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SkySE Dolo DoF: Improved Vanilla Depth of Field!
A simple dynamic Depth of Field enhancement for Vanilla. --
Performance Guide: A summary of my knowledge about getting SSE to work properly
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
SkySE Dolo DoF
Improved Vanilla Depth of Field!
It's a simple dynamic Depth of Field mod. It uses the vanilla DoF and enhances its settings to a more deep DoF effect, close to the ENB but - as said with Vanilla assets - less to not performance hungry overall.
SCREENSHOTS
Note: The screenshots in the header are not showing the DoF mod! Therefor click link below:
---> DoF MOD (DoF Mod + CoT)
Already seen this? Check the PERFORMANCE GUIDE at the page bottom for the latest improvements for better FPS in your game!
INSTALLATION
REFERENCE, MODS, PERFORMANCE GUIDE
Completely another work: XDA-DEVELOPERS (JBX-KERNEL), ArmA III STEAM WS
Improved Vanilla Depth of Field!
It's a simple dynamic Depth of Field mod. It uses the vanilla DoF and enhances its settings to a more deep DoF effect, close to the ENB but - as said with Vanilla assets - less to not performance hungry overall.
- Uses vanilla DoF
- Enhanced to a more deep effect
- absolutely performance friendly as it doesn't implement anything new - just enhanced Vanilla DoF settings.
- you can find a Performance Guide at the bottom of this page including tips and tricks about getting SSE to run properly without stuttering and nice graphics. There's also a recommendation for a good performance-friendly ENB preset from CharlotteJC
SCREENSHOTS
Note: The screenshots in the header are not showing the DoF mod! Therefor click link below:
---> DoF MOD (DoF Mod + CoT)
Already seen this? Check the PERFORMANCE GUIDE at the page bottom for the latest improvements for better FPS in your game!
INSTALLATION
Spoiler:
It's just an tweaked vanilla DoF settings file which overrides the default settings. Not more or less. But it's nice and can safely be used with any graphic setup, mods or whatever you want. BUT don't use with ENB! Just because ENB DoF will override it and it will just cost a little extra performance with absolutely no visual effect! But you can of course use it with any ENB - therefor you have to DISABLE the DoF effect in your ENB settings (Shift + Enter).
It comes with a dummy ESP file to load up an INI file which contains settings to override those set in Skyrim.ini. If you don't want to spare an ESP slot you can safely delete that ESP and whether rename the included INI file to i.e. "Dawnguard.ini" or any other mod's name you already have active in your load order (e.g. if you have the Footprints.esp in your load order, name my INI file "Footprints.ini", that's all). Alternately you can just take over the settings from my INI into your Skyrim.ini
NMM Installation:
1. Download via NMM button, in NMM install and activate. Load order doesn't matter.
See "After Installation" below..
Manual Installation:
1. Download manually and copy & paste the contents from archieve's Data folder into .../Skyrim Special Edition/Data/ folder.
After Installation (OR YOUR PC WILL BLOW UP!!!):
You MUST enable Depth of Field in your Skyrim SE Launcher or via SkyrimPRefs.ini!! Also set DoF to maximum inside the ingame main menu!
2. In SkyrimPrefs.ini find the following entry and set it to the following:
fDynamicDOFBlurMultiplier=1.0000
3. If you like to have stronger DoF, similar to some ENB presets with real strong DoF effect, download the optional Stronger DoF Addon and overwrite the main file with it.
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It's just an tweaked vanilla DoF settings file which overrides the default settings. Not more or less. But it's nice and can safely be used with any graphic setup, mods or whatever you want. BUT don't use with ENB! Just because ENB DoF will override it and it will just cost a little extra performance with absolutely no visual effect! But you can of course use it with any ENB - therefor you have to DISABLE the DoF effect in your ENB settings (Shift + Enter).
It comes with a dummy ESP file to load up an INI file which contains settings to override those set in Skyrim.ini. If you don't want to spare an ESP slot you can safely delete that ESP and whether rename the included INI file to i.e. "Dawnguard.ini" or any other mod's name you already have active in your load order (e.g. if you have the Footprints.esp in your load order, name my INI file "Footprints.ini", that's all). Alternately you can just take over the settings from my INI into your Skyrim.ini
NMM Installation:
1. Download via NMM button, in NMM install and activate. Load order doesn't matter.
See "After Installation" below..
