I do not currently have old skyrim installed because of issues with windows 10. If I ever get things working again I will revisit this and my other mods. Until then I am not much help to anybody.
Although you said that this is not perfomance ENB, it runs pretty well on my junky rig (GeForce 9800 GT 4 GB, 4 GB RAM, Intel Core i3-530) with SubSurfaceScattering, AmbientOcclusion and DepthOfField turned off. With 20-30 fps or so. Pretty playable for such a good look. I can't achieve better results with any other ENB without loosing a lot in quality anyways. Except for some outdated versions of ENB. And Stakado Cinemascope ENB - Edit KennyMccormick (which is VERY perfomance-friendly and still good-looking) works really good for me, but I just wanted something darker and gloomier without turning days into nights in some places. And your ENB looks like a good alternative. Thanks!
Again I want to thank you for this amazing preset! I'm using it for over 6 months now, and found nothing else, which fitted my taste as much as this :D
I'm using a lot of the Tamriel Reloaded series, which, because they have many details, can easily produce an "uncalmy valley" effect. This is where your enb-preset kicks in .. the graphics are getting a theme, everything is in one flow, so the many details are not overloading the eye. Thank you so much :D
I made some screenshots. They're mostly taken with Book of Silence, Tamriel Reloaded 4k, RLO, Verdant and Realistic Water 2, Supreme Fog, Vivid Landscapes - Orc & Farmhouse, some other mods and of course Baarom enb preset.
got a problem with it .. game crashes most times on first load up .. don't know why, same savegame loads without any problems when using other enb presets .. realy sad!
*edit*
looks like this is something related to my setup ... if I want to load a savegame in a performance heavy area right after I started the game, it crashes when loading is finished ... fast travel to this location is still working ... hm I'm running it with tamriel reloaded 4k on a gtx 970
in enb-series I have turned off AmbientOcclusion and DoF ... (does'nt load with these turned on either ^^)
I use 8gb ram ... Game loads when UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true, but does not load when turning enb off (shift+f12) in mainmenu before loading
*edit:
same happens when using enb 265 just downloaded from boris' site ... But using this 265 enbhost & d3d9.dll in another recently posted 265 enb-preset is working .. Using this 265 enbhost & d3d9.dll together with "Bleak Enb"-Preset (made for .236) and adding terrainparallax in enblocal works .. I'm confused xD
I like the way this ENB looks. In fact, most of your ENBs really seem to nail that atmospheric look without hitting my system nearly as hard as some other ENBs do.
That said, after taking a very brief look at the innards of this config, it seems as though there are quite a few deprecated functions present in enbseries.ini. Stuff that's been moved to enblocal and a few that I don't recognize at all (before my time in Skyrim [enbs], perhaps). I honestly don't know whether these would or could have any effect on the performance or appearance of the config, but my OCD be kickin' up, so I thought I'd ask about them anyway.
Honestly, most of what I put together is what I would consider spaghetti files. What little I know about ENB is all from fallout, which is why some things regarding the local/series files are duplicated or copied over. Many things used to be on the local file, which for skyrim are on the series file or vice versa. When enb was first made to work with skyrim, I wondered if I could simply plop my fallout settings into it... and it worked perfectly while requiring very few tweaks to get the visuals the same as when it was used in fallout. Thus all of my future enb presets were born.
Although I did spend a long time cleaning and shaping things up this still explains some of the more outdated things, they are just leftovers which I mostly used as references and found no harm in keeping around. However, now that some of these presets have any sort of popularity I am thinking some things which are harmless to the few pc's I have personally used my presets on, are the cause of some of the stranger and harder to solve problems people are having. However it is hard to find out if this is the case or it is simply user-error as not many are willing to work with me. Either way, I have been working and learning about cleaning up my files and getting them up to the standard that enb files should be at.
If it looks like a silly thing that probably has no real effect, it's probably just that. May your OCD forgive me.
I definitely understand and empathize with you when it comes to not knowing all there is to know about ENB. I'm fairly certain that, while some may know considerably more than others, nobody knows everything (except maybe Boris).
I have recently been tinkering with Skyrim ENBs for my own use again, after having stepped away circa binary .262, and have discovered more quirks than I will ever possibly understand, I fear. Inexplicable performance gains and drops from one preset to another, from one binary to another; CTDs with one preset but not another (following confirmed full ENB removal).
Right now, with current AMD drivers (sigh, yes, I know...) and all AA/AF/VSync disabled in CCC and all relevant ini settings, and an enblocal configured to S.T.E.P. forum spec for my system, I'm noticing that on the .265 binary I appear to lose a full 30 fps (from 60) just by enabling effects at all, even when all effects are individually disabled.
