn't work, it doesn't change preset. Combination of "shift + enter", and "shift + F12" worked, but i don't know is it a proper way to activate NAC.

Secondly i drafted all files from Photorealistic ENB to F4 main folder.

 

Combination of "shift + z" worked and here are the results:

 

- vanilla:

 

http://pl.tinypic.com/r/fayet3/9

 

- ENB:

 

http://pl.tinypic.com/r/15mk0ef/9

 

Is it really "photorealistic", or just deeper and more saturated?

 

Am i doing something wrong? I know that enabling ENB isn't enough to drastically change Fallout 4 visuals, but i don't want to install a ton of other effects and textures. Can you help with choosing the right ENB and other mods, or just with installing the actual ones in the right way?

 

Here are my graphic mods (except ENB):

 

- Water Enhanced 2k

- High resolution Texture pack - Valius

- Realistic roads

- Fallout texture overhaul Pip-Boy

- FO4 SUN

- Optimized vanilla textures

- Enhanced blood textures

 

I'm using vanilla Fallout 4, without DLCs.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

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My specs:

 

CPU - i6500

GPU - 1060 6 GB

RAM - 8 GB

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2018 by BerzerkingLemur

[dikr]

Heya, I'm a big fan of NAC myself but can't understand its requirement to only install a few files from ENB either. That disabled my shift - enter ENB menu. So I also installed the latest ENB fully and USE NAC in conjunction with Vanilla ENB from here on the nexus, which is pretty lightweight. (First installed ENB binary, then Vanilla ENB, then NAC). Overwrite files when needed and afterwards don't forget to optimize your ENB.ini with your correct memory settings as your personal choice of ENB might replace the value in the ini with settings that are too low). This still give me full access to the ENB menu in game and works fine.

 

Now NAC comes with its own ingame menu as you might have noticed. If you haven't you might have installed it incorrectly as the NAC files, .ini included, should go in the Data folder, not the install folder as the author forgot to put his files in a Data folder before shipping :smile: Also make sure you enable mods.

 

If all is well, NAC will first start with some pop-up choices for you to make, also setting textures to neutral coloration preset and a choice of NAC's climate settings. After that you can tweak just about everything in its holotape menu. Personally I had to tone down exposure and brightness a bit and could use a bit more saturation.

 

Good luck!

Edited September 27, 2018 by dikr

[BerzerkingLemur]

Thank you for your reply.

 

I did something like this:

 

1. I copied all of the content of ENB binaries (newest version) to the main FO4 folder.

 

2. I put all the files from Photorealistic ENB to the main FO4 folder too.

 

3. I drafter all the files from NAC archive to the Data folder.

 

Nothing happened and nothing changed. Scroll lock doesn't work, as well as the NAC menu (it didn't show up at all). I think i still doing something wrong.

 

Thanks for the reminder, i double checked FO4 Mod Installation instructions. Plugins are there, and a proper line is added to Fallout4Custom.ini.

 

I will try to do the same thing with Vanilla ENB, but i still got a feeling that i'm doing something wrong.

 

[EDIT]:

 

You mean literally Vannilla ENB, this the name of it?

 

I've only found this:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10272

 

Original Vannilla ENB files are unavaible.

 

 

[EDIT#2]:

 

Is NAC F4SE compatible?

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2018 by BerzerkingLemur

[dikr]

Yup, that one is what I use. And I use F4SE as well, so that's not your problem either. really weird. It sounds, in all regards, like your mods aren't loading. As you seem to install manually (like myself as well), can you post your plugins.txt file with your load order?

[BerzerkingLemur]

Sure, here is the uploaded plugin file:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mm75zw3lqf62bi5/plugins.txt?dl=0

[dikr]

Alright, so where is your

*NAC.esm

*NAC-FarHarbor.esp
*NAC-NukaWorld.esp

?

:)

[BerzerkingLemur]

Good question! :laugh:

 

I deleted it, i was trying another, this time Subtle ENB. It probably succeeded, but i don't know if it's for me (too many hard shadows, it's just darker).

 

Ok, so i deleted Subtle files and installed NAC again:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6s75e3usq0527b4/pscrdataf4.png?dl=0

 

Here is printscreen of my data folder:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6s75e3usq0527b4/pscrdataf4.png?dl=0

 

I don't see NAC files on plugin list either.

 

[dikr]

You need to add those entries manually I think. With an asterix like I wrote above. Like the rest of your mods in your plugins.txt. And be sure to add the NAC.esm file at the top.

[BerzerkingLemur]

"(...)With an asterix like I wrote above(...)"

 

I apologize, english (as you surely saw before;-)) is not my native language.

Asterix? Is it some kind of software?

[dikr]

Nope, it's the mark before all your installed mods in your plugins.txt file: *

 

Actually I misspelled it; it's "asteriks." :smile:

 

So add your esm's and esp's to that plugins.txt file like that:

 

*NAC.esm

*NAC-FarHarbor.esp
*NAC-NukaWorld.esp

 

Doesn't matter so much where you add the .esp lines but the .esm line should be above all esp's.

Edited September 27, 2018 by dikr