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[moop1167]

The new mod manager is amazing!

Here is a tutorial

You even download the mods through the manager.

If I already have mods installed and I get the manager, do I have to re-do everything? (haven't looked at vid yet)

 

[BoobPhysics101]

real talk, the realistic fire mod is one of the biggest differences yet. jesus, it looks amazing. seriously stunning in motion.

Couple of shots I just took. Not using FXAA or injectors, just stock with high res textures + realistic fire mod + water mod.

 

[Enco]

If I already have mods installed and I get the manager, do I have to re-do everything? (haven't looked at vid yet)

Seems that way :/

 

[rumsey]

I must be the only person who prefers vanilla art direction to all the super saturated, technicolor, blue shift crap people are doing with fxaa injectors and "enhanced" shaders.

But at least there is something for everyone.

 

[BoobPhysics101]

I must be the only person who prefers vanilla art direction to all the super saturated, technicolor, blue shift crap people are doing with fxaa injectors and "enhanced" shaders.

But at least there is something for everyone.

Same here. Most people end up making the game's already awesome colors look blown out. I'm waiting for someone to make a really pro looking shader/color mod that makes things look incredible without worsening some aspect of the picture or losing the original art vision.

 

[Angelus Errare]

You'll probably have to do them again again when the Skyrim Mod Manager comes out.

 

[Semblance]

Improved rock and mountain textures. Going to try this out shortly.

 

[Karak]

With mods so easily installed by hand I think I will stay away from the MM until they fix it. Lots of complaints about errors and some mods working others installing to totally wrong places. Darn

 

[Dice]

Woah, hold up.

So that FXAA injector thing has never worked with any game. Now I'm reading instructions on one and it says back up the original file. None of my games have d3d9.dll in their folder. I'm running admin with all files revealed, so what's the deal? Something different for Win7 64bit?

 

[LiquidMetal14]

awesome list.

I have to thank you for making this compilation. I'm adding some of them to the Mods section. I will be adding as many important and subtle ones as I can. There's definitely a lot to cycle through and am trying to stay away from the eyes and lips ones as sooner or later, we are bound to see more compilation releases that do like 10 things in 1 mod so please bare with the lack of the little mods like lips and such.

 

[spirity]

Are there any HD 4850 users who are using the Skyrim Better Performance mod? I went through the 600 comments at the site and only 3 ppl mentioned the 4850 specifically. One guy said it was a big improvement while the other 2 said they lost performance. I can get high settings at 1080p already, so I'm not dying to mess my game up with a broken mod which is why I'm asking around first on this one.

I tried it, didn't make a bit of difference.

 

[Desaan]

I'm holding off the mods until someone can up with a way of fixing the shitty shadows and time jumping sun lighting system, if that's even possible.

 

[razgriz417]

The new mod manager is amazing!

Here is a tutorial

You even download the mods through the manager.

Great video for anyone who has yet to use a mod manager.

 

[leng jai]

No.


Vanilla





Enhanced Shaders (Ultra High Quality HLSL sharpening shader algorithm)

I don't understand how you don't. The mod clearly affects the HUD color. Very easy to see when you shift F12 and disable the mod. During the day it has a very slight blue shift and at night the red shift is awful.

 

[Fitz]

Woah, hold up.

So that FXAA injector thing has never worked with any game. Now I'm reading instructions on one and it says back up the original file. None of my games have d3d9.dll in their folder. I'm running admin with all files revealed, so what's the deal? Something different for Win7 64bit?

I definitely don't have that file either in my install directory so you should be fine, you could always just run the Steam verify game cache option if you've deleted anything accidentally anyway.

 

[Derrick01]

I want to try the shaders and a lot of these other graphical tweaks but the game doesn't run that amazingly for me anyway. All high and out of settlements I get mostly 60 fps but in settlements and especially cities I get 40-45. Markarth beats the shit out of my machine all the way down to 30-35.

 

[bwtw]

How are you guys keeping track of updates to mods you've already installed? Is there a more efficient way than just bookmarking the pages and opening them all up every so often?

 

[Enco]

I want to try the shaders and a lot of these other graphical tweaks but the game doesn't run that amazingly for me anyway. All high and out of settlements I get mostly 60 fps but in settlements and especially cities I get 40-45. Markarth beats the shit out of my machine all the way down to 30-35.

