ENBoost does it help performance?

[33011 The G]

title says it all!

[Vinnie Mack]

i doubt it. I don't think it hurts performance though. It just changes what the program does with the graphics. Some texture packs supposedly help performance by adding simplified textures. If you are looking for performance enhancements, Nexus has many of them. Enbs should do this though. Unless it does less color or shading or some such.

[Ilja]

Enboost works through enbhost.exe, allowing game to use RAM to support VRAM. This prevents game from crashing, when geometry data fills VRAM.

This is not as a big thing for Fallout 4 as it was for 32bit Skyrim, because 64bit Bethesda games are using memory more effectively.

I have not followed how FO4 ENB development has been going on. That is next in my to-do list, after this week. In any case, tweaking your game INI files is the most effective performance booster - if such is possible.

This is also true with 32bit Skyrim: if your INI-tweaks do not solve the issue, then ENB settings are not going to make things any better.

[Vinnie Mack]

Originally posted by Ilja:

Enboost works through enbhost.exe, allowing game to use RAM to support VRAM. This prevents game from crashing, when geometry data fills VRAM.

This is not as a big thing for Fallout 4 as it was for 32bit Skyrim, because 64bit Bethesda games are using memory more effectively.

I have not followed how FO4 ENB development has been going on. That is next in my to-do list, after this week. In any case, tweaking your game INI files is the most effective performance booster - if such is possible.

This is also true with 32bit Skyrim: if your INI-tweaks do not solve the issue, then ENB settings are not going to make things any better.

guess i was wrong. ENBs make the game look much better. Much better.

[33011 The G]

Originally posted by Ilja:

Enboost works through enbhost.exe, allowing game to use RAM to support VRAM. This prevents game from crashing, when geometry data fills VRAM.

This is not as a big thing for Fallout 4 as it was for 32bit Skyrim, because 64bit Bethesda games are using memory more effectively.

I have not followed how FO4 ENB development has been going on. That is next in my to-do list, after this week. In any case, tweaking your game INI files is the most effective performance booster - if such is possible.

This is also true with 32bit Skyrim: if your INI-tweaks do not solve the issue, then ENB settings are not going to make things any better.

Thanks!

[Ilja]

Originally posted by Vinnie Mack:

guess i was wrong. ENBs make the game look much better. Much better.

You weren't actually wrong there at all. ENB may in some cases help performance. Default INI-files are just a lot more important than that.

I would start from shadows. FO4 and Skyrim SE shadows are a lot more performance friendly than Skyrim LE had, but those are still one of them main thing to cause performance problems - and a thing that is most often overlooked by people tweaking their INI-files for performance.

[Hippopotamus]

Would ENB lower load times? Because my loadtimes are too freaking long, and I even have an SSD.

[Ilja]

That feature was never ENB thing. It is Script Extender thing, originating from Sheson's original work.

Memory allocation works differently in FO4. Fix would be different and has not yet been added to F4SE (currently in v0.4.1.) I have no idea if or when it is going to get included.

[cszolee79]

Originally posted by Captain Speirs:

Would ENB lower load times? Because my loadtimes are too freaking long, and I even have an SSD.

Load Accelerator is what you need.
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283/?

[Ilja]

Originally posted by cszolee79:

Originally posted by Captain Speirs:

Would ENB lower load times? Because my loadtimes are too freaking long, and I even have an SSD.

Load Accelerator is what you need.
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283/?

That is interesting. I was following F4SE process, so I missed this one. I will test it as well.

Thanks.

[Hippopotamus]

Originally posted by cszolee79:

Originally posted by Captain Speirs:

Would ENB lower load times? Because my loadtimes are too freaking long, and I even have an SSD.

Load Accelerator is what you need.
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283/?

Seems to work, thanks.