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SkyrimUpscaler ENB Test Build 06 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-01 16:36:35
Edited:
2023-08-17 01:27:41
Imported:
2026-06
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Content

Fixed FSR2 ghosting due to incorrect FOV, now you can set FOV in the ini, note that the setting doesn't change your FOV, but rather it should match your in-game FOV.

Updated FSR2 dlls to FSR 2.2

Compatibility with Enderal SE

INSTALLATION

  1. Install as any other SKSE plugin, using MO2 or Vortex would be the best way.

  2. Turn off TAA and DOF, anything that will blur the input for upscalers must be turned off.

  3. Turn off ENB Edge AA and DOF (If you play at high enough resolution you can still try to use ENB's DOF, but if you can't stand the jittery then turn it off).

  4. Press END in the game to open the menu for upscalers.

  5. (Optional) Install Reshade for DOF and other effects, since it applies its effects after the upscaling. I recommand the CinematicDOF with aperture set to 12-15, and focal length around 90,  and near plane max blur 0.2.

  6. (Optional) Use SSE ReShade Helper to make DOF not affect UI.

  7. Note you can't change upscaler and quality levels at runtime, you'll need to change it in the ini and restart the game.

IMPORTANT: Since I no longer include a SSEDisplayTweaks.ini, you need to open your own SSEDisplayTweaks.ini and set Fullscreen = false and BorderlessUpscale = false. Remember to remove the # before them or they won't take effect.

If you are not using SSE Display Tweaks, set bFull Screen = 0 in SkyrimPrefs.ini

There are two known conflics, one is detection meter, you can solve it by updating DM to v17.

The other one is Improved Camera, you can solve the conflic by editing its ini, set its menu mode to 0.

Finally, if you are using ReShade, use 5.5.1 instead of the newest.

Comments

M

Working Great! Just noticing one minor issue - the spell preview within the Spell/Magic Menu (I'm using SkyUI) is getting cut off/split with correct FX on one side and broken FX on the other side. Seems to happen at the border of the MotionScale range (I'm playing on 4k resolution) and it will move depending on the mQualityLevel set (currently at 2 which looks like 1440p).

PC23

I might be potato but how does one set the target resolution, is it best to set a lower resolution in bethini then set a resolution in this mod somehow

PC23

Nevermind I am potato, leave at native resolution and upscaler works it's dark magic, gained 30 - 50 fps using this :-)

BananaSplit

I have the same specs, and Skyrim is only double buffered so you'll always hit a CPU bottleneck in areas with lots of scriots going off aka cities.

manli bk

Yes! I spent an hour for find Spell FX bug. and this cuase that.

Jordon Grant

This mod is life-changing! I went from 25-30 FPS on a very heavily modded game to around 49-60 FPS and I can't see a noticeable difference in quality. However, is there any way to make the game close to fullscreen? Atm I am playing in a window that only uses half of my monitor. Thanks!

Jordon Grant

To those who want to play 'fullscreen,' The best solution I figured out was to use 'SSE Display Tweaks' to set your Resolution to your monitor resolution. (In my case 2560x1080) and set ResolutionScale to 0.98. For me, setting it to 0.99 or 1.00 instantly crashes my game. This will make the game fill up your whole monitor, you can hide your taskbar in the windows settings and you should essentially have a fullscreen game.

Thomas Murphy

I have some questions and am looking for some advice. I run Skyrim on a 1440p 144hz monitor and currently have a Ryzen 5700x, 32gb ram and a RTX 2060 S. I'm trying to squeeze as much frames as possible while running DynDoLOD with grass and mods that add more objects to the game and Open Cities. I'm currently testing in White Run which can be demanding with my mods loaded. I average ~40 fps with dips into the low 30's with DLSS activated. Would I get more benifit running at 1080p? If so how do I do it with DLSS? I've attempted but can't figure out how to get the image to fill the monitor like full screen.

PureDark

Well I don't know why it would crash your game with 1.0 ResolutionScale, but this mod was intended to be used with you setting the resolution to your monitor resolution.

PureDark

From your mod list I can tell that they are all CPU heavy, so lowering the render resolution won't help in this case. But if you still want to render at lower resolution, instead of changing your game's resolution, you should only change the quality level in this mod's ini.

Spanky

Hey Puredark, When I attack or just left click my screen goes gray and have a purple line where my mouse would be. It covers the whole screen. I'm looking for a solution but can find one. any ideas?

X-2357's Modding Community!

