ENB installation belongs on a cross (Please help)

[goatsbite23]

I recently bought a new PC (Windows 10) to mod New Vegas while we're stuck indoors. I'm following the instructions given as so: I start with a fresh Steam installation of the base game, no mods or patches yet. I download the newest binaries from enbdev (I have version0.405), and move the contents of the Injector folder to the directory where FalloutNV and FalloutNVLauncher are. I unzip Bright Vision ENB (the ENB I'm trying to apply to New Vegas) contents to the same location, double click ENBInjector and double click FalloutNVLauncher, press play on main menu, watch through Bethesda intro slides, press quit at the game menu then close ENBInjector. And nothing happens. I've read through forums and apparently there's some kind of menu that's supposed to appear in the upper left corner of the game during startup but I've never seen it once. I've started from two fresh installs and read through dozens of guides and YouTube assists but nobody has had this problem addressed before. It seemed simple enough in the videos, just copy and paste a few folders. My plan is to use a 4gb patch to OD on graphics mods, on a previous attempt I used the ENBInjector and changed enbinjector's config settings to include fnv4g but still no change. Hit shift enter and every combination on my keyboard and nothing appears. I'm new to this modding thing so please don't hit me, I'm pretty sure it has to be something simple but this process is making my blood pressure go up so if anyone has had this happen to them or if you know a way out of it I would be grateful.

[dubiousintent]

I recommend anyone read the entire "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article to understand the differences between this game and others you may have experience with; especially if this is your first attempt to play a modded FNV or it's been more than a year since you last did so. It is designed for someone who has never played a modded PC game before, so it tries to avoid making any assumptions, is kept "up-to-date", and covers years of "lessons learned".

ENB is a "post processor". Meaning it works on the output from the video pipeline just before it gets displayed. So, first you have to get a stable basic game setup. Last time I checked (it's been a while as I no longer use it) ENB was not supported on Win10 and the author had no intention of doing so.

 

I advise getting your entire game "load order" working before you attempt to do anything with ENB, except ENBBoost. Please see the 'Solutions to Post-Processor (ENB/SweetFX et. al.) problems' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article.

And let me also advise that attempting to "OD on graphics" WILL crash your game. Not matter how powerful your "latest and greatest" hardware, the 10 year old design of this game has limitations you can easily exceed. This is one of the most common problems we are asked to help with, and it almost always comes down to "too many graphics mods" because they are not included in the "plugin cap" but still consume limited resources.

 

There is a lot of info in that "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article and every bit of it is "essential to know", learned the hard way.

 

-Dubious-

[goatsbite23]

Solved it thanks to your guide. I started steam in offline mode, minimized, changed injector to read fnv4g.exe, and now it's there. With all the grief it caused I knew it had to be something simple. Thank you for your help. Time to OD like those Vault 3 fiends (kidding)

[dubiousintent]

Always glad to hear a problem has been solved.

 

I'm a big fan of "don't fix it if it's working fine", but FNV4GB.EXE is the older, outdated solution that has been replaced by the "FNV 4GB Patcher" (same author). One of it's advantages is that you don't need to point ENB to a different game file name. Recommend you check it out if you need to address the matter again.

 

-Dubious-