How To Install Skyrim Enb
First of all, you are to download the ENB itself from the official website. It can be found here: ENBdev. Download the latest version of the ENB. Then go to your download folder and extract the ENB package you find there. After extracting the ZIP-file, you'll see two folders, one called the Wrapper version and one called the Injector version.
ENBSeries v0.315 for TES SkyrimPOSTING THE ENBSERIES BINARY FILES ON NEXUS SITES IS STRICTLY PROHIBITEDAdded external shader for depth of field, so now prepass and dof can be in different files. Added parameter to toggle on/off enbeffectprepass.fx shader. Added mask texture to prepass and depth of field shaders to use it for cell shading modification from Nexus, alpha channel of this mask is less than 1 for all skinned objects. Depth texture for prepass and depth of field shaders contain transparent objects.This version require helper mod to run per weather setups (if not used, then ignore helper mod), download it from link in readme.bFloatPointRenderTarget=1 must be set in SkyrimPrefs.ini file to make this mod work.
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Start SkyrimLauncher.exe to configure your video options again.Sky lighting to work correctly require rendering objects to shadow, so edit manually following lines in file SkyrimPrefs.ini:bTreesReceiveShadows=1bDrawLandShadows=1bShadowsOnGrass=1This is just the mod with default preset, download customized presets and shaders from the forum or other sites (Nexus).v0.314: Added some functions for better compatibility with third party software, fixed detailed shadow artifact on characters inside interiors when camera is very close to body, improved quality of sun rays. Added noise texture 16.16 size as jitter.v0.308: Restored old skylighting code, it's less buggy in some places. Removed dependency of LocationID from mods loading orderv0.305: Added DawnDuskEnable parameter for toggling dawn and dusk times of the day and their parameters. By default it's disabled for compatibility with old presets.v0.304: Added localization support files enblocalization.xml and enbfontunicode.png, hope this feature will help users to understand how to tweak mod. Example localization is very short and contains just description of some parameters in english.v0.303: Added new ENBoost features which improve stability at cost of performance, check parameters under THREADS category of enblocal.ini. Bigger values for DataSync and Priority modes means lower frame rate, more stuttering and higher incompatibility with other software, some previously working screen capturing tools may crash or be extremely slow with new setting other than 0.
Developed and tested for mods pack which have 40% crash rate on loading, when DataSyncMode=1 no crashes occurs.v0.302: Added per location weather configuration file. Increased performance of skylighting.v0.301: Added color filter and it's amount parameters to game weather dependent variables, so now editing weather in Creation Kit is not required for making nice looking preset. Some variables do not have ColorFilterAmount parameter, this means their values can be set to one by curve=0 or such parameters do not change with weather to bother with increasing complexity of the mod for end users.v0.292: Disabled forcing of antialiasing in loading screens. Added color filter parameters for direct light, fog and sky gradients.v0.290: Fixed bug of incorrect colors of some particle type. Added SDK to control parameters of shaders or configuration files.v0.279: Changed ENBoost memory manager by forcing memory statistics of the mod only to reduce issues with bad drivers and software.
Changed ssao/ssil code for faster performance on videocards with memory like AMD Fury. Added BruteForce with new hotkey (shift+b) for screen archers.
This mode enables very high quality for effects and advanced algorithms, at huge performance cost. Right now only ambient occlusion and indirect lighting is improved only, calculations including self shadowing of these effects. Be careful with it, low quality videocards or overclocked can be corrupted. Added to profiler two variables which show how many valid and invalid textures are loaded by ENBoost memory manager, because invalid textures have much longer loading times and stuttering as result (medium and low texture quality do the same).v0.272: Added long exposure mode to enblocal.ini config file and it's accumulate hdr image data. This mode is useful for making artistic screenshots.v0.269: Various fixes and improvementsv0.266: Removed bloom quality parameter.
Added FixLag parameter to enblocal.ini which reduce annoying delays mostly in windowed mode. Reduced video memory usage when some effects are disabled, because it's the reason of low performance with some videocards. Fixed performance drop when terrain parallax is not enabled.v0.265: Added AnchorsAmount. parameters as mix factors between mist anchors and world center.
Temporal antialiasing now capture data from helper plugin to fix bugs at certain places. Forced fps limiter for loading screens to 60 fps. Added parallax for terrain, some vanilla textures already work (alpha channel of diffuse maps is height data for parallax). It's controlled by variable FixParallaxTerrain. Added specular parameters as multipliers to existing for OBJECT, VEGETATION and EYE categories of enbseries.ini to control individually, may be useful for wet body mods. Added string variables to shaders for text annotations. Added detailed shadows for hemisphere and spot lights.v0.264: Added alt+f4 key combination to terminate game.