(For the record, I do of course attribute most of my Skyrim performance woes to my thoroughly-underwhelming Asus AMD R7 250x 2GB card, but the variances are still intriguing nonetheless).
I keep wandering back to FO:NV + ENB, due to the fact that I have what I would consider to be a great looking game there that runs at an acceptable rate. Skyrim, on the other hand, looks downright atrocious without an ENB and runs like ass for me with one.
Either way, thanks again for your reply. My OCD is satisfied and no forgiveness was required.
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I'm using a lot of the Tamriel Reloaded series, which, because they have many details, can easily produce an "uncalmy valley" effect. This is where your enb-preset kicks in .. the graphics are getting a theme, everything is in one flow, so the many details are not overloading the eye. Thank you so much :D
I made some screenshots. They're mostly taken with Book of Silence, Tamriel Reloaded 4k, RLO, Verdant and Realistic Water 2, Supreme Fog, Vivid Landscapes - Orc & Farmhouse, some other mods and of course Baarom enb preset.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/Images/553714/?
got a problem with it .. game crashes most times on first load up .. don't know why, same savegame loads without any problems when using other enb presets .. realy sad!
*edit*
looks like this is something related to my setup ... if I want to load a savegame in a performance heavy area right after I started the game, it crashes when loading is finished ... fast travel to this location is still working ... hm I'm running it with tamriel reloaded 4k on a gtx 970
I have heard of memory problems on the 970's, something to look into.
Although if it is only with my enb, then I must have something wrong. It is something to look into for sure, but where to begin I would have no idea.
I have my enb local set to:
[MEMORY]
ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true
ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true
DisableDriverMemoryManager=false
DisablePreloadToVRAM=false
EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false
ReservedMemorySizeMb=256
VideoMemorySizeMb=10240
EnableCompression=false
AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false
in enb-series I have turned off AmbientOcclusion and DoF ... (does'nt load with these turned on either ^^)
I use 8gb ram ... Game loads when UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true, but does not load when turning enb off (shift+f12) in mainmenu before loading
*edit:
same happens when using enb 265 just downloaded from boris' site ...
But using this 265 enbhost & d3d9.dll in another recently posted 265 enb-preset is working ..
Using this 265 enbhost & d3d9.dll together with "Bleak Enb"-Preset (made for .236) and adding terrainparallax in enblocal works .. I'm confused xD
thanks again, I realy love this preset ^^
together with tamriel reload 4k colors have a very natural look to me
That said, after taking a very brief look at the innards of this config, it seems as though there are quite a few deprecated functions present in enbseries.ini. Stuff that's been moved to enblocal and a few that I don't recognize at all (before my time in Skyrim [enbs], perhaps). I honestly don't know whether these would or could have any effect on the performance or appearance of the config, but my OCD be kickin' up, so I thought I'd ask about them anyway.
Thanks for your time.
Although I did spend a long time cleaning and shaping things up this still explains some of the more outdated things, they are just leftovers which I mostly used as references and found no harm in keeping around. However, now that some of these presets have any sort of popularity I am thinking some things which are harmless to the few pc's I have personally used my presets on, are the cause of some of the stranger and harder to solve problems people are having. However it is hard to find out if this is the case or it is simply user-error as not many are willing to work with me. Either way, I have been working and learning about cleaning up my files and getting them up to the standard that enb files should be at.
If it looks like a silly thing that probably has no real effect, it's probably just that. May your OCD forgive me.
I definitely understand and empathize with you when it comes to not knowing all there is to know about ENB. I'm fairly certain that, while some may know considerably more than others, nobody knows everything (except maybe Boris).
I have recently been tinkering with Skyrim ENBs for my own use again, after having stepped away circa binary .262, and have discovered more quirks than I will ever possibly understand, I fear. Inexplicable performance gains and drops from one preset to another, from one binary to another; CTDs with one preset but not another (following confirmed full ENB removal).
Right now, with current AMD drivers (sigh, yes, I know...) and all AA/AF/VSync disabled in CCC and all relevant ini settings, and an enblocal configured to S.T.E.P. forum spec for my system, I'm noticing that on the .265 binary I appear to lose a full 30 fps (from 60) just by enabling effects at all, even when all effects are individually disabled.
(For the record, I do of course attribute most of my Skyrim performance woes to my thoroughly-underwhelming Asus AMD R7 250x 2GB card, but the variances are still intriguing nonetheless).
I keep wandering back to FO:NV + ENB, due to the fact that I have what I would consider to be a great looking game there that runs at an acceptable rate. Skyrim, on the other hand, looks downright atrocious without an ENB and runs like ass for me with one.
Either way, thanks again for your reply. My OCD is satisfied and no forgiveness was required.