SlizenDize Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I feel a bit stupid but here is my problem, I want to play skyrim with ENB shaders but my game ran on only 10-15 fps with ENB on and around 30 with it off. I found this very low so I recently reinstalled skyrim to use only ENB without any additional mods, assuming texture mods and such sinked my FPS. Lo and behond my FPS was the same, 30 without ENB and 10-15 with, depending on the area. My question is, would you say there a bottleneck in my systemspecs or could this issue be due to some software problem I am not aware of? Is ENB really that demanding that it cuts your FPS in half? And if 30 FPS reasonably with my system specs? I tend to think I have a decent computer that run games very smoothly yet I tried turning down graphics settings on skyrim and use High Performance options on ENB with no change in FPS. High and low performance both give 10-15 fps. Here are my specsIntel Core i7-2630QMGTX 560M 1.5GB GDDR5DDRIII 8GB ram memory1TB 7200RPM harddrive (Thinking of getting SSD but not sure if it would help in this case)Win 7 64bit Update: I put skyrim settings on lowest settings with everything off and the game was still playing around 15FPS with ENB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 That doesn't sound right at all. Have you done a full uninstall and clean reinstall of the nvidia drivers? I don't know if you have updated your drivers, but the driver update procedures are a bit more complicated than they used to be. There are also monitoring tools which allow you to check VRAM usage. There is benchmarking software you can download to check performance of the video card, ram, cpu, etc. to make sure everything is performing to spec. Windows also has dxdiag, and it wouldn't hurt to run that for a quick sanity check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlizenDize Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Ok I found a GPU monitor gadget and I also activated my CPU monitor and it seems the GPU is working at 99% all the time while playing, while the CPU is barely working at all (13-14%). Is there a way for me to force some of the work on the CPU instead of the GPU?I take it ENB is very GPU heavy for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 At this point, I would try uninstalling and re-installing graphics card drivers. If you don't have the latest drivers, try those. If you do, and a clean re-install after complete uninstall doesn't work, try earlier drivers. I keep seeing this link posted in various topics here (http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1174372&mpage=1), so you can try reading that to make sure you are installing/updating graphics drivers correctly. You might also want to double check your version of DirectX for windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlizenDize Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 I followed your link and guide by the dot and I have good and bad news. The good news is that the latest driver had an update for skyrim so Skyrim now runs at about 45fps instead of the old 30 (yay). However the downside is that when I turn on ENB it returns to it's previous 15FPS. I'm starting to think this is an issue with ENB itself, maybe it's not well compatible with my graphics card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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