I didn't know how much ENB kills FPS

[Vul†s]

I've always played Skyrim and Fallout 4 at 60 fps. For some reason I decided to do some tests and I ended up disabling Vsync, when I went to open the game I saw that it ran between 55-70 fps, having its biggest drop in dense areas, to my surprise when I turned off the ENB my FPS go from 70 to 130... You need almost doubled the FPS to tank an ENB. Just the SSAO stole between 25-40 fps. Damn.... That's a crazy thing

[SuperSledgeNY]

And yet one more player trying to run the game faster than it was designed for.

I look forward to your future threads complaining about why is your game is broken.

[Vul†s]

What? I start the thread saying I always played the games at 60... I was doing tests between the game's Vsync and using the Nvidia control panel. So much so that I at least knew that an ENB weighed so much...

[SuperSledgeNY]

OK then, my bad. At least you're playing at the recommended FPS

[SuperSledgeNY]

Personally, I think ENB is overrated unless you're a screen archer. For regular gameplay, there are texture mods available that make the game look just as good if not better and without the hit in performance.

[FlameWar]

Yeah, ENB's can be nice if you wnat some very specific results, but for general use they don't do much.

As for the performance hit they cause, anyone could see that they'll cause a massive performance hit usualy by lookign at what they do.
They change Lightning, Reflections, AA, dust/fog/smoke etc., or to sum it um: Post-Processing stuff. Any and all Post processing requires a lot of CPU/GPU power compared to stuff like turning up Texture quality, which has a small Processing impact but a fairly large RAM/VRAM impact.
And for F4 you will see an espeicaly big impact from post processing as the game doesn't have great Multi Core support on the CPU side, which a lot of the Post Processing stuff ends up on. So if oyu have a newer rig, your CPU is already one of the herdest bottlenecks for the game, and oyu are stressing it further.

If oyu wnat significantly better looks withotu the massive performance hit, I recommend stuff like the Inofficial HD texture pack on Nexus. It'll eat 2-4 GB mroe RAM and VRAM, but only have a 5-10% FPS impact for my testing. Which btw means it has less memory and Performance impact than the official HD texture pack, and looks better in many aspects.

[serker31]

Originally posted by Vul†s:

I didn't know how much ENB kills FPS

Maybe you should choose a lighter preset. Or learn what ENB preset is, it seems you don't know that part because you blame ENB itself for your FPS hit.

[Ilja]

ENB itself does not eat any of your FPS. It is just a binary pack.

ENB presets are the ones used for post processing graphics. How light or heavy they are depends entirely of what author did with them. ENB preset might cause practically 0 FPS cause. Heavy presets might cause very notable FPS loss.

The more changes the preset makes the heavier it gets. If you just want to spice up colors a bit then that shouldn't cause any noticeable FPS loss. If you start redoing shadows (etc.) then FPS hit is certain.

[BGratz]

#Still has no idea what enb means

[Carbohydrated Caretaker]

yep. similarly I used to use ELFX and going in interiors was incredibly laggy and frame drops where crazy. I did some research and came to the conclusion that ELFX was the problem. once i disabled it the game was running smoothly.

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by BGratz:

#Still has no idea what enb means

Research it, Everyone who just dabbles in mods should know by now.

Anyway, I never really bothered with it cos the niceness of it HAD to come at a cost. Same with things like ELFX. And it does- a big one, even when they say it don't. It surprises me that so many people think they can have such incredible graphics at no fps (or minimum) costs.

You need a really beefy machine for anything like that.

[BGratz]

Yea i asked google

As someone who started gaming with a black screen with 2 White bars and a flying "Dot" i can say that since we have 1920x1080 resolution grafics are by far less relevant.

In the beginning we hyped every new generation, but that was like
Yeaaa 4 colors
YAAAAAAA 16 Colors
Yaaaaaaaabadabadoo 256 Colors
....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86O3PxdLrg8&t

Or different said, no one really need the GPU development of the last 15 Years.
Simple proof, look how online player play their games, they disable everything

[socialmediaaddress3]

On this note, my favorite texture mod is Vivid Fallout all-in-one.
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/25714

It really crisps up your game w/o the weight of a full up ENB.
Has an incompatibilty with "A forest" though so I dont run both same time.

[major tom]

it is mainly ao and shadow related setting that can kill your fps. dense city areas are extremely impacted by that. choose your settings wisely or use mods with dynamic shadow settings.