Manual Installation:
1. Download manually and copy & paste the contents from archieve's Data folder into .../Skyrim Special Edition/Data/ folder.
After Installation (OR YOUR PC WILL BLOW UP!!!):
You MUST enable Depth of Field in your Skyrim SE Launcher or via SkyrimPRefs.ini!! Also set DoF to maximum inside the ingame main menu!
2. In SkyrimPrefs.ini find the following entry and set it to the following:
fDynamicDOFBlurMultiplier=1.0000
3. If you like to have stronger DoF, similar to some ENB presets with real strong DoF effect, download the optional Stronger DoF Addon and overwrite the main file with it.
REFERENCE, MODS, PERFORMANCE GUIDE
Spoiler:
OVERVIEW
SSE Fixes
First of all install this!!! Pick VERSION 2. This will increase your performance dramatically (for most people!). To see what it does, see the mod page and don't forget to endorse!
>>> SSE Fixes <<<
MODS
To give you an idea of my mod setup, my rig specs and how it works for me according to performance, I list you some of these things here.
These are two possible combinations of mods I've tested:
Enhanced Lighting for ENB (ELE)
Relighting Skyrim - SSE
Dynamic Immersive Seriously Dark Dungeons
OR:
Enhanced Lights and FX (only Main + Enhancer + Ice Shader. The Exterior module eats some FPS! I didn't test the Weathers module as I'm using Dolomite which works fine with ELFX+Enhancer)
I'm also using a lot of texture replacer mods which affects almost everything. I always choose 2K (though I got a 4GB GPU).
Additionally I use many gameplay mods, such as Campfire, Frostfall, INeed, AFT,...
For good performance + visual improvement, you can use additionally:
Vanilla Vegetation Overhaul
Terrain LOD redone
Majestic Mountains
Dynamic Distant Objects LOD - DynDOLOD
HQ Tree Bark (without LUSH and extra LOD)
My PC:
AMD FX-6300 4,3 GHZ (Turbo Core Tech. OFF as it causes micro stutter due to freq. drops)
16 GB RAM
ASUS Radeon RX480
I'm playing at 50-60 FPS in most exteriors (exceptions are i.e. Falkreath which is a very dense forest area. There it runs at ~45 FPS) and stable 60 FPS in all interiors.
Performance Guide
Driver GPU settings
Some people might get about 2-3 more FPS when using driver-side VSYNC. In this case just disable it via ENB ingame menu by pressing SHIFT + ENTER and remove the related hooks for both VSYNC and FPS-LOCK. Click on SAVE CONFIGURATION.
NEVER USE INGAME VSYNC!! Check UPDATE INFORMATION at the top of this page or below under BETHINI settings!
In some areas you can get an improvement of ~ 15+ FPS without a noticeable visual difference when setting driver side settings like this:
Don't play with the INI files too much! In many cases this will do more harm than be helpful!
BethINI is a nice tool for that!
BETHINI Settings
When using it, you can choose a preset according to your system's strength and then i.e. decrease shadows resolution, but increase shadows draw distance. Non-ENB users can set Shadow Bias to "1.00" to get less "blocky shadows" while ENB-users safely can reduce this to "0.5". Both will reduce or prevent peter-panning and also should give a good balance for shadow quality and get rid of stripping. Results still may vary, so just play around with it until you find you personal best setting.
Godrays can be set to "medium - everywhere" while override driver-side Tesselation with "16x". This allows you to enjoy Godrays without impacting the overall performance.
BETHINI will set your draw distance settings somewhat lower than default settings. I would let this alone and later tweak it ingame in the main menu for settings.
After you saved and closed BETHINI you might want to open the SkyrimPrefs.ini with any text editor and set "bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget" to "1". Weaker systems can leaves this disabled. This setting will improve the overall image quality, especially decals, rain and snow effects as also snow details and similar things. It comes with a small performance cost, but not a poblem on mid-spec systems.
Play around a little with BETHINI if you're not satifsfied. You also can revert all changes to its prior state - but I however recommend to keep a manual backup of these files before using BETHINI, just in case.
MOST IMPORTANT:
ALWAYS set iVSyncPresentInterval = 0 in your SkyrimPrefs.ini. Double check your INI settings! Otherwise your game will be capped at 30 FPS when being below 60 FPS!!
