Dropping ENB

Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:50 am

So after practically years of messing around with ENB I have finally decided to drop it and go with a nice SweetFX that adds a little vibrance, sharpens contrast and gives SMAA.

Dont get me wrong I like the power behind ENB but that power is just so consuming, even on my rig which is decent (at this point in time). With everything turned off, just enabling ENB I see at least a 8 FPS drop. Turning on shadows and sun rays (my bare minimum use for ENB) can give me another 10-20 fps drop depending on the scene.

I started tweaking my shadows (skyrimprefs.ini) and got them looking pretty darned good, just gotta work on shadow striping on some walls.

Anyone else in the same boat as me?

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:37 pm

I would recommend you to go through this, step by step. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50214/?Many performance problems arise from having incorrect settings on your ini.

If after doing all that, you are still determined give this sweetFX config a try. I made it myself.

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   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Description                           /  '------------------------------------------------------------/Game:Author:SweetFX version: 1.5.1Description:Please note when tweaking settings that higher numbers does not always equal better (nor does lower).Finding the best settings for your game and your taste is about finding just the right amount to apply.If you made a good setttings preset please share it with your friends, on forums and websites,and/or submit it to the SweetFX Settings Database : http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/This description field and the above Game and Author fields are here so you can fill in your own details for the presets you create.Just delete this description and fill in your own and then share it with the world.Hope you enjoy my mod. - CeeJay.dk   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      Choose effects                         /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/// Set to 1 for ON or 0 for OFF#define USE_SMAA_ANTIALIASING 1 //[0 or 1] SMAA Anti-aliasing : Smoothens jagged lines using the SMAA technique.#define USE_FXAA_ANTIALIASING 0 //[0 or 1] FXAA Anti-aliasing : Smoothens jagged lines using the FXAA technique. WIP - Currently only works in DX9 and you need to use the FXAA injector dlls.#define USE_EXPLOSION     0 //[0 or 1] Explosion : Scatters the pixels, making the image look fuzzy.#define USE_CARTOON       0 //[0 or 1] Cartoon : "Toon"s the image. (Interferes with SMAA, CRT, Bloom, HDR and Lumasharpen)#define USE_ADVANCED_CRT  0 //[0 or 1] Advanced CRT : Simulates an old CRT TV display. (Interferes with SMAA, Cartoon, Bloom, HDR and Lumasharpen, and it has a very high performance cost)#define USE_BLOOM         1 //[0 or 1] Bloom : Makes bright lights bleed their light into their surroundings (relatively high performance cost)#define USE_HDR           0 //[0 or 1] HDR : Not actual HDR - It just tries to mimic an HDR look (relatively high performance cost)#define USE_LUMASHARPEN   1 //[0 or 1] LumaSharpen : Also sharpens the antialiased edges which makes them less smooth - I'm working on fixing that.#define USE_LEVELS        0 //[0 or 1] Levels : Sets a new black and white point. This increases contrast but causes clipping. Use Curves instead if you want to avoid that.#define USE_TECHNICOLOR   0 //[0 or 1] TECHNICOLOR : Attempts to mimic the look of an old movie using the Technicolor three-strip color process (Techicolor Process 4)#define USE_DPX           0 //[0 or 1] Cineon DPX : Should make the image look like it's been converted to DXP Cineon - basically it's another movie-like look similar to technicolor.#define USE_MONOCHROME    0 //[0 or 1] Monochrome : Monochrome makes the colors disappear.#define USE_LIFTGAMMAGAIN 0 //[0 or 1] Lift Gamma Gain : Adjust brightness and color of shadows, midtones and highlights#define USE_TONEMAP       1 //[0 or 1] Tonemap : Adjust gamma, exposure, saturation, bleach and defog. (may cause clipping)#define USE_VIBRANCE      1 //[0 or 1] Vibrance : Intelligently saturates (or desaturates if you use negative values) the pixels depending on their original saturation.#define USE_CURVES        1 //[0 or 1] Curves : Contrast adjustments using S-curves.#define USE_SEPIA         1 //[0 or 1] Sepia : Sepia tones the image.#define USE_VIGNETTE      0 //[0 or 1] Vignette : Darkens the edges of the image to make it look more like it was shot with a camera lens. May cause banding artifacts.