TES Skyrim 0.279

[Jafin16]

Boris
I just double-checked both AMD and Nvidia websites. The GTX 960 has drivers for XP 32-bit, but no other 900 (970, 980(ti), Titan X) series cards. The Radeon Cards in the R7 2XX and R9 2XX list Catalyst driver 14.4 as the latest available driver for XP 32 or 64 bit. That would put the end of support for XP at April of last year. The RX 2XX cards are slightly tweaked clock speeds and then rebrands of the 7xxx series cards, mostly the exact same GPU's. The only ones that use something new are R9 290/X with Hawaii GPU and R9 285 w/ Tonga GPU. The same driver is used for all cards of the same series and then enables or disables certain features of the driver depending on the card installed (things like FreeSync, VSR, etc. depending on GCN version).

Quick question and request for Skyrim ENB if it's possible and/or makes sense. Would it be possible to make EdgeSoftness for the Procedural Sun adjustable for time of day? And better yet, per weather? I'd like to be able to have a nice glowy, soft sun during midday, but then have much more of a strong orb during sunsets especially. If not possible or too hard obviously don't worry, but it would be a nice thing to have.

[ENBSeries]

Jafin16
Thanks. Then probably gf960 is the best option by performance and price.
That feature is not hard to implement, but i prefer to avoid things which are incorrect (like different size of sun per time of the day). That parameter is made only for one purpose - to fix heavy aliasing when high intensities of the sun are set (edge fading must be as less as possible, 1-2 pixels wide). Procedural sun in general was made because of these artifacts of textured version. Also such changes breaks old presets which use procedural sun, which is unlikely unless something more than that will be changed and really worth it.

[Spock]

Jafin16
Thanks. Then probably gf960 is the best option by performance and price.

Just be aware that the gtx 960 is not an upgrade from you current card concerning shader architecture. Same thing, few more units.

[MOTOSXORPIO]

MOTOSXORPIO
Thanks, is that xp x86?

No, Win7. I can possibly test WinXP on VM..? I'll look for my XP disc if you'd like.

[ENBSeries]

No thanks, virtual machine do not have such issue when running from non xp as host os.

[Jafin16]

Boris
Glad I could help.

It makes sense what you say about the sun. I'll either stick to my previous solution (which works, more or less) or figure something else out. I didn't think about breaking other presets and what I'm going for is rather specific which most probably wouldn't care to implement.

[MOTOSXORPIO]

No thanks, virtual machine do not have such issue when running from non xp as host os.

VM didn't like my slipstreamed XP anyway, so I just zeroed an old IDE and installed on a usb attached hdd adapter..slow, but works.

I don't get checkerboard, however I may try. Closest I get is limiting fps with vsync off and just "UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=true". This results in a very big line for tearing, rather than the usual pixel thin line. This is XP with up to date drivers etc., service pack slipstreamed, has all the updates.

Sorry, this probably doesn't help, but there you go.

[ENBSeries]

Well, i'll do clear xp installation again and snapshots of every changes. If not helps, another videocard is the only solution. Goddamned nvidia, i don't like amd because of drivers, but my old personal experience is very positive about amd and very shitty about nvidia, because of too many cards dead for no reason and fixing all incompatibilities with my old hardware cost me around 1500$ of useless upgrade which i don't need at all. Now another videocard purchasing in the end of the tunnel... F*!!!

[ENBSeries]

Okay, it's failed with clear XP and nvidia drivers only. Without drivers screen tearing looks properly as line.

[Jafin16]

Boris
Well, maybe it's time for a look at AMD. I don't know much about the depths of drivers, granted, but from the user side it's true, you don't have as many AA options and their Crossfire support is rather poor. Custom resolutions are very limited (for downsampling and the like though VSR has helped that a LOT.) But aside from that, I don't feel left behind at all using AMD cards. In fact, more often than not, when a problem is effecting a large amount of ENB users (the sun shining through objects a year or two back with drivers newer than 314.22 comes to mind) AMD cards don't have that problem. Nvidia is great and definitely has a more efficient architecture in Maxwell, but AMD cards perform great, I can play any game I want at very demanding settings, and I NEVER have any driver related issues (granted this is just me, others may have issues but I've had none.) If Nvidia is preventing you from doing what you want, then you might as well try AMD. It's not likely to be worse. We could all go into fanboy reasons for one or the other (and I'll confess, I fanboyed for AMD for awhile I started to use my brain) but that's useless. An AMD card at the same price as the 960 will likely perform better as well (unless prices are very different in Russia.)

TL;DR If something's not working for you (Nvidia), then maybe it's time to think about switching (AMD)