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In my sig there's a link to the 'Tips for taking better screenshots' thread. I've made multiple posts in there talking about the various tools, how to download them, and get started with them. Others have contributed good tips as well, and there's some troubleshooting if people can't get things like SweetFX to work. The other link in my sig - Your best Dragon Age Screenarchery - has examples of the screenshots people are taking with these tools, and there may be other tips mixed in with them that haven't found their way to the official Tips thread.

 

Ah so there is! I'll have a look then! Thanks Catabuca!


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I think ENB. Not that I really know what that is, but... I heard it, know what it's for.

More or less an enb and sweet effects are post processing modular graphic engines or modular graphical tweaks, that are used to enhance the graphical effects of a game. 

 

This will give you an idea of what kind of changes a enb/sweetfx and lighting mod can make. It will also give you a break down of what enb's and sweetfx do.


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More like a strained back. I'm a big girl. ;) (working on getting smaller)

 

Not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, if the man (or the woman) can handle your height ego-wise, it's nowhere near a problem, right?

 

I don't know that there has been an ENB created for DA:I, I don't know if any of the current binaries are compatible, I haven't seen anyone talking about it. It's mostly unnecessary in this game though, because the foundation is already there in the vanilla game, and there are plenty of things that can be tweaked with shader suites like SweetFX or ReShade (as well as the Frostbite visual controls).

 

Yeah. I don't know much about this, so I just vomited the first name on my tongue I knew was even remotely related.

 

More or less an enb and sweet effects are post processing modular graphic engines or modular graphical tweaks, that are used to enhance the graphical effects of a game. 

 

This will give you an idea of what kind of changes a enb and lighting mod can make. It will also give you a break down of what enb's do.

 

Thanks!



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I'd probably be interested in a good graphical enhancement mod once most of the patching for this game is done. I am lazy so patches breaking mods is such a drag. 



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Interesting stuff. The effects aren't achieved by post-processing but engine-tweaking. I like it. No way my rig could handle that, though. Maybe next time I build a new PC...



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I'd probably be interested in a good graphical enhancement mod once most of the patching for this game is done. I am lazy so patches breaking mods is such a drag. 

lol, I just wish the game was playable on my end at this point. The patch 5 beta seems to cause me to run into the directx crash more than I was before.



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Interesting stuff. The effects aren't achieved by post-processing but engine-tweaking. I like it. No way my rig could handle that, though. Maybe next time I build a new PC...

 

I'd need a new card to handle it but I should have that at some point and my processor should be more than capable of enabling it. Down the road I guess...



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lol, I just wish the game was playable on my end at this point. The patch 5 beta seems to cause me to run into the directx crash more than I was before.

 

I have only had two "driver has stopped working and recovered" crashes since release. What mostly plagues me is long loads (at times) and sometimes I'll get screen freezes for a second or two which is usually fixed by saving and reloading the game. It's been better since the last patch but it's annoying when it happens. I think the loading lag is a memory leak issue from what I've read online. I am not a tech guy so I rely on those who are to explain things. You're scaring me about patch 5...hope that's sorted before they release it for general use!  :o



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Interesting stuff. The effects aren't achieved by post-processing but engine-tweaking. I like it. No way my rig could handle that, though. Maybe next time I build a new PC...

 

Enb's and things like Sweet Effects are very tweekable. You could find one that will work for a game like Skyrim or DA:I on your current system without a huge performance loss. You will probably want to set aside some time to mess  around with the settings though. Just so you can optimize it for your current setup. 


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lot of the regulars don't come in here much anymore. if at all. just an observation. think i might pull a Rose here soon myself. Something has been...off about this thread for me for some time now...at least two months. i think i've been coming back out of habit vs still feeling it in here. idk. trying to sort it out.

maybe i was jarred by the fact that Sera turned out to be nothing like i thought she would be...and I'm literally just realizing that today. It's not a bad thing...she's still bae. maybe it's the craziness that happened in here. i just know something feels off every time i post. so perhaps a sabbatical is in order. not fishing for sympathy or attention(cause i hate that) just thinking out loud, so to speak.