Fixed bug with eyes when antialiasing enabled. Added texOriginal for enbeffectprepass.fx shader, which is first input texture. Removed obsolete FixSsaoHairTransparency parameter. Added edge antialiasing for loading screens. Added depth computation for transparent objects to fix depth based artifacts of objects like some hair types, fire and other particles, volumetric fog, mist.
Added hack which allow to disable relfection for certain objects, check out HACKS section in description how to use it. Removed ForceFakeVideocard parameter.v0.262: Added distance fade parameter to the mist category. Also rescaled vertical fade of the mist by 0.25. Added EnableTextureAlpha parameter for subsurface scattering effect, it can be modified only manually with game restart. When enabled, alpha channel of sss textures is used to modify subsurface scattering computation radius and amount. Alpha values between 192.255 affect radius by decreasing it up to 4 times, 0.191 values modify amount of subsurface effect.
By default alpha is white in textures, so i don't expect any issues with existing body modifications, feel free to modify their sss texture alpha channel, dxt5 format is preffered.v0.261: Added opacity parameters for volumetric fog (by request). Fixed bug with flickering ambient occlusion, image based lighting and subsurface scattering when using camera fly mode console command at some conditions.v0.254: Only bugfixes in this version and ENBoost patch tweaks.v0.252: Tweaked ENBoost memory manager to increase performance when no free video memory available.
Parameter ReservedMemorySizeMb now can be modified inside editor in game.v0.251: Added parameters to control mipmapping lod bias. Added texOriginal texture type for effect.txt shaders which is always unchanged first texture, this allow to make some more complex computations. Added text messages on shader compilation errors.v0.250: Changed ENBoost, now it support up to 128 Gb of memory or about 192 when compression enabled, may be this will be useful for the future. Don't forget to update ENBHOST.EXE file. Added mist effect, it may work without helper plugin, but then absolute world positioning will not work, so grab enbhelper from I'll fix all it artifacts in updates. Added anchors editor for mist effect to allow modify vertical offset of the mist in different places.
Now the mist (which is fog and haze in same effect) have all required properties and i'm not planning to add new, so feel free to build presets with it. Increased startup performance.v0.246: Added procedural sun to fix pixelization and low precision issues of standart sun. Added CloudsEdgeFadeRange parameter to control sun scattering for clouds and changed it algorithm to not depend from texture of sun. Added Density and SkyColorAmount parameters for volumetric sun rays. Fixed previous bug of procedural sun visibility even when set to zero. Modified method of reading sun visibility for enbsunsprite.fx shader (sun glare effect) to be independent from size of the sun and to work properly with procedural sun, but side effect of these changes is higher intensity of sun glare effect, so rescale it accordinly.v0.245: Added supersampling for ambient occlusions (not editable when game running), it works twice slower and make image four times more clear. Added additional ambient occlusion filter quality modes for very sharp look when supersampling enabled.
Removed parameter UseOldType which previously activated very old non optimized ssao type. Fixed bug with twice bigger intensity of image based lighting, so please scale up this effect in your presets, if used. Restored water displacement optimization for AMD users, which had much lower wave aplitude, if it work now, then it was my bug with speedhack. Modified all quality parameters by names, previous 'extreme -1' is now named 'very high -1' and extreme have value -2, this do not affect anything by performance or quality, so no need to modify anything. Improved performance of ambient occlusions in general and NVidia specific for supersampling mode of this effect.
Added ILType parameter to SSAOSSIL category to toggle previous simplified and less noisy method vs proper but noisy (used in versions for other games). Fixed crashes for some users. Added EnableComplexFilter parameter for ambient occlusions to reduce noise.v0.244: Optimized ambient occlusions. Fixed darker textures bug for amd users.v0.243: Added occlusion culling performance optimization which partially work at this moment in exteriors, it can be toggled by new parameter EnableOcclusionCulling in enblocal.ini. Added VSyncSkipNumFrames parameter to enblocal.ini for users with high refresh rate displays who need to limit game performance (game physics work wrong at high fps). Did workaround for AMD driver bug of lower water displacement amplitude compared to NVidia cards, at cost of performance and not working filter quality parameter, but for NVidia users nothing is changed.v0.241: Added volumetric rays.