ENB
Want to try a real performance-friendly and beatyful ENB? Go here:
SOUL ENB *by CharlotteJC
This preset at least doesn't cost me too much performance at all - while ALL other presets (and I tried almost all available ones) impact my FPS so I don't want to play with it! If you use this ENB you might want to disable Lumasharpen from my Reshade if you use both of them, but keep in mind that using both might be a performance hit. Try around and see what works best for you.
Some Tips
Don't use higher resolution texture replacers than the resolution you're playing with! I.e. If you're playing on a 2K-like resolution, it's pretty useless to install 4K textures as you won't really see the difference and it only drops your FPS.
Depending on your amount of RAM keep an eye on applications running in background. If your memory is completely used by several programs, Skyrim will begin stuttering. Just close unused applications before playing.
Weaker systems:
Check your overall optimization to prevent CPU/GPU bottleneck, if you're running a slow CPU and fast GPU in example you should manually override your GPU driver settings to let handle the GPU as much features as possible. In many cases for many games you will get better framerates when using higher graphic settings as lower settings will often be handled by the CPU while higher ones are related to the GPU calculating. Find a good "middle balance" between those. In my case I own a pretty weak CPU (AMD Fx-6300) and I still can run the game on overall high settings with almost 400 mods (where about 200 are texture and graphical overhauls), but to archive this good performance I really had to dig very deep and figure all settings to be well balanced. Before optimizing everything I ran the game on very low framerates. However, buying a new board and CPU is the best way indeed ;-)
On, and don't eat steak and strawberry pie together!
RECOMMENDATION
VANILLA VEGETATION OVERHAUL
That mod really deserves much more love than it currently gets!!
Anyone who wants to use a nice flora replacer, but struggles with FPS (like with SFO, etc) should give it a try!
Works great - with some extra attention (DynDolod/SSLodGen) - with i.e. SBT.
But looks also amazing out of the box! Also covers trees very nice!
Also see what's possible without using FPS heavy impacting ENBs:
Want a comparison between ALL weather mods? Watch this vid! It's from Xbox One, but though it shows very nice the differences between all the popular weather mods (VW, CoT, Dolomite, Surreal Lightning, others..)
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OVERVIEW
- SSE Fixes (This is the most important mod to get more FPS! Very great bugfix my Meh321!!)
- Environmental, Texture Mods
- Performance Guide:
- PC Hardware
- Driver settings
- BethINI
- ENB
- Tips
- Videos
SSE Fixes
First of all install this!!! Pick VERSION 2. This will increase your performance dramatically (for most people!). To see what it does, see the mod page and don't forget to endorse!
>>> SSE Fixes <<<
MODS
To give you an idea of my mod setup, my rig specs and how it works for me according to performance, I list you some of these things here.
These are two possible combinations of mods I've tested:
Enhanced Lighting for ENB (ELE)
Relighting Skyrim - SSE
Dynamic Immersive Seriously Dark Dungeons
OR:
Enhanced Lights and FX (only Main + Enhancer + Ice Shader. The Exterior module eats some FPS! I didn't test the Weathers module as I'm using Dolomite which works fine with ELFX+Enhancer)
I'm also using a lot of texture replacer mods which affects almost everything. I always choose 2K (though I got a 4GB GPU).
Additionally I use many gameplay mods, such as Campfire, Frostfall, INeed, AFT,...
For good performance + visual improvement, you can use additionally:
Vanilla Vegetation Overhaul
Terrain LOD redone
Majestic Mountains
Dynamic Distant Objects LOD - DynDOLOD
HQ Tree Bark (without LUSH and extra LOD)
My PC:
AMD FX-6300 4,3 GHZ (Turbo Core Tech. OFF as it causes micro stutter due to freq. drops)
16 GB RAM
ASUS Radeon RX480
I'm playing at 50-60 FPS in most exteriors (exceptions are i.e. Falkreath which is a very dense forest area. There it runs at ~45 FPS) and stable 60 FPS in all interiors.
Performance Guide
Driver GPU settings
Some people might get about 2-3 more FPS when using driver-side VSYNC. In this case just disable it via ENB ingame menu by pressing SHIFT + ENTER and remove the related hooks for both VSYNC and FPS-LOCK. Click on SAVE CONFIGURATION.
NEVER USE INGAME VSYNC!! Check UPDATE INFORMATION at the top of this page or below under BETHINI settings!