 

We will miss your input! But you definitely gotta put yourself first and be where you want to be, where you are comfortable.

 

I do hope you come back.



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Enb's and things like Sweet Effects are very tweekable. You could find one that will work for a game like Skyrim or DA:I on your current system without a huge performance loss. You will probably want to set aside some time to mess  around with the settings though. Just so you can optimize it for your current setup. 

Hmm... I'm pretty much on the edge of being able to play on ultra as it is. My mobo is over five years old, even if it was top-end when new. Maybe I'll give it a go some time. I do like making pretty pictures.



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We will miss your input! But you definitely gotta put yourself first and be where you want to be, where you are comfortable.

 

I do hope you come back.

Yeah I do like to hear Kasumi's perspective on things, since she comes from such a different background to me. I'll miss you, Kasumi!


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Enb's and things like Sweet Effects are very tweekable. You could find one that will work for a game like Skyrim or DA:I on your current system without a huge performance loss. You will probably want to set aside some time to mess  around with the settings though. Just so you can optimize it for your current setup. 

 

Do you know if there is an ENB binary available for DA:I? I've seen no one using one, everyone seems to be using SFX or ReShade instead. Most games have their own binary, although one or two have been able to share one in the past - it's down to the ENB creator Boris Vorontsov as to whether he makes one for any given game, and I believe he isn't a fan of EA so.... As I said, I'm not certain of the benefits of one anyway, since you can create something from realism to high fantasy depending on the settings you choose in SFX or ReShade. ReShade has more options with something like the MasterEffect Reborn shader suite (but sadly no SMAA, which is why I don't use it). Although, SSIL would be lovely to use (one of my favourite Skyrim ENB values).

 

Re performance (to anyone who doesn't know, I presume you do, JohnWayne): certain effects will be more performance intensive than others. SweetFX can have negligible effect on your fps, but the weaker your computer and/or the more effects you use the greater the impact will start to become. Most effects will have a little note next to them if they have a high performance cost (like HDR), and some things have variables to their quality that can help ease the overhead (like SMAA). But as JohnWayne said (that sounds awesome to say, btw - dat username), you can start with a config and tweak it to your liking from there, and often just reducing SMAA quality or turning off HDR and rebalancing with something else will be enough.


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Hmm... I'm pretty much on the edge of being able to play on ultra as it is. My mobo is over five years old, even if it was top-end when new. Maybe I'll give it a go some time. I do like making pretty pictures.

It's hard to play a game without an enb or sweet fx once you start using them. So be warned. lol 

 

I'm not a huge graphics nut, but once you start seeing what they can do, it becomes mind blowing. I mean Skyrim is a good looking game on ultra. But throw a enb, high res texture mod and enhancements such as a grass/plant mod into Skyrim and the game becomes jaw dropping.

 

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Knowing me if I started I think I'd be wanting to TWEAK ALL THE THINGS...


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Re performance (to anyone who doesn't know, I presume you do, JohnWayne): certain effects will be more performance intensive than others. SweetFX can have negligible effect on your fps, but the weaker your computer and/or the more effects you use the greater the impact will start to become. Most effects will have a little note next to them if they have a high performance cost (like HDR), and some things have variables to their quality that can help ease the overhead (like SMAA). But as JohnWayne said (that sounds awesome to say, btw - dat username), you can start with a config and tweak it to your liking from there, and often just reducing SMAA quality or turning off HDR and rebalancing with something else will be enough.

 

This is what would make me worry about using one. Not sure of how hard it would affect my pc and not having enough tech savy to mess about with the coding or what have you of any games systems.



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-snip-

 

No, enb binary for DA:I yet. Also, I think Boris is pretty much done working on EA games at this point. But, some have said he is simply still trying to learn the in's and out's of the Frostbite engine.

