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Fixed random crash on startup.

Fixed FOV not being applied correctly so that FSR2 has more ghosting than expected.

Fixed some ReShade effects darkening the image.

Note that rendering ReShade effects before upscaling is best for RTGI and Comic.fx, they will cost less performance and look much more stable.

But for DOF it's still best to be applied after upscaling, so you will have to choose, cuz currently I can't separate them, they either all render before upscaling or all render after.

If you need to render RTGI before upscaling, and still want to use CinematicDOF, remember to adjust the focus point as in the picture.

INSTALLATION

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

Slide DOF all the way to the left in the settings.

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).

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

(Optional) Install Reshade for DOF if you really want DOF. I recommand the CinematicDOF with aperture set to 12-15, and focal length around 90,  and near plane max blur 0.

If you use ReShade, make sure it's at least 5.6.0, to know this check dxgi.dll's version.

Note that you can't change 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

If you are using detection meter, make sure it's at least v17.

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Comments

RapidRage Kade

not sure whether it's my hardware or NOLVUS in it's current state, but after installing both of these today and changing the ini to 0 for "performance" I can get clear gameplay here and there, but of course loading starts out choppy and can equal any spawns and new elements make the game chop again, hopping I can get past it somehow as I followed all the installation steps here and on their discord (after posting I have discovered the preset option and realized that preset 6 might have been conflicting with performance and DLSS) (Since testing the preset it certainly didn't help, simply just can't handle combat with this enabled, it does seem to make out of combat smoother but anything with more script traffic and the game breaks with this version, using NOLVUS without this worked so my hardware is either better off or something is unstable with the combat element)

Captain

Thanks so much! Love this mod!

PureDark

You will have to use external method to take screenshots, any internal method will only take screenshots before upscaling.

FeNiCMo

When I launch the game, my GPU (RTX 3090) usage skyrockets to 100% while making squeaky noises, then crashes. I reduced the resolution from 2K to 1K, but the issue still persists. FYI I can launch the game if I disable the plugin.

PureDark

Link your discord to patreon then ask in the server, I can't do troubleshooting in the comments. Also remember to post the log

PureDark

Probably best to link your discord to patreon and report in the server. I've seen people playing well with NOLVUS, so I might need some short clips to know what you are describing

RapidRage Kade

Do you mean that you have a discord or do you mean I should post it to the NOLVUS discord? I'm happy to provide an example as I'd like to optimize my game as much as possible

fzy224v

If you link your discord to patreon, you will be automatically added to PureDark's discord server.... Regarding your problem, I'm also playing nolvus and it's going very well so might be a problem from your side

Jerry Diaz

i keep crashing i tried but thanks for everything this isn't for me just more problems stopping me from playing my mod order peace

PureDark

If you are having issues launching, don't hesitate to ask me for help, I have solved dozens of people's issues and most of them are just user errors. Link your discord to patreon and then you can ask in the server, post the logs so that I can know what went wrong.

PureDark

I wasn't even aware of this mod before, but what I did to fix the compatibility with ChineseInput and ImprovedCamera might also apply to other plugins.

RapidRage Kade

did you modify your ini for the upscaler at all? I meant to try default but when I installed it I changed everything to performance

fractalbase

mod works fine for me, will have to wait to report on FPS boost until I get a monitor with a much larger refresh rate (just 60hz currently). I notice FPS drops when looking in a direction that has a lot more draw calls, but that's part of Skyrim's engine limitations.

fractalbase

What I have noticed with this update is that my ReShade preset is not appearing on UI elements anymore (I'm not using ReShade Helper), so far the game space seems to have the ReShade effect still.

PureDark

Yes the new feature does the same thing as ReShade Helper. If you check the new option it will render before upscaling, if not it will render after upscaling, but both before UI.

fractalbase

can anything affect the palette of UI elements with this mod installed? just curious.

PureDark

Anything but ReShade, since it's rendered before UI.

Nicodemus Edwards

How to fix borderles window screen being too small?

Lucas Janzen

how can I render ReShade effects before upscaling ? or is it automatically ?

PureDark

It's an option in the menu, you press END to open the menu by default.

limpjellyfish

Just want to say so far this has been fantastic! Thank you for all the hard work building it.

D.D

it's too good, but i cant pull up Menu in-game on laptop(END key doesn't operate like regular keyboards lol) is there a way to change the binding?

PureDark

You can change the binding in the included ini file.

hoskope

Notice this kind of thing, i'm disabling enb there as well. Let me know if i can do more? https://streamable.com/wlwfa3, no sure if it's scaler related, maybe you know better.

LUX

hey guys , ive updated my drivers for my pc but it still crashes at start up, any ideas ?

PureDark

Link your discord to patreon and you'll be auto invited to the server. Then ask in the bug-report channel. I can only do troubleshooting in the discord server.

mw52588

If my desktop resolution was not set to 100%, my window would be too zoomed in. I'm not sure if it helps, but just wanted to mention it here if anyone sees a similar issue.

