ENB question

[Guest]

It really frustrates me "shadow" effect on PC and NPCs that receive the light from the same source. I don't understand what causes it and I tried to fins solution but didn't find any. Please, take a look at the pictures and you will know what I'm talking about. All actors are standing between two or more light sources and one side on his body and face is always little bit darker then the other side. When it is sunshine, their faces, body and especially legs are shadowed. It happens in exteriors and interiors. How can I fix that?

 

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[Tirloque]

The lights in the game are more limited than they look, it's more like one global light and a couple of secondary lights for each room. It's not related to the characters being PC or NPC, but more how the game's engine does handles lighting IMO.

There are mods that do change the lighting gestion to something more realistic, such as  ELFX or RLO for example. Be warned though, a realistic lights gestion often makes the game much darker than what you'd think.

[GenioMaestro]

As Tirloque say, i think you have a problem in ilumination.

The shadows are a consecuence of the iluminations and depending of WHAT iluminations you have you can see diferent shadows. 

 

A lot of people say that is strictly obligatory have a ENB post processing and i know what can make. But i have a 4 years old machine with a simple GTX 660 2g and i can not have a FULL ENB without have a heavy impact in the framerate.

That not mean my game look bad, imo of course. The game have a lot of utilities for make near the same things that ENB made whitout impact the performance. A lot of parameters of the image are defined in INI files of the game and maybe you problem is exactly here, in the INI files of the game.

 

Of course, I have some blocky shadows because I have an OLD machine and I can not up more the parameters in the INI files without a severe impact on performance. But looking my machine and my image quality i'm very happy. 

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I think you're inside the Falkreath barracks and, as you can see, I have a similar problem and my player has different shadows on him and he is affected by HOW the light hits him. But that's normal and it has to be in that way.

If you are not happy with how the shadows render look for another iluminations mod, revise the parameters in the INI files and search for another ENB configuration that can match your desires.

 

EDIT: I think a bit more and maybe you can have a problem with Ambient Occlusion. Revise that you have AO disabled in the ENB configuration and revise the control panel of the video card for disable AO.

[Guest]

@Tirloque & @GenioMaestro

 

1. Thank you for your responses. It means a lot to me.

2. I tried Elfx and few other similar mods AFTER i haven't had a choice. Those mods fixed some problems on particular places, but also caused others (too dark) problems on other places so I removed them. All in all, without exaggeration I tested over 15 various ENB presets and lightning mods. Gain some improvements and lost the other.

3. Beside that I went through "I don't know how many fucking tutorials, tips and tricks, settings ... and so on and so on" and some says one thing and others say another thing about the same thing. Anyway, I tried both and again: improvements on one side, disaster or another side.

4. As for AO, I also tried enabled and disabled options. Do not know what to say. I got almost perfect skin naked textures under perfect lighting while the ambience and the walls are too bright, depending about the source of light. Anyway, I kept it disabled.

5. After math, chemistry, physics and similar shit I sucked in the school, setting ENB is the fourth most difficult thing for me in my life.

6. Thanks for trying to help. I said to Ivy that I have no fucking strength any more for losing my nerves over some stupid game. I tweaked it again and when she said that she is fine with it, I crossed Skyrim from my list of any, even insignificant priorities.

[GenioMaestro]

I know that Skyrim have a lot of years and we are a bit bored of it and not whant lost time fixing things for play the game only some days, but if you want try solve yours shadows problems i can give you one option.

 

DISABLE ANY ENB ENHANCER... You can have near the same whitout the need of figth whit the ENB presets and the hundreds of parameters in the ini files and the gui of ENB.

I'm very happy of the visual quality of my game and i not have more because i'm limited by my hardware.

I can explain you what utils and mods i have if you want.

[Grey Cloud]

1 hour ago, Elf Prince said:

3. Beside that I went through "I don't know how many fucking tutorials, tips and tricks, settings ... and so on and so on" and some says one thing and others say another thing about the same thing. Anyway, I tried both and again: improvements on one side, disaster or another side.