That sounds pretty good to me... Most mods won't make much difference.

 

[goodfella]

I really liked the look of enhanced shaders, but it took away my 60fps.

 

[bananaman1234]

How are you guys keeping track of updates to mods you've already installed? Is there a more efficient way than just bookmarking the pages and opening them all up every so often?

Nexus mod manager although it is quite buggy. You could also sign up for an account there and "track" each mod by clicking the binoculars button.

 

[Dice]

I definitely don't have that file either in my install directory so you should be fine, you could always just run the Steam verify game cache option if you've deleted anything accidentally anyway.

Okay, well time to try this "performance enhancer"

 

[Derrick01]

That sounds pretty good to me... Most mods won't make much difference.

I figure tiny stuff like improved food and faces/bodies won't do much but how does the water and fire upgrades run? I'm only working with a gtx 470 on the settings I said earlier.

 

[Hawk269]

2 more screens to illustrate and repeat some points about my config. And I went with 4xSSAA, hardly a difference in fps, gonna stick with that for sure.

Random shot I liked. As noted a few posts up, pretty game is pretty.

I know this one isn't the SKyrim "welcome to" poster image but the distant details are what I love. Right above my ret, you see the mammoth that you wouldn't see without added distance LOD.

Liquid...Did you update you .ini settings in one of the posts? If so, can you direct me to where your latest one is. I am going to try your setup with my rig.

Thanks!!!

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I really liked the look of enhanced shaders, but it took away my 60fps.

I learned to care less about that as long as I'm above 30. Yes, it's not as good as constant 60 BUT the game does look enormously better with tweaked settings and mods.

 

[bwtw]

Nexus mod manager although it is quite buggy. You could also sign up for an account there and "track" each mod by clicking the binoculars button.

Great, thanks, hadn't noticed the binocular icon.

 

[Moaradin]

I learned to care less about that as long as I'm above 30. Yes, it's not as good as constant 60 BUT the game does look enormously better with tweaked settings and mods.

I don't mind the 30fps but the mouse acceleration is ass with lower fps.

 

[leng jai]

Yeah....default enhanced shaders mod looks pretty awful.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I don't mind the 30fps but the mouse acceleration is ass with lower fps.

I went with pad until that's sorted. It feels just fine with it too. Like a few other games that seemed to cater to pad users, which is nice.

I was so impressed with that mod manager from Skyrimnexus that I added it to the Mods section and highly recommend it.

 

[Dennis]

Improved rock and mountain textures. Going to try this out shortly.

That doesn't really look like an increase from 1024 to 4096 textures to me.

I also notice that the mod is called "improved" rather than "high res"....

 

[CaLe]

I just tried the Enhanced Shadow mod and I get a huge FPS hit.

I recommend you continue to use Kyaw's FXAA injector configurations for better results.

 

[BoobPhysics101]

I figure tiny stuff like improved food and faces/bodies won't do much but how does the water and fire upgrades run? I'm only working with a gtx 470 on the settings I said earlier.

They'll run fine. GTX 470 is still a very powerful card.

 

[Confidence Man]

Same here. Most people end up making the game's already awesome colors look blown out. I'm waiting for someone to make a really pro looking shader/color mod that makes things look incredible without worsening some aspect of the picture or losing the original art vision.

The game's colors are a little washed out to begin with. If anything some color and tone adjustments help give the art a shot of life.

 

[leng jai]

The game's colors are a little washed out to begin with. If anything some color and tone adjustments help give the art a shot of life.

The colors in vanilla look absolutely fine on my plasma. The weather and time of day makes a big difference - looking slightly washed out at times makes sense sometimes. All these shader mods make everything far too saturated.

 

[BoobPhysics101]

The game's colors are a little washed out to begin with. If anything some color and tone adjustments help give the art a shot of life.

The colors in vanilla look a absolutely fine on my plasma. The weather and time of day makes a big difference - looking slightly washed out at times makes sense sometimes. All these shader makes make everything far too saturated.

Leng Jai summed it up nicely. I'd rather wait for something finely tuned than the 'quick-fix' of these FXAA injectors.

