Darkwisdom Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 I know it sounds pretty general, but i've been trying to get the best performance to look ratio and I simply can't get it right. I don't use an ENB because it rips my FPS so profusely and instead just use a mix of Imaginator and FXAA injector. I'm not really pleased with it. Is using skyrim 2K textures (I use the 1024) really needed, or can I get away with the skyrim high res texture pack? Any small tips for best performance? Any mods I may have missed to get better performance? My rig is modest, with an i3 3220, 8GB of 1600Mhz ram and a GTX 670 4GB.
OldGuy879 Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 HAve you tried PNENB from nexus ? I know it contains ENB but you have a large range of tweaks to both in-game and out side of it. with this I have a constant FPS form 55 to 60 except when I change screen where it lowest is 36 fps. he has a really good explaniation on his page that help with the setup as well as a chart to how to setup you VRAM to enb to avoid trouble. ::EDIT:: here is a link to his page http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24235/?
gvman3670 Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 I know it sounds pretty general, but i've been trying to get the best performance to look ratio and I simply can't get it right. I don't use an ENB because it rips my FPS so profusely and instead just use a mix of Imaginator and FXAA injector. I'm not really pleased with it. Is using skyrim 2K textures (I use the 1024) really needed, or can I get away with the skyrim high res texture pack? Any small tips for best performance? Any mods I may have missed to get better performance? My rig is modest, with an i3 3220, 8GB of 1600Mhz ram and a GTX 670 4GB. Add ELFX, CoT and Dynavision then it will look far more like an ENB. The better lighting/shadows and the depth field added make a BIG difference. Unless you're using a big monitor/screen you might not even notice a visual difference between 1K and 2K textures. You'd have to be running it at 1080 resolution or higher to see the difference.
winny257 Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER by Jenna Watson http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59305/?
hentaijin Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 I very highly recommend this ENB. It looks great and has the least impact in performance of any I have tried. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22056 Also high resolution textures will increase your load times. I wouldn't use 1 or 2K for the enviorment/city/ect textures unless you have a SSD for quick loads and 2-4 GB dedicated graphics memory to be able to use the textures easily.
Rayblue Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER by Jenna Watson http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59305/? What it does is to ask you to delete some unnecessary grasses (almost like the TG console command), before the same PDF recommends a bunch of mods that are not relevant to performance. To be brutally honest, (I've tried them all, and most of them didn't work shit until Sheson hit paydirt) the author came up with this snake oil as a "endorsement magnet". Performance without having to kill grass can be obtained by Grass on Steroids ONE Mountain BPT Textures Optional 1k retextures Yuril's Snow Those 256x256 reduced particle mods. That's my performance recipe. Bullshit free.
Darkwisdom Posted October 28, 2014 Author Posted October 28, 2014 I had a look at that and I know my skyrim, i'm having trouble getting the balance right. That Skyrim Performance Booster is bullshit. It's just a guide to... modding skyrim really.
dje34 Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 Hi ! First, we don't have your computer, so we don't know... To tell you the truth it really depends on your system and always choosing performance will ruin quality so much that you won't ever want to play Skyrim again, at least it was my case some time ago. I've got a stronger CPU but a weaker GPU than you, and if you have a SSD you have a better read/write management than me. You are right to give up on ENBs, most of them are just shitty programs made for 1 configuration and not working on others. I've found a mod : "I can't believe it's not an ENB" which can help you have much better colors but be careful with the requirements section, some mods have dirty edits (and I still don't know if they are useful or not, but I always get rid of those dirty edits except for unofficial game patches) and CoT gave me a lot of clipping and textures issues, so many that I had to clean my game and start it all from scratch once again. Dunno if it was because of another mod but it didn't happen before installing CoT and it never happened again without CoT so I'm pretty sure CoT is guilty. I think you should give up on mods over stressing Papyrus and your HDD/SSD, there are a lot on LL forums and of course a lot on Nexus too : all followers management mods, SL Aroused, mods triggering sex scenes like, for example, Random Sex or Aroused Creatures, and of course mods stacking variables on PC and NPCs like FillHerUp or pregnancy mods. DDsomething mods are also stressing Papyrus and if you use a lot of them there will be conflicts as all are not made by the same guys. You should also avoid WIP/Beta state mods as they can be a real pain is the ass even if it is not obvious when installing it. Trust mods v1.1 or 2.1 or x.1, these kind of mods are pretty stable. What I'm trying to tell you here is, by experience, that you don't have to give up on ALL mods stressing your computer and all the programs managing mods for your game but just get rid of those you don't really need or those taking too much data management, what I told you above should give you some hints. You can use HD textures of course, but don't use too many of them, you can use SL mods of course ! But don't use too many of them... Your pc, just like mine, can't handle them all. Oh, btw, if anyone here has something to say about what I wrote in this post, I tell them 'you don't have my computer, you don't know'. Good luck, good modding and be patient !
