Community Shaders + ReShade looks just as good as ENB

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

With all the Community Shaders addons enabled, PBR textures, Placed Lights and a Reshade to adjust the color/add additional blood, etc I think it looks better than even the best ENBs like Cabbage and even though the performance is fairly similar I find the frame pacing of Community Shaders to be much better.

Might be worth trying out if you're tired of Plastic looking Skyrim with ENB stutters.

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

if you're tired of Plastic looking Skyrim

That's funny, considering I've seen the complaint that PBR makes everything look like plastic.

[Altbert]

A screenhot of the inn in Dragon Bridge,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426140248
using:

• Community Shaders
  
• CS Light
  
• Light Limit Fix
  
• Light Placer
  
• Skylighting
  
• Cloud Shadows

No Reshade or PBR. Used Autoparallax for this shot. I will probably soon try PGPatcher for parallax, and maybe also Reshade. I haven't made up my mind yet.

BTW: using the nVidea RTX 4060Ti GPU.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

if you're tired of Plastic looking Skyrim

That's funny, considering I've seen the complaint that PBR makes everything look like plastic.

They probably didn't patch the PBR textures/meshes properly.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Altbert:

A screenhot of the inn in Dragon Bridge,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426140248
using:

• Community Shaders
  
• CS Light
  
• Light Limit Fix
  
• Light Placer
  
• Skylighting
  
• Cloud Shadows

No Reshade or PBR. Used Autoparallax for this shot. I will probably soon try PGPatcher for parallax, and maybe also Reshade. I haven't made up my mind yet.

BTW: using the nVidea RTX 4060Ti GPU.

That's not bad.

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726025791/2A1A42F6EFF4349D95EB02C10A4EDEC66F1F1C82/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726040981/BC1393C0AD1C18D992B0506565C82E6547D6BD08/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726045013/9E39123181D83A0CB5FA32596AC3C2080A43E6E0/

[Altbert]

First two images seem to use PBR, which I don't like at all. Third image also with PBR, although I'm not sure.

[PaPaKat]

Originally posted by Altbert:

A screenhot of the inn in Dragon Bridge,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426140248
using:

• Community Shaders
  
• CS Light
  
• Light Limit Fix
  
• Light Placer
  
• Skylighting
  
• Cloud Shadows

No Reshade or PBR. Used Autoparallax for this shot. I will probably soon try PGPatcher for parallax, and maybe also Reshade. I haven't made up my mind yet.

BTW: using the nVidea RTX 4060Ti GPU.

just curious..whats your RAM? i just upgraded mine to 32GB and amazed at the difference it made as far as quality
heres mine now:

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.1 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

That's funny, considering I've seen the complaint that PBR makes everything look like plastic.

They probably didn't patch the PBR textures/meshes properly.

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726025791/2A1A42F6EFF4349D95EB02C10A4EDEC66F1F1C82/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726040981/BC1393C0AD1C18D992B0506565C82E6547D6BD08/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726045013/9E39123181D83A0CB5FA32596AC3C2080A43E6E0/

I'd guess you didn't patch them properly then, since your screenshots look like plastic (especially the first one)

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

They probably didn't patch the PBR textures/meshes properly.

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726025791/2A1A42F6EFF4349D95EB02C10A4EDEC66F1F1C82/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726040981/BC1393C0AD1C18D992B0506565C82E6547D6BD08/

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/52460326726045013/9E39123181D83A0CB5FA32596AC3C2080A43E6E0/

I'd guess you didn't patch them properly then, since your screenshots look like plastic (especially the first one)

See the difference between how light reacts to the stone and the wood in the 1st one?

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Altbert:

First two images seem to use PBR, which I don't like at all. Third image also with PBR, although I'm not sure.

That's Skyland PBR (Bits n Pieces PBR too). All 3. Northern Roads PBR too.

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

I'd guess you didn't patch them properly then, since your screenshots look like plastic (especially the first one)

See the difference between how light reacts to the stone and the wood in the 1st one?

All I see is light reacting to plastic.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

See the difference between how light reacts to the stone and the wood in the 1st one?

All I see is light reacting to plastic.

IDK. It's a little too shiny. But That's it.

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Originally posted by Altbert:

First two images seem to use PBR, which I don't like at all. Third image also with PBR, although I'm not sure.

That's Skyland PBR (Bits n Pieces PBR too). All 3. Northern Roads PBR too.

Impossible. I'm using Skyland PBR and it doesn't look like plastic like that.

[Altbert]

Originally posted by PaPaKat:

just curious..whats your RAM? i just upgraded mine to 32GB and amazed at the difference it made as far as quality
heres mine now:

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.1 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Processor: Intel i5-12600KF
RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Video: RTX 4060Ti 16 GB

[Altbert]

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

Originally posted by Altbert:

First two images seem to use PBR, which I don't like at all. Third image also with PBR, although I'm not sure.

That's Skyland PBR (Bits n Pieces PBR too). All 3. Northern Roads PBR too.

If my game would look like that, I would instantly ditch all PBR. I think PBR is the worst thing that has been added to CS. At the moment trying to figure out Reshade, but maybe also ditching that, but giving it just another try. Next to test is PGPatcher (ParallaxGen). If it doesn't work out, I'll stick with my config mentioned above.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Originally posted by Hypertext Eye:

Originally posted by Bad Distraction Carnifex:

That's Skyland PBR (Bits n Pieces PBR too). All 3. Northern Roads PBR too.

Impossible. I'm using Skyland PBR and it doesn't look like plastic like that.

Could be the reshade I'm using. But I 100% swear, I'm using Skyland, Skybits PBR and Nothern Roads PBR in that priority when patching.