Blue Ninja
Member
That's even better. Guess I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Mod Discussion and News [Creation Kit released]
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Pocky4Th3Win
Member
Ever plan to release the update? Love the ENB.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
JimmyRustler
Member
I did it with the ENB remover mod, which you can also find on nexusmods. Worked like a charm.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Oh nice, didn't realize this was a thing. I'll give it a shot when I'm changing ENBs.
It's a hog, to be sure, but 20fps sounds pretty extreme. I have a 780 and I use JK and Dawn and don't suffer that much of a drop. I hover around 50fps with some minor stutter in cities (which I know is due to my city overhauls but I can deal when the cities are so pretty).
Two suggestions off the top of my head... Are you using Bethesda's default vsync and default shadow settings for ultra? Both of those are very inefficient and need to be tweaked.
That tool failed me completely and did not do its job by leaving behind several files it installed, while removing most others, leaving me with a crashing game. Had to troubleshoot for like 2 hours to undo the mess it caused. I probably had some bad luck since a lot of people praise it, but I'm never using it again.
I also installed JK's Cities now, and I am still able to maintain an almost stable 60fps both indoors and outdoors with ENB disabled.
The *only* thing that tanks my fps significantly are ENB presets. With the Elder Blood ENB I'm at 35-60 fps (depending) outdoors.
@removing ENBs, I re-copy the installed ENB into my game folder, which makes windows explorer to automatically select all files that are from this enb and then press delete.
I wouldn't trust a tool on this, the files differ from preset to preset.
@Confidence Man
If I understood correctly you are the author of NLA?
I would also be interested to get your version of NLA, do you plan on sharing this..?
The *only* thing that tanks my fps significantly are ENB presets. With the Elder Blood ENB I'm at 35-60 fps (depending) outdoors.
@removing ENBs, I re-copy the installed ENB into my game folder, which makes windows explorer to automatically select all files that are from this enb and then press delete.
I wouldn't trust a tool on this, the files differ from preset to preset.
@Confidence Man
If I understood correctly you are the author of NLA?
I would also be interested to get your version of NLA, do you plan on sharing this..?
Exterior shots looks gorgeous. But what do interiors look like? From what I've seen, lighting models and ENB's tend to be really good for one, but not as much for the other.The best ENB is still Natural Lighting and Atmospherics imo.
Saintguine
Member
I guess I'll post some screenshots.
Blue Ninja
Member
Not that I'm aware of. I've decided to hold off on it until I've got a new GPU, don't feel like uninstalling all those lighting mods I have on right now.
JimmyRustler
Member
Curiously enough the framerate only dropped when I looked at Riverrun (that's where I tested it). When I faced the other direction it went back to 60 fps... lol
Yeah, I enabled everything after I removing ENB again yesterday evening. Gonna try what you suggest this weekend. Not modding this game again during the week. Spent 4 hours modding this game yesterday and barely played it.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
That's using your noggin! I like this method, I'll give it a shot next time I'm uninstalling an ENB.
I know that feeling. You get carried away with installing this mod and cleaning that mod, diagnosing some missing textures here and building a bashed patch there, and before you know it it's 3 hours past your bedtime and you have to get up for work in a few hours...
thunder_snail
Member
Lol this. When I first started installing mods I went wild and installed half the nexus on my machine. Bashed patches werent good enough so spent more hours in Tes5edit than playing the game. Since then, I've done a clean install with few essential mods and been happy with it.
Pocky4Th3Win
Member
NLA is not compatible with any weather mod so it wouldn't work with CoT but I don't know about RLO, I use ELFX just fine with it.
timetokill
Banned
What are the benefits/downsides to running Skyrim in borderless windowed mode?
Shift+F12 is your friend. It toggles the ENB. I play without it on, and then if I'm in a cool area I'll turn it on and take some screenshots.
Shift+F12 is your friend. It toggles the ENB. I play without it on, and then if I'm in a cool area I'll turn it on and take some screenshots.
For some people it increases performance .
Also it allows you to ALT- TAB to your desktop without being unable to get back to your game .
