sheson

ENB Forum is back. It was the traffic from reddit that overwhelmed the server a bit.

For normal use and normal considerate modding 6GB seems OK of course.Windows will page out unneeded stuff to disk in case it needs to. The fact of the matter is, if skyrim has to deal with so much game data (actors, script) it will slow down to a crawl anyhow, or depending on caps simply not move more than X actors etc. It seems we are now at a stage, even with only a 32bit game, that not memory in itself is the limiting factor but CPU. It is not that CPUs are too slow but the game is not optimized to make use of the latest and greatest.

You are correct, it changes the way Skyrim allocates ram (not the amount it allocates). It is still only a 32bit application so it can only address 4GB. Part of the OS needs to be in that address space as well, that is why we have something that is refererred to as 3.1GB limit. I am simplifying here, but on 64bit only the OS parts that are actually needed to run the game take away from the 4GB address space available to the game. Kernel, DirectX libraries, all that stuff. So for example your browser and other background processes are not taking away from this address space. Enboost frees the 4GB address space even more shifting the textures to another process (enbhost) that uses its own address space. In theory this means with all this Skyrim can use roughly 3GB for itself including world and script data and another 3GB for the (compressed) textures because of ENBoost. 6GB + ~2 GB for OS makes 8GB really a minimum amount these days :) In reality I could not make tesv.exe use much more than 2GB, yet when testing with uGrids 19. ENBoost depends on texture sizes of course, but I typically stay around 2GB for enbhost.exe as well.

Uhm no :) SKSE got an email from me about it. It will just take some time. The good part is, that if SKSE is ever updated it will simply overwrite any modified dll with the correct and hopefully better ones.

Why would you remove or change my awesome ini setting? As punishment you will have to create the holy cow dancing animation. :D No clue what I am talking about? RTFAÂ