I feel your pain. Most definitely, I feel your pain.

[Guest]

12 hours ago, GenioMaestro said:

I know that Skyrim have a lot of years and we are a bit bored of it and not whant lost time fixing things for play the game only some days, but if you want try solve yours shadows problems i can give you one option.

 

DISABLE ANY ENB ENHANCER... You can have near the same whitout the need of figth whit the ENB presets and the hundreds of parameters in the ini files and the gui of ENB.

I'm very happy of the visual quality of my game and i not have more because i'm limited by my hardware.

I can explain you what utils and mods i have if you want.

I would appreciate it very much. Thanks.

[Tirloque]

19 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

@Tirloque & @GenioMaestro

 

1. Thank you for your responses. It means a lot to me.

2. I tried Elfx and few other similar mods AFTER i haven't had a choice. Those mods fixed some problems on particular places, but also caused others (too dark) problems on other places so I removed them. All in all, without exaggeration I tested over 15 various ENB presets and lightning mods. Gain some improvements and lost the other.

I agree with Maestro. The thing is ELFX or RLO aren't made to work with most ENBs, so that means in order to get the game as dark (or in your case, as bright) as you'd want the only option is to get your hands dirty, and start fine tuning the brightness (interior, exterior, bloom & eye adaptation) of your ENB's ini. This must be made by small increments, and if possible by saving the previous ini files somewhere before modifying them (so you can always step back after a mistake).

 

In other words, you can have a perfectly tuned image, or a simple to handle ENB ; but you can't have both at the same time, IMO.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

I agree with Maestro. The thing is ELFX or RLO aren't made to work with most ENBs, so that means in order to get the game as dark (or in your case, as bright) as you'd want the only option is to get your hands dirty, and start fine tuning the brightness (interior, exterior, bloom & eye adaptation) of your ENB's ini. This must be made by small increments, and if possible by saving the previous ini files somewhere before modifying them (so you can always step back after a mistake).

 

In other words, you can have a perfectly tuned image, or a simple to handle ENB ; but you can't have both at the same time, IMO.

Thanks Trilog. I wish I could be at least half smart like you G.M. and many others who has ENB tweaking in "Little finger", but I'm not because I DO NOT UNDERSTAND 80% of the meaning of certain settings even when reading S.T.E.P.'s and other tutorials. The worst part is "incomplete" explanations for dummies like myself. For instance. When the author speaking about contrast he doesn't say what it does, and what increasing or decreasing contrast does: does increasing making it brighter or darker. For many of you it is "piece of cake" and there is nothing to be explained about it, but for me who is total idiot in this area, such explanation means a lot and I would know what to do. I must mention my father now. You see, when he opened the guitar school, he had team of associates. Few of them played guitar much better then him, but when they were teaching the students, they didn't pass their experience and knowledge on the students well, unlike my father who knew how to explain and show things. He didn't assume it is "a piece of cake". Therefore his classes were always full that even his associates said: "You are very good teacher. Even the dumbest student can understand what you are saying. Listening to you, I have no questions like why, how, when... " I'm a dumb student in this area. I quit playing Skyrim long time ago, but I try my best to make it work according to Ivy's like for she loves to play the game. As for me, I don't have to play Skyrim till I die.

[Guest]

@Tirloque & @GenioMaestro

 

- Here is the latest ENB preset I installed and "Played with". It is not new preset and it's much simpler to tweak.

 

1. Previous preset Rudy Vanilla 4.3 (too complicated to tune up):

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2. Grimm and Somber Azura preset with 0.366 ENB

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3. Grimm and Somber Azura, midnight near Riverwood. This is something that Ivy wanted.