NormalFish
Banned
This might be slightly off topic, but are there any interesting TESIV Oblivion mods that have released or received major updates in the past 6 months or so? The scene has shrunk of course, but I still prefer the game to Skyrim.
Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul is regularly updated and is an excellent alternative to Oscuro/FCOM. It even works alongside them, although MOO and FCOM together might be overkill from a gameplay standpoint. Perhaps OOO and MOO together are a good idea.
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/42780/?
I also released a major sound overhaul for Oblivion last year
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45214/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/42780/?
I also released a major sound overhaul for Oblivion last year
http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/45214/?
NormalFish
Banned
I use FCOM usually but I'll look into Maskar's. I think I remember glancing at it but moving past since I already had a huge overhaul. Your sound mod sounds brilliant. Will absolutely give it a run.
Pocky4Th3Win
Member
Here are some shots from my playable build using NLA, I'm still trying to find a good form of AA that will get trees better without a huge performance hit. I have about 450 mods installed right now and average around 45-50fps.
NormalFish
Banned
that stone wall texture could use some work, seems to me
Bornstellar
Member
NLA has excellent interiors as well.
alife
Member
Anybody looking to try some new presets, check out The Grim and Somber ENBs by wolfgrimdark @ Skyrim Nexus:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50501/?
Here's a screenshot of Somber Lut Sepia 221 (Newest version is Vaermina 265. Same look, I just prefer ENB 221)
http://i.imgur.com/qaR9A5g.jpg
Edit:
Bleak and Unbleak ENB are cool too.
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50501/?
Here's a screenshot of Somber Lut Sepia 221 (Newest version is Vaermina 265. Same look, I just prefer ENB 221)
http://i.imgur.com/qaR9A5g.jpg
Edit:
Bleak and Unbleak ENB are cool too.
alife
Member
There's a mod called Darker Dungeons which disables ENB from trying to light interior spaces such as dungeons with the exterior/global light source.
timetokill
Banned
I used unbleak for a long time, giving NLA+ a shot now. It looks pretty damn good so far.
Heyyy, Bijin Warmaidens updated! Delphine has a "(kind of) looks her age" option now! The timing on that is perfect as I've finally decided to get around to the main quest this weekend and a 22 year old looking Delphine was weird...
I could post my texture list after work if anyone wants. I've put quite a few hours into picking textures that match vanilla style but look as good as can be, so I'm pretty satisfied with my list. It's going to be kind of a long list though...
Yeah, man, you're completely missing out on textures! You only have 2KHD and that's far from the best the game can look.
I could post my texture list after work if anyone wants. I've put quite a few hours into picking textures that match vanilla style but look as good as can be, so I'm pretty satisfied with my list. It's going to be kind of a long list though...
Blue Ninja
Member
Here is what I am currently running + HighRes texture pack 1-3
I get about 60-50 FPS outside
and 80-70 inside.
Anything I can replace or take out to increase performance/make it look better?
When I installed everything I always click yes to all, should I or no?
You don't need to increase performance, anything above 60 fps is actually a bad idea. Skyrim's physcis engine goes insane above that.
Please do so, i am always looking for texture improvements
@texture improvements
Consider looking into the Skyrim Mod Combiner: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51467/?
Even if you do not want to use it, it stills gives you an overview of tried-and-tested good texture mods.
Consider looking into the Skyrim Mod Combiner: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51467/?
Even if you do not want to use it, it stills gives you an overview of tried-and-tested good texture mods.
All right, here it all is:Please do so, i am always looking for texture improvements
General textures & meshes
NPCs
Have to admit that my NPC retexturing may be a bit lacking. There are better male body textures out now (SkySight and Windsong off the top of my head), but they had incompatabilities with something or other and I skipped them. My NPCs look pretty good with the above combo, but even better choices can be found if you dig around.
If anything looks redundant, it's because I've overwritten bits of larger packs with loose ones I prefer. Some bigger packs are left in case they cover something the other mods don't cover, despite possibly being completely redundant (good example being Better Beast Races, which is probably made useless by my other argonian/khajiit mods).
