Awful shadows after tweaking my inis for better performance

[Pandore]

Hi there.

 

So I am trying to get an ENB that suits me about performance and visuals. I am taking comparison SS atm to post it on Flickr soon, to share that (I'll make a post on the forum whe I have enough SS !)

 

While dealing with all this, I thought that to gain performance I could tweak my shadows. I change my ShadowMapResolution to 1024 and I think it is that tweak that make so horrible shadows in my game, in particular on my character face, see SS, yeurk : https://imgur.com/7EqlmH9 

(that one is with Snapdragon ENB, but in action and Vanilla it is THE WORST, hope you understand what I am talking about)

 

Can I make this less horrible without losing performance ? Have you an idea on how to tweak my shadows better ?

 

Here my settings about shadows (tell me if I forgot something) :

Skyrim.ini 

[Display]
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary = 1024

SkyrimPrefs.ini

[Display]
iBlurDeferredShadowMask =5
fInteriorShadowDistance =3000.0000
fShadowDistance =3000.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary = 4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary = 4096
iShadowSplitCount = 2
...
iShadowMode =4
...
bShadowMaskZPrepass =0
...
iShadowMapResolution =1024
fShadowBiasScale =0.3500
iShadowMaskQuarter =4
...
iShadowFilter =3

Thank you in advance !! :3

 

 

[DoubleYou]

If you're gonna use ENB's shadow fixes, biggest performance gain will be to set iBlurDeferredShadowMask to 1. Use ENB's blur settings if you want more blur on the shadows. I can't see the image so I can't tell what specifically is making your shadows look bad.

[Pandore]

Yups sorry, I thought it work like that ^^

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137921014@N05/24623203285/in/dateposted-public/

 

That worked ?

[DoubleYou]

Yep, that worked. What particularly is it that is wrong that you want changed? It honestly doesn't look that bad.

[Pandore]

I know but in movement it looks like a dozen of black squares that are moving around on my character face ... I'll try what you are talking about and see. And maybe I'll take a short video to show what I mean ...

 

Thank you anyway, sorry for the stupid looking questions :p

[DoubleYou]

Oh, I've seen that, and it looks like some bug in ENB rather than a shadow settings issue.

[TirigonX]

The lower you set iShadowMapResolution, the more pixelated shadows will get. And vanilla shadows are even at a setting of 4096 quite pixelated, especially character shadows. That's why I wouldn't want to play Skyrim without at least a minimum enb setup which fixes shadows.

With iShadowMapResolution =1024 you have to make shadows more blurry. Open enbseries.ini, search for [sHADOW] and increase the values for:

ShadowBlurRange

ShadowBlurRangeInterior

 

However, the higher you set those values, the less distinct shadows will be. So you'll have to find a balance that suits you.