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[GenioMaestro]

3 hours ago, Tirloque said:

I agree with Maestro. The thing is ELFX or RLO aren't made to work with most ENBs, so that means in order to get the game as dark (or in your case, as bright) as you'd want the only option is to get your hands dirty, and start fine tuning the brightness (interior, exterior, bloom & eye adaptation) of your ENB's ini. This must be made by small increments, and if possible by saving the previous ini files somewhere before modifying them (so you can always step back after a mistake).

 

In other words, you can have a perfectly tuned image, or a simple to handle ENB ; but you can't have both at the same time, IMO.

Sorry but you can combine ANY Lighting mod with ANY ENB configuration. The creators of the Lighting mods know that 90% of the players have ENB. If the Lighting mod is NOT compatible with ENB the 90% of the users not install it and i see a bit stupid expent months and years making a Lighting mod for be used ONLY by the 10% of the users.

 

From Enhanced Lights and FX: This mod will looks better with any mod or ENB that darkens interiors.
From Realistic Lighting Overhaul: This means you can use an ENB with RLO

ULTRA REALISTIC WORLD LIGHTING: The answer is also : YES. Combining ENB with URWL will give you...

 

ENB can NOT add a point of ligth where the game not have a point of ligth. That is made with the ilumination mods. The position, intensity, type and ratio of each point of ligth is defined inside CK. A lot of times change the base definition and parameters of the type of ligth is enougth but others times the ligth must be changed and tunned cell by cell and is a gigantic work.

 

The game have the called "ambient ligth" that is a general ligth that not have a defined point of origin. That is totally unnatural, of course, but is the only way for create a image 60 times per second ussing the minimal computer resources. If we disable the "ambient ligth" or put it in cero you only can see the rendered image in day hours in the game, because you have a direct point of ligth called sun, and you see nothing in nigth except when you have another direct point of ligth, called torches and similar. Changing the "ambient ligth" you can have a totally different image and for that each game and each skyrim look diferent.

 

ENB is a complement for made some adjust in the image and can make a lot of things that are NOT avaliable in other way, but others basic functionalities can be made with others mods. For example, for change contrast and brigtnes you can use Imaginator, for have DOF you can use DYNAVISION, for have better shadows you can add Shadows and tune the parameters in the INI files.

But others things that made ENB, like change the ilumination in each climate of the game, are not availables in others mods. That can be good for correct excesive saturation or excesive dark or correct the bloom, but some times ALTER the image in a way that is not intended.

 

Really, the REAL image that you see depend of your monitor and depend of the ligth in your room. The image in YOUR monitor show diferent in the day, with real ligth from the sun comming from the windows, to the image that show in nigth, with real ligth from blubs. Each monitor have a diferent level of brigthnes and contrast and, REALLY, each monitor show each image in a diferent way with diferent colors.

 

For me, have a good image mean have a image that i see too similar to the screenshots made by the creator of the mod. For example, take a look to Project AHO, open it and look the screenshot, put it in full screen and look MY screenshot. I see it too similar. Can look diferent in your monitor, but the two images, the original from the modder and my image from my screenshot, are deformed by YOUR monitor. If they look similar for me must look similar for you but really have a diferent color tone.

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If the creator of the mod expent days, weeks, months or years for make their mod look like the screenshots why i change the contrast or the ambien ligth for deformed it and made it look in a diferent way? Please, not change it. Let it look in the intended way.

[GenioMaestro]

1 hour ago, Elf Prince said:

@Tirloque & @GenioMaestro

 

- Here is the latest ENB preset I installed and "Played with". It is not new preset and it's much simpler to tweak.

 

1. Previous preset Rudy Vanilla 4.3 (too complicated to tune up):

 

2. Grimm and Somber Azura preset with 0.366 ENB

 

3. Grimm and Somber Azura, midnight near Riverwood. This is something that Ivy wanted.

 

How look your game WHITOUT ENB??? Please, disable your ENB and take some screenshots. Upload it for i can see some details. I think you can have a problem in the base image of the game.

