Can anyone explain ENB to me?

[kurisu7885]

I'm thinking about getting ENB and ENBoost for Skyrim. I'm looking at the page for ENB and, well, in all honesty I'm kind of lost here and was looking for help, as I would like to get Skyrim as stable as I damn well can, and research is showing me that ENB can help massively in this regard as well was, idealistically, removing the limit on mods.

 

Plus, bottom line, I have 16 goddamn gigs of ram in this rig and I intend to use it. Might only have 2 gigs of memory on my graphics card, but I intend to later fix that.

[DespairSyndrome]

To put it simply, ENB is a graphics enhancer which adds more color to your Skyrim game through the use of a dll file. Users can create their own presets or "palettes" of colors to suit their own taste. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Skyrim would be more stable, but the maxim that the better your graphics are the less likely your computer can handle is is true with ENB as well. Framerate drops may occur on high end ENB presets.

[kurisu7885]

To put it simply, ENB is a graphics enhancer which adds more color to your Skyrim game through the use of a dll file. Users can create their own presets or "palettes" of colors to suit their own taste. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Skyrim would be more stable, but the maxim that the better your graphics are the less likely your computer can handle is is true with ENB as well. Framerate drops may occur on high end ENB presets.

I see, so using it to boost the memory usage, which as far as i've read is quite limited, might not help all that much, as that really is my end goal which is to help performance.

[cornbreadtm]

You can turn off the graphics and just use the memory function.

 

enblocal:

 

[GLOBAL]
UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

[kurisu7885]

You can turn off the graphics and just use the memory function.

 

enblocal:

 

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

 

 

Alright then. I was going to simply use ENBoost, but ,this makes sense as well

[Wolfoftheshadows]

 

You can turn off the graphics and just use the memory function.

 

enblocal:

 

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

 

 

Alright then. I was going to simply use ENBoost, but ,this makes sense as well

 

 

Here you go, this man has been a god send when it comes to modding skyrim for me. He shows different mods off and how to install them like ENB.  http://www.youtube.com/user/GophersVids

 

Edit: Plus he does Fallout and NV if you have those games too.

[kurisu7885]

 

 

You can turn off the graphics and just use the memory function.

 

enblocal:

 

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

 

 

Alright then. I was going to simply use ENBoost, but ,this makes sense as well

 

 

Here you go, this man has been a god send when it comes to modding skyrim for me. He shows different mods off and how to install them like ENB.  http://www.youtube.com/user/GophersVids

 

Edit: Plus he does Fallout and NV if you have those games too.

 

I was actually watching his ENBoost video when I thought to do this and learning how to do it. 

 

Looks like ENBoost might be good to use.

[kurisu7885]

Well, I suppose it was a bad idea, as now I can't get past any loading screens, instant CTD each time.

 

Though I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, the only things different are a skeleton mod and a body mod...

[Guest]

Well, I suppose it was a bad idea, as now I can't get past any loading screens, instant CTD each time.

 

Though I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, the only things different are a skeleton mod and a body mod...

Some toolbar monitoring software for cpus, gpus, screen capture etc can cause enb to crash on startup, stuff like MSI Afterburner. Maybe try turning that sort of stuff off to test.  

[bzald]

Well, I suppose it was a bad idea, as now I can't get past any loading screens, instant CTD each time.

 

Though I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, the only things different are a skeleton mod and a body mod...

 

You could be CTD because of not running fnis enough, I have notice that most of my problems lately have been around the skeleton and body mod not working right. Causing everything from people not facing right to CTD and it is possible that they don't like you useing ENB not sure if that would or would not effect that oh but just a train of thought that I have.

[kurisu7885]

 

Well, I suppose it was a bad idea, as now I can't get past any loading screens, instant CTD each time.

 

Though I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, the only things different are a skeleton mod and a body mod...

 

You could be CTD because of not running fnis enough, I have notice that most of my problems lately have been around the skeleton and body mod not working right. Causing everything from people not facing right to CTD and it is possible that they don't like you useing ENB not sure if that would or would not effect that oh but just a train of thought that I have.

 

well, going to try it without ENB, and if it works I'm not going to dare fuck with ENB again.

[hryh23k9823u]

You need to propertly tweak ENBlocal.ini (tho its default options aren't bad for general purposes I think). There's a guide in STEP.

ENB makes Skyrim way more stable if you're using mods because it gives a lot of free space to the skyrim app to work, leading into less crashes.

[Guest]

 

 

Well, I suppose it was a bad idea, as now I can't get past any loading screens, instant CTD each time.

 

Though I'm not sure if it's a mod conflict, the only things different are a skeleton mod and a body mod...

 

You could be CTD because of not running fnis enough, I have notice that most of my problems lately have been around the skeleton and body mod not working right. Causing everything from people not facing right to CTD and it is possible that they don't like you useing ENB not sure if that would or would not effect that oh but just a train of thought that I have.

 

well, going to try it without ENB, and if it works I'm not going to dare fuck with ENB again.