Spyder Arachnid Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 Well first off, don't run any texture packs at all. Don't use the 1K HD Textures, or even the Bethesda high res textures. Those, no matter if you optimize them or not, will decrease your performance regardless. If you're trying to get better performance, leave them out completely. But if you really need nice textures, regardless of the performance hit, check out Tamriel Reloaded. All of them. They have 1k versions that greatly improve the look of Skyrim, and to top it off, it uses Parallax as well. Great overhaul, and semi performance friendly. Regardless, get SMCO. Skyrim Mods Complex Optimizer. It will optimize all your textures for better performance. Simple and easy to use. Another thing to help your performance, get rid of your heavy script mods. Only run like one, MAYBE two, but stick to one mainly. Heavy script mods will eat your performance and cause crashes if you have too many of them running. It's always safe to keep your scripted mods to the minimum. More scripts means more load, meaning more performance loss. If you want an ENB that won't kill your frames, try something like RealLike ENB. It is based off the old 0.113 enb series. The performance is great, and it looks great as well. Combine that with your Imaginator to fine tune your colors, add Dynavision for way better depth of field than regular ENB offers, and voila. ENB look, with performance. I currently run RealLike ENB and EWI's High SkyrimPrefs and Inis with iMaxAnisotropy=16, and iMultiSample=8 in my SkyrimPref.ini file and it looks great. Using that with Relighting Skyrim (better than ELFX in my opinion) and Climates of Tamriel (with the weather patch) and Enhanced Lighting for ENB. It seriously gives you a high end ENB look, with a low end performance friendly ENB. I run a weaker PC than you have (AMD Athlon II x4 645 Processor 3.10ghz, 4GB Ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB) and I'm able to use the above extremely well. No huge fps hits or anything. I run steady at around 30 fps regularly. Just have to learn where to make sacrifices is all. I too would love to pump my game up with all kinds of huge graphic overhauls, but you gotta know your limit. Well hopefully that helps.
gvman3670 Posted October 28, 2014 Posted October 28, 2014 SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER by Jenna Watson http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59305/? What it does is to ask you to delete some unnecessary grasses (almost like the TG console command), before the same PDF recommends a bunch of mods that are not relevant to performance. To be brutally honest, (I've tried them all, and most of them didn't work shit until Sheson hit paydirt) the author came up with this snake oil as a "endorsement magnet". Performance without having to kill grass can be obtained by Grass on Steroids ONE Mountain BPT Textures Optional 1k retextures Yuril's Snow Those 256x256 reduced particle mods. That's my performance recipe. Bullshit free. Yup, I use those things myself and they actually do help. I even combined all the particle/leaf reduced textures into one zipped archive to install into MO. The framerate difference around Riften is very, very noticeable running these.
Darkwisdom Posted October 29, 2014 Author Posted October 29, 2014 Thanks for the replies and help. I used SMCO and Reallife ENB and it is a really nice, performance friendly preset. I'll tweak it a bit, but it's pretty good. This is what I'm getting at the moment inside winterhold inn, 75FPS constant with minor fluxes down to 72. And outside in winterhold, i'm getting about 70FPS at all times. My settings need some more AA I think, but it's looking pretty decent in comparison to framerates.
killerJill Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER actually does a fantastic job. You guys are like the chef who criticizes another chef's soup, but has never tasted it. None of you said you tried it, but you assume it is no good. Only a fool or a hater does that. The SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER gives people with low end computers a chance to use high res landscape textures and ENB, while also being able to achieve an incredible frame rate. This is why Jenna Watson has had nearly 400 endorsements in 5 days. About 1 in 4 people who have looked at the mod has downloaded the mod. That is Spectacular! And I am using it. Kudos to Jenna!
Spyder Arachnid Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 I'm going to assume you're Jenna, cause that picture you posted is Jenna's character. But B+ for the effort. EDIT: By the way, I read your pdf file. All you're doing is telling people what mods you use and how to install them. This is not a performance booster or anything of the sorts. There is no ini tweaks or anything to boost performance. It is just your personal mod setup and wanting other people to use what you use. That is not a performance booster mod. If you want a performance boost, don't use all those environmental overhauls like you are telling people to do. Without those, they will have better performance. Telling them to install them and then delete certain parts defeats the purpose of even using them. There is nothing performance boosting in that pdf file. It is just your mod list and telling people how to set up their game just like yours.
eifrag Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57353/?<- better base than vanilla esm
Darkwisdom Posted October 29, 2014 Author Posted October 29, 2014 http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57353/?<- better base than vanilla esm Wouldn't help, i'm not really using vanilla textures. I'm using 1024 replacement textures for almost everything.
Dubhorizon Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 Try Naturalistic ENB. So far the best for me fps/quality wise.
