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Finally fixed wrongly cropped magic sfx in magic menu.

Compatibility with newest ReShade.

If you downloaded the old zip and got crash, download again.

The new file contains Hotfix1 postfix.


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 just 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 that you can't change upscaler and quality level at runtime, you'll need to change it in the ini and restart the game.

IMPORTANT: If you are using SSE Display Tweaks, open 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 it, 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. 

Comments

Allan Pasking

With versions 5 and 6 I had no problems. Skyrim SE with the latest ENB build (484) started and was stable. I installed your V7 version today and CTD occurs. Is there any cache recommendation to clear or something similar?

Bailey Barry

I crash on startup using this one but older version works fine

Buddy Kidd

I am also getting CTDs after upgrading to build 07.

frayReshoot0g

Experiencing a crash on startup after I updated

manli bk

Lol, I Came here with same reason

Buddy Kidd

That fixed it. Thank you!!!

frayReshoot0g

Thank you!! Keep up the great work!

Lens

i just stare at my magic menu now, thank you sir

Evan Naves

Awesome man I’ll check it out today. Question: are you able to adjust dlss settings in game on this version?

Ramesh Laxmisan

Hi PureDark, could not connect to reshade website - seems to be blocked from where I am. I downloaded 5.6.0 from a third party website. As far as feedback, I use Rudy ENB for Cathedral Weathers and have a nvidia RTX card. I had capped my framerate in the engine to 60fps to avoid the physics bug where things fly around everywhere when I enter a room. I installed the upscaler today and followed your instructions. I immediately noticed an FPS gain - from 25-35 fps to 35-55 fps (heavily modded Whiterun exterior). I use smoothcam and had a bunch of presets - noticed I cannot zoom back as far as I used to, but not a dealbreaker for the fps gain. I switched to another smoothcam preset and will continue to test.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

If I'm using 1080 definition which is the best quality level for better performance?

Allan Pasking

Now it works perfectly fine. I gained another 6 FPS. Since V5 until now the gain on my Skyrim SE + ENB Very High totals 36 FPS. I jumped from 50 FPS to 86 FPS with a 3080ti. Amazing work! Congratulations.

BlazenMusic20

Thanks so much for sharing your innovations! Test build 5 works perfectly for me. I'm worried about messing something up by upgrading. Is test build 7 significantly better than test build 5?

PureDark

These are only bug-fixing, there won't be any new issues, and you can always just revert to build 05 if you want.

嘉麒 李

Sorry but I got some errors using it with skse 1.5.97. Is it only supposed to work fine with skse AE(1.6.640) version?

嘉麒 李

Never mind I forgot to tweak settings in SSE Display Tweaks. It works perfecly nice in both version.

Hansley Elwinn Go

This ENB Test Build 07 crashes me before Bethesda logo on startup. Running smooth on ENB Test Build 06. Using Skyrim AE 1.6.640

Yellow supercars

Hi there, I'm having an issue where my game loads up to the menu, but then I'm not able to do anything. Mouse is stuck on the screen, I can only alt tab out. Any ideas for a fix?

PureDark

You are running the game in fullscreen. I have very specific instruction on how to make sure your game is in borderless instead of fullscreen.

Yellow supercars

Yeah you just helped me out on discord, thanks!

BlazenMusic20

Thank you very much. It is an honor to support you!

Robert Fulton

Also here to report hotfix gives me +15 frames on average; very nice work mate.

Daniel Boucher

Thanks for the help earlier. I'm finding that complex grass is no longer working for me though. Is this expected? I'm getting roughly 15-20 fps boost outside though, which is crazy! nice work!

Ma Niubi

感谢纯黑大佬的工作,不过这个07版本貌似会和中文输入的插件冲突,每次打中文就会CTD

PureDark

这个版本不支持中文输入MOD,需要作者更新,如果不介意魔法菜单的BUG的话你可以继续用06版

PureDark

I have not tested complex grass, maybe it's not supported at the moment. Maybe I'll look into that later when I am done with FO4.

Daniel Boucher

Unreal. I’m increasing my monthly donation

CL

Hey, glad I joined this patreon, this mod and the work your doing for Skyrim is nothing short of incredible. Ran into a hiccup though, for whatever reason the v6 ver of this mod works perfectly but with this v7 one Skyrim just hangs in a black screen and reads as not responding in task manager whenever I open the game Edit: And v7 has just decided to start working apparently. Skyrim operates in mysterious ways.

PureDark

Are you using the hotfix version? I don't see any reason for 06 to work but not 07, so contact me on discord to test more. Link your discord to patreon and you'll get invited to my server.