#define USE_DITHER        1 //[0 or 1] Dither : Applies dithering to simulate more colors than your monitor can display. This lessens banding artifacts (mostly caused by Vignette)#define USE_BORDER        0 //[0 or 1] Border : Makes the screenedge black as a workaround for the bright edge that forcing some AA modes sometimes causes.#define USE_SPLITSCREEN   0 //[0 or 1] Splitscreen : Enables the before-and-after splitscreen comparison mode.#define USE_CUSTOM        0 //[0 or 1] Custom : Write your own shader by editing custom.h, and then enable it here.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                  SMAA Anti-aliasing settings                /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define SMAA_THRESHOLD             0.08  //[0.05 to 0.20] Edge detection threshold. If SMAA misses some edges try lowering this slightly. I prefer between 0.08 and 0.12.#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS        32  //[0 to 98] Determines the radius SMAA will search for aliased edges#define SMAA_MAX_SEARCH_STEPS_DIAG    8  //[0 to 16] Determines the radius SMAA will search for diagonal aliased edges#define SMAA_CORNER_ROUNDING         24  //[0 to 100] Determines the percent of antialiasing to apply to corners. 0 seems to affect fine text the least so it's the default.// -- Advanced SMAA settings --#define COLOR_EDGE_DETECTION          1  //[0 or 1] 1 Enables color edge detection (slower but slightly more acurate) - 0 uses luma edge detection (faster)#define SMAA_DIRECTX9_LINEAR_BLEND    0  //[0 or 1] Using DX9 HARDWARE? (software version doesn't matter) if so this needs to be 1 - If not, leave it at 0.                                         //Enable this only if you use a Geforce 7xxx series or older card, or a Radeon X1xxx series or older card.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                  FXAA Anti-aliasing settings                /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define FXAA_QUALITY__PRESET          9  //[1 to 9] Choose the quality preset. 9 is the highest quality.#define fxaa_Subpix               0.400  //[0.000 to 1.000] Choose the amount of sub-pixel aliasing removal.#define fxaa_EdgeThreshold        0.250  //[0.000 to 1.000] Edge detection threshold. The minimum amount of local contrast required to apply algorithm.#define fxaa_EdgeThresholdMin     0.060  //[0.000 to 1.000] Darkness threshold. Trims the algorithm from processing darks.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                     Explosion settings                      /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Explosion_Radius    2.5     //[0.2 to 100.0] Amount of effect you want.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      Cartoon settings                       /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define CartoonPower         1.5     //[0.1 to 10.0] Amount of effect you want.#define CartoonEdgeSlope     1.5     //[0.1 to 8.0] Raise this to filter out fainter edges. You might need to increase the power to compensate. Whole numbers are faster.   /*----------------------------------------------------------.  /                    Advanced CRT settings                   /  '----------------------------------------------------------*/#define CRTAmount            1.00    //[0.00 to 1.00]  Amount of CRT effect you want#define CRTResolution        2.0     //[1.0 to 8.0]    Input size coefficent (low values gives the "low-res retro look"). Default is 1.2#define CRTgamma             2.2     //[0.0 to 4.0]    Gamma of simulated CRT (default 2.2)#define CRTmonitorgamma      2.4     //[0.0 to 4.0]    Gamma of display monitor (typically 2.2 is correct)#define CRTBrightness        1.2     //[1.0 to 3.0]    Used to boost brightness a little. Default is 1.0#define CRTScanlineIntensity 2.0     //[2.0 to 4.0]    Scanlines intensity (use integer values preferably). Default is 2.0#define CRTScanlineGaussian  1       //[0 or 1]        Use the "new nongaussian scanlines bloom effect". Default is on#define CRTCurvature         1       //[[0 or 1]          "Barrel effect" enabled (1) or off (0)#define CRTCurvatureRadius   2.0     //[0.0 to 2.0]       Curvature Radius (only effective when Curvature is enabled). Default is 1.5#define CRTCornerSize        0.0100  //[0.0000 to 0.0020] Higher values, more rounded corner. Default is 0.001#define CRTDistance          2.00    //[0.00 to 4.00]     Simulated distance from viewer to monitor. Default is 2.00#define CRTAngleX            0.00    //[-0.20 to 0.20]    Tilt angle in radians (X coordinates)#define CRTAngleY           -0.15   //[-0.20 to 0.20]    Tilt angle in radians (Y coordinates). (Value of -0.15 gives the 'arcade tilt' look)#define CRTOverScan          1.00    //[1.00 to 1.10]     Overscan (e.g. 1.02 for 2% overscan). Default is 1.01#define CRTOversample        0       //[0 or 1]           Enable 3x oversampling of the beam profile (warning : performance hit)   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Bloom settings                        /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define BloomThreshold 22.55 //[0.00 to 50.00] Threshold for what is a bright light (that causes bloom) and what isn't.