TES Skyrim 0.208

[32cm]

Im one of those morons with 1gb vram cards with shitloads of mods installed and thanks to boris the freezes and CTD are reduced like 95%. When i was using the 0132 ENB play more than 1 hours was a miracle. Other day i did complete serana quest, about 2 hours and no problems. And last ENB updates are supposed to be for that, to avoid freezes and so in normal pcs. Not everybody have a titan or GTX with trillons of Vram. Even my HD4850 512mb with his Skyrim HD little textures and so thanks for the last ENBs.

But there is also a point for me, i work in a pc shop, i know what i have installed (i even dont have any antivirus) and i can say the amount of people that comes here with pc full of trojans, Reg cleaners, speed pc optimizer crap and all of those sht is high.

[VadersApp]

VideoMemorySizeMb is a good and simple solution. Let it be empty on default, so your standard code jumps in. Users that don´t know about it will have it like before, and the one that understands what to do will have a problem solved.

[wolfgrimdark]

I like the video max size idea myself. If there was some way to make it so it would only be used if a person set the value (so that people who didn't wouldn't have to worry about it) that would be cool.

Versions 202-206 I would get some very long loading screens (up to 2 minutes) and once I gave up and aborted. 207 was very smooth and had quick load times. I had set DisableDriverMemoryManager to true and false and never really saw a big difference with that one setting.

[HugeBigness]

The Elder Scrolls Skyrim (TES Skyrim, Скурим Свитки)

Graphic mod / patch ENBSeries 0.208

Restored almost all memory manager code from 0.201, i can't listen any more complains, definetly users are just noobs with damn third party software or overuse my work by installing mods and increasing quality till it's not work at all on their pc. When i see someone bother me with 1 gb vram and hd texture packs installed, i just want to swear like a drunk sailor.

I honestly don't know who is complaining or why, specially about something that is free and does us so many favours and improves SKYRIM so much visually.

I myself am simply trying to find/understand the best settings to use for my particular memory/setup, which is 6GB VRAM and 16GB RAM.

As I have stated in my previous posts I have a lot of interest in the 'memory optimizations' (if I can ever fully understand them, or who they are catering for - people with plenty of it? or people with less?) as I feel SKYRIM itself is not well optimized to use high end PC's with plenty of resources to offer.


I have been keeping up with all the latest ENB versions but despite trying to read/understand, truthfully, I am still fumbling around blind setting things with no real understanding, things like, for example, this ReservedMemorySizeMb, cannot tell you why, but I really don't understand it, what is it doing? and should somebody with, lets say, 32gb RAM be setting it higher than somebody with 4GB RAM? or lower? or is this about VRAM? yep, you called it, I am thick as a limp turnip


I am here though to put my higher end PC on the table and say I will gladly try these new ENB's and report back with hopefully useful feedback, but it's hard to know what to say until I have actually got the config correct for MY particular PC.

With all this in mind, here is the memory section of my enblocal.ini which, from what I loosely understand, is where the magic happens?

[MEMORY]
ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true
ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true
DisableDriverMemoryManager=true
DisablePreloadToVRAM=false
EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false
ReservedMemorySizeMb=512


And yep, u got it, I got no clue what I am doing!

I am currently still on 207 as it seems cracking, but I have not had chance to spent LOTS of time with it yet so I will not change to 208 until I have some good time to test 207.

The ENB preset I use is the ENB Evolved one, the cinematic preset seems the most balanced, I get on great with that one - not sure that's relevant but.. I should also quickly add that I have a good deal of mods installed, a large portion of which are game play related and a few essential graphic mods of course howeever I still never see my VRAM being used to even HALF it's potential, in fact, I think the most I have ever seen used is around the 2.4GB mark - mostly around 2GB, this is one of the things which annoys me, I have all this wasted VRAM!

EDIT: I am so thrilled i can actually post now without keep getting that spam thing lol it's like being set free!

[HugeBigness]

Again Titan user said this version not work, but 0.207 do. How in the fuck i can do any changes, if reported amount of available memory is wrong in dx9 and if i use my own statistic, drivers stop working when free real video memory ends? Buggy game, buggy textures and mods, buggy drivers, mistake in dxsdk at development stage, stupid users with hundreds of software shit with overclock and monitor even your toilet. What should i do? Which version is good? Right, not any of them. The last thing i can try is to use slow functions to get information about video adapter and use it to compute statistics, but i'm sure the problems will not go away.

Dude probably not good to base concerns on 1-2 users with problems, I see a great deal of success from people who have a TItan so, I would think more likely the minority with problems is user error or user related?

Please feel free to use me and my machine as a test bed.

I am happy to try and help as I get so much enjoyment from ENB.

Rather than focusing too much on the bad, perhaps notice how many people have great success with your work and are extremely grateful, I can see MANY MANY!

[skysan4298]

This is what Boris said
ReservedMemorySizeMb keep some "room" for resource management by game. It's like you are driver in bus, if amount of passengers is extremely high, they start to bother you and finally you can't even see the road, so ReservedMemorySizeMb is same as "keep around me free place for N passengers".
The smaller value - the bigger stuttering. Bigger value - greater chance to have CTDs
To a Titan 6GB user: ReservedMemorySizeMb=1024 absolutely useless, set it to 512 or 256.

[HugeBigness]

This is what Boris said
ReservedMemorySizeMb keep some "room" for resource management by game. It's like you are driver in bus, if amount of passengers is extremely high, they start to bother you and finally you can't even see the road, so ReservedMemorySizeMb is same as "keep around me free place for N passengers".
The smaller value - the bigger stuttering. Bigger value - greater chance to have CTDs
To a Titan 6GB user: ReservedMemorySizeMb=1024 absolutely useless, set it to 512 or 256.

I have read this three times, I don't think I could be any MORE confused.

However, I much appreciate the end bit your threw in specifically for an utter moron like myself.

I guess I will just stick with 512 on your advice.

[skysan4298]

This is what Boris said
ReservedMemorySizeMb keep some "room" for resource management by game. It's like you are driver in bus, if amount of passengers is extremely high, they start to bother you and finally you can't even see the road, so ReservedMemorySizeMb is same as "keep around me free place for N passengers".
The smaller value - the bigger stuttering. Bigger value - greater chance to have CTDs
To a Titan 6GB user: ReservedMemorySizeMb=1024 absolutely useless, set it to 512 or 256.

I have read this three times, I don't think I could be any MORE confused.

However, I much appreciate the end bit your threw in specifically for an utter moron like myself.

I guess I will just stick with 512 on your advice.

No, all that were from Boris I've quoted not me.

[sonnhy]

I don't get it..

Could you Boris, or anyone, explain me how ReservedMemorySizeMb works?
Also, i'm still not sure if it's on RAM or VRAM..

[KuroTenshi]

Boris

Just a little tip (you probably already though about this) : If you can't display 4gb or more, maybe it's because of 32 bits which maybe uses int32 instead of int64. The method used may be different for 64 bits.