FelixGMo

我换成vulkan后直接ctd,是否不支持vulkan

Ian Schroeder

Working great! Thank you for the updates. This got me 30+ fps on AVO modlist.

FatNinjas

Thank you for all your hard work.

Sebastian Paulmann

Its really incredible! Just trying flawless Elysium Modlist on my 3070 and another 1500+ Modlist on my 3050 ti laptop

ChildofDragons

Do we only need this file, or do we merge it with the one posted on January 1st?

PureDark

You only need to install the latest one. You don't need the one posted on January 1st, that's build 06.

MinhazMurks

Hey PureDark! Thank you for your amazing work, it works so well on my setup. I do have one incompatibility pointed out by someone else too. The letterbox from Alternate Conversation Camera. The letterbox while in conversation is disabled but works when not using the upscaler.

PureDark

I can't make compatibility for every mod, if it's not game breaking you just need to endure it for now. Non-gamebreaking bugs are of low priority on my list, but maybe I'll looking into these when I am done with FO4Upscaler

MinhazMurks

I understand, I just wanted to let you know

BrainyCabde D

I have no problems running this with 1.5.97, but when I try the current version of AE, borderless window won't work(the title bar is visible at the top), and DLSS doesn't seem to work either everything seems aliased and low res compared to when running this with 1.5.97 which looks and runs better than native 4K on my 3090 modded to the gills. Edit - I reset my INI files and solved the issues up above. Ignore this comment.

David Cairns

So the new file still crashes my game

PureDark

We need to do troubleshooting on discord, not in the comments. Just link your discord to patreon and get invited to my server, and ask there.

Thomas Murphy

So I'm noticing a weird shimering effect with grass that's been effected by collision. So after someone has moved through it and it moves via grass collision there is a lingering shimmer effect that remains. Would that be something caused by this? I havent noticed it until recently.

PureDark

vanilla doesn't have grass collision, if it's ENB's grass collision it doesn't produce motion vector so the movement isn't known by the upscaler, there will be ghosting for sure.

Thomas Murphy

Yes, it's the collision from ENB. I suppose it is a ghosting effect, visually it I'd describe it more like a shimmer though. So from you're comment it isnt something that the upscaler will be able to work around?

大苏打 省

我该如何切换质量档?我按end键什么也调不了,以及taa不能开那fxaa呢?

TheSeaMoon

Why do I keep crashing at startup with this version installed? Using FSXR2 with AMD Card

NPC 74853482

Recent nvidia update must of broke the current build...was working fine beforehand.

Sujay Seeks

Nahhh, I'm on latest update and everything still works fine.

PureDark

改配置文件,改完再开游戏,在游戏内不能修改质量档位

PureDark

景深,在游戏设置里拉到最左边,ENB的话开ENB菜单里找DepthOfField

大苏打 省

那么如何更改配置文件呢?

大苏打 省

那么如何更改配置文件呢?

Renthal

Thanks for the great work. This looks really promising. I'm unfortunately not seeing any fps gains when using dlss at native resolution. In fact my fps has dropped. Is there anything specific that I could have done wrong in set up? Thanks for your help.

PureDark

Check your GPU usage, if it's below 95% your game is CPU bound.

Mr.Duckie

I'm getting 1 FPS in the main Menu? Did I do something wrong?

PureDark

Turn off fullscreen and run the game in borderless.

Mr.Duckie

Thank you so much

Slokai

Yo, having a problem here, after enabling this my game just stops working on the menu screen.

PureDark

No I don't need the log and I don't have access anyway. You need to describe it more accurately, does your game crash or is it just freezed, if it's the latter you are running the game in fullscreen, switch to borderless.

Joshua Collier

Using FSR2: My game shows 3 cascading game screens coming from the top left corner when I enable the upscaler. Looks normal when it turned off. If I load into the game with the upscaler already enabled it's just a black screen until I turn it off then it goes back to normal when turned off. Also can I get a invite to discord? Kalamarty#2027

Benjamin Cook

Do presets matter for DLAA? I can't notice any difference between quality, performance, etc. Should I be using any specific one?

Slokai

It just freezes and the windows message "skyrim stopped working" apears, and no I'm not running in full-screen, I know because I use multiple monitors, I'm using display tweeks and full-screen on the ini is false. Update: I did something and now it works, trying to figure out what. Thanks

Sosvo Zer

Hello PureDark, When I use the lates upscaler with dlss i cannot see my book and lockpick UI, i cant see the books but i can turn the invisible pages, i can see the pick but not the lock.

Liam

How do you properly install this and have it work with an ENB? All ENB's I've tested don't work, and lead to a stuttery menu that never loads.

