ENB Causes Stuttering

[RobinHood2005]

Whenever I use an ENB preset for New Vegas, it causes copious amounts of stuttering in my game, including my mouse, which jumps around instead of moving smoothly, even when in the main menu.

I have tried this with Rudy, Seven Sins ENB and a number of others and the only exception to this seems to be Dynamo ENB.

 

This didn't happen before and I am wondering why it is happening now.

I know for a fact that it is my ENB because the second I delete the ENB preset files from my game folder the problem goes away.

 

I use a few performance mods, namely:

 

- Zan Autopurge

- NVSR

- NVAC

- Performance of the Gods

- Better Game Performance V5

- CTD and Memory Patch (ENBoost)

 

Does anyone else know the solution to this issue?

 

NOTE: Dynamo ENB is only an exception when the 'Lite' preset (composed of the enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini files) is used. Otherwise, it stutters just as much.

Edited December 29, 2019 by RobinHood2005

[RobinHood2005]

https://imgur.com/a/nR2yO54

 

Also, is this how Rudy is supposed to look? It looks far better than vanilla, but for some reason looks a little gloomy and bleak to me, as if it was supposed to be more vibrant. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

[dubiousintent]

You don't say which version of Windows you are running, but it's likely to be Win10. Make sure you are using the Win10 configuration of NVSR and the latest version which resolves some problems with Win10.

 

* Do not use an "Auto-purge" mod for game play. (That was old advice from before we knew better.) They are designed for debugging by mod creator's only, according to the author of the JIP extensions to NVSE. See the 'Issue: CTD without warning, "Out of Memory error", or stops responding after the Main Menu', "Cause-2", "Solution-3" entry in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide for the game settings that do the same job.

Similarly "Performance of the Gods" is known to have some problems of it's own. Too many "performance" mods will start to step on each other.

 

ENB Presets are "configurations" for a designed atmosphere. That one seems to work and other do not suggests some setting(s) are overloading your system. You say "it used to work before". That being the case, ask yourself "what changed"?

 

In general, if you haven't changed anything about your game and it suddenly stops working correctly you need to look to other causes: such as software updates to Windows, programming libraries such as ".Net", or hardware drivers. Older games eventually get dropped from product testing. It is also possible you are having problems with your hard drive. It never hurts to run "chkdsk" and an anti-virus scan.

FYI: If you recently had a Windows system update, you only have 10 days to revert to the previous version if you decide to choose that option.

 

Do you have the stuttering problem without ENB? If not, that pretty conclusively points to ENB configuration as your problem.

 

Re: Stuttering or "micro-stutters". All visual stuttering problems are caused by the video stream having to wait for the "art assets" required to render the display OR the game writing something to disk (such as a save game file or logging). Mostly these are due to the hard disk drive being orders of magnitude slower than VRAM, with System RAM (e.g. "ENBoost") and "solid state drives" (SSDs) being in between. Keep in mind that this game was designed for older PC and XBox console systems, and it is now possible for your new "latest and greatest" gaming machine to be faster than it can handle. There are internal design choices that cannot be overcome. The "video pipeline" has always been prone to problems.

 

The following are "mitigations" that have been found to help some people.

Please see the following entries under the 'Solutions to Performance problems' section in the wiki Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide if you haven't already.
* 'Issue: "Full screen mode" exhibits CTDs and stutters or micro-stutters'
* 'Issue: Lag or "micro stutters" even with "New Vegas Stutter Remover" installed'
* 'Issue: Win10 Screen tearing in "Borderless Windowed Mode"'
* 'Issue: CTD without warning, "Out of Memory error", or stops responding after the Main Menu' for other settings that can indirectly affect micro-stutter.
* There are also some NVSR configuration suggestions under the 'Issue: Game in slow motion' and entries. (These will not help with the "Tick Fix" alternative mod, but the author of NVSR now has a suggested configuration for Win10 linked there.)
* The 'Issue: What's with these Solid Green billboard signs in the distance (LOD)?' entry under the 'Solutions to Mesh (Red "!" icon) or Texture (solid color) problems' section can also help if your problems started after you installed VWD/LOD texture packages.
* If you are using CASM or some similar "auto-save" mod to manage your save game files (recommended), try increasing the "time between saves" set in the "save frequency"; and reducing the number of occasions it saves to the minimum (e.g. disable most "Autosave Events" in CASM) and see how that impacts the game seeming to freeze temporarily.
* If you have "NVSE logging" enabled (see the 'Checklist Item #4' entry in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide), disable it until actually needed.

Reading from or writing to disk for any reason is the slowest thing the game does.

The size of your image files also has an impact. Larger/higher resolution is not always "better". Please see the wiki "Display resolution versus Image Size" article.

The 'Issue: What INI edits seem to be most beneficial to performance' entry of the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide) may also be some help. However, the above mitigations are more likely to have a fundamental beneficial effect with or without any INI adjustments, so consider them as the last resort.

As you can see, there are a number of things that can underlie your problem. If one of these doesn't fix it, I would be interested to hear about any eventual solution that does.

-Dubious-