Enb Preset (Seasons of Enb) Bug...all it's blue!!

[Begaz]

Hi Boris!
I have this strange issue with this Enb Preset that uses your Enb .119 version ( http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23812 ). I'm using lastest Nvidia Beta Drivers (310.61) on a GTX680 video card. It's surely an issue related to this Enb Preset, cause if i use your standard Enb .119, all it's fine.
Here is the problem; when i use a shout, or i change wheater ID via console, or if i fast forward time, all screen goes blue like in these images:
http://postimage.org/image/k9gbuespd/
http://postimage.org/image/k7eev16hv/
If you read on section "comments" of this mod on Nexus, you will see i'm not the only one having this.
What do you think is the problem here?
Thx!!

Cheers

[mindflux]

Nothing personal, but don't you guys read any of the older topics before posting? That's most likely the same issue that's been plaguing the beta drivers for most (or all?) users, so perhaps first roll back to the latest WHQL release and see if the issue persists.

[ENBSeries]

Not sure, drivers are bad, but if this happen only when blurring shader enabled...? I can't now test that drivers (because my old card is semi-dead, not purchased another one yet and to make walkaround for driver bugs isn't good idea at all for single developer), but at least could you experiment more to find out what exactly is the problem? Turn off all effects and activate each one one by one first, then parameters of variables to set 1.0 (to restore vanilla look). Also if fxaa, smaa mods used, remove them temporary, render/shader states may be lost when they working together with enbseries. SpeedHack=false also may be useful, same as SkipShaderOptimization=true.

[mindflux]

I had some free time on my hands so I decided to test the 2.0 preview preset on my system, GTX670 + 306.96 WHQL, and it looks like I have no issues with either shouts or time skipping. Shouting does indeed apply the coloured blurring filter, but it's red/orangeish on my system and disappears pretty quickly. I didn't notice anything odd with time skipping.

I noticed that Seasons ENB uses a customized enbeffect.fx, and in case you have no issues with the default ENB files, I guess there could be something in the custom code that causes the issue with the latest beta drivers. Just out of interest, perhaps you could comment out #define APPLYGAMECOLORCORRECTION by inserting // in front of the line and test if the issue persists.

A nice looking preset, by the way.

[Aanikron]

I had the same issue and apparently it did have to do with the beta drivers. I rolled back to 306.97 and the blue tint problem is gone.

However, with the beta drivers I had the feeling that I saw much less of this bug. Can't be sure, but I do not believe I got it at all with the beta drivers. Now that I'm back with 306.97, the little colored pixels are also back in full force.

And yet another problem is that I get the bug where the sun shines through mountains. Pictures here: http://postimage.org/image/ud82pwm5j/, http://postimage.org/image/vy5h5mtpd/, http://postimage.org/image/fjazynvk9/. Yes, I have bFloatPointRenderTarget=1 set in my SkyrimPrefs.ini. There must be some other reason this is happening...please help.

Making Skyrim look good sure involves a lot more hassles than I anticipated. :/

[mindflux]

Boris mentioned that the bug in the mixing code that results in odd coloring will get fixed.

As for the sun bug, the only other cause that I know of is ForceFakeVideocard set to true in enbseries.ini, but I guess you haven't enabled it? Other than that, please make absolutely sure that you're indeed editing the correct SkyrimPrefs.ini in My Games/Skyrim, as sometimes there are copies of the said file in other folders as well. While you're at it, delete the copies in Skyrim/Data if found as they're known to cause issues. Also make sure that bFloatPointRenderTarget=1 is located under [Display]. Finally you could try deleting SkyrimPrefs.ini, Skyrim.ini and RendererInfo.txt and letting the launcher create new ones.

Sorry if all this sounds a bit like beating a dead horse, but that's pretty much all there is. It's safe to say that ENB is certainly worth all the trouble, though.

[klotim]

I had to disable Bloom. Try that!

[Aanikron]

Just in case anything else is suffering from the same sun through mountains problem: I was going insane thinking I had done everything exactly as I should, and still was getting the sun shining through solid objects. Well, it turns out I'm an idiot. I use Mod Organizer as my mod manager, which is a fantastic tool. But apparently, I had missed the fact that it keeps even the ini files (Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini) separate from the regular game. So if you use MO, no amount of fiddling with the SkyrimPrefs.ini in your My Documents/Skyrim folder is going to change anything. You have to edit the ini from within MO, as it keeps a separate set of ini files for each profile. It's a superb feature, but only if you know about it.

So, now that I do know about it, I'm finally editing the right SkyrimPrefs.ini and the sun bug is gone. Doh. This also means that all my ENB testing (like a dozen different ENB presets or so) was really for naught, since I didn't even have the correct ini values set. So all the things that looked off with this or that ENB, may well have been related to this. We'll see when I get around to more ENB testing, but for now Seasons of Skyrim is looking pretty good to me without the stupid sun through mountains issue.

[mindflux]

Great to hear you got the issues solved and thanks for the info, very good to know for future reference. Like they say, always RTFM

[daimenx]

i fixed this by changing WaitBusyRenderer in enbseries.ini to true. hope that helps