 

ENB can made a lot of things and can give you a better image quality, but ENB is not marvellous and can not convert a ugly base image in a fantastic and beatifull image. If you not have a GOOD base image generated by default by the game ENB can NOT give a you a good image.

 

I said that MAYBE your problem come from the INI files of the game or MAYBE you have some problems in the instalation of the Ilumination mods. 

You can add, one after another, each ENB preset that you see but they NEVER can look as intended if the BASE image of the game, whitout ENB, is bad.

[Tirloque]

23 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

Thanks Trilog. I wish I could be at least half smart like you G.M. and many others who has ENB tweaking in "Little finger", but I'm not because I DO NOT UNDERSTAND 80% of the meaning of certain settings even when reading S.T.E.P.'s and other tutorials. The worst part is "incomplete" explanations for dummies like myself. For instance. When the author speaking about contrast he doesn't say what it does, and what increasing or decreasing contrast does: does increasing making it brighter or darker.

That is true, and as ENBs get more and more refined, and so the manuals are always behind. STEP is a good one though, specially about the eye adaptation factor. If you check that page, you'll see that they do explain what modifying values does. I give you that on a lot of pages however, they don't. 

23 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

For many of you it is "piece of cake" and there is nothing to be explained about it, but for me who is total idiot in this area, such explanation means a lot and I would know what to do. I must mention my father now. You see, when he opened the guitar school, he had team of associates. Few of them played guitar much better then him, but when they were teaching the students, they didn't pass their experience and knowledge on the students well, unlike my father who knew how to explain and show things. He didn't assume it is "a piece of cake". Therefore his classes were always full that even his associates said: "You are very good teacher. Even the dumbest student can understand what you are saying.

That's an interesting anecdote.

 

However, the twist is that it's not a piece of cake for us either. The thing is just difficult, man ! Personally, I had to read some STEP pages a few times before getting it ; and even like that I managed to get something I liked only by tries and mistakes. That is why I do advice you to do small modifications, and to save the enb txt files inbetween each edit.

 

What I did was  :

0000 - Install a lighting mod (RLO or ELFX) and an ENB

000 - Use "²" to stop the game, then Ctrl+Enter to tune the ENB, SMALL increments only, one change at at time. That way you can see instantaneously what your change did, an so understand what the setting you changed does. Tune ingame, but save the txt files on your disk drive before each change so you can always revert back.

00 - Disabled ENB bloom

0 - Tune eye adaptation, and interior + exterior brightness

1 - Used a savegame in a dark forest at night (to define how bright would be bright elements at night, such as road stones)

2 - One in a pitch black dungeon hallway (to define maximum darkness levels)

3 - One indoors, normal lighting

4 - One outdoors, normal bright day

 

With all of that, and with patience, everyone should be able to tune their ENB/Game to their liking. There is no easy shorcut to get there.

 

The other way is to find an ENB preset that by default suits your tastes. Your Grim and Somber 0.366 looks good enough to me.

On 3/9/2019 at 5:02 AM, Elf Prince said:

When it is sunshine, their faces, body and especially legs are shadowed. It happens in exteriors and interiors. How can I fix that?

Keep in mind part of the problem is that Ivy likes to have contrasted images, and you don't like what that contrast does on your player character, when combined with default lighting.

21 hours ago, GenioMaestro said:

The game have the called "ambient ligth" that is a general ligth that not have a defined point of origin. That is totally unnatural, of course, but is the only way for create a image 60 times per second ussing the minimal computer resources. If we disable the "ambient ligth" or put it in cero you only can see the rendered image in day hours in the game, because you have a direct point of ligth called sun, and you see nothing in nigth except when you have another direct point of ligth, called torches and similar.

