Skyrim + ENB - Graphics Card Thread

Neil79 · 20 Oct 2014 at 22:50

Has anyone played Skyrim with the latest texture mods and ENB? I get frame rate drops into the 30's with an ENB and wondered what sort of FPS people were getting with a 970 or 980!

Really considering it later this year

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 00:14

topgun06 said:
I might be able to let you know once my 970 arrives

Getting ENB to work property was one of the things which prompted me to take the plunge for an upgrade.

Nice! Same here :

MasterOC said:
What CPU are u running , I don't play the game at all but understand is CPU bound . May be that your bottlenecking , may be going over the vram limit and or the game dosnt support SLI very well if you use sli. Check with one card and then retry othar than that I'm unsure

i5 2500k at 4.7

With every upgrade of GPU the frame rates have gone up and up

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 12:23

So basically two 280x's?

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 12:34

Cheers guys! Some thinking to do then

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 13:34

Install an ENB and come back

Good fps though :O

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 15:48

Fanatic said:
Your images are tiny so I can't really see properly, but it doesn't look like you have an ENB on .

True, it doesn't all

Oh and pics of 1024 atleast

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 16:36

Fanatic said:
Why the new thread anyway Neil? Huge thread in PC Games section... started by you .

I knew I'd get that

Basically its a graphics card only related thread for Skyrim, people have generally been asking through the months about frame rates and ENB's. This would be more suited to it.

Neil79 · 21 Oct 2014 at 23:32

Thanks for the thread rename!

Hopefully we see some good impressions from those with 970's, 980's, 780TI's and the like

Neil79 · 22 Oct 2014 at 12:23

Very nice and good screenies too!

Anyone else want to play the Skyrim + ENB game?

Neil79 · 22 Oct 2014 at 14:09

What's the lowest FPS you've seen so far in some of the major villages?

Neil79 · 23 Oct 2014 at 00:51

Anyone else?

Neil79 · 23 Oct 2014 at 10:46

Think I'll save up for a 980x, 970 is nice but I'm always buying mid range cards, like the 280x to the 290 etc

Neil79 · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:32

Has anyone gone from a 7950/70 or a 280x to a 970/980 and tried Skyrim + ENB?

Neil79 · 26 Oct 2014 at 13:46

Neil79 · 26 Oct 2014 at 14:26

I have a 280x overclocked 1100/1500 and I've seen it struggle with an ENB, great other wise though

Neil79 · 26 Oct 2014 at 19:29

Goose said:
A lot of people just install too many grass mods and unless you run a sensible imingrasssize= value it can absolutely kill your FPS.

Never have an issue outside it's just two villages with ENB's

Riften looking towards the Market
&
Markarth ( Has frame rate issues without ENB

)

Because I notice any drops below 50 I don't like it, would be fine with Adaptive Vsync but only Nvidia has that, AMD has Radeon Pro + Dynamic Vsync and it sucks

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:48

As I now have a great power supply and space! Anyone running 2X 280x's with crossfire?

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:36

topgun06 said:
Well I got my 970 installed. Now my Skyrim with ENB and many texture mods runs smooth!

Very happy.

Screenshots and frame rates in towns or it doesn't count

Uncle Petey said:
Last time I checked/tried, Skyrim with xfire is a pain to get working and when you do get past the fiddling, it usually has issues like grey faces for example.
Ask TonyTurbo, he's the man to consult. Maybe he's managed to sort it out.

Personally, I'd say to just OC and run a single card on this one.

Yeh I've read issues from the older drivers, but I thought that was sorted?

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2014 at 15:45

Thought as much Tony

Seems the drivers have really matured as have the ENB's and crossfire.. Well I'm on the hunt for another 280x then

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2014 at 16:40

Uncle Petey said:
You might want to ask for details on how he got it working
It's not just a matter enabling xfire and away you go.

Didn't think that anyway

But crossfire with other games + profiles would be a bonus too