The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

[Ace Modder]

I'm also using the Opethfeldt6 and loving it.

I found the default nights to be too dark for me so I played around the the settings a little to suit (SHIFT + PageDn)

What did you change to make the darkness, not so dark. Cos I think it's too dark also.

EDIT:
I've found the options having a play now!

 

[Uncle Petey]

Doesn't opethfeldt say not to use CoT/elfx etc?

I'd need a few screenies to show all the mods I have on the go and I'm not even at the insane stage like some here

 

[Ace Modder]

Well here is outside during the night using ENB.



Way too dark.... Had a play with the settings in ENB for outside night and got this....



Then went even brighter with



I'm happy I have found the "brightness settings"

Cheers for that Devious.

 

[Ace Modder]

Doesn't opethfeldt say not to use CoT/elfx etc?

Well its ok for me.

Gunna try disabling them anyway now.

 

[Uncle Petey]

If it ain't broke...

I think it's probably because it'll override the Opeth weather stuff amongst other things.
No idea what's better though.

Fwiw, I prefer my nights fairly dark. Not blackout levels, but realistic light of the stars kind of thing and likely to need a torch.

 

[Ace Modder]

I disabled both CoT and elfx... and I didnt like it... the dark areas were too blue.

I have re-enabled elfx, but not CoT and much better now...DoF is certainly working well now.

EDIT - see with both elfx and COT disables, the rocks too far too blue.


But with ELFX only enabled I get this... awesome DoF.



and in good light this...

 

[Devious]

I also read not to use other lighting/weather mods with opethfeldt so i never tried. I might have a go now as i also found the nights a bit blue. It did help tweaking the night saturation.

Another reason I like openfeldt is the in built setting menu. The early enb where a pain to tweak out of game.

 

[Amraam]

Most ENB have in game settings, using shift return.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

if you want better darker nights, but have the land lit up, then try one of the night sky mods, they light up the environment and it looks beautiful. These are some screenies of my night time, ive turned off DOF in one of them so you can see the sky properly..this is Horizon Of Dreams and Shooting Stars mods with COT and Realvision. This is just before the sun started to come up, so there is a little extra light, but I love these night sky mods.

Ive also sorted out my blue amour, weapons issues, I just needed aMidian book of armours hotfix

 

[smelly_legend]

What textures packs are you running and are you using the Static mesh improvement mod?

Here's a few random shots from before I tweaked the enb settings for the better.
I think it's realvision + ELFX with other stuff, though I've tried a few different enb/lighting mods and can't be sure what's in these pics tbh. CoT is definitely there.
Real Clouds is an awesome mod, though it can be a little glitchy sometimes.

Spoiler

Nice, you use a lot of the same mods as I do. I do agree that Real Clouds is an awesome mod. You should also try denser grass, it's like dat grass mod, but not as green.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28427/?

 

[Uncle Petey]

I'm using Grass on steroids, Lush tress and grass, Flora Overhaul and Hybrid's HD plant s and herbs.
Pretty sure that I changed iMinGrassSize to 90-100 because it was just too thick and obscuring at 75 and below.
Not sure I want to make it more dense tbh

 

[~>Dg<~]

TonyTurbo78 like that mod

 

[JJimmyJ]

Hi All,

Quick questions regarding ENB's. I've tried a couple and not too fussed on them, colours look too saturated to me. However, I did notice that they upped my GPU usage to 99%!! When I play normally it only hovers about 50/60%. I'm sure my CPU is a bottleneck for this game but I'm confused as to how an ENB can suddenly up my GPU usage if it's already bottlenecked?
Also, does anyone run Climates of Tamriel without an ENB?

 

[Neil79]

Anyone playing skyrim on a 780, 280 or 290? Any good ?

 

[enigma27]

Anyone playing skyrim on a 780, 280 or 290? Any good ?

I play it on a 780... even with a hell of a lot of mods and running an ENB i play at 60fps except for areas like whiterun which drops to about 50 just for the shear amount of stuff thats going on..

On quests which are in doors or large open areas FPS never seems to drop.

 

[Fanatic]

To find the minimum FPS you are likely to see just wander around the marshes North of Morthal. Seems to be the biggest FPS killer in the game.

Just reinstalled Skyrim .

 

[Neil79]

Cheers enigma

 

[Silent_Scone]

What are people running mod wise that seems to eat VRAM? You hear all the time about modded Skyrim being an apparent VRAM killer but I can't see it? Least not at 1440P. I'm running half a dozen 4K texture packs, SSAO in slow mode with ENB, FXAA etc and it's barely touching 2.5GB. Looks amazing though, really enjoying getting back into this.

 

[Neil79]

What are people running mod wise that seems to eat VRAM? You hear all the time about modded Skyrim being an apparent VRAM killer but I can't see it? Least not at 1440P. I'm running half a dozen 4K texture packs, SSAO in slow mode with ENB, FXAA etc and it's barely touching 2.5GB. Looks amazing though, really enjoying getting back into this.

There are many many gpu's with only 2GB Vram, you don't notice it because most likely you have a 3GB or even 4GB card

 

[Uncle Petey]

I'm using mostly 4k textures and it's around 2.5Gb with a single card @1080p.
With xfire it says around 5.5Gb, but I dunno about that.