Tried so many things, still getting a consistent crash right before the main menu. Changed display tweaks and end .ini files, made sure the file path for the baseplugin was right. Changed improved camera settings. Not sure what else to try

PureDark

The first thing to try is creating a new MO2 profile and enable only address lib and this mod. To know if it's working on vanilla is important to know what could be casuing the crash.

The Rustman

After following the installation instructions, the game will open, but it opens in what I believe is 1080p in borderless windowed mode with no upscaling, but I can still open the upscaler menu in-game. My suspicion is that it's because I downgraded my game to 1.6.353, but I just wanted to make sure before I go fixing something that ain't broke.

The Rustman

Hey, NVM I found a fix. Just had to uninstall Display Tweaks and fiddle around with skyrimprefs.ini.

Daniel Boucher

it opens to the main menu, but I cannot make any selection, it appears frozen upon start. I am on 1.6.353 and have followed mern's installation guide, ensuring all mods are up to date.

PureDark

You didn't follow this guide which is the one you should follow. What you described is the typical symtom of running the game in fullscreen mode. Just make sure you are in borderless.

Dale Allen

Can you explain how this works, say I select 1920 x 1080 as my res, does this then scale that up, or it scales it down then back up to run smoother?

PureDark

Don't change your resolution, you just select a quality level in the ini file and the mod will automatically force the game to run at lower resolution and upscale it back to the resolution you set.

PureDark

mod里带的那个SkyrimUpscaler.ini啊

david shelton

what does it mean if my screen is all black and only the ui is visible?

PureDark

Try it on a new MO2 profile and activate only Address Library and Upscaler, see if it works on this vanilla setup.

Brendon Hermosillo

youre the best dude thanks for the work, Happy new years all

Ethan Kline

Great work, happy new years!

Thomas James

hello, i was wondering how i set the cinemacDOF in reshade focus on my character and not be mouse based? i like the dof settings but i cant figure out how to get it to focus correctly.

PureDark

What do you mean? The auto-focus and mouse driven focus setting are the first ones in cinemacDOF's settings. Did you check Performance Mode in ReShade? Cuz Performance mode will hide the settings.

nathan bradley

hey do you need d3dcompiler_47.dll, also thank you so much happy new years your work is much appreciated

PureDark

No, and it doesn't need any dependency on nexusmods, this zip contains all it needs to work. I mean other than Address Library, you still need that.

jan lugo

eh idk if its just me but ENB on, fresh install of the file and i get in game....looks to be enabled but i cant adjust any settings as far as using the upscaler menu goes (end key) anyways fps is about the same on or off and mind you im using a 4080 but im also on 1.6.359 skyrim so maybe thats the issue? i just cant see a difference in FPS. *Update the most noticable thing that stands out is how much better the game looks without TAA enabled and letting the upscaler take over. Still doing tests but fps is all over the place in the most demanding spots. Still very impressive and recommend putting on for the graphics alone.

chaoticzocker

Kinda strange but I loose FPS. I´m using RTX 3060ti and DLSS

Thomas James

i meant is how do i get it to work properly without being auto focus mouse driven? i can see the reshade settings i just dont know how to get the focusing to look right in third person. when its mouse drive it moves around a lot and randomly focuses on random things. the regular aut o focus does the same

u got pranked

Solid +15 fps with the quality option on FSR2 on GTX 1080. This is amazing, thank you.

EmJay

I was very sceptical but damn, it really works. 15 to 20 FPS on Quality. Thank you so much for this. I can now enjoy a high quality ENB without my PC exploding.

PureDark

It has a setting for the auto focus point, that's default to 0.5 X and 0.5 Y which is in screenspace, you just set it to focus on your character, like (0.4, 0.5) or something, cuz I remember the player is a little to the left in 3rd person.

sincostine

Insane lag at the menu with RTX 2070 when the test build is enabled, can't move my cursor so I can't get into the game to test it out. Does anybody know how to solve this, thanks in advance

sincostine

Nvm i'm dumb I forgot to remove the # on Fullscreen = false on SSE Display Tweaks. Works perfectly now, 20+fps gained 1440p with ENB. Game is buttery smooth this mod is amazing

Nixon

Im trying to get this to work with the Nolvus modlist but for some reason it crashed on launch regardless if i use the standard or redux version. I have seen others use the upscaler with Nolvus so it should be compatible. Anyone knows a solution for this?

Nixon

I managed to solve it by deleting the detection meter mod which im not a fan of anyways. Been running it for awhile now and the performance improvement its quite staggering. Im really impressed!

