ENB Anisotropic Filtering

[=CrimsoN=]

Okay. So for the past week or so, I've been diagnosing a problem with my Skyrim setup. I have 2K and 4K textures on a ton of stuff, in addition to ENB and I could not figure out for the life me why ground textures (and other textures) were blurry almost directly in front of me. My previous Skyrim mod setup never looked like that and looked amazing! and AF is enabled in my ENB configuration files and disabled in the launcher (as instructed).

So today I figured it out, and wanted to post here to make others aware and perhaps have this little tidbit included in some of the major guides so other people dont waste away weeks of pulling out their hair to solve a simple problem.

Apparently turning off (forcing off) Anisotropic Filtering in the Nvidia Control Panel (or Inspector) also forces it off in the ENB settings where it is normally enabled. I don't know how, since I figured settings in the Nvidia Control Panel were seperate from ENB and Skyrim configuration files, but apparently that isn't so. After setting both Anisotropic Filtering and Antialiasing Mode to "Application-Controlled", Im no longer getting any problems with blurry textures and I can see a slight increase in performance (although, that might be something else), but the Nvidia Control Panel (or inspector) can definitely conflict.




tl'dr A lot of ENB files instruct you to disable AA and AF in the Skyrim launcher, and you may think that its okay to do this in the Nvidia Control Panel as well, but this is not the case! Only disable it in the launcher!

[Scorpox]

Thank you so much Comrade you saved my Skyrim! I had exactly the same problem as you mentioned. I was ripping off my hair for searching for a solution. Finally my Skyrim looks great again!

[=CrimsoN=]

Haha I don't even remember this post, but glad I could be of help! :D

[Zevirem]

This is good to know thanks!

[archdragon_cur]

four years late, but this worked, thank you greatly for this

[=CrimsoN=]

Hey no problem! Totally forgot about this lol

[Jeff]

thanks