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TBDM

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In short I have never really been able to get ENBoost to work, I always get a CTD before I can even get to the main menu. I've already looked through the STEP Project guide and some youtube videos. Can anyone help?

 

I have a Lenovo y510p with 8 gb of RAM, and Windows 7 64-bit. I have 2 Nvidia GeForce 750M graphic cards in SLI (2 GB VRAM each), and an i7-4700MQ (2.40 GHz). I've also upgraded from a HDD to a SSD.

 

I've heard that some Nvidia drivers cause a problem with ENBoost, according to a reddit thread the command "DisableDriverMemoryManager=true" can be used to fix it, but that doesn't work for me. I also read that using Nvidia GeForce Experience causes problems. I uninstalled that, though it didn't make a difference.

 

I really don't know what to do. Anytime I try to ask for help, people basically tell me to do something that I already found in the first 30 seconds of googling. Does anyone have any idea what it is that I'm doing wrong?

criswolf09

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Download the latest enb series file from Enb website, then open the rar file and go the wrapper folder, there unpack to your game folder, not the data folder, these three files: enbhost.exe, enblocal.ini and d3d9.dll. After that open the enblocal.ini file in wordpad and edit sections specified in enboost's STEP page. That should be all. I read you have two videocards in SLI, be sure to only designate the memory of one of them not both in the memory section of enblocal.ini

Anatriax

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Phase 3 of my Skyrim guide will have your fix, how to set it up, and how to properly tweak your settings to tailor it for your machine. 

TBDM

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Download the latest enb series file from Enb website, then open the rar file and go the wrapper folder, there unpack to your game folder, not the data folder, these three files: enbhost.exe, enblocal.ini and d3d9.dll. After that open the enblocal.ini file in wordpad and edit sections specified in enboost's STEP page. That should be all. I read you have two videocards in SLI, be sure to only designate the memory of one of them not both in the memory section of enblocal.ini

 

What exactly do you mean by designate the memory of one of them? For the line under [memory] "VideoMemorySizeMb=" I have tried the amounts "8192" (This was from 8 GB RAM + 2 GB Dedicated Video memory - 2048 as per the STEP guide for 64 bit systems with less that 8 GB of RAM) and the number "3926" (This was from the STEP guide using 4 GB Total Available Graphics Memory - 170 Mb for using Windows 7)

 

 

Phase 3 of my Skyrim guide will have your fix, how to set it up, and how to properly tweak your settings to tailor it for your machine.

I'm afraid that it doesn't say anything more than what I've seen on other tutorials.

Anatriax

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Is there anything else I might be missing or am I using the wrong memory allocations?

Probably your enblocal.ini is setup improperly. 

 

Upload it here. 

 

Also, take a screenshot of this location:

1) right click your desktop

2) Select "Screen Resolution"

3) In the bottom right corner find "Advanced Settings"

4) CTRL + Print Screen

5) Open MS Paint

6) CTRL + V

7) Crop it to the window that popped up for "Advanced Settings"

8) Save as a .jpg and upload with your enblocal.ini

TBDM

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Sure thing, this one is using the instructions from STEP, using 3926 due to STEP's instructions regarding 64 bit systems with 8Gb+ of RAM, and the "DisableDriverMemoryManager=true" line that was mentioned to have an effect if there is an issue with Nvidia drivers. The enblocal is uploaded as a .txt because the forums don't allow the upload of .ini files

 

 

 

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Anatriax

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Have you tried the optimus fix?


Also, on your original post:

I've used nothing but Nvidia cards for my builds, and the builds I've done for friends. NEVER has there been an issue with an Nvidia card, or Nvidia Experience (SO LONG AS you don't optimize Skyrim with it.)

I'd try the optimus fix, and see if that does anything. OR, disable one of your cards in Nvidia control panel

TBDM

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I just tried it. I couldn't find the "high-GPU-requirement" program list, and the new d3d9.dll did not work. I can try disabling one of the cards I guess, but I don't have very high hopes for that. (Edit: That didn't work either, still crashed)

 

 

Overwhelmingly the only answer I ultimately get is a "That's weird, it should be working" whenever I ask about this online, so I'm pretty used to it

TBDM

TBDM

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Thank you for that at least, most forums write it off pretty quickly it feels like. I'm afraid disabling the SLI didn't work either.

Anatriax

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Try removing everything that says "enb" in the title from your Skyrim folder. 

Then Delete the ENTIRE folder EXCEPT the "Data" folder. (Leave the Data folder intact.)

Open up Steam, verify your game cache to redownload the .exe and .dll files that bethesda has issued. 

Load up Skyrim and see how it runs. 

If it's running fine, refer to phase 3 of my guide. The only Exception you're going to make as far as setting up enblocal will be this setting:
UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

Make sure you download the NEWEST ENB Binary. 

What that setting does: Ensures that you have the newest ENB binary running (Not the old binary that's used in ENBoost on Nexus), and that this binary is setup to function as ENBoost, not ENB. 

TBDM

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I'm afraid still nothing, I deleted the files, redownloaded them through steam, and made sure I had v0.279 following your instructions, but it still had the same crash

Anatriax

Anatriax

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Just looked up where you're having crashes. 
 

99% of the time crashes at this point are caused by missing masters. NOT by d3d9.dll (ENB/SweetFX .dll file that actually tells the system how to handle the programming). 

Run LOOT, look for missing masters. If nothing? Run TES5Edit, look for errors in the right window. 

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Nope, no missing masters. Everything runs when I delete the enb files, and then starts crashing again when I put them back in the Skyrim directory. Mod Organizer, LOOT, and TES5Edit all don't show any missing master error either

Anatriax

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Are you making sure to set:

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

In enblocal.ini? 

There really shouldn't be any conflicts or problems here. ENB(oost) is supposed to stabilize the VRAM capabilities and provide more availability. It just doesn't make sense that installing it would decrease performance and cause lag/CTD. 
 

Anatriax

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That honestly should be working fine. 

This is honestly something I would take to the ENB forums. Someone there might be able to provide more insight. 
Make sure to include a link to this thread in your post, so people can look through and see what we've already discussed, to prevent you from having the same conversation all over again.

Killing Joke

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Try to reinstall DirectX runtime, latest version. Also make sure that you have no running app in the background that could prevent ENB to work (even AV). If that doesn't help you, yeah, ENB forum is your best bet.

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