Most gamers never really move beyond the vanilla look and feel of the game we are playing (even though we may not like it!), however for the adventurous and the daring, you now have the power to disregard the developers tastes and adapt the visuals of the game to yours!
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| Sometimes you have to leave the HUD on to prove that its an in game screenie and not CGI |
Want a green Rockport? An overly gloomy Skyrim? Or an ultra realistic Liberty City? They all are within your reach, and in fact have been for quite a while.
So what am I talking about? Some of you may have come across Boris Voronstov’s ENB series (Homepage http://enbdev.com/index_en.html)during the last decade or so since it has been around, the more fortunate among us may have even used it; or, well, given up after a few tries (don’t be sad most people do). What ENB does is strip the dev’s postprocessing (basically, lighting, effects, reflections, etc), and replace it with customizable