 

[Garrus Vakarian]

This probably sounds stupid, but for the best quality do you put all the sliders to the right or to the left? (e.g. fade)

 

[JoeBoy101]

Couple of shots I just took. Not using FXAA or injectors, just stock with high res textures + realistic fire mod + water mod.

Agreed. Smoke looks better, but the fire looks alot better. And hell, I didn't think it sucked to begin with.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

This probably sounds stupid, but for the best quality do you put all the sliders to the right or to the left? (e.g. fade)

To the right

 

[-PXG-]

Ah finally. The iPhone GAF app works again.

Anyway, I ordered parts for my new rig. My crappy laptop that I've had for four years died. I should have everything by Wednesday.

My rig consists of:

i5 2500K (probably gonna overclock it @ 3.8)
(x2) GTX 560s (1GB each) ( my mobo supports SLI, so if course these bad boys are getting bridged.
16GB RAM
1 TB HDD (will get a SSD at some point)

I was wonderinf if I will be able to run my CPU at a higher speed. I'll have air cooling, which is why I'm hesitant about making it 4.0 or higher. Oh and going with 750w PSU as well.

Lastly, Skyrim supports SLI, but hiw is it? For those who a dual card setup, how is performance and how well optimized is it?

 

[charsace]

Most of these graphic mods look bad.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Ah finally. The iPhone GAF app works again.

Anyway, I ordered parts for my new rig. My crappy laptop that I've had for four years died. I should have everything by Wednesday.

My rig consists of:

i5 2500K (probably gonna overclock it @ 3.8)
(x2) GTX 560s (1GB each) ( my mobo supports SLI, so if course these bad boys are getting bridged.
16GB RAM
1 TB HDD (will get a SSD at some point)

I was wonderinf if I will be able to run my CPU at a higher speed. I'll have air cooling, which is why I'm hesitant about making it 4.0 or higher. Oh and going with 750w PSU as well.

Lastly, Skyrim supports SLI, but hiw is it? For those who a dual card setup, how is performance and how well optimized is it?

SLI and CF do not fully scale. Not for everyone at least. This game is still a WIP with many improvements to come.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Ini post

Shit dude, I copied your ini settings and holy shite, it looks awesome, particularly the distance of people etc. Thanks for that.

Edit: Actually the only problem I see, is the ground sort of gets darker as I walk along, like it's loading more detailed ground but too close. Any ideas?

 

[Deadstar]

Yeah....default enhanced shaders mod looks pretty awful.

I agree. I installed that mod and it made everything look extremely dark and I couldn't tweak it to get it looking good. It also seemed to strip the color from the world rather than enhance it. I was in a cave at the time but it definitely took away the color that was there.

I installed the high res face, body and eye mods and those look incredible. I would highly recommend these. Oh, and I installed the water mod as well that was listed a few posts back. It looks stunning.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Shit dude, I copied your ini settings and holy shite, it looks awesome, particularly the distance of people etc. Thanks for that.

Edit: Actually the only problem I see, is the ground sort of gets darker as I walk along, like it's loading more detailed ground but too close. Any ideas?

Try adjusting the shadowdistance to 6000.

 

[Deadstar]

That doesn't really look like an increase from 1024 to 4096 textures to me.

I also notice that the mod is called "improved" rather than "high res"....

I'm interested in the rock texture mod as well. Let me know how it is.

Will these mods cause any issues when the inevitable patches are released?

 

[herzogzwei1989]

I'm STILL a n00b to PCs but I'm pretty happy with my rigs performance in Skyrim.
I have a Core i7 @ 2.93 GHz, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 460 1 GB (everything stock). I usually run Skyrim with high settings and no AA.

 

[Garrus Vakarian]

To the right

Ahh ok. Thank you.

 

[Avyrocky]

Is there a fix for the crash to desktop? Happening regularly and it is fucking annoying...

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Is there a fix for the crash to desktop? Happening regularly and it is fucking annoying...

Large address aware patch in the OP under the Ugrids guide, will edit it into the fixes.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

Try adjusting the shadowdistance to 6000.

Giving it a go now. Also, is there a way to set the controls to inverted and the subtitles off by default in the ini as they reset every time?

 

[DenogginizerOS]

I lost saves today to some mysterious corruption and I am still getting CTDs. I am waiting for the patch. Fucking blows.