 

ENB doesn't have anything to do with animation files, no disrespect to bzald but that's a red herring. 

 

It's not something to be fearful of, no voodoo involved Just remove the loose files and folders installed by the ENB you used (be sure not to remove anything unrelated to it of course or you will be in a pickle),  If it still doesn't start after you've done that, then you know it's highly unlikely to do with  ENB . If it does, you know there must be something preventing enb host from starting up. 

 

I've found it's usually something externally causing it not to start, like I said earlier it could be a monitoring program of some kind running in your toolbar, and Boris always likes to say "antivirus!" whenever he hears this symptom too, so it's sometimes a good idea to set up an exception or exclusion rule in your AV  for it (plenty of instructions for how on ENB forums). 

 

Another thing you might try is to cut and paste your skyrim.ini, skyrimprefs.ini and rendererinfo files, found in Documents\My Games\skyrim or similar, to another folder somewhere, then run the skyrim launcher so it re-creates them, then try installing an ENB again.

 

I don't blame people not wanting to run ENB, but it's a shame when they don't even get to see it for themselves, so I hope you try again. 

[Wolfoftheshadows]

If you're crashing before you can get past the main loading screen then you could run tesvedit and that will tell you exactly what's wrong and what you're missing. I found out that ENBs, like the one I use, need lots of patches to be compatible with the mods I use. One instance is I use COT (climates of tamriel) and supreme storms, but needed the COT patched version of it or I couldn't play at all and the ENB I use I need COT to make it work. There's so many things that could be wrong. I know I had to patch a lot of things and had to load them in the right order the tesvedit said and did it myself or you can use BOSS. Gopher shows you how to use tesvedit and how to clean up files. It's super easy to do once you know how.

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I suggest readup what the maker of ENB has to say about this all adives concernig chances in your ini can result to even more troubles and errors.

 

There are many things that can eather enhance or make your whole game unstable with CTD and other errors.

 

This should help a litle

 

TIP'S and ADVICE by Boris"ENB"Vorontsov

 

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// ISSUES AND BUG FIXES

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0) First of all, almost all problems happen because of things you did to your game

or OS, various fake memory tweakers, boosters are at first place. Antiviruses, bad drivers,

overlay monitoring, capturing, overclocking, etc etc etc prevent normal functionality.

Also if you configured game incorrectly by modifying skyrimprefs.ini, it's also lead you to

nowhere. This prooved many times, not just by one user, you all do the same mistakes.

1) If you have crashes at startup, run as admin and make sure no other

software hooking in to game process, for example some antiviruses, screen capturing tools, videocard monitoring or overclocking. Afterburner, D3D Overrider, EVGA, ATI Tray Tools,

DXTory, Fraps, XFire - some versions of these software incompatible with

wrapper version of ENBSeries, so use injector version or disable those utils.

Also Skyrim Performance Monitor may produce this behavior, try without it or

set in it's options D3D9 mods compatibility.

2) Lower performance when borderless window mode turned on together with vsync,

to fix disable any of them.

3) If stuttering bother too much, edit enblocal.ini file vriables ExpandSystemMemoryX64, ReduceSystemMemoryUsage(especially this one), DisableDriverMemoryManager.

4) ALT-TAB not work in fullscreen mode when EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=true

5) Game by default forcing vsync to be on, in enblocal.ini parameter exist which

toggle it, so modify if you have issues with screen tearing.

6) Infinite loading happen when frame rate is too high, use fps limiter or vsync

vua EnableFPSLimiter=true or EnableVSync=true in enblocal.ini.

7) (obsolette issue for latest version) Creation Kit (CK) is not work properly, delete d3d9.dll (or don't run injector

version if it used instead of wrapper) or use another enblocal.ini which don't have

memory fixes enabled. Future versions may work, not sure yet.

8) Pixelated screen means that you have borderless window enabled in enblocal.ini. This is good feature for those users who know what to do with it.

9) Strange behavior of game physics, flying objects - you have too much high fps, turn on VSync or FPSLimiter in enblocal.ini, this is game bug.

10) ALT-TAB not work, amount crashes not reduced, stuttering and textures are

missing. This probably because enbhost.exe process not started by the mod because of

admin rights issues. This problem not occur when ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=false set.

11) Red text message appear in the left top corner. So, why the hell everybody say

it's error message? If you don't see "error" word in it, then it's not an error, but important

notice or warning.

12) Graphic effects do not work after installing this. To turn on ENBSeries as graphic

mod (ENBoost use only patch of it), set parameter UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

in enblocal.ini.

13) Stuttering with newest versions or low performance at some locations means

that your VRAM is full, press F4 key to free it (can be assigned to another key via KeyFreeVRAM

in enblocal.ini file). Also you may change ReservedMemorySizeMb to fix stuttering. Later i'll

do tweaks against this issue.

14) Process enbhost.exe not working, so memory reduction is not effective as with it, if hdtPhysicsExtensions mod installed.

 

This is from BORIS"ENB" Vorontsov himself!