PureDark

Is it only happening with this build? Does 06 work as intended? And have your tried creating a new MO2 profile and test on it?

PureDark

Read the part that says set bFull Screen = 0 in SkyrimPrefs.ini

Liam

Ah, thank you!

大苏打 省

为什么我使用时看起来异常的模糊?

Sarim Saleem

is there anyway I can switch the game to bordless without running it through the orginal launcher? I dont want my mods to break

PureDark

因为你没关TAA或者ENB的EdgeAA

Sosvo Zer

When i use dldsr 2.25 + dlss balanced on my 1440p monitor it works, i dont know whats the problem.

Edalyn Jaguar

Hi PureDark, thank you for your mod, but I'm also getting this problem. If I turnoff my ENB then I can see the lockpick UI again... I have tried version 6 also and am still getting this problem. EDIT: This may actually just be a weird problem with Alternative Start. I turned off the ENB and unlocked the cell and then turned the ENB back on, the lock UI was there as normal when trying to lockpick other things. I will do more testing but it will be interesting if @Sosvo Zer had the same problem.

Janina Goth

I installed everything necessary, my game is in borderless windowed mode and I changed the ini files, but its not scaling and the game is just a little box in the corner of my screen.

PureDark

You need to set the game at your monitor resolution.

Jeroen

Can I use this for SkyrimVR? I get an error when starting the game REL/Relocation.h(1077) Failed to find the id within the address library 75589.

vladirms

I don't understand anything. I installed the basic plugin, installed Ess for the AMD graphics card, installed everything else, corrected the INI files as it says in the manual, but still there is no effect. As it was 30-40 FPS, so it remained, what could I miss?(

andrew pastor

I open my game and its a black screen with green on the bottom. Sometimes it will get to the bethesda logo and just freeze. Tried using past versions, and it still won't work. I have a RTX 3060 and I7.

PureDark

There's a VR version I posted on nexusmods, use that for VR instead of this.

PureDark

read the part about fullscreen

Jeroen

Yeah I know, but i thought this one would make my ENB work better :-)

vladirms

Ryzen 1600 6 core not enough? :c

PureDark

Skyrim only uses one core, it's very common for a single-core game to be CPU limited.

PureDark

这里讲不清楚,你不如直接加QQ群吧:667300898

Martin Ivanov

I struggled quite a bit to get this thing working. I changed everything needed in ini file located in C:\Users\Marto\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition. I did everything as written in the description and the game just froze on a black screen in the main menu. It turned out that skyrimprefs.ini which is located in Mod Organizer 2\profiles\Default is set to bFull Screen=1 , changed it to 0 and wooooow wonder everything works great now.

vladirms

What should I do? Please tell me if you can

Michael Pena

wow my game just had a 20-30 fps increase with this. rtx 2080 on 1440p with 4k textures & ENB. usually was getting like 45 fps in outside areas. thank you for this!

Saythama

Hey ! Why do reshade doesnt work after installing ?

PureDark

Update ReShade to the newest version

Saythama

already using 5.6.0

Saythama

when i use my key to activate/deactivate reshade i get the fps drop from rtgi but visualy nothing is happening

Jakub Wojnowski

so I ve just installed it and I can t see any difference before installing it. People are talking about gains of numbers like 20 fps. I can t see any difference worth saying

PureDark

You need to know whether you were getting CPU bottleneck. Just check your GPU usage, if it's below 99% it's likely you are limited by CPU, and this mod cannot boost your FPS in that case. What it can do however, is allowing you to improve your image quality without losing FPS, since you are getting some extra GPU headroom.

Buddy Kidd

There is a new version of nvngx_dlss.dll. It is 3.1.1. Will it help, hurt, or not make any differene if I replace 2.5 which you have in your mod?

PureDark

They are binary compatible, you can update to the newest dll to get the best image quality.

Logovore

Make sure you set your upscaling method in the mod's INI. It defaults to FSR.

Allan Pasking

Hi PureDark. I don't want to bother you but I'm just curious. Do you intend to release a new version for Skyrim SE soon?

PureDark

I have something in mind for it, like compatibility with doodlez's Playground and his motion blur. But I can only do it after FO4Upscaler is stable and no longer need me to update it. I'll start working on an update for SkyrimUpscaler sometime at the end of this month, feel free to unsubscribe and only subscribe when I update it.

Allan Pasking

I will not cancel. I want to support your work. Finally Skyrim ENB is playable balancing graphics quality and decent FPS. I can only thank and encourage people like you, Boris and the like.

