ENB Crash Issues (formerly: Skyrim always muddy and colourless)

[Wretched Scum]

I just can't seem to get my Skyrim Installation to take on any sort of colour. Everything always looks brown, grey and weak on contrasts. Using Enhanced Lightning and FX. Have tried multiple ENBs, none looked like the screen shots.

 

If anyone has any idea why this might be, It would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Screenshots taken with SuperbENB: (reduced size)

 

 

As comparison, here is what SuperbENB is supposed to look like:

 

 

 

 

[myuhinny]

First you need show a few screenshots of what it looks like in your game and post them under a spoiler. Also tell us what your computer specs are and graphics card so that it'll be easier for someone to see what might be the problem. It could be that your graphics card is going bad but without seeing any screenshots it's only guessing.

[Wretched Scum]

Alright, I added a few with SuperbENB. Can take some with other ENB presets if needed, or post full-sized screens.

 

I am running a GTX960 with 4GB. 8GB RAM and and i5 core I think.

 

EDIT: I should mention, these screens were taken at 8 AM with clear weather (ingame).

[meme supreme]

Might be a stupid question but are you toggling ENB with shift f12?

[TanookiTamaTachi]

Honestly, it looks like the enb isn't even running. When you start your game, do you get the "ENBSeries version something ..." message?

 

 

 

[Wretched Scum]

Good thoughts, but no - the ENB is running and pressing shift + f12 does show a noticeable difference.

I'll investigate further into the ENB not working as it should.

[JobiWanUK]

Try a mod called Imaginator if you haven't already, lets you adjust a lot of things including colours and contrast. I don't use ENB and I think my game  looks fantastic just from tweaking with Imaginator.

[Wretched Scum]

Here's some ENB on/off Screens:

ENB off:

 

 

ENB on:

 

 

 

 

Try a mod called Imaginator if you haven't already, lets you adjust a lot of things including colours and contrast. I don't use ENB and I think my game  looks fantastic just from tweaking with Imaginator.

Appreciate the suggestion, but I recall trying imaginator in New Vegas and was not impressed.

 

[thesteve812]

Try a mod called Imaginator if you haven't already, lets you adjust a lot of things including colours and contrast. I don't use ENB and I think my game  looks fantastic just from tweaking with Imaginator.

 

That's all I use and am happy. Some contrast, saturation, overall, add blue and magenta = beauty.

[RJLbwb]

A lot of that is just the vanilla textures. For some bizarre reason the devs chose to make Skyrim look blah.

 

 

 

[Wretched Scum]

Interesting bit about Pantone 448c there, I did not know that.

Nevertheless an ENB should change the dull colours.

[Wretched Scum]

Roughly fixed  the problem with the ENB, but game crashes on after a few seconds now.

 

*Shakes Fist* Skyriiiiiiiiiiiim!

[idle]

You probably didn't install the enb properly.

[JobiWanUK]

Here's a few quick screen shots, all I use is the unofficial hi-res textures, URWL and Imaginator. I've never had much luck with ENBs but I don't think I need one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PsychoMachina]

Did you edit your SkyrimPrefs.ini allow ENB to apply all effects?

 

Open SkyrimPrefs.ini (Documents > My Games > Skyrim) and enable these parameters:

 

bFloatPointRenderTarget=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bTreeReceiveShadows=1

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1

 

The important one is 'bFloatPointRenderTarget' because if it's set to '0' then you won't get the full effects.

[Wretched Scum]

You probably didn't install the enb properly.

 

 

Did you edit your SkyrimPrefs.ini allow ENB to apply all effects?

 

In essence, these were the problem.

ENB Organiser, a program that I use to quickly install and uninstall ENBs, overwrote any presets with the default ENB binaries. Not the programs fault, I just used it incorrectly.

 

However, now I have a new problem:

Using any ENB, or even ENBoost crashes my game on loading a save (any save). However, simply using the default binaries works fine. Here is my enblocal.ini for ENBoost:

 

 

[PROXY]

EnableProxyLibrary=false

InitProxyFunctions=false

ProxyLibrary=other_d3d9.dll

 

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true

UseDefferedRendering=false

IgnoreCreationKit=true

 

[PERFORMANCE]

SpeedHack=true

EnableOcclusionCulling=true

 

[MEMORY]

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false

ReservedMemorySizeMb=128

VideoMemorySizeMb=4064

EnableCompression=false

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false

 

[THREADS]

DataSyncMode=0

PriorityMode=0

 

[MULTIHEAD]

ForceVideoAdapterIndex=false

VideoAdapterIndex=0

 

[WINDOW]

ForceBorderless=true

ForceBorderlessFullscreen=true

 

[ENGINE]

ForceAnisotropicFiltering=true

MaxAnisotropy=16

ForceLodBias=false

LodBias=0.0

AddDisplaySuperSamplingResolutions=false

EnableVSync=true

VSyncSkipNumFrames=0

 

[LIMITER]

WaitBusyRenderer=false

EnableFPSLimit=true

FPSLimit=60.0

 

[iNPUT]

//shift

KeyCombination=16

//f12

KeyUseEffect=123

//home

KeyFPSLimit=36

//num /       106

KeyShowFPS=106

//print screen

KeyScreenshot=44

//enter

KeyEditor=13

//f4

KeyFreeVRAM=115

//B

KeyBruteForce=66

 

[ADAPTIVEQUALITY]

Enable=false

Quality=1

DesiredFPS=20.0

 

[ANTIALIASING]

EnableEdgeAA=false

EnableTemporalAA=true

EnableSubPixelAA=false

 

[FIX]

FixGameBugs=true

FixParallaxBugs=true

FixParallaxTerrain=true

FixAliasedTextures=true

IgnoreInventory=true

FixTintGamma=true

RemoveBlur=true

FixSubSurfaceScattering=true

FixSkyReflection=true

FixCursorVisibility=true

FixLag=true

IgnoreLoadingScreen=true

 

[LONGEXPOSURE]

EnableLongExposureMode=false

Time=1.0

BlendMax=0.0

 

 

 

Again, any ideas are appreciated.

[Wretched Scum]

Solved it. The problem was the newest ENB binary, using the previous version worked.

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions!

 

 

 

 

 

Fuckin' beautiful