Lagging with graphics mods and enb why?

[thestellarcorpse]

Hi, i just downloaded skyrim SE for my laptop. i know this game has been around for a long time and i was always wishing to really play it someday.
So my issue is thay i also have far 4 installed which runs smoothly on my laptop on high graphics i get atleast 30+ always on high and 40+ FPS on medium settings and believe me guys far cry 4 looks amazing the weather the godrays the tree with AA on and it doesn't lag at all.. but why is skyrim so performance heavy i mean it's graphics are not at all likeable or pleasing to the eye i get around 20 fps on high settings only with TAA on.. without TAA the game look like sheeet.. so i installed and tried a few enbs like silent horizons enb and nvt etc but i couldn't find any enb that modifies or clears the faded and dull colors oof skyrim .. so basically i have two questions please tell me why this game(skyrim) despite of being so dull and unnatural looking why it's lagging in my laptop with low fps while on the other hand far cry 4 runs ssooo awesome.. and second question is there any mod or enb that clears the unnecessary fog and mist from skyrim and make it look a bit more sharp and nice and cozy which can also change the color scheme that the base game is using.. please guys help i knw it's a big read but i appreciate any help.. and fyi my laptop has 8gb ram/1tb hdd/nvidia geforce 930m. please help.

[SpeedFreak1972]

yea well first of all this isn't Far cry 4 also you have an enb that will impact your performance and last and not least a geforce 930m with enb and you're surprise it's lagging?

[LT2483]

The distance fog is there as a load distance thing. Basically, nothing is beyond it, so it looks nicer to have a fog, over an unloaded world.

As for why it run so badly... it's not the most optimised game, and your computer isn't that good either. Compounded with running external graphics modifications and, I assume, high quality texture packs, it's more than your graphics card can handle.

My only suggestion is to make sure you are running the lower quality texture packs. A mixture of 2k and 4k at most. If that's still too much, just see how the game runs without ENB or texture/content mods.

[KNDY | No Toxicity!]

Because mods aren't made to be optimised or to be integrated with the game's engine. They're add-ons and depending on what ENB you use, it may further impact the performance. ENB is like a separate engine you run along side Skyrim's Creation Engine.

Not to say mods cannot be optimized but only to a degree and unless we have access to the source code where we change fundamentally how Creation engine works, this will not be solvable. Which of course, we can't because it's Bethesda IP and assets.

In a sense, you're running 2 games, albeit ENB is smaller and only handling the visuals.

" Looking nice " is not what a a game engine consider or care about. Every engine is made different and the math behind them are done differently. Some may be better than the other and some are made with a very clever trick. For example, Horizon's Zero Dawn has a clever way of removing assets when the player do not look at them to reduce overload.

Skyrim has that too but it's old and done differently. While Skyrim SE is generally newer, but it was initially out back in 2011 and SE is only a remaster and not a remade. Meaning it still carries flaws and old render technique it has back then. And then to consider that game dev takes time, skyrim may as well be using something made in 2008 or even older.

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As for making your skyrim run better, I would say you need to use performance-friendly enb instead. ENB like silent horizons does not just change the colour, it changes how rendering of the game works from an external source.

Here's something you can try that people suggests as performance-friendly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/hahei2/sse_performance_friendly_enb/

If not, your best bet is to not use ENB or any graphical mods at all. Specially when it becomes Ram hungry and graphic intensive.

[StreamWhenGuy]

Originally posted by LT2483:

The distance fog is there as a load distance thing. Basically, nothing is beyond it, so it looks nicer to have a fog, over an unloaded world.

That's not how it works. Everything will still be rendered beyond fog if tweaked accordingly. Distant fog is just a visual quirk.

[lizrdfishr]

nvidia geforce 930m running an ENB...

I run an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 for VR and I absolutely take a performance hit with an ENB. I would expect serious lag on a 930m.