+1

[Guest]

@Tirloque & @GenioMaestro

 

Thank you very much for wonderful explanation about the things i didn't understand. let me just shortly answer to you :

1. Why ENB? Although my setting of ENB are set up on minimum and there is almost none visual difference between Vanilla game and with ENB, I have to have it since my computer is not for gaming and ENB helps us to reduce certain CTDs that even all mods that I install to prevent them doesn't fix, plus Ivy likes very bright environment that lightning mods I install didn't fix properly. As I said I gained certain improvements in one area but lost them in another. My Anti aliasing is set to 8. $ is too low quality, and 16 is to high for my CPU and GPU to handle.

2. Ivy likes to make her Skyrim lessons and she cares about the quality of pictures although we do not use poser mods for various reasons. The main one is that we do not have time to spend hours on one story: picking right pose, using special effects and edit the picture in picture editor. It's too much time that we don't have. Therefore she sacrificed high quality of her pictures  so she might enjoy in the things she likes to do. I still didn't have a time to play the Witcher 3. We would both have less time when Eva delivers the baby and we become parents. That's why we do not pay so much attention on the quality although there are things we would like to improve: the problem that title of this thread says.

3. Your advises helped a lot. I will find the time to "play" with suggested option.

4. Sorry G.M. I can't post any pictures without ENB. But believe me, the quality of the pictures without ENB is lower and doesn't look nice. I tried it before. For example. Using screenshot without ENB makes them less detailed, less colorful and the size is about 6 MB. With ENB, pictures are much better and the size is 8 MB without editing. We don't have to even edit pictures after taking screenshots with ENB. Only conversion to .jpg format.

 

Anyway, Thank you very much for taking your time to expand to us certain things and to help us improve certain ENB tweaks. I speak so so English, Ivy doesn't speak even half of it although she understand ordinary communication. Eva and me helping her with English end the problem is that when we don't know how to explain to her what certain thing does because we do not understand it. So, all the things you wrote was very helpful. Thank you again.

[GenioMaestro]

3 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

1. Why ENB? Although my setting of ENB are set up on minimum and there is almost none visual difference between Vanilla game and with ENB, I have to have it since my computer is not for gaming and ENB helps us to reduce certain CTDs that even all mods that I install to prevent them doesn't fix, plus Ivy likes very bright environment that lightning mods I install didn't fix properly. As I said I gained certain improvements in one area but lost them in another. My Anti aliasing is set to 8. $ is too low quality, and 16 is to high for my CPU and GPU to handle.

Now I understand why you do not want to remove the ENB and I understand all the problems you have. With this new information I strongly recommend that you follow my instructions.

Maybe your machine is not for games, but I assure you that mine is not either. I do not have a last generation machine. I only have an old machine that is more than 4 years old with a simple i5-4460 and a simple GTX 660 with 2G of Vram and I'm imagining that it is very similar to yours.

 

On 3/11/2019 at 1:52 PM, GenioMaestro said:

DISABLE ANY ENB ENHANCER... You can have near the same whitout the need of figth whit the ENB presets and the hundreds of parameters in the ini files and the gui of ENB.

I'm very happy of the visual quality of my game and i not have more because i'm limited by my hardware.

I can explain you what utils and mods i have if you want.

When I say "disable ENB enhancer" I mean ONLY the enhancer and I do not mean to completely eliminate the ENB. ENB has two operating modes. ENB Bost and ENB Normal.

https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:ENB#What_is_ENBoost.3F

The ENB Bost mode has all the functions of memory management to solve the CTD but does not have the graphic processing. Normal ENB mode has the same as Boost plus graphic processing.

 

To disable ENB enhancer momentarily you only have to press F12 or Shift + F12 depending on how you have it configured. To disable ENB enhancer permanently just open the file EnbLocal.ini and put true on the line UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics = true

That disable the graphic processing and puts the ENB in Boost mode but leaves the entire memory management system to not have CTD.

 

You should know that the graphic processing of ENB is tremendously expensive in terms of machine power. It is done through software, with a program, and with specific instructions that run on CPU to process each image. If you disable ENB enancer you will gain many frames and a lot of speed in the game, and as I said, you can have the same or better image quality with my utilities.