Fixed image based lighting bug and flickering sun, disabled sun drawing below horizon. Added opacity parameter for cloud shadows. Renamed parameter of cloud shadows activation. Added separate parameter for water volumetric shadows.
Increased water displacement pefformance. Added parameter DisplacementFilterQuality to control performance of water displacement.v0.240: Added shadows from clouds (can't be enabled in editor while playing, similar to sky lighting).v0.239: Added muddiness control for water. Changed blending of various effects to draw them without affecting transparent objects like smoke, fire and volumetric fog.v0.236: Added volumetric shadows for underwater lighting, fixed incorrect deepness fade factors. Underwater require helper plugin (see readme).v0.235: Added new underwater parameters and effects.v0.234: Tweaked water filter to reduce ssao and other screen effects. Added underwater parameters. Various other changes to water.v0.233: Added water displacement, which is parallax occlusion culling at this moment. Added water lighting and specular from sun control.
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Removed ForceFakeVideocard mode. Added waves amplitude parameter dependent from weather and time of the day, modified old parallax code.v0.231: Added fake self reflection for water and some minor internal fixes.v0.229: Added parallax for water, it use alpha channel of normal maps, check if your favorite water mod is updated or edit it textures yourself. Did temporary workaround for critical AMD drivers bug when water enabled, at cost of performance of other effects (very noticable with old videocards like gf9600).v0.228: Added water caustics and some other things. Fixed game bug with ibl in water when ambient occlusion disabled.v0.227: Added water category in enbseries.ini. Fixed some particles to allow edit them.v0.226: Added support for external helper plugin which replace helper mod functionality, so per weather setting are now available. Download link in readme file. Fixed distance fog for particles and volumetric fog above mountains, linked background color to fog parameters under ENVIRONMENT category of enbseries.ini to reduce graphic artifacts.v0.224: Added parameter of shadow blurring range for interiors and denoiser for ambient occlusions.
Fixed parallax for some interiors.v0.223: Added parameter to disable compression of memory manager to reduce stuttering while objects are loading at cost of memory usage. Removed CAMERAFX category from enbseries.ini, added LENS category and separate enblens.fx shader with enblensmask image. Removed lens reflection code from enbbloom.fx. Added FieldOfView variable to shaders.v0.221: Optimized a little subsurface scattering, added quality options of it (require 'save' and then 'apply' button to be pressed in editor).
Added separate parameters of vanilla subsurface scattering control for eyes only. Removed depth of field fix which added in previous version and which not working for some users.v0.220: Removed most of fixes for subsurface scattering of previous version as they produce artifacs with many modified bodies and some vanilla hairs. Added another fixes instead. Subsurface scattering effect performance increased.v0.219: Did various fixes to graphic bugs of detailed shadows, subsurface scattering, ssao, hairs.
Subsurface scattering effect still the same as in previous version, only quality fixes applied.v0.218: Added subsurface scattering effect (new parameters in enbseries.ini), it work only when deffered rendering enabled. I recommed to set SubSurfaceScatteringMultiplier under OBJECT category to zero, because that original game SSS. Quality of SSS not yet working, code is not optimized, i'm waiting responses on the forum. Fixed distant foggy objects (at some weathers) by applying fade.v0.217: Added support of shader parameters precision via 'UIStep' annotation. Added support of shader techniques names via 'UIName' annotations to allow users select shaders.
Ask preset makers to adopt their code to new features.v0.215: Moved FIX and ANTIALIASING categories from enbseries.ini to enblocal.ini. Added parameter EnableSunGlare which toggling enbsunsprite.fx shader functionality. Added EnableTransparencyAA parameter which enable hardware transparency antialiasing for certain types of objects (grass, hairs) when antialiasing enabled in game video options, otherwise it use slower approximation for antialiasing. Added color correction filters (gamma, brightness, contrast, saturation, balance, etc) to enbeffect.fx file with editable variables in editor. Modified edge antialiasing to affect color differencies, not just edges.v0.214: Modified a little memory to increase game stability.
Added support of loading images in external shaders via annotations. Removed PhysicsFix.v0.213: Restored memory manager statistics from 0.209-0.211 version, seems it was better for some users. Temporal antialiasing now do not require helper mod (sli/crossfire not supported).v0.212: Removed warning message at start which notify than incompatible software detected, instead stopped all tech support for CTDs (crashes to desktop) and freezes. Modified memory manager, it will free memory automatically when frame rate is low and also long freezes replaced by CTDs. Added parameter FixAliasedTextures to reduce aliasing of snow on mountains and other similar objects.