Jennybean

I'm having a little trouble getting this to work. I installed it via MO2 and altered the ini files indicated in the instructions but when I start my game it won't show the main menu. I can hear the music from the game but it never loads the image. It'll load if I set fullscreen to 0 despite my having sse display tweaks installed but even if I load the game without it being in fullscreen I can't utilize the options in the menu for the upscaler. Also it seems I can load the game if I remove ENB but still can't utilize the options in the menu while in game. Any advice?

Pico

There are no performance changes for me on any quality setting. I can view the in-game menu just fine. Installed via MO2, followed steps 1 thru 4 above, skipping optional steps. I altered SkyrimUpscaler.ini to use "mUpscaleTyle = 0" for DLSS with my GeForce RTX 3070, and "mQualityLevel = 2". The "#" before relevant settings in SSEDisplayTweaks.ini has been removed, and no file is overriding the ini in MO2. Updating Detection Meter to v17 allowed the game to load, but had no affect on making the Upscaler mod function. Disabling Detection Meter entirely did not help. I do not have Improved Camera installed.

PureDark

I really should've written it in the instructions. You can't change most settings in-game with the ENB Test Build, cuz it's implemented using a very different method and doesn't allow for changing render resolution at runtime. If you want to change the settings, you should change it in SkyrimUpscaler.ini then restart the game.

PureDark

If you are at a low framerate already with a 3070, that would probably mean you were getting CPU limited before this mod anyway. You can check this by using the heaviest ENB and play the game at 4K. Then compare using this mod vs not using it.

Pico

My CPU is my bottleneck but I don't suspect that is the problem. I'm normally around 45-144 fps with heavy graphics mods installed. I'm hoping to bump up my mins to 60 fps at least. After following the directions above did not work, I found this: https://youtu.be/Sqzf0pAn3O4?t=310 Following that YouTuber's process also did not work. I suspect I'm not doing something quite right, or that I have some conflict.

PureDark

The 'mins' were mostly CPU bound. Lowering the GPU load won't help in such case. If you can see the in-game menu, and it's only loaded after you updated Detection Meter, it's working. But it only lower the load on GPU thus will not help with you 'mins' FPS, but rather help with your average or max FPS. If you really still don't think it's taking effect you can contact me on Discord and I can run some tests with you. ID: PureDark#0391

Jennybean

Ahh I see, thank you for responding!

Pico

I trust you know a lot more about this than I do. I'll just be happy with what I have, which is not terrible at all. Thank you for your help!

synnetic

Somehow my skyrim didn't show all the screen even though I followed all the steps. Already edited my SSE Display Tweak and MO2 INI Editor.

PureDark

Exclude SkyrimSE.exe from DPI scaling.

synnetic

Hey it works thanks.

Warlogs

Hey, mod's working good, my fps increased a lot. But i'm having a small issue with this test version using dlss/enb, that's not occur with the nexus version with dlaa/enb. Idk why this is happening, the issue appears to be an "invisible plane" that cover the inventory art of some spells/magics/powers in the magic menu. Image: https://imgur.com/a/GRGlVWC I can see the inventory art's magic trail behind that invisible plane (red arrow). The red/blue lines were made by me.

Hiit !

YOU ARE A LIFE SAVIOR, you made my game run 70 FPS on a RX 580 With rudy enb , i was running with 30 before , THANK YOU . ( Sorry for the bad english i am from Brazil )

Brendan Lor Tarkam (edited)

Comment edits

2026-11-01 10:00 I followed the instructions correctly and set up my Display Tweaks INI correctly as well, but I can't launch my game without it crashing on startup. Someone else in a previous comment said they got it to launch by deleting the dxgi.dll in the game folder, and while this DID work, it made the game look terrible. Not sure what I've done wrong. I haven't installed any of the stuff from Nexus as previous comments have said none of it is necessary. Clearly I'm missing something tho.
2023-01-06 09:20

Adam Maxwell

@brendan any lucking tracking down a solution?

Brendan Lowry
>>99036766

Nope. You having the same issue? For me the game crashes right as ENB is shader compiling before the main menu even pops up.

Todd Howard

I've heard updating detection meter mod to latest version solves it.

PureDark

Use ReShade 5.5.1's dxgi.dll, do not use 5.5.2, it's known to have issues with this mod. But 5.5.1 works just fine.

PureDark

Anyone having issues can just link your discord account with patreon, then you'll get auto invited to my discord server, then you can check for all existing report and fixes, also you can ask for support in the bug-reports channel.

PureDark

Doesn't seem related to this mod, but if it's crashing when you are using it, it might be a mod conflict.

