The first thing I had to turn off was indirect lighting, as it immediately brought my system to its knees, with like one frame every 3 seconds or so. I've tried to come up with a more naturalistic, soft (not too blurry) look for skyrim, not as contrasty (or "punchy") as many of the other configs I've seen around. Also the nights should be dark, but still "playable", while still having the whole thing run fluidly on my relatively modest setup (Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB RAM and a Radeon HD 6800).
Comparing my preset to some of the others here, I guess this look won't be everyone's cup of tea - it's sometimes foggy and not as bloomy as others. The only thing I just couldn't get to work was a nice, bright sun disc... as soon as I turned up the bloom for that, everything else goes down in a haze (something I really don't want). If anybody has a tip how to create a bright glowing sun, without getting everything else to glow as well, please "enlighten" (
) me...On with some sunny daytime shots:
Some overcast shots:
Dusk, Interiors and Nighttime:
A lot more shots can be found HERE. I guess the final appearance depends massively on your monitor setup, so these shots might very well be too bright or dark on your screen. I'd say the brightness slider in the game could be the final tweak to push this preset to something you might like. The ini-file can be found attached to this post, my palette file can be downloaded HERE.