Eli Gibbs

Cant get this to work, I set BorderlessUpscale to 0 and made sure bFullscreen was set to 0 in prefs.ini, and I keep getting a black screen before I even get to the menu.

PureDark

Link your discord to patreon, then ask in the server.

Logovore

What do you mean by "Install Reshade for DOF and other effects"? Is that a mod? Unclear.

PureDark

You can just google ReShade.

T.K (edited)

Comment edits

2026-11-01 10:00 Hi PureDark,does this version require the UpscalerBasePlugin you distribute with NEXUS? Thank you for your great efforts in updating and testing!
2023-02-14 13:58

Ralph Smit

hi, great work. Can i install this on its own or is an earlier version of the Build nessicary? Also do i need the nexus version of the mod with this?

PureDark

You only need to install this zip alone.

PureDark

You can just install this on its own.

Poclyptica

so i installed this, but when i press END it doesnt show anything?

Poclyptica

nvm forgot to enable it in mo2

Paul Jamilkowski

I followed all the directions to a T but when I activate the upscaler all it does is disable my ENB completely. Is that supposed to be what it does?

Ralph Smit

quick question? Does the version of the Nvidia Dlss.dll downloaded on the site referenced by the nexus mods page need to be a specific version for this to work? I currently have 2.5.1, but i'm not noticing any real fps gain. My PC is pretty beefy, tough i do have a 1000+ modlist which is certainly the main cause of fps loss. I checked for any CPU bottleneck, but all my parts should work well together. Did i perhaps install it wrong?

PureDark

Patreon version is all-in-one package, you only need to install this. For no FPS gain, check your GPU usage, if it drops, you are getting CPU bottleneck, and DLSS can't really boost your FPS in CPU dense area. But you can use that extra GPU power to improve your image quality, like using heavier ENB preset, add more GPU heavy mods instead of CPU heavy ones.

AtomicFire

Anyone know if this works with modlists? Like Aldrnari?

imnotkryptic

God I'm so in love with you PureDark, u saved my sad pathetic life :D

Darrindo (edited)

Comment edits

2026-11-01 10:00 When I check the ingame UI it shows my resolution is going to 1280 x 720 how can I change that? I want to upscale my game to 4k. The resolution settings are missing from my SkyrimUpscaler.ini
2023-02-17 20:23

PureDark

You need to set the game's resolution to 4k, then change the quality level settings. As for what the render resolution is for each quality level, you can google it.

Yukavii

Thanks, I did that but the issue I'm getting is since I disabled Fullscreen in ssedisplaytweaks.ini when I run the game it shows up cropped on both of my monitors instead of my main monitor only. Is there a way to force it onto my main monitor only?

Nicholas D Wilder

Followed the instructions exactly as shown but now I just CTD when the game launches... What could be the issue?

PureDark

Join discord and report in the server

AtomicFire

which version you using?

Beni P

Bro I love you so much - I've been subbed for the last few months but haven't had time to make this work. Just following your clear steps I made it work and holy shit did this mod deliver - the game looks soooo crisp at DLSS quality now, and I have a stable 40-60 fps on a fully decked out Elysium setup :DDDD You are a magician bro.

Barry aaa

Got the mod working but it isn't stretching full screen, is there anything i'm doing wrong. Using Project Skyrim modlist which has SSE edit.

PureDark

You need to set the game's resolution to your monitor resolution, and choose a quality level in this mod's ini file.

Arkys Valonter

I just subbed to use this. I am in absolute awe. I have been modding skyrim since it came out, and Oblivion before that, and I have never seen a tool that can truly boast increasing performance so strongly with negligible visual impact. I'm playing on an RTX 3080, AMD 5800x3d, and at 4k. I'm loaded up with texture mods, and I'm using Rudy ENB and Dyndolod ultra trees. I would sometimes drop down to 15-20 fps outdoors. Now, using the Balanced preset, I am getting a solid 60. This is astounding.

Aria Hadgis

Absolutely glorious, thank you! Went from 55-ish to 92-ish in 4k with a 12900k and 3080 Ti using the Quality preset and 96.4 FOV, with Rudy ENB and around 370 mods. Including some very script heavy ones, athough I'm not sure if that would be more of a CPU strain than something DLSS would help with. Either way, thank you! Instructions worked out of the box for me, but I had to manually go into the .ini and indicate '0' to get DLSS to work instead of FSR2, but other than was so simple!

Jason Xu

Thank you so much for saving my PC performance!

Jerry Diaz

THANKS BRO I LOVE YOU MY FPS IS EVEN BETTER I LOVE YOU I HOPE YOU WIN 500K