In addition, Skyrim uses MSAA antialiasing which is one of the most expensive types of AA in terms of machine power and it is recommended to put it as low as possible because it consumes a lot. If your video card supports FXAA I strongly recommend that you activate it and disable MSAA antialiasing. It will gain many frames and a lot of speed in the game with a similar image quality.

If you are really thinking about disabling ENB enhancer, the first thing you have to do is to install Imaginator before disabling ENB enancer. When you have installed Imaginator and have ENB enancer activated
you can put several settings in the Imaginator MCM, close the MCM console so that Imaginator applies the image settings and you can press F12 to temporarily disable the ENB enhancer and you can compare the image that Imaginator generates with the image generated by ENB enhancer. When you have an image with Imaginator equal or better than what you have with ENB then you can definitely disable the ENB enhancer in the configuration file EnbLocal.ini

 

For give you more detailed data i make a screenshot of my configuration of Imaginator. You can use it at starting point and see what effect have in your game. I'm near sure about can be similar or better than the image that you have with the ENB enhancer.

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And all this I am telling you because I have done it in my machine and in many machines of friends and family.

[Grey Cloud]

22 hours ago, Tirloque said:

The other way is to find an ENB preset that by default suits your tastes

That's the class I signed up for.  Kwanon ENB by Hhayleyy (of FSC fame).

[Tirloque]

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

That's the class I signed up for.  Kwanon ENB by Hhayleyy (of FSC fame).

All the tastes are in the nature. As long as you end up finding one you're happy with, then it's fine.

[Grey Cloud]

48 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

All the tastes are in the nature. As long as you end up finding one you're happy with, then it's fine.

I did try the other way but like EP it was gain one thing but lose another. Plus the visuals aren't that important to me once they get to acceptable so the game wasn't worth the candle in terms of time spent searching for answers.

[Guest]

@Tirloque, @GenioMaestro, @Grey Cloud

 

Thanks again for participation in helping me.

 

1. G.M. the pictures I posted in main post were with effects disabled. I didn't want to post ones with effects enabled. Too ugly.

2. G.C. I tested two preset from the ENB you recommended. Here are the pictures with effects enabled. Ivy liked the brightness and the pictures were taken 21.00 o'clock at night. But she din't like the colors and also the way the game looked with effects disabled.

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3. G.M. I tried "Imaginator" but it was too heavy for my computer even with minimum settings. Whenever my character moved, the picture stuttered. Although, must say I like the cold blue moon the best. the main problem was in brightness. If I rise it high during the night, it stays high during the day and it's too bright. The program doesn't have separate tuning for day and night when it comes to brightness.

4. To all of you and Trilog. Well, Kwanon ENB is the best of option: Easy for GPU and CPU, very bright but it requires additional fine settings and I mean a lot of them. I already spent too much time on it.

 

At the end: You guys are awesome. Thank you very much in mine and Ivy's name. You were more than helpful and we will always be grateful to you. Ivy sends her kisses and hugs to all of you. I do not kiss with men so I will just friendly hug you  

[Grey Cloud]

You are welcome.

I like the brighness of Kwanon for my old worn out eyes. The only changes I made were to turn off DoF.

I need to re-install it as I installed one of the updates which didn't like my game/hardware so I did a rollback which didn't quite come off.

[Grey Cloud]

Elf Prince,

A couple of shots from more or less where your's were taken:

 

1:16 pm. Noble Skyrim (2k), JK's Skyrim Lite and Relighting Skyrim. ENBseries 0.349. Nothing tweaked except DoF turned off.