M B

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but where can i find the files i can do step 2 and 3 in. I use the nolvus modlist.

PureDark

in SkyrimPrefs.ini that you can edit with MO2's ini editor, and ENBSeries.ini that should be in your game's root folder.

M B

It just wont work for me i did everything mentioned in the description. But my game keeps crashing. I do a fresh install now and try it again. Is there maybe a more detailed guide on how to install this. Im 95% sure i did everything right but it seems like i m missing anything.

PureDark

It's known, the particle effects in magic menu is restricted to the original resolution rect, which I can't for now solve. But it shouldn't be too big an issue.

PureDark

Link your discord to pateron and get auto invited to my server, then you can ask for support in bug-reports channel, I can only help if we can communicate instantly rather than through comments.

Barış Bahadır Özcan

how can i diagnose what causes this plugin does not work with Living Skyrim 4 Modlist, any clues? It works amazing with my own list and other custom modlists but not with this one specifically

PureDark

mod conflicts are always hard to pin-point, you just have to find all the SKSE plugins and disable them one by one. Or maybe it's reshade or enb or something else in the game root.

Oliver Closoff

Hi PureDark, your upsacler is great how ever it seems to be incompatible with Nordic UI. I've tested this myself: with your upscaler enabled in the magic menu all spell, powers and shout icons are cut off/corrupted. Please fix this incompatibility. Thank you

PureDark

It's not with Nordic UI but in general. It's a known bug and currently not easy to fix. I don't think it's too big an issue though.

Loooneytunes

Hi great mod, but I noticed when I have the mod activated my gpu utilization flucuatues quite a between 63% - 99%. Without the mod activated my gpu utilization is around 75 - 99% and seems have higher utilization on average. I have a 6800Xt gpu using FSR 2 quality setting all the rest are default.

PureDark
>>99309383

It's very hard to tell, best way to test is to try extreme cases, like using the NAT ENB III Raytracing preset. Once it can halve your FPS when enabling ENB, you can test the gain more noticeablely.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

Thanks a lot for this! I hope you keep working on updates for it, since from what I heard Boris is not interested on doing it. This has probably become one of the most essential mods for the game, which is why I will tell you again that you should be selling it a lot more, this enb version at least, in my opinion it is a very big wasted opportunity. I just tried it and for some reason after installing fsr2 version I can't tweak the quality level ingame, what do I need to do to fix that? I have 60 fps inside but 30 outside, so I really need to change the quality level.

Patrick Quigg

Where can I download reshade 5.5.1 as opposed to the newer version? I couldn't find it on their website

PureDark

Copy the download link for the newest version, then change the 5.5.2 number to 5.5.1

PureDark

Change it in the included ini and restart the game. With this version you can't change that at runtime.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

I don't know exactly what I did wrong, but after updating the amd driver and trying ultraperformance most of the image has a low quality resolution. Some parts like text or parts of the body work well but objects like fire look low resolution. I uninstalled the driver and nothing changed, I will try now if reinstalling the upscaler and choosing other quality option sosolves the issue. It was working perfectly until I did those 2 things, I wont even mention an ivy plant texture I also installed because that wouldn't make any sense. Edit: It didn't work unfortunately, should I share the log? I'll see if it is an taa dof issue that got deconfugurated when I installed the driver. I really don't know what changed for this to happen.

PureDark

Ultra performance renders 1/9 of the original pixels, it's way too low and is only meant for 8K resolution. If you are not using 8K you shouldn't ever touch ultra performance.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

Got it. In any case I'm having this low resolution "low detailed" issue and don't know the cause of it, if I remove upscale it gets fixed. I tried performance and now balance but doesnt help. It all started when I updated the driver, even though I uninstalled it, could that be the cause? It's all very strange because yesterday before doing that it worked pretty well. I got it fixed, thank god! I spent all day trying. Don't know if it was by reinstalling the driver or by choosing the balance option.

Alex Niculescu

Crashing when opening the game with the mod on....

R1an

Just feedback. On rtx 2060 mobile main menu loads in, may be, 1 frame per minute with ENB installed. Helps only deleting of ENB. Configuration: i7 8750h, 16gb ddr 4, rtx 2060

Patrick Quigg

same issue here. just wondering if there's any workaround atm. Other than that I have really high hopes for this. Running on a Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3060

Alexas

bFull Screen=0 in skyrimprefs.ini

Alexas

bFull Screen=0 in skyrimprefs.ini

PureDark

That's not enough info, you should contact me on Discord. Link your discord account on patreon and you'll get auto invited.

