SureAI

Hello all, i found out "Enderal" after a friend's recommendation, and trying it out now, but i have some bad FPS in certain areas of the map.

FPS is very unstable, some areas i get up top 120, some areas it drops down to 25-30, and it is really annoying. And also, the water acts weird sometimes, it makes a buggy sound and texture when i move my character around, but it does not happen if i stay still.

I have a GTX970 & i5 6500 & 16gb RAM, i had no trouble running the vanilla Skyrim on ultra settings.

On the PC in my sig I get a very steady 60fps at 2560x1440 but I accepted the game's settings for my hardware rather than picking Ultra. Enderal adds many more objects than Skyrim so it is advised to run at the recommended settings. My 780ti is broadly similar to your 970 since I am well overclocked.

Start with the recommended settings first. If you get a good frame rate (as shown in Steam overlay or ENBoost) that is steady in a range of places then it would be acceptable to push up the settings manually but don't just choose Ultra because Skyrim could handle it. Once I saw I got a steady 60fps I changed to 2xAA 16xAF, pushed out the object and draw distances from what they were to about half way to maximum but kept shadows to Medium rather than Very High.

If you use ENBoost, remember to note the rule for WIn10 users that caps the max allowed vram to 4096. The STEP wiki for ENBoost for Skyrim is useful here.

Like DanielCoffey recommends, don't use Ultra settings if you want stable FPS. The engine simply cannot use today's CPU power, and in certain regions it may stutter due to the high object count.
In addition I can recommend using a FPS Limiter and capping your FPS at 60, the engine can't handle high FPS (>90).

Thanks for your help, sorry to post 2 days late, i didn't have time to try the things you suggested.

After lowering the graphics to medium-level, game felt much better, both visually and FPS-vise. (every single bush having 1080p high detail doesn't seem that pleasing to the eye apperatenly)

but the water-flickering problem still exists. i recored a video just to let you guys know what it looks like, you can watch it here:

[spoiler][Youtube]https://youtu.be/7AWmCAIFdBs[/Youtube][/spoiler]

There a re quite a few posts about "skyrim water flickering enb" in google. Have a quick look. Suggestions ranged from...

1. Are you using two graphics cards in SLI? It semed that the water was being rendered only on one card. If you are, try it with one card disabled temporarily for a comparison.

2. Are you NOT using vsync? Cap your FPS to 60 and check again. See this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWhQMdMuEXA

I did some research as you suggested, and it seems this bug happens when game gets more than 120+ FPS and game engine starts to go nuts. The thing is, no matter what i do i can't seem to cap my FPS to 60/120. I turned on the v-sync option in both enderal launcher and skyrim's original launcher, i manually turned v-sync on in Nvidia control panel, yet when in-game my FPS is not capped, and water flickering keeps happening. Then I tried to cap my monitor's frame rate to 60 (I'm using a 144hz monitor), went in-game, and the whole game was in slow-motion. My character, environment, sounds, everything was like 0.5x speed. And the water flickering bug kept happening.

In that case, try ENBoost since you can cap FPS in the enblocal.ini file. Remember to set UseEffect=false in the enbseries.ini though.

i spent around 40 minutes trying to install what you said ENBoost and after i thought i did everything right, i went in-game and lightning was just horrible, so i uninstalled that. any other ways to cap FPS ?

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/34/?

this mod did the trick, thanks for help guys

Luckily, I posted the link to the mod three days ago

If you installed ENBoost and it altered the lighting, you probably left the useEffect=true set in the enbseries.ini. You don't want to use the ENB side of the tool (which uses enbseries.ini for its parameters), just the ENBoost side (which uses enblocal.ini).

The STEP wiki has a good guide to what the individual settings in the enblocal.ini do. There are only a few that need editing depending on whether you use an AMD card or nvidia and how much memory the card has. The maxvram parameter is capped at 4096 for WIn10 now.