#define BloomPower 1.446     //[0.000 to 8.000] Strength of the bloom#define BloomWidth 0.0242    //[0.0000 to 1.0000] Width of the bloom   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                        HDR settings                         /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define HDRPower 1.30  //[0.00 to 8.00] Strangely lowering this makes the image brighter#define radius2  0.87  //[0.00 to 8.00] Raising this seems to make the effect stronger and also brighter   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                     LumaSharpen settings                    /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/// -- Sharpening --#define sharp_strength 0.65   //[0.10 to 3.00] Strength of the sharpening#define sharp_clamp    0.035  //[0.000 to 1.000] Limits maximum amount of sharpening a pixel recieves - Default is 0.035// -- Advanced sharpening settings --#define pattern 2        //[1|2|3|4] Choose a sample pattern. 1 = Fast, 2 = Normal, 3 = Wider, 4 = Pyramid shaped.#define offset_bias 1.0  //[0.0 to 6.0] Offset bias adjusts the radius of the sampling pattern.                         //I designed the pattern for offset_bias 1.0, but feel free to experiment.// -- Debug sharpening settings --#define show_sharpen 0   //[0 or 1] Visualize the strength of the sharpen (multiplied by 4 to see it better)   /*----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Levels settings                      /  '----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Levels_black_point 16    //[0 to 255] The black point is the new black - literally. Everything darker than this will become completely black. Default is 16.0#define Levels_white_point 235   //[0 to 255] The new white point. Everything brighter than this becomes completely white. Default is 235.0//Colors between the two points will stretched, which increases contrast, but details above and below the points are lost (this is called clipping).   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      TECHNICOLOR settings                   /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define TechniAmount 0.4         //[0.00 to 1.00]#define TechniPower  4.0         //[0.00 to 8.00]#define redNegativeAmount   0.88 //[0.00 to 1.00]#define greenNegativeAmount 0.88 //[0.00 to 1.00]#define blueNegativeAmount  0.88 //[0.00 to 1.00]   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      Cineon DPX settings                    /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Red   8.0  //[1.0 to 15.0]#define Green 8.0  //[1.0 to 15.0]#define Blue  8.0  //[1.0 to 15.0]#define ColorGamma    2.5  //[0.1 to 2.5] Adjusts the colorfulness of the effect in a manner similar to Vibrance. 1.0 is neutral.#define DPXSaturation 3.0  //[0.0 to 8.0] Adjust saturation of the effect. 1.0 is neutral.#define RedC   0.36  //[0.60 to 0.20]#define GreenC 0.36  //[0.60 to 0.20]#define BlueC  0.34  //[0.60 to 0.20]#define Blend 0.2    //[0.00 to 1.00] How strong the effect should be.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      Monochrome settings                    /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Monochrome_conversion_values float3(0.18,0.41,0.41) //[0.00 to 1.00] Percentage of RGB to include (should sum up to 1.00)   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                      Lift Gamma Gain settings               /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define RGB_Lift  float3(1.000, 1.000, 1.000)  //[0.000 to 2.000] Adjust shadows for Red, Green and Blue.#define RGB_Gamma float3(1.000, 1.000, 1.000)  //[0.000 to 2.000] Adjust midtones for Red, Green and Blue#define RGB_Gain  float3(1.000, 1.000, 1.000)  //[0.000 to 2.000] Adjust highlights for Red, Green and Blue//Note that a value of 1.000 is a neutral setting that leave the color unchanged.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                        Tonemap settings                     /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Gamma       1.00  //[0.000 to 2.000] Adjust midtones. 1.000 is neutral. This setting does exactly the same as the one in Lift Gamma Gain, only with less control.