 

 

[GenioMaestro]

On 3/13/2019 at 4:53 PM, Elf Prince said:

3. G.M. I tried "Imaginator" but it was too heavy for my computer even with minimum settings. Whenever my character moved, the picture stuttered. Although, must say I like the cold blue moon the best. the main problem was in brightness. If I rise it high during the night, it stays high during the day and it's too bright. The program doesn't have separate tuning for day and night when it comes to brightness

Imaginator not use any resources. Imaginator can NOT cause stuttering.

Is a simple MCM for enable diferent Image Space Modiffiers that not use CPU or GPU.

I never had a similar problem with Imaginator in any machine. 

In the 1896 post of the support section of Imaginator not have any message related to stuttering.

Try again because you must make something bad. The stuttering can NEVER be caused by Imaginator.

 

 

I install and test Kwanon ENB and like all others ENB Presets that i had used reduce my framerate to half.

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As you can see i only have 24 FPS and my GPU ussage is near 90%

 

If i disable the ENB Enhancer pressing Shift+F12 i have 60 FPS and my GPU ussage is near 50%

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Of course, i not have exactly the same colors but i think are aceptables. The shadows are better with ENB but that cost me half of my framerate or more. I preffer play at 60 FPs whitout ENB.

 

 

Yes, Imaginator not have a diferent setting for day and nigth. But the ligth that you have as nigth is defined by the iluminations mods that you have installed. ENB can override the settings of the iluminations mods and nullify it for you have the ligth in nigth that has been defined in the preset of the ENB.

If you want have a good ligth in nigth whitout an ENB you must install any of the ilumination mod that have a high ligth in nigth like URWL that have 3 diferents versions with 3 diferents levels of ligth for the nigth.

If you install URWL be sure you put the ESP the LAST in the load order for be sure none other mod overwrite the nigth ligth added by URWL.

 

Aditionally, if that is not enougth, you can download and install the spell included in the download page of URWL that allow you have another aditional ligth for the nigth and is AUTOMATICALLY disabled in day and AUTOMATICALLY enabled in nigth.

I not have tested it and i not know how works but is another option.

 

Spell of Luminus - Night Brightness Adjuster V2B

Gives a Spell of Luminus in your powers menu with 5 different brightness levels that only apply at night and switch off during daytime. Also works with other lighting mods. V2B remembers setting until changed.

[Guest]

11 hours ago, GenioMaestro said:

Imaginator not use any resources. Imaginator can NOT cause stuttering.

Is a simple MCM for enable diferent Image Space Modiffiers that not use CPU or GPU.

I never had a similar problem with Imaginator in any machine. 

In the 1896 post of the support section of Imaginator not have any message related to stuttering.

Try again because you must make something bad. The stuttering can NEVER be caused by Imaginator.

 

 

 

Thank you for your answer and suggestions.

 

1. I have no idea why imaginator caused stuttering. When I removed it, everything went back to normal. I have read the installation guide and load order and did exactly what was suggested. The mod is excellent solution for someone who wants to have his game tweaked according to his likeness without installing ENB. I discovered that SSAO, Shadow, contrast and brightness plays important role in visual impression of the game. The only problem with it is that some changes aren't noticeable right away, but after; changing the cell or reloading the game. However, there are still few more tweaks to be done in second ENB window which I don't understand and have no time to test.

 

2. My game is always set to 60 frame rate limit and with effects disabled. However, I learned that I can't have "money and all the ships at once" (as we say in our country) especially because the game behaves very differently in certain cells. For example: I have excellent colors, brightness and visual in some cells, and horrible in others. I truly appreciate your help with this. I set the game the best I could and Ivy is more-less satisfied.

 

 

3. I tried the lightning mod you suggested and even few others. I does a good job in some interiors like caves but they messing up the picture quality that Ivy using when taking screenshots for her blog. So, there are many pluses and minuses in having ENB or having other mods that behaves like ENB. Ivy decided to stay with ENB so far. What you guys suggested and explained so far was very helpful and we learned a lot although there is so much to learn about. As the time goes by, we would have less time for playing any game because the baby will change every segment of our life.