From the guys who made Nehrim: At Fate's Edge, a fantastic total conversion mod for Oblivion and probably one of my top mods ever. Really psyched about this one.
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The Effects of Mods in Skyrim
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From the guys who made Nehrim: At Fate's Edge, a fantastic total conversion mod for Oblivion and probably one of my top mods ever. Really psyched about this one.
Spazznid
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I know, but I'd rather give a fair representation of each ENB at it's base, so people will know how much modifying they'll be doing with said mods... I'd rather not have to tinker with it too much. I spent some time making my own ENB and it's like going deeper and deeper and I'd rather keep it simple.
Spazznid
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WHEN!?
The very end of March.
MeBecomingI
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Oh, right. I totally missed the part (right at the beginning, I'm dumb) where you mentioned you were trying a few presets and testing the performance hit and such... I blame the morning and my grogginess. Apologies.
Anyway, I like the idea. There are a few ENB's that don't place nice with CoT and RLO, but it'll be nice to see what ones look good and work well. I wouldn't mind tossing in CoT and RLO, but the ENB I am using doesn't like them.
Spazznid
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Sorry for the delay, Reinstalled, because I wanted to try some different mods. Regardless, these images are still on the old setup. New setup will look pretty much the same, but I got a new body mod among other things.
ENB Hollywood
I'm not too keen on the bland looking outside areas at noon, and the night scene outside, but those indoor scenes look great, IMO. Performance hit is not too bad, pretty much the same as Project ENB.
ENB Hollywood
I'm not too keen on the bland looking outside areas at noon, and the night scene outside, but those indoor scenes look great, IMO. Performance hit is not too bad, pretty much the same as Project ENB.
Spazznid
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Opethfeldt 6.03
Outdoors aren't quite vibrant enough for my taste, but the indoor shots look alright. Also got a nice action screenshot. The performance was a bit better than the previous ones, though, so there's that.
Outdoors aren't quite vibrant enough for my taste, but the indoor shots look alright. Also got a nice action screenshot. The performance was a bit better than the previous ones, though, so there's that.
plasticpassion
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Great thread. Thanks for posting the before/after pics. Makes me want to go back to Skyrim on my rig with 100+ mods. Thanks HD 7970 ghz edition!
Spazznid
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lol, trying to run the game modded to hell with ENB's on full blast, makes me hate my GTX 580... Need the next series to come out, so I can upgrade!
Melhisedek
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Would a 560ti with 1Gig RAM be able to run all those high res texture mods?
No, You need 1k res texture mods to have 60fps. In 30fps it should be doable, but still with some stuttering.
I have GTX 560 1gb and here are my findings - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=45239352&postcount=3189
plasticpassion
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Yeah. Not to mention the ENB mods are hellish to configure. I think I stopped using ENB because of the darkness. I'll have to post some screenshots tonight.
Wat, why?
You can get a noticeable improvement in a whole lot of games even with a 3,8 or 4gHz overclock and that i5 will handle it just fine even with the tiny stock air cooler. Unless you're running some sort of tiny mATX case I see no reason why not to OC it.
EDIT: I ran mine at 4ghz for 12 to 18 months with the stock cooler without any issues (now running 4,5ghz with a water cooling kit)
Not always You can overclock. For example i cant overclock my i5 2500k, because its too hot/unstable on stock cooler and overclocking below 3.8ghz doesnt make sense for me personally. I hadnt had luck of getting 4ghz on stock voltage on my unit unfortunately ;\
I just got Skyrim on PC, after having platinum'd on PS3, and here's a funny story.
So I go and install some 60+ mods, right? Then I start the main quest and when I am about to absorb my first dragon... nothing happens. Try again and nothing. The script is messed up, I can't do the first quest.
So I go "fucking mods" and google to try and find which is giving me trouble. As it turns out, the bug was coming from the Dragonborn DLC and to fix it I needed... a mod.
So keep doing the gods work, community. Bethesda got nothing on y'all.
So I go and install some 60+ mods, right? Then I start the main quest and when I am about to absorb my first dragon... nothing happens. Try again and nothing. The script is messed up, I can't do the first quest.
So I go "fucking mods" and google to try and find which is giving me trouble. As it turns out, the bug was coming from the Dragonborn DLC and to fix it I needed... a mod.
So keep doing the gods work, community. Bethesda got nothing on y'all.
Spazznid
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I'm not well versed enough to overclock my CPU, not that I've looked into it that much, plus, my stock cooler is just barely on, when I built my PC, i kind of messed up my Cooler's connectors, so only 3 of the 4 are bolted tightly, lol. When I get a new card, I'll probably be getting a new HDD/SSD and better cooling, so that's when I plan on figuring that situation out.
Is there a simple guide to overclocking it or an easy way to do it? Also, my Bios are the "Easy, use your mouse, something like Euffe-blah-blah bios" I'm too lazy to go digging for the box, or name on google.
Is there a simple guide to overclocking it or an easy way to do it? Also, my Bios are the "Easy, use your mouse, something like Euffe-blah-blah bios" I'm too lazy to go digging for the box, or name on google.
plasticpassion
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I'm not well versed enough to overclock my CPU, not that I've looked into it that much, plus, my stock cooler is just barely on, when I built my PC, i kind of messed up my Cooler's connectors, so only 3 of the 4 are bolted tightly, lol. When I get a new card, I'll probably be getting a new HDD/SSD and better cooling, so that's when I plan on figuring that situation out.
Is there a simple guide to overclocking it or an easy way to do it? Also, my Bios are the "Easy, use your mouse, something like Euffe-blah-blah bios" I'm too lazy to go digging for the box, or name on google.
You can try to search for an overclocking guide for your chip and motherboard. For popular combinations there are often guides I believe. I learned how to overclock mine that way, although I was never patient enough to test its stability articulately enough to maximize the OC.
Here are some screenshots I took to show some off some interesting lighting and scenery.
The rest of the album is here.
God I cannot wait for this game to go on sale to try this. It looks great with the high rez textures, but the ENB stuff is jaw dropping at times.
Running a i5-3570k @ 4.5GHz
GTX 670 FTW Edition
16GB RAM
Windows 8
Anyone with a similar or closely similar setup be able to comment on performance with a heaily modded Skyrim?
Running a i5-3570k @ 4.5GHz
GTX 670 FTW Edition
16GB RAM
Windows 8
Anyone with a similar or closely similar setup be able to comment on performance with a heaily modded Skyrim?
I have a similarish set-up.
Running a i5-3570k, no overclocks
GTX 670
8GB RAM
Windows 7
I have Bethesda's high res packs + fix to them. Lighting mod, better grass and trees, high res armor, better skin texture, and a mod that makes some meshes better. And an ENB. Those are the most graphically intensive mods I have.
With that I get usually 50 - 60 fps depending on how much stuff is on screen, but I don't have AO or DOF enabled. With those enabled the framerate hovers around 30 +- 5 when outside.
Also, I'd advice not changing the uGrids from the ini file. It made my game stutter a lot, load times longer + some other annoyances.
plasticpassion
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My Skyrim is very heavily modded and I have a similar setup.
i5-3570k
HD 7970 ghz edition (overclocked)
8gb ram
Win 8
I have no issues with it.
Spazznid
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Good god, I wish there was. I suppose using the one mod that changes your res when you turn, but that doesn't play well with ENB, in my experience... Hidalgo or something.
Spazznid
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Played through Dawnguard, and loved it. kind of short though. Haven't played much of the others.
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