Skyprettyenb works with enb .269 the latest Id like to know, if theres any files in particular that i could take from this enb because im trying to recreate the color with less demanding settings. i have beast system, but gpu gets really hot
This looks absolutely amazing, especially combined with Climates of Tamriel. It started raining in Solitude and it made it look so misty and fantastic, I just loved it!
(In case anyone was wondering, I use a GTX 960. Works just fine with this mod.)
Trust me don't buy GTX 970, it's 3.5vram is restricting modded Skyrim! Get a GTX 980 or better yet a GTX Titan X to play smoothly with Ultra settings, High Quality ENB and hundredths of enemies on screen at 60 fps.
I strongly suggest not to use the ini's the mod author provided as they're filled with edits that either don't work or do harm. There's also several settings that may work on the mod author's system but not for everyone.
I suggest you use the latest enb series (.279) as it still works with this preset and has more efficient code.
I also have some ideas for enblocal edits to reduce the performance hit - or to just turn off effects you may not like while keeping the AWESOME colors.
For ENBLOCAL.INI ReservedMemorySizeMb is set to 1024 by the mod author. This is a waste of memory on many systems. VideoMemorySizeMb should be set to either exactly VRAM (less stuttering) or RAM + VRAM - 2048 (for extra memory, if you have lots of system ram but little VRAM). Do not set above 10280. AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions should be set to false. What it does is it renders the game at 4k then reduces it to your screen resolution. The performance loss is huge, the graphical gain is small at best. EnableVSync should be set to true. Turning it off can cause Skyrim to do wonky things with it's physics engine. EnableFPSLimit should be turned off. It causes problems on some systems and it only does what VSync should do already.
For the Antialiasing section, EdgeAA is set to true and that's a no brainer. But the mod author's settings for the other 3 are questionable. TemporalAA causes issues with shadows on moving objects on many systems and should only be on if you don't have that problem (even then, the performance hit is big). SubPixel is a very obvious choice - got crossfire/SLI? Yes - set it to false. No - set it to true. TransparencyAA is so performance inefficient that the ENB developer has since removed it! By the Nine Divines, set it to false or suffer...
ENBSERIES.INI [EFFECT]. EnableAmbientOcclusion depends in your system. If you really need the FPS you can set it to false and turn it off completely. However, you can also use the [SSAO_SSIL] section to turn it down. UseComplexIndirectLighting and UseComplexAmbientOcclusion can be set to false to gain FPS. SamplingQuality and SamplingPrecision are set on ultra and can be turned down (-1 = ultra, 0 = high, 1 = medium, 2 = low). If you're using crossfire/SLI, need the performance, or just don't like DOF, set EnableDepthOfField to false. If you need the performance but like DOF, set it to false and try the mod Dynavision (it isn't as good as ENB DOF but it has no performance hit). EnableSkyLighting, if true, makes shadows more realistic (they act as though they were actually receiving light from the sky. It's a nice effect, but it's really FPS heavy. If you need performance, try setting it to false.
[Shadow] ShadowBlurRange and ShadowBlurRangeInterior are meant to be used to blur out poor quality shadows on low preforming machines. Since the Shadows are set on ultra by default, you want this effect on MINIMUM (0.1). The mod author has inadvertently set them on maximum, so I'd advise adjusting them down so you can actually see the ultra shadows.
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Id like to know, if theres any files in particular that i could take from this enb
because im trying to recreate the color with less demanding settings.
i have beast system, but gpu gets really hot
(In case anyone was wondering, I use a GTX 960. Works just fine with this mod.)
I suggest you use the latest enb series (.279) as it still works with this preset and has more efficient code.
I also have some ideas for enblocal edits to reduce the performance hit - or to just turn off effects you may not like while keeping the AWESOME colors.
For ENBLOCAL.INI
ReservedMemorySizeMb is set to 1024 by the mod author. This is a waste of memory on many systems.
VideoMemorySizeMb should be set to either exactly VRAM (less stuttering) or RAM + VRAM - 2048 (for extra memory, if you have lots of system ram but little VRAM). Do not set above 10280.
AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions should be set to false. What it does is it renders the game at 4k then reduces it to your screen resolution. The performance loss is huge, the graphical gain is small at best.
EnableVSync should be set to true. Turning it off can cause Skyrim to do wonky things with it's physics engine.
EnableFPSLimit should be turned off. It causes problems on some systems and it only does what VSync should do already.
For the Antialiasing section, EdgeAA is set to true and that's a no brainer. But the mod author's settings for the other 3 are questionable.
TemporalAA causes issues with shadows on moving objects on many systems and should only be on if you don't have that problem (even then, the performance hit is big).
SubPixel is a very obvious choice - got crossfire/SLI?
Yes - set it to false.
No - set it to true.
TransparencyAA is so performance inefficient that the ENB developer has since removed it! By the Nine Divines, set it to false or suffer...
ENBSERIES.INI
[EFFECT].
EnableAmbientOcclusion depends in your system. If you really need the FPS you can set it to false and turn it off completely. However, you can also use the [SSAO_SSIL] section to turn it down. UseComplexIndirectLighting and UseComplexAmbientOcclusion can be set to false to gain FPS. SamplingQuality and SamplingPrecision are set on ultra and can be turned down (-1 = ultra, 0 = high, 1 = medium, 2 = low).
If you're using crossfire/SLI, need the performance, or just don't like DOF, set EnableDepthOfField to false. If you need the performance but like DOF, set it to false and try the mod Dynavision (it isn't as good as ENB DOF but it has no performance hit).
EnableSkyLighting, if true, makes shadows more realistic (they act as though they were actually receiving light from the sky. It's a nice effect, but it's really FPS heavy. If you need performance, try setting it to false.
[Shadow]
ShadowBlurRange and ShadowBlurRangeInterior are meant to be used to blur out poor quality shadows on low preforming machines. Since the Shadows are set on ultra by default, you want this effect on MINIMUM (0.1). The mod author has inadvertently set them on maximum, so I'd advise adjusting them down so you can actually see the ultra shadows.