...0... Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 With no info on what you have installed, any given info by good people here is useless. And the bethesda HD textures are not so efficient as some other HD packs. You people should know by now there are better HD texture packs out there with less performance loss but better looking then Bethesda HD textures. Skyrim HD 2k textures are way better. If you use many scripts FPS loss. Many NPC mods fps loss many followers fps loss. SKSE 1.7 solve alot with memory but only to some point. With your videocard and optimized performance ENB plus light textures even with i3 core you can have good performance. Skyrim is very Vram depended with mods you have 4 gb you should give it to good use. I suggest read and watch some guides made by experts. Good intentions of people here i say go with tips and guides experts give follow it up to letter. Juts install a ENB saying it won´t hit fps don´t work that way if you ignore the rest to have good performance. Good luck.
Leo77 Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 With no info on what you have installed, any given info by good people here is useless. And the bethesda HD textures are not so efficient as some other HD packs. You people should know by now there are better HD texture packs out there with less performance loss but better looking then Bethesda HD textures. Skyrim HD 2k textures are way better. If you use many scripts FPS loss. Many NPC mods fps loss many followers fps loss. SKSE 1.7 solve alot with memory but only to some point. With your videocard and optimized performance ENB plus light textures even with i3 core you can have good performance. Skyrim is very Vram depended with mods you have 4 gb you should give it to good use. I suggest read and watch some guides made by experts. Good intentions of people here i say go with tips and guides experts give follow it up to letter. Juts install a ENB saying it won´t hit fps don´t work that way if you ignore the rest to have good performance. Good luck. I would love some more information on this. Could someone please fill me in as to which texture mods are better performance wise and how?
R0R0N0 Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 Just stick to character + armor/weapon textures (amidianborn) and other gameplay mods that you like and you'll be able to stick whatever enb you want. Avoid mods that add alot of NPCs unless you absolutely want them. An enb option that everyone has a fetish for is 'depth of field' be sure to disable that in the enbseries.ini file and you're golden and also follow the stability guide on nexus. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50244/?
eifrag Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57353/?<- better base than vanilla esm Wouldn't help, i'm not really using vanilla textures. I'm using 1024 replacement textures for almost everything. you still use vanilla texture unless you made your own textures.bsa and that mod is a good base before you start using retextures
visby Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 Thanks for the replies and help. I used SMCO and Reallife ENB and it is a really nice, performance friendly preset. I'll tweak it a bit, but it's pretty good. This is what I'm getting at the moment inside winterhold inn, 75FPS constant with minor fluxes down to 72. 2014-10-29_00001.jpg And outside in winterhold, i'm getting about 70FPS at all times. 2014-10-29_00002.jpg My settings need some more AA I think, but it's looking pretty decent in comparison to framerates. Your fps are at the limit of what Havok can handle. At about 80 fps the games physics gets wonky and things will start to bounce around and or vibrate weirdly.
Darkwisdom Posted October 29, 2014 Author Posted October 29, 2014 Thanks for the replies and help. I used SMCO and Reallife ENB and it is a really nice, performance friendly preset. I'll tweak it a bit, but it's pretty good. This is what I'm getting at the moment inside winterhold inn, 75FPS constant with minor fluxes down to 72. 2014-10-29_00001.jpg And outside in winterhold, i'm getting about 70FPS at all times. 2014-10-29_00002.jpg My settings need some more AA I think, but it's looking pretty decent in comparison to framerates. Your fps are at the limit of what Havok can handle. At about 80 fps the games physics gets wonky and things will start to bounce around and or vibrate weirdly. Ha I realise that. I overclocked my monitor's refresh rate to 76hz. It's not going higher than 76fps =p
OldGuy879 Posted October 29, 2014 Posted October 29, 2014 Just stick to character + armor/weapon textures (amidianborn) and other gameplay mods that you like and you'll be able to stick whatever enb you want. Avoid mods that add alot of NPCs unless you absolutely want them. An enb option that everyone has a fetish for is 'depth of field' be sure to disable that in the enbseries.ini file and you're golden and also follow the stability guide on nexus. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50244/? thanks this one seems to work better for me then PNENB
Nergui Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 Darkwisdom, before following all the above advice for this ENB/Mod and/or that ENB/Mod or whatever, read this article - http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweak-guide#1 The author has been writing tweak guides for games and other stuff for a long time and he knows his tech, which is probably why Nvidia published his guide instead of writing their own. This is his home page - http://www.tweakguides.com/
killerJill Posted November 7, 2014 Posted November 7, 2014 SKYRIM PERFORMANCE BOOSTER Now has 624 endorsements and is helping more than 1000 people everyday. I highly recommend everyone use this mod. If you want a beautiful Skyrim and high performance, install JW's configuration file, don't install any other landscape mods except SFO and Uniques Grasses and Groundcovers and Uniques Grasses and Groundcovers Plugin, then activate JW's Skyrim Performance Booster Patch. Then don't install anything else except a few armor mods. Use a note book to record the frame rate drop on each installation afterwards. If any mod causes a big drop, then uninstall it. Use Bandicam and turn on "Overlay FPS" to see the frame rate while in the game. Yes, you heard correct: JW has a Skyrim Performance Booster Patch now !!!
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