(Ah, I see About Horses is still installed and at the top of the list... Ignore that one, it's not actually a replacer for regular horses. Gonna uninstall it right now.)
I just saw you posted your textures, do you mind posting every other mod you are running?
Sure! I'm really tired and just veging out anyway...
Weapons & armor additions
Gameplay, patches, UI, sound, etc
Environment, atmospherics, immersion, decoration, monsters and NPCs
Quests & new locations (Forgot I had uninstalled most of these...)
Untested mods (I haven't actually tested these yet but they seem cool and safe to use.)
Feel free to ask away about any of them. I have none of the cool-looking quest mods (Moonpath, Wyrmtooth, Falskaar, etc) yet, as I plan to do them last.
Cool Thank you, I'm going to go ahead and check these out when I get off work. What your set up btw.
Mithos
Member
It's as if I'm not even modding my Skyrim ;P ;P ;P
When it comes to texture replacements like Skyrim 2K and so on, I'm not a fan when they change the "look" of the objects, like a building made of stones in size 10 suddenly uses size 2 stones, or when they go from square to rectangular or so on, so I currently do not use much texture replacements at all.
My current active list (Mod Organizer list, but in correct order), now I kept some of the unused mods in list because I turn them on off to see which one I like more every now and then. -> http://pastebin.com/1tiqzkmF
EDIT:
I just realized I have forgotten to even think about wildlife yet, might start adding some of the animal retextures/meshes you have installed this weekend.
MORE MODS! Installed some new ones for the first time in a week or two. I had to get Paarthurnax Dilemma because I'm not killing my dragon buddy, hell no, and I'm also trying out Dungeon Quest Awareness, Two-Handed Rebalance, Dogs of Skyrim and Apex Werewolf (since I noticed there's a werewolf achievement, I'm finally going to actually start using it)...
I'm big on having a natural, actually realistic textures too and I don't feel any of mine break believability. For example, I had to bail on aMidianBorn and Vivid's landscape textures since one of them used concrete (?!) for one of the fort wall textures and the other one thought it made sense to build forts out of porous sandstone. They had to go the moment I saw those walls.
Start with SkyTEST! It adds more realistic behavior, animal packs and cubs. It's pretty cool running into a pack of wolves all aggroing immediately because they want to protect their cubs.
My computer specs? GTX780, 4690k, 16GB. It all runs mostly fine, though I think there's still room for improvement in my technical tweaking.
Awesome, thank you!
Morrowloot prehaps?
I dunno the specifics of the mod itself but depending on who built the fort the concrete could be fine.
The Empire are inspired by the Romans and the Romans did use concrete
Hm, I'm not sure what you're asking for exactly... My mod list enriches the game with all kinds of loot both in chests and in the hands of enemies, with unique collectables to hunt for as well, but I don't know what your definition of actually interesting is.
Sure, but they didn't use concrete slabs and build entire walls out of only concrete like we do today, did they? The texture I'm talking about was a flat concrete surface sparsely dotted with tiny, decorative rocks. I can deal with concrete poured between rocks to solidify a wall, but an entire concrete slab feels off to me...
Blue Ninja
Member
Look it up on Google. A lot of it comes down to personal preference, but often there'll be guides written down on what you can overwrite and what not.
Man, I can never get this "upgrade leveled items" function in CCOR to work. I want to make my Nightingale Bow useful at level 88 and nothing happens no matter what I do. 
Or, wait, is there like a ceiling for leveled items and is that ceiling level 80 and Bethesda didn't bother raising it with the legendary edition? That's it, isn't it? Damn it.
Or, wait, is there like a ceiling for leveled items and is that ceiling level 80 and Bethesda didn't bother raising it with the legendary edition? That's it, isn't it? Damn it.
No need to bother with that with NMM. You will pretty much only see this prompt with texture packs, since functionality mods come in ESP's that won't have the same filename. Textures are always safe to overwrite, since the worst that can happen is that the object will be bright purple in the game if you screw up. It won't cause crashes or corruption.