CTD and Performance patch ENBoost (by Boris Vorontsov)

[TechAngel85]

Total Available Graphics Memory is all that matters. The numbers are close enough that they sound right.

[oqhansoloqo]

BTW - the link to the actual download is here: https://enbdev.com/download_vramsizetest.htm.

 

EDIT: Oh, and I get "7840" results when I run the DX9 program.

[paradoxbound]

This is way off for my system 2x 290X 8GB crossfire and 16GB of system RAM and it say I should use 4064.

[TechAngel85]

@paradox,
Yours sounds like it should be more around 8GBs. Remember, when you have SLi/Crossfire your VRAM doesn't combine. If you have two 4GB cards, you still only have 4GBs; not 8GBs.

[Greg]

For comparison, I get 7904 with a single 290X with 16GB RAM and I think your 290X crossfire setup should be about the same.

[paradoxbound]

For comparison, I get 7904 with a single 290X with 16GB RAM and I think your 290X crossfire setup should be about the same.

Yes I am on my Mac at the moment so I can not check exactly but I calculated using the formula and got 7000 and some something. My setup has been rock solid on these setting will all 2K textures and a few 4K textures. I am running around 20+ extra mods over extended and adding a couple a day for testing and play purposes.

 

The only problems I have encountered is the crossfire DoF ENB issue and the flickering faces with "itinttextureresolution=2048" which I don't think is an ENB issue.

[n0mad23]

I'm finding the calculations for Total Available Graphics Memory to be seriously confusing.  I'm on a MSI Dominator laptop - i7 quad core with the Nvidia GTX 970M graphic chip set.  I've got 6 gigs of Vram and 8 gigs of system RAM so setting my Total should be fine with 8000, yes?

 

I've honestly had a heck of a time getting ENBoost to work on my rig.  I've tried various versions of ENB at least a dozen times since January and put the attempts to the side when they didn't work as my setup with Mod Organizer seemed to work fine.  I recently fired up Skyrim again and was surprised to find that I was experiencing random CTDs while going cross country.  Then I started getting some that really didn't seem very random at all - for example, every time I tried to cross Dragonbridge, I'd CTD.

 

So I went after ENBoost Injector version once again.  I finally got V 0.262 to work - the first attempt this time!

 

I haven't had a single CTD since getting ENBoost working about 5 days ago, and I've had several game excursions that have lasted well over 2 hours, as well.  Additionally, the game runs even smoother than it did when I first started modding it, and my big surprise there was that Skyrim had a better FPS for me modded than vanilla.  I've got 59 plugins running and 135 mods currently.

 

i'm a believer.  ENBoost is for everyone, no doubt about it.

[TechAngel85]

No, you'll need to get the Total from Windows. Alternatively, you can use the new memory tool from Boris (ENBSeries author).

[n0mad23]

Thanks TechAngel85 - 

 

Here's what Windows 8.1 is saying:

 

Total Available Graphics Memory: 14312 megs.

Dedicated Video Memory: 6144 megs.

System Video Memory: 0 megs

Shared System Memory: 8168 negs

 

 

So - 8168 is what I should set my total available video memory?

 

Thanks in advance.

[TechAngel85]

It would be 14312 - 350 = 13962. That's rather high so I would set it at around 8192.

I updated the OP with a link to the VRAMSizeTest Tool.

[n0mad23]

Thank you kindly, TechAngle85.  Now set to 8192 and running as smooth as silk.

 

Nothing like a smooth running Skyrim to facilitate total game play immersion.

 

Salute to the STEP Team for all the work you do.

 

Cheers.

[kranazoli]

Hi,

 

After a long time I'm going to start a new gameplay. I have set enblocal.ini like this:

 

[MEMORY]
ExpandSystemMemoryX64=true
ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true
DisableDriverMemoryManager=false
DisablePreloadToVRAM=false
EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false
ReservedMemorySizeMb=768
VideoMemorySizeMb=3968
EnableCompression=true
AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false

 

My rig is:

 

ASUS P8P67 Rev 3 | Intel Core i5 2500K | G.Skill Sniper 16GB XMP DDR3 1600Mhz | MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4G | Kingston 96GB V+ SSD | Enermax MODU82+ 625W | Samsung 2333sw FullHD 23"| Windows 7 Prof SP1 x86&x64 |

 

Are those settings right? Or could anyone suggets a better settings?

What I want is to avoid CTDs abd ILS and other stuff as far as possible?

 

If this topic is not the right one, please someone sugget me the correct one.

 

Thanks!

[n0mad23]

@kranazoli

 

I'm still learning the ropes on this as well, but I think your "ExapandSystemMemoryX64=true" should be set to ""false."

 

It looks like you've got a lot more memory to play with as well, and probably should kick your VideoMemorySizeMB to 8192.

 

These pages might help:

 

https://wiki.step-project.com/ENBoost#Recommendations

 

https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:ENBlocal_INI

[Octopuss]

Was anyone able to decipher what the new version does? I don't understand.

[TechAngel85]

Just some code optimizations really.