#define Exposure    0.0  //[-1.000 to 1.000] Adjust exposure#define Saturation  0.0  //[-1.000 to 1.000] Adjust saturation#define Bleach      0.025  //[0.000 to 1.000] Brightens the shadows and fades the colors#define Defog       0.000  //[0.000 to 1.000] How much of the color tint to remove#define FogColor float3(0.00, 0.00, 2.55) //[0.00 to 2.55, 0.00 to 2.55, 0.00 to 2.55] What color to remove - default is blue   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Vibrance settings                     /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Vibrance     -0.37  //[-1.00 to 1.00] Intelligently saturates (or desaturates if you use negative values) the pixels depending on their original saturation.#define Vibrance_RGB_balance float3(1.00, 1.00, 1.00) //[-10.00 to 10.00,-10.00 to 10.00,-10.00 to 10.00] A per channel multiplier to the Vibrance strength so you can give more boost to certain colors over others   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                        Curves settings                      /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define Curves_mode        0 //[0|1|2] Choose what to apply contrast to. 0 = Luma, 1 = Chroma, 2 = both Luma and Chroma. Default is 0 (Luma)#define Curves_contrast 0.76 //[-1.00 to 1.00] The amount of contrast you want// -- Advanced curve settings --#define Curves_formula     9 //[1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10] The contrast s-curve you want to use.                             //1 = Sine, 2 = Abs split, 3 = Smoothstep, 4 = Exp formula, 5 = Simplified Catmull-Rom (0,0,1,1), 6 = Perlins Smootherstep                             //7 = Abs add, 8 = Techicolor Cinestyle, 9 = Parabola, 10 = Half-circles.                             //Note that Technicolor Cinestyle is practically identical to Sine, but runs slower. In fact I think the difference might only be due to rounding errors.                             //I prefer 2 myself, but 3 is a nice alternative with a little more effect (but harsher on the highlight and shadows) and it's the fastest formula.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                         Sepia settings                      /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define ColorTone float3(1.20, 1.10, 0.90) //[0.00 to 2.55, 0.00 to 2.55, 0.00 to 2.55] What color to tint the image#define GreyPower  0.12                    //[0.00 to 1.00] How much desaturate the image before tinting it#define SepiaPower 0.32                    //[0.00 to 1.00] How much to tint the image   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Vignette settings                     /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define VignetteType       1  //[1|2|3] 1 = Original, 2 = New, 3 = TV style#define VignetteRatio   1.00  //[0.15 to 6.00]  Sets a width to height ratio. 1.00 (1/1) is perfectly round, while 1.60 (16/10) is 60 % wider than it's high.#define VignetteRadius  1.00  //[-1.00 to 3.00] lower values = stronger radial effect from center#define VignetteAmount -1.00  //[-2.00 to 1.00] Strength of black. -2.00 = Max Black, 1.00 = Max White.#define VignetteSlope      8  //[2 to 16] How far away from the center the change should start to really grow strong (odd numbers cause a larger fps drop than even numbers)#define VignetteCenter float2(0.500, 0.500)  //[0.000 to 1.000, 0.000 to 1.000] Center of effect for VignetteType 1. 2 and 3 do not obey this setting.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                        Dither settings                      /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define dither_method      1  //[1 or 2] 1 = Ordered dithering (very good and very fast), 2 = Random dithering (different but slightly slower dithering)//Note that the patterns used by Dither, makes an image harder to compress.//This can make your screenshots and video recordings take up more space.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                        Border settings                      /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define border_width float2(1,20)     //[0 to 2048, 0 to 2048] (X,Y)-width of the border. Measured in pixels.#define border_color float3(0, 0, 0)  //[0 to 255, 0 to 255, 0 to 255] What color the border should be. In integer RGB colors, meaning 0,0,0 is black and 255,255,255 is full white.   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                     Splitscreen settings                    /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define splitscreen_mode   1  //[1|2|3|4|5|6]  1 = Vertical 50/50 split, 2 = Vertical 25/50/25 split, 3 = Vertical 50/50 angled split, 4 = Horizontal 50/50 split, 5 = Horizontal 25/50/25 split, 6 = Curvy vertical 50/50 split   /*-----------------------------------------------------------.  /                       Custom settings                       /  '-----------------------------------------------------------*/#define custom_strength  1.0 //[0.00 to 1.00] Adjust the strength of the effect 
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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:41 pm


