Low to Zero frame impact ENB/Lighting mods to make things sexier?

[tm2dragon]

Starting a new game, this one fully devoted to doing a sexlab play-through (no combat experience, just a poor gal trying to get by in a sexist skyrim full of slavers and worse), and was hoping to differentiate it from my previous, actiony-type playthroughs by altering the lighting or adding an ENB, hopefully without taking a ding to my frame-rate.  Which mods would you say best achieve this, as altering the shading an lighting is ESSENTIAL for setting the proper mood for sexy-times!  Oh, and as I might get captured by bandits a few times, it can't make things too dark, or I won't see the action!  So, suggestions?

[Fredfish]

 I use this mod from Nexus, It's not ENB, but looks pretty good.

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30450/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fskyrim%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D30450%26preview%3D&pUp=1

[boo]

Doesn't exist. Even the lightest enbs are going to have a significant impact on framerate. If your goal is a steady 60, but unlocked you can hit double that, there are ENBs that'll do the trick for sure.

[Ricocotech]

Give these a try

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15551/?

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/26744/?

 

I've used these in the past when I still had a Radeon 6850 and these ENB's worked out really well for performance. Don't forget that Skyrim is a heavy hitter when it comes to your CPU.

So don't go crazy with script based mods. It could save you a couple FPS. 

[squart2203]

i'm using this. author claims its not ENB, and doesn't tax your machine as much as ENB does, but that's what he claims anyway.

mind you my experience with ENB was quite a long time ago so i'm not sure what changed, but comparing previous experience with what i'm using now, this one does make my skyrim look better with acceptable drops. customizable on the fly too.

[Rex89]

what about this RCRN AE -- HDR Lighting and Weather Enhancement you can get it here http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/1875/?

or here http://www.rcrncommunity.com/my fps rages from 52-60 in the open world  40-55 in city's

tho im running an i7 920 with a gtx 560 sc 2gb cus my fps goes all over the place from 30 - 60 but RCRN is not that big of a impact on fps tho it use an out side .exe to instill it but it has an uninstaller and it back ups what ever it overwrites just make sure after instilling that you turn on the esp's

 

http://www.rcrncommunity.com/support/starter-guide/standard

[magnetic221]

There are some enbs that have very little performance drop on my machine and my machine isnt't too good. It's a 2+ yr old laptop. Having said that I've treid various lighting mods sweet fx and enbs etc And from my experience if you do want to run an enb and don't want too much perforamce impact try some enbs that use older version of enb like 0.119 or 0.113. they have minimum fps loss and they look great. But they don't have some of the effects that the newer veroisns of enbs have.

 

Here is list of some enb's that use 0.113 and 0.119 and look good.

 

seasons of skyrim http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23812/?

true visoin http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15983/?

real like enb http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22056/?

project enb http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/20781/?

 

and lastly Speed and Stability Guide for ENB http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50214/?

 

hope it helps

 

[gvman3670]

I use I Can't Believe it's NOT an ENB, Climates of Tamriel, Enhanced Lights and Effects, Dynavision and Imaginator. This makes for a look like an ENB and no performance hit. My machine is too weak for an ENB and this makes it looks SOOOooooo much better than vanilla.

[hephannon]

I use I Can't Believe it's NOT an ENB, Climates of Tamriel, Enhanced Lights and Effects, Dynavision and Imaginator. This makes for a look like an ENB and no performance hit. My machine is too weak for an ENB and this makes it looks SOOOooooo much better than vanilla.

 

Agreed, it's a good choice for low end machines, and gives a pretty nice result.

But for ENBs all depends on what rig you have, if you get a steady 60fps without ENB most of them will give 45-some (in exteriors) and 55+ in interiors (just avoid the heaviest ones on "ultra" settings). With only 45 fps without ENB you'll drop below 20 and game would be unplayable.

 

My preferred current ENB is Straylight (without the monstrous DoF), which isn't very demanding.