Shadow Boost working on SSE

[valkyr]

Basically the title, Fallout 4 Shadow Boost is working on Skyrim Special Edition and damn does it help with frame-rates, just a heads up for anyone who needs a lil performance boost.

[Alice and Astreus Grimaude]

What's it do, if I might ask?

[cwattyeso]

I believe Shadow Boost controls the draw distance and quality of shadows in game dynamically and on the fly to try and deliver the framerate value you manually set in its configuration. Basically whilst you are are then playing the game, it'll update shadows in game to keep the framerate running as close to your target as possible. Meaning you hopefully won't get those moments where the framerate dips in some areas and you start to notice lag. You will however notice the shadow detail and quality drop as the mod does its work in these areas.

[valkyr]

Originally posted by Matthew Wolfbane:

What's it do, if I might ask?

What cwattyeso said pretty much, you set a value of the minimum shadow distance/detail and a maximum, when you are at 60fps you'll have as much shadow detail as you want, and when you are about to drop below 60fps shadow quality will drop to the value you wrote on the .ini file to maintain a steady 60fps.

[[D]Mit.]

The latest version of Shadowboost also works for SE 1.1 ?!
I freaking loved that mod when i was playing FO4 ( pre DLC, need to update my stuff again since i have expansion pass but too lazy ).
You just download and throw it into the root folder of SE or make some changes ?

[Hillary Clinton]

I don't notice drops from shadows in this game tbh at least with the AMD 290, guessing this is great for people struggling though so thats cool someone made something like this.

They should build this into games.

[valkyr]

Originally posted by DMit.:

The latest version of Shadowboost also works for SE 1.1 ?!
I freaking loved that mod when i was playing FO4 ( pre DLC, need to update my stuff again since i have expansion pass but too lazy ).
You just download and throw it into the root folder of SE or make some changes ?

Yup, i'm on 1.1 and it's working perfectly for me, it's the same installation that FO4 had, here's a video in case you're not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9ZlB_L00s

Just a heads up, Shadow distance=3000 is medium, 8000 is high, and 15000 is ultra.

Enjoy :)

[valkyr]

Originally posted by Hillary Clinton:

I don't notice drops from shadows in this game tbh at least with the AMD 290, guessing this is great for people struggling though so thats cool someone made something like this.

They should build this into games.

Well your GPU is definetely up to the task, i can also maintain 60FPS on my R9 380 (weaker than your GPU obviously) but those micro-stutters down to 58fps were really annoying me and this definetely fixed it.

[[D]Mit.]

Originally posted by breathE:

Originally posted by DMit.:

The latest version of Shadowboost also works for SE 1.1 ?!
I freaking loved that mod when i was playing FO4 ( pre DLC, need to update my stuff again since i have expansion pass but too lazy ).
You just download and throw it into the root folder of SE or make some changes ?

Yup, i'm on 1.1 and it's working perfectly for me, it's the same installation that FO4 had, here's a video in case you're not sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9ZlB_L00s

Just a heads up, Shadow distance=3000 is medium, 8000 is high, and 15000 is ultra.

Enjoy :)

Awesome !

[Hillary Clinton]

Originally posted by breathE:

Originally posted by Hillary Clinton:

I don't notice drops from shadows in this game tbh at least with the AMD 290, guessing this is great for people struggling though so thats cool someone made something like this.

They should build this into games.

Well your GPU is definetely up to the task, i can also maintain 60FPS on my R9 380 (weaker than your GPU obviously) but those micro-stutters down to 58fps were really annoying me and this definetely fixed it.

I think I get a couple 55-58 range but Freesync sorta deals with that, maybe I would need this also if not for that, even with freesync I felt stutter on the old skyrim tbh, glad this upgraded game came out.

[valkyr]

Originally posted by Hillary Clinton:

Originally posted by breathE:

Well your GPU is definetely up to the task, i can also maintain 60FPS on my R9 380 (weaker than your GPU obviously) but those micro-stutters down to 58fps were really annoying me and this definetely fixed it.

I think I get a couple 55-58 range but Freesync sorta deals with that, maybe I would need this also if not for that, even with freesync I felt stutter on the old skyrim tbh, glad this upgraded game came out.

Yeah, it's not the hardware at all but the game and it's crappy memory management and it's even worse implementation of VSync, my GPU never reaches 100% (neither my CPU) but yet i still drop frames to 55fps from time to time, it's definetely the game.