ENB reading wrong video input : V

» Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:28 am

This weekend I spent time reading/watching tutorials on how to properly install and ENB. I picked the seasons of skyrim ENB and followed those instructions. I downloaded and installed all the proper files and it worked flawlessly. BEAUTIFUL screen shots. However, my fps was unplayable. The tip in the upper left when I load the game says it's using my internal graphics and not my graphics card. Here are my specs:

CPU: i7-3610QM
Nvidia GTX 675M 2G GDDR5
DDRIII 12GB

And yet i couldn't get my fps up into the double digits. I'm quite confident my computer can handle a playable setting but I'm wondering if skyrim is running off my internal video and not my video card. If it isn't, are ENB's just THAT intensive that even my computer can't run them or do I need to change some settings?

I'm sure ENB questions come through here every day but I'd really appreciate some help on this one.

Thank you

-Shaen

» Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:36 pm

Can you deactivate your integrated video hardwware at the BIOS/UEFI control panel level?

» Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:39 am

Well i've told it to use my graphics card by default but it still read "current input, Intell HD 4000..." internal graphics. Is there something in the localenb.ini that I need to add/remove/change to tell skyrim to load it from the video card?

edit: I changed the universal graphics processor to my NVIDIA and then in power options selected maximum performance while plugged in and on battery.

» Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:40 am

You have an optimus setup ?

There's a few ways to help this problem. I think Boris recommends using the Injector version of ENB instead of the wrapper version.

Only thing with that is you need to start the injector first before the game.

The best solution I found for my eldests laptop using the wrapper version is :

First go to NVidia Control panel ( right click desktop )

Manage 3D Settings

Click on the Program Settings tab if it is not already selected. ( You can do this on the Global tab aswell if you want to use your NVidia for everything )

Select Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( Tesv.exe )

"Preferred graphics processor", change this drop down selector to read "High Performance NVIDIA Processor". Then Apply your settings.

Also do the same for the launcher :

Next to where you selected Skyrim, there's an Add button,

Add SkyrimLauncher.exe ( you will need to browse to steam \ steamapps \ common \ skyrim \ .. to select it )

"Preferred graphics processor", change this drop down selector to read "High Performance NVIDIA Processor". Then Apply your settings.

( The reason you want the launcher enabled aswell is when it tries to detect optimal game settings to be using the NVidia hardware at the time )

Now follow the instructions to use NVIDIA OPTIMUS D3D9 DLL FIX - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/33227/?

It chain loads the enb .dll when you rename the enb dll as d3d9Orig.dll

It works a treat

Dont forget to delete your old skyrimprefs.ini and skyrim.ini ( my documents \ my games \ skyrim \ ) - Now that you are setup for the correct graphic card selection by the launcher and the game, you need the game to recalculate your optimal game settings .. After deleting them, just launch skyrim launcher and it will auto generate new ini's.

Edit: One thing to watch out for - When you update nvidia drivers, if you choose Clean install, those profiles you just created will be deleted so you need to do the nvidia conrol panel bit again .. Or just dont use the driver clean install option.