Several mod questions (mainly crafting UIs and ENB question)

Post » Sun Mar 09, 2014 8:35 pm

So, I've done some extensive searching through the Nexus and found almost everything I want for my new install. The only thing I didn't manage to find is some kind of interface enchancer for crafting menus, are there any?

Another question is, I'm playing this game on girlfriend's laptop which is not made for gaming but still runs Skyrim decently on medium settings with several scripting-heavy mods. From what I know machine has AMD Athlon II P320 dual core processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and 4 gigs of ram. What I'm actually curious about is if this PC could run ENB, and if there is uh module/shader set/setting (I don't really know how ENB works tbh) for ENB that this laptop could run? I played this game since release, I never disliked Skyrim's "colorless tint" as some put it, but I feel like it's time to change the atmosphere a bit, to make it more fresh. I'll take whatever this PC can handle, even a slight change will satisfy me if that's all I can use but I'd be set with more radical change as well as long as it doesn't harm the FPS, so I'll take any suggestions. Oh and if there is one that could also make the nights much darker, that would be really sweet.

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Post » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:07 am

Chaka, it would seem to me that this laptop is borderline weak to run ENB. Not only is the video unit not strong, but with overall 4 GB RAM it is not very generously outfitted in general.

You can still try, though. If you find ENB to be unplayable, you can easily conveniently just turn ENB effects off in enbseries.ini and keep the ENBoost part which may be beneficial still.

Darker nights is one of the options in "Climates of Tamriel", they give you 8 grades of night darkness if memory serves me well. But COT changes other things as well and may be quite heavy for the laptop. I don't know if there is a (small) mod that changes just the nights only.

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Post » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:44 am

I see, I was hoping there is at least some subtle one that goes easy on FPS but I'll skip on the ENB in that case. Yeah, saw Climates of Tamriel and few others but none of them seemed simple enough (and some features of CoT look like they would annihilate the laptop). I might check out what changes those settings, don't know how hard/easy it would be to mod this myself. Thanks for your answer. :)

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