Wrldz

Can someone send me a discord invite, I have some questions about the upscaler, I have connected my patreon to discord I am not getting invited to the discord. TY

Tntpeach

I connected my discord but didn't get the invite

Anthony j Coram

i keep crashing and i dont understand how to get in the discord sorry

Jerry Diaz

Just cancel the membership thats what I did

cggso

part of my enb giu is cut off when using this, is there a fix.

PureDark

ENB GUI is still restricted to the render resolution, you might need to set the quality level to Quality to use ENB's menu, after you have tweaked the settings, change it back to what you want to play with.

Liam Young

Can't disable the mod.. I keep going into the ini and setting mEnableUpscaler = false, but it keeps making it go true... help? Guess I will just disable in mod organizer

PureDark

For the ENB workaround upscaling must always be enabled. If you want to disable it you do need to disable it in MO2.

Parker Mancuso

Sorry if this is a dumb question but How do I turn off edgeAA

Ghoulified

I'm not getting any fps improvement using dlss it's the same when on or off

Kalevil16

Hi, my character gets blurry and I have no idea why

Erasmus

Hello, thank you for making this mod! By chance, where can I find edge AA and how do I disable it? My game keeps crashing on startup and I'm troubleshooting. Thanks in advance!

PureDark

You can disable EdgeAA in enblocal.ini, and you can find help in discord server.

GuerrillaZ Community (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-08 00:00 Game wont run at all with it enabled
2023-03-21 16:13

PureDark

Just link your discord to patreon, then you can ask in the server.

BokChopp

My resolution gets wonky when I use the mod. Is there a fix for this

PureDark

What's `wonky`, you might need to link your discord to patreon, then ask in the server.

BokChopp

Oh by wonky I meant that I have an Ultrawide monitor that’s 21:9 so when it loads It doesn’t fit my full screen.

David West

Solid 15-20 fps gain on the whiterun plains with grass LOD and 2k grass textures. I'm impressed. Keep up the good work.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

I use fsr2 and for some reason there's ghosting on npc's lips, not sure why since you said on the description that you reduced ghosting. I followed the guide correctly, but just in case could this be caused by not configuring something correctly?

PureDark

That's just FSR2's normal working state. FSR2.2 reduced some ghosting on walking NPCs, but lips aren't better with it.

Mitch

This works quite well, I'm notice though that in menus when I click with my mouse the screen goes blue and there is a cross that follows my cursor. Not sure if this is from this mod or from reshade, and if there is a way to fix that?

FinalCraneFall

Is it compatible to TKV6? If no, would you please make it compatible?

PureDark

It has no compatibility issue with any particular ENB preset, it can only conflict with another skse plugin.

reanor

Game still crashes in my build... oh well. At least I can use the one from Nexus for DLAA.

PureDark

You should ask in the server with log

The Lost

For my laptop Upscale actually works allot better in Fullscreen mode on 4k display settings, fixes the jitteriness in shadows (especially under player) and textures and somehow increases few fps

PureDark

But this mod won't work in Fullscreen mode, it will freeze.

The Lost

doesn't for me, is set SSEDisplayTweaks.ini fullscreen mode to false and in Skyrim Launcher i disabled windowed mode & borderless which allowed me to set skyrim resolution to 4k and so far works perfectly fine

PureDark

Yes that's borderless. Cuz Display Tweaks fullscreen mode set to false means it will overwrite the launcher settings, and the game won't launch in fullscreen but in borderless. That's written in the installation.

The Lost

Sorry, my bad

PureDark

You should post the crash log, I don't think a graphic mod can cause crash during gameplay, it only happens at launching the game when not configurated correctly.

PureDark

Link your discord to patreon and you'll automatically join the server.

Luca Barbieri Sosa

Could this be causing snow effects not to show with FSR2? Or is this due to a bad configuration? I'm referring snow storm with true storms.

PureDark

FSR2 has more ghosting than DLSS

Luca Barbieri Sosa

I didn't know ghosting was related to that. In any case I need help, I installed the latest baseplugin and now the game crashes on boot. I think I'm following the instructions correctly, placing the baseplugin folder into data and adding the fsr2 dll. I have enb installed and the compiler47, so what could be causing this?

PureDark

You don't need to install anything other than this zip. The partreon version is an all-in-one package. And I just realized by snow effects you mean those on screen particles, and yeah they tend to get lessen with temporal upscalers.

SENORCARBIBOU

I play the game on fullscreen because I play on a 4K TV and play the game at 1080p, when I turn on borderless the game only uses a small percent of the screen, any tips?

PureDark

You don't need to do that with DLSS, just set the game to run at 4k then use UltraPerformance.

PureDark

Post the SkyrimUpscaler.log, seach for it in Documents. Post it on discord or via DM, not in the comments.