In some areas you can get an improvement of ~ 15+ FPS without a noticeable visual difference when setting driver side settings like this:
- Tesselation to "16x" (for Godrays)
- Texture Filtering to "High Quality" (I did some measuring and I get about 5 FPS more than if using the "Performance" setting - I guess that's why AMD Crimson uses "High Quality" setting as default. Also the "Performance" setting looks slightly more ugly - but really not a big difference.)
- Anisotropic Filtering: Override application settings with "16x"
Don't play with the INI files too much! In many cases this will do more harm than be helpful!
BethINI is a nice tool for that!
BETHINI Settings
When using it, you can choose a preset according to your system's strength and then i.e. decrease shadows resolution, but increase shadows draw distance. Non-ENB users can set Shadow Bias to "1.00" to get less "blocky shadows" while ENB-users safely can reduce this to "0.5". Both will reduce or prevent peter-panning and also should give a good balance for shadow quality and get rid of stripping. Results still may vary, so just play around with it until you find you personal best setting.
Godrays can be set to "medium - everywhere" while override driver-side Tesselation with "16x". This allows you to enjoy Godrays without impacting the overall performance.
BETHINI will set your draw distance settings somewhat lower than default settings. I would let this alone and later tweak it ingame in the main menu for settings.
After you saved and closed BETHINI you might want to open the SkyrimPrefs.ini with any text editor and set "bUse64bitsHDRRenderTarget" to "1". Weaker systems can leaves this disabled. This setting will improve the overall image quality, especially decals, rain and snow effects as also snow details and similar things. It comes with a small performance cost, but not a poblem on mid-spec systems.
Play around a little with BETHINI if you're not satifsfied. You also can revert all changes to its prior state - but I however recommend to keep a manual backup of these files before using BETHINI, just in case.
MOST IMPORTANT:
ALWAYS set iVSyncPresentInterval = 0 in your SkyrimPrefs.ini. Double check your INI settings! Otherwise your game will be capped at 30 FPS when being below 60 FPS!!
ENB
Want to try a real performance-friendly and beatyful ENB? Go here:
SOUL ENB *by CharlotteJC
This preset at least doesn't cost me too much performance at all - while ALL other presets (and I tried almost all available ones) impact my FPS so I don't want to play with it! If you use this ENB you might want to disable Lumasharpen from my Reshade if you use both of them, but keep in mind that using both might be a performance hit. Try around and see what works best for you.
Some Tips
Don't use higher resolution texture replacers than the resolution you're playing with! I.e. If you're playing on a 2K-like resolution, it's pretty useless to install 4K textures as you won't really see the difference and it only drops your FPS.
Depending on your amount of RAM keep an eye on applications running in background. If your memory is completely used by several programs, Skyrim will begin stuttering. Just close unused applications before playing.
Weaker systems:
Check your overall optimization to prevent CPU/GPU bottleneck, if you're running a slow CPU and fast GPU in example you should manually override your GPU driver settings to let handle the GPU as much features as possible. In many cases for many games you will get better framerates when using higher graphic settings as lower settings will often be handled by the CPU while higher ones are related to the GPU calculating. Find a good "middle balance" between those. In my case I own a pretty weak CPU (AMD Fx-6300) and I still can run the game on overall high settings with almost 400 mods (where about 200 are texture and graphical overhauls), but to archive this good performance I really had to dig very deep and figure all settings to be well balanced. Before optimizing everything I ran the game on very low framerates. However, buying a new board and CPU is the best way indeed ;-)
On, and don't eat steak and strawberry pie together!
RECOMMENDATION
VANILLA VEGETATION OVERHAUL
That mod really deserves much more love than it currently gets!!
Anyone who wants to use a nice flora replacer, but struggles with FPS (like with SFO, etc) should give it a try!
Works great - with some extra attention (DynDolod/SSLodGen) - with i.e. SBT.
But looks also amazing out of the box! Also covers trees very nice!
Also see what's possible without using FPS heavy impacting ENBs:
Want a comparison between ALL weather mods? Watch this vid! It's from Xbox One, but though it shows very nice the differences between all the popular weather mods (VW, CoT, Dolomite, Surreal Lightning, others..)
Completely another work: XDA-DEVELOPERS (JBX-KERNEL), ArmA III STEAM WS