Askia Touré

I'm getting only 40-50ish fps in cities while my GPU sits at only 50% usage while enabled. In most outside environments I'm getting a 100% usage while hitting my fps limit. May be a conflict with a mod or just a Bug idk. Specs are: RTX3080 and R7 5800x.

PureDark

Low GPU usage usually indicates CPU bottleneck.

Prince Mydas

Hi! I try it on a RTX 3070Ti graphic card, only a couple of plugins activated, and I have around 2-3 FPS in the main menu of Skyrim. The music is normal. Cpu usage 100%. How can I solve that?

Prince Mydas

I managed to make it work by changing bFull Screen = 0 in SkyrimPrefs.ini. I'm using SSE Display Tweaks also. Now in the game, I can't change any settings from the Upscaller menu, only what I choose in the config file outside the game. The game is a little too blurry and I seen no gain...

PureDark

I have mentioned that you shouldn't use fullscreen mode. And that you should turn off TAA and Edge AA. All the other AA will blur the input for DLSS.

michael chestney

With some play testing(also more crashing randomly, both interior & exterior)I'm starting to think it's Lux. Not 100% certain though considering there's always some sort of lighting node that pops up

Shufeng Zheng

Hi, it seems this mod is not working for me. I installed upscaler mod from nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/80343. I got upscaler mod menu from "END", and I can choose DLSS/DLAA mode from the menu. However, with this version, nothing happened, and the mode menu is invalid (gray). What did I do wrong?

PureDark

I have answered this many times, I should've written it in the description. You can only change it in the ini and restart the game. With this version you can't change that at runtime.

Shufeng Zheng

I just found the answer about the menu in previous version's discussion couple of minutes ago. I guess it would be best if you state this in the description.

PureDark

看名字是拼音我就直接回中文了，你大概是CPU瓶颈了，如果你想测试是不是的话，可以看GPU使用率，如果不到99%那大概率就是了，也可以看开启DLSS前后同一个地方的的GPU使用率变化。另一个方法是测试一下目前最吃GPU性能的ENB，比如NAT ENB III Raytracing。不过即使这样也不会有办法使帧数超过CPU性能上限的，这就像CPU最高只能让你跑60帧，你GPU就算能跑80帧，用上DLSS能跑120帧，最后也只能60帧。

Shufeng Zheng

What I did (with MO2) 1. install upscalerbaseplugin and copied nvngx_dlss.gll into upscalerplugin folder 2. install this mod 3. set bUseTAA=0 in skyrimprefs.ini 4. set Fullscreen=false, BorderlessUpscale=false in SSEDisplayTweaks.ini

Shufeng Zheng

The upscaler is working! I started a new game with new MO profile, with graphical mods only. FPS improved from arond 40 to 60, in wild Falkreath, with seasonal landscape, nature of the wild land, etc. Thanks PureDark, for the great work!

Ahmlet

hi, great work. Ive got a problem using this with an enb and reshade at the same time. The game launches but its stuck at shader compiling and then crashes. Using Nolvus mod.

Shufeng Zheng

新开了一个游戏后，在Falkreath大概有10-20帧提升，不需要新开MO profile。估计老游戏存盘有问题。

PureDark

Contact me on discord, I can't really troubleshoot in comments.

Jamie Maxwell

I'm using a 1080p monitor and sadly i didnt gain any performance at all from this.

Benjamin Cook

Why doesn't it work in fullscreen? Is it a technical limitation of the game itself, ENB, the mod, or some combination of those?

Benjamin Cook

Perhaps you have a CPU bottleneck, not a graphics one

PureDark

Limitation of the method I used to make ENB compatible.

Katsutoshi

Had a same problem. My full screen setting was already at 0. Instead of using FSR2 by default, I just switched to XeSS.. Worked for me

Shufeng Zheng

Most probably, it could be GPU memory limit, or game engine limit. You can use MSI afterburner to monitor the CPU and GPU usage. I got similar situation with low/no improvement fps. It turns out GPU usage is not maxed out, due to some mods.

Shufeng Zheng

Thank you for this great work, PureDark! For those who see no/little fps improvement, check if your GPU usage is maxed out (e.g. use MSI Afterburner). I don't think CPU could be the bottleneck for this game, with a decent mondern PC. In some scenarios, my GPU usage is <80% (I don't know if it reached RAM limit, or game engine limit), which could be caused by tree/grass modes, smp outfits, heavy script, etc. Try to change to another location, change the outfit, disable suspicious mods, etc.

El Duderino

Yeah, I have the same problem. Not a big issue though, just a little annoying.