For a long time, yes

I only use it for ENBoost on my x64 bit OS machines, and dont use it at all now on my x32 bit OS old laptop ( tried it for a while, giving plenty of time to settle in with each adjustment .. But eventually came to the conclusions in my article here http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/articles/49995/?

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Since that article, on my 32 bit OS machine ( about a month or two ago now ) I dont even use ENBoost on that machine, stopped trying to get any benefit out of it.
The game runs fine on that machine without and any benefit I thought it had from having ENBoost .. imho placebo.

A lot of people are adamant full ENB can be used without affecting performance .. imho they must have amazing rigs and would not know any different, or love for the utility makes them blind to it and gloss over any negative effects ( or they just dont want to say anything which upsets Boris .. which is quite easy to do unintentionally due to the language barrier and his flashpoint of 0 degrees )

I have tried very much on the best of my machines to have just ENBoost, and enable only the better shadows that the full ENB offers with everything else specifically disabled in enbseries.ini, even the sky parameters, from a custom preset I made myself from the ground up ..

I came to the same conclusion, anything more than just ENBoost will be detrimental to performance - I made the knowledge public once, got shot down by fans unwilling to believe, so have not bothered giving any personal opinion since.


Combat with ENB is just not as fluid as I would like on the best of my machines even with only optimised shadow settings

ENBoost does benefit the performance of my best machines though, without any ENBseries.ini settings at all allowed
UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

And to be honest I never liked the default washed out effect its graphics always has without going into using more of its graphics settings


TL;DR My opinion rounded up =
ENBoost on its own on x64 bit OS machines is beneficial, anything more will depend upon your rig but any ENBSeries.ini settings that are allowed will affect performance, to lesser degrees on much better machines, and the severity depends upon how many features of ENB graphics you allow to be enabled.


SweetFX is supposed to be very optimised at doing what it does, Phinix used to swear by it, and tried to always include it in his PENB setup I think.

Some of the older SweetFX are the best I think :
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23364/? SweetFX Shader Suite by CeeJay
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41741/? SweetFX GT by MannyGT
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/47231/? Really Sweet FX by Deane
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/61236/? Really SweetFX Double E by Deane

The last one looks very good if you use it in combination with Relighting Skyrim, And ELE Lite

Edit : Apologies, the one by Deane which is good with RS and ELE Lite is this one http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59972/? Really SweetFX Enhanced Lighting by Deane

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:59 pm

I agree with Alt3rn1ty on the value of ENBoost, not having V-RAM count against the @ 3.1 GB total RAM that Skyrim has is a very nice benefit.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:22 pm

I am not using anything special (GTX 760 in SLI) and have no issues. Granted there are some ENB's that probably are not very good. I use Phinix's and it doesn't look forced, very natural and little to no fps loss.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:28 pm

I run Sharpshooter's ENB ( as well as 80 other mods) but am still able to 40FPS on my rig so I'll be keeping it. I've tried other ENBs in the past but am completely addicted to Sharpshooters. It just looks too good to quit.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:08 am

I've never encountered a ENB that didn't brutally murder my framerates. So i just the ENBoost portion, with shadows and parallax mapping (i think, i'm not quite sure if it is enabled :lmao:). There are plenty of performance impactless graphics improvements out there. Hell, the single plugin that just removes the gray tint and desaturation does wonders.
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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:35 pm

I just use enboost and that's it. It is only there to help keep the game more stable if I am running graphic texture mods on my desktop. On my laptop ENB Boost is useless just like alt3rn1ty stated in his post. I came to that conclusion some time last year or so. YOu need decent hardware to get anything out of enboost.

As for lighting and such at the moment I am only using Vanilla settings and it looks great for me.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:54 pm

I did the opposite. After years of resisting ENB, I decided to look into it more and discovered there were some settings more to my liking than what I saw most people posting images of. Even at that, I found myself tweaking the living [censored] out of them to suit my tastes. Got it looking pretty good now, and still able to pull 50-60 fps in most places.

Of course with an i7 2600k oc'd to 4.4, along with a GTX 780ti, I don't find myself too many problems running Skyrim with well over 100 mods alongside the ENB.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:17 pm

I have been using --JAWS-- http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40729/?http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40729/?. I use to only use ENB Boost till I found this, it has just shadows and god rays activated by default, check it out, I don't notice any drop in FPS,

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:12 pm

I am kinda in the same boat. When I first got into PC gaming, I always had graphical settings pretty high (sometimes higher than I needed to...). Over the years, I grew accustomed to having certain settings turned down or off. For example, I pretty much convinced myself that I do not really need AA on at all since I now play on a 1080p monitor.

Closest I ever come to ENB is ENB Boost. It has helped a lot with different slowdown issues I had in certain areas, but Sheson's memory fix combined with ENB Boost is a life saver.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:31 pm

I'm perfectly happy with Imaginator to boost color saturation and Dynavision to add depth-of-field. Over the years I have become more interested in roleplaying and less interested in how the games look. Gone are the days when I spent hundreds of hours mixing-and-matching textures and even taking my own digital photos of rocks and trees in an attempt to enhance every texture in Morrowind. I just don't have the energy or inclination to go through all that anymore.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:11 pm

Yes. I've preferred an FXAA injector to ENB for a long time.

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:46 pm

I'm using http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30936/? the performance version and with DOF disabled in favor of http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12525/? and I only get about 3 fps decrease than if I was running vanilla, it looks great aswell!

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Post » Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:12 am

Thanks guys, I'll be trying out this guide below.

I'll also be trying out this ENB as it looks good for my needs. My last one had a weird issue where if activated and deactivated you could see a weird "movement" in textures. Like objects would look completely different, sometimes worse, when you turned it on.

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