 

Imo, I'd much rather have an ENB than Sweet FX. Sweet FX is nice, but an enb gives you a lot more control due to it using/tweeking the game engines code. It also opens up more possibilities because of this. But, unlike Sweet FX, you really need a set of full fledged modding tools to take advantage of an enb. Something that DA:I lacks at the moment.

 

For example with a enb and modding tools, I can completely change how fire is treated as a light source and how the light it creates interacts with shadows. With Sweet Fx, I can add some post processing effects and other tweaks to make the fire look better.  


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So I just finished Wolfenstein: The New Order. I loved it.

 

Spoiler

 

This song gave me the feels...

 



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You guys past post 3000. There should be a reward for that. lol


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No, enb binary for DA:I yet. Also, I think Boris is pretty much done working on EA games at this point. But, some have said he is simply still trying to learn the in's and out's of the Frostbite engine.

 

Imo, I'd much rather have an ENB than Sweet FX. Sweet FX is nice, but an enb gives you a lot more control due to it using/tweeking the game engines code. It also opens up more possibilities because of this. But, unlike Sweet FX, you really need a set of full fledged modding tools to take advantage of an enb. Something that DA:I lacks at the moment.

 

For example with a enb and modding tools, I can completely change how fire is treated as a light source and how the light it creates interacts with shadows. With Sweet Fx, I can add some post processing effects and other tweaks to make the fire look better.  

 

It's been some time since I've played Skyrim, and quite a few things have been added to ENB since then. I never learned how to work with shader code (bar a few user-end tweaks to dof or effects.fx), but I was fairly fluent with enbseries.ini. When I stopped playing Boris had just recently (a month or so previous) added all the various water effects (refraction, etc). I haven't been keeping up with news to do with it (since I don't even have it installed on my computer at the moment - conserving space, since my mods folder alone took up something like 60GB>), but I see some of my flickr contacts still shooting it, and am always tempted to go back. Next game on my list to shoot is ME3 though, and I'll likely use ReShade. I've shot it very briefly in the past, and not to any quality (no texture mods, only my own SFX config), but this time around I'll go the whole hog, with textures, and add in GeDoSaTo for on-the-fly AR and resolution switching.



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So I just finished Wolfenstein: The New Order. I loved it.

 

Spoiler

 

This song gave me the feels...

 

 

For me, this really had a plenty of feels. Medal of Honor was an awesome FPS. I really liked it.

It had this more realistic feeling compared to all the other AAA FPS stuff.

 


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Some pictures of Sera looking kick-ass in The Hinterlands:

 

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*drools* 


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lot of the regulars don't come in here much anymore. if at all. just an observation. think i might pull a Rose here soon myself. Something has been...off about this thread for me for some time now...at least two months. i think i've been coming back out of habit vs still feeling it in here. idk. trying to sort it out.

maybe i was jarred by the fact that Sera turned out to be nothing like i thought she would be...and I'm literally just realizing that today. It's not a bad thing...she's still bae. maybe it's the craziness that happened in here. i just know something feels off every time i post. so perhaps a sabbatical is in order. not fishing for sympathy or attention(cause i hate that) just thinking out loud, so to speak.

 

why do I feel like you won't come back?

 

well, the thread will be here. hope you'll drop by. ^_^


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You guys past post 3000. There should be a reward for that. lol

 

lol - I registered back in 2009 I think, used to be a pretty regular poster before I drifted away after DA2 (not because of DA2 - I love that game). I only recently ventured back, so the majority of my 3000+ post count is from patient walls of text on things like the Fight For The Love threads back when gay was something only blue space babes were allowed to be ^^

 

Oh how far we've progressed <3

 

Edit: I was about to edit to say that on another forum I joined in 2004 I have over 10,000 posts, and that I wasn't sure what that said about my life or lack thereof. But I just went over there to check precisely how many posts I have there, and it's 23,249 *ahem* 


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You guys past post 3000. There should be a reward for that. lol

 

Gah, Wiss I forgot to make you a drink! To celebrate page 3000 everyone got a drink based on their name.

 

So here's a Black Forest, because your name always reminds me of Germany. Yay free association drinks. :P 

 

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