Long load screens (still)

[ftlum]

How long are people's load times after installing this or other ENBs? With an SSD (and GTX 970, 4 gb), it takes almost 3 times longer. For example, when I enter a custom player home, it goes from 4 sec without the ENB to 10; going from the home into Whiterun it goes from about 8 sec to 30.

I turned off all the vSync parameters (via Nvida inspector/ enb settings/ ini file) and that didn't fix the problem. I don't have any frame rate cappers. The ENB ignore load screen setting doesn't do anything. Neither does preloadtovram or changing EnableCompression. F12-ing off the ENB does not fix the problem-- I need to uninstall the ENB to get loading speeds back to normal. This happened with my Skyrim install on my old comptuer (a bit worse since that did not have an SSD). I believe I was running Phinix ENB back then so it doesn't seem to be ENB-specific, though Enhanced Shaders FX (uses .102) is the only one I've found that didn't increase loading screen times.

Is this normal for ENBs or is there a fix?

thanks,

Frank

[ENBSeries]

Check if you have 30 fps at loading screens, if not, then it will be slower always. Ssd or hdd doesn't matter for loading screen times with mod installed, because it do not use io at all. Without memory manager it only increase loading times by recompiling and patching shaders, which is totally cpu dependent and fast even for amd cpu like mine (unless you don't have crapware or antivirus). With memory manager enabled it waste time to move data to enbhost.exe, which is about 1.5-2 times longer loading. When compression enabled in memory manager, this increases in about 1.5 times. And if you don't have enough ram with memory manager enabled, of course loading screens will take much longer.

8 sec to 30

This is abnormal anyway.

[tapioks]

Hi Boris, when you say 'With memory manager enabled it waste time to move data to enbhost.exe', do you mean when DisableDriverMemoryManager=true?
I mean, should load times be faster with DisableDriverMemoryManager=false?

[ENBSeries]

tapioks
No, unsafe memory hack parameter only disabling this.

[ftlum]

Thanks!

Loading screen fps is essentially at 30 (bounces between about 29.5 and 30.5).
Will increasing system ram (currently 8 gb) make any difference? My cpu is an i7-4740 3.4ghz.

Also, how do I disable that memory manager / unsafe memory hack you mentioned?
My setting for unsafe memory is already: EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false
There was no line mentioning compression, so I tried adding EnableCompression=false to enblocal but it didn't help.

Frank

[ENBSeries]

Amount of ram required depends from game setting, mods installed and OS, i don't know anything from these. I'm fine with loading times having winxp and 3gb ram only, but vanilla game. Also i have another idea, may be loading thread is running on logical core, try to disable hyperthreading for testing purposes.

[ftlum]

I fixed my loading time problems!

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=true did it.

I stumbled upon this when I was trying out another ENB.
I somehow did not have enbhost.exe installed in the right directory and it wouldn't load. This reduced loading screen times however, so I did a little reading and came across one of Boris' comments that the EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=true causes enbhost not to run, so I tried it and now my load screens are back to non-ENB times!

Hopefully I won't have a lot of game crashes, but if it only crashes occasionally, it'll still be worth it.

Frank