Are ENBs Worth Using in Fallout 4? 

I did download mod a forest few days ago and right away when started game i was really impressed, i was played with vanilla terrain 400 hours and 100 hours with another landscape mod but with forest mod game feels totally different.

I'd say try it out, I don't think it's at all worth it especially cuz it makes upscaling impossible unless you wanna get an experimental build of upscaler but I will say it can make the game in certain places look amazing

Tbh they can look really good if you adjust them

Just use ghost enb the difference is bigger than he lets on this video, only problem that I’ve encountered is that reflection issue and only for puddles on roads.

Yes!!! This video idea some time please. I used to use a personalized version of a mod that makes power armor pieces much rarer and rebalances them to try to be lore friendlier. I think it was called power armor something overhaul but I quit using it I believe because it kept having power armor pieces floating in the world and I think I maybe broke precombines in some places? Anyways very curious if there any clean, modern options for both power armor rebalance mods and adding new suits of power armor.

Same here i tried a lot of ENB's and i realised that of you just use Enhanced Colour Correction and tweaked your HBAO your game will look better than every ENB without the performance cost and its not that i have a potato rig , just doesn't worth it

Sounds like a good idea. I need to reinstall GAMMA because my installation broke at some point and there's been several updates over the past few months. I want to check out EFP and see how it compares to GAMMA. Maybe that would make for a good video.

So youtube doesn't throw a tantrum and demonetize the video (I think)

@@KosmicNomad Yep, exactly.

First I'd get landscape mods, new LODs, retextures, model replacements, weather and lighting mods, and Reshade, and only if I still had overhead left to hit my framerate target would I then mess around with ENB.

@@PancuroniumB what reshade presets do you prefer? or what type of settings do you like to focus on

@@mav9987 I just use Reshade to play with the colors and sharpening until it looks right. You can also try to see how Reshade GloomAO compares to ENB's AO, or vanilla SSAO/HBAO, I'm not sure which is the best/most performant. Reshade SMAA might also look better than vanilla TAA to some people.

Yes, I'm using Mustard Blood combined with some recolored textures from Gore Overhaul 3 Reloaded.

@@PancuroniumB I might actually try it just for the laughs. When you play this game as long as some of us have then adding a strange or fun variation or two can freshen things up.

You can try these ini settings from the Better InGame SSAO page: [Display] fSAOBias=0.12 fSAOIntensity=6.77 fSAORadius=39.8 Make sure HBAO is disabled. These should look better than vanilla SSAO, with the same performance.

Reactor really popped for me as well, still trying to adjust frames but I was able to hold 60 at times in battle and shit. Had to do a lot of tweaking to help frames tho. Prolly gonna keep it if I can help it.

@@krischurch3763Do you have any specific settings or presets to suggest? I somewhat struggle in denser areas like Corvega and Downtown Boston

@@anzack2551 ahh bro I ended up being wrong, I had reshade on and NAC X with decent ENB and was mistaking it for reactor! Dude, honestly if bad comes to worse I'd consider NAC X with decent ENB if the frames save, it looked like a totally different game to me

Quantum enb is good but its lack of nvg compatibility mods to counterattack its ultra dark nights is disappointing

It depends on the location. With my unbalanced build (great CPU, bad GPU) Downtown Boston and Lexington run better than forested areas, which is atypical. The forest a bit south of Vault 111 takes me down to 60-65 fps at 1440p vanilla on ultra settings (that would double if not for godrays). The same area in REACTOR runs at about 40-45 fps. At Goodneighbor's exit looking at the financial district I can get around 100 fps in vanilla, but only 55 in REACTOR. Expect to see anywhere from 40-50% of your framerate lost when using REACTOR ENB.

ENB is made to have more advanced graphics. And enb is kinda just random name that creator have gives to this system.

I guess I wasn't clear, but simply loading ENB at all - even with no effects enabled - will hurt your CPU-limited FPS by some amount, while using the "cl off" console command has no performance impact.

Id love to use Quantum, but it's so overly dark during night for whatever reason. I see showcases with people using the NAC X version and it looks far better than what my game has

@@anzack2551 Might be your weather or lighting mod thats making things darker. Be sure youre grabbing the right version of Quantum. Also, its worth checking out Polluted Climates for a weather mod, and pairing it with one of the ENB's for it made by MystiriousDawn

He didn't do his research, rushed Video.

I believe the complex parallax has to have textures that are compatible with it. From what I've seen in the video, he doesn't seem to be using a lot of texture overhaul mods. Haven't exactly played FO4, but in skyrim SE, complex parallax needs the appropriate texture packs to work with it. I assume its the same in FO4. And it does bring a difference, at least in skyrim SE. Makes the roads better, the cobblestone/stone buildings better, etc. It does seem ill researched to an extent.

Enbs are the best.. if you take the time to customize them. They're not the most game changing thing by default, but with the proper configuration and mods, you can make fallout 4 look next gen

@_crimson_982 i like doing indoor screenshots with Dynamo ENB and Midhrastic ENB but both turns blue skies into orange ones 😭

Wtf wow thats is huge dude, I'm running 20mods and yeah, after 2hours my pc getting high pitch fan cpu and force close 😂

They absolutely are if you care about mood and atmosphere.

​@@anjastubenetizen5621then you're doing something wrong or these 20 mids are very script heavy or have issues , that shouldn't happen with just 20 and you can easily have a stable modlist with 150+ mods

wtf are you even installing?

@@lynackhilou4865what’s your favorite immersion mod?

@_crimson_982 Ya, I'm definitely not trying to maintain the goofy cartoon vanilla tone. Fallout 3 looked significantly better, even with lower res textures than that abomination known as Fallout 4. Back to FO4, There are plenty of enb's out there that are light and stick to enhancing vanilla for a lower fps cost than turning on the vanilla setting to ultra or high even. I turn the ambient occlusion off and do that through an enb and I get better fps than turning ao on in the game settings. Go try turning everything in FO4 settings to ultra or even high in some cases. That game in downtown without any mods installed will make a 4090 cry. Piss poor optimization as usual.

What kind of artstyle NV has? Brown? Crap brown? Bethesda games always looked awful even at the time of their release, so in this regard enb and reshade help to alleviate their ugliness.

@@qqqq-dp4rv artstyle perception is subjective just like beauty perception, I can tell you what it look like for me There's many different IMODs for different areas (of which graphical/weather mods tend to get rid of/tone them down, making everything look same-y), the general look of NV (btw it's not Beth's but Obsidian game) I think can be described as "abandoned & dusty", it's like a colorful beer can after a few years under the sun, you can still tell what it was but it's lost its colors and has this weathered look, pretty fitting for the Mojave I think F3 on the other hand has the "bleak and hopeless" style, you can especially feel it around D.C. when evening hits, everything becomes desaturated and you're surrounded by ruined buildings and piles of rubbish, very special atmosphere in which original IMODs play a big part I also disagree about Beth games looking awful graphically at the moment of release, I've played Oblivion back in 2006 and it was very demanding and looked very nice at the time, hell, even today it can produce some beatiful views outside if you play it at 4k with some minor tweaks like toned down hdr glare, increased draw distance, more LODs and densier/replaced grass, thanks to its pretty skybox & speedtree vegetation F3 wasn't that impressive graphically but not awfull too, just okayish, the biggest flaw I think was its janky robotic weapon animations and inability to ADS, really outdated even for 2008 but that's not related to graphics Skyrim looked good at the time and is still pretty if you play Special Edition at max settings, outdated at times, mostly because its geometry and textures are 10 plus years old F4 is still beautiful and its max settings can be demanding even for modern hardware Starfield is like improved F4, much more demanding too, I don't think the ratio pays off since I can't get 60fps on my hardware even on the lowest settings which look worse than F4 but still

ENB was far more popular in 2014, before Reshade, Community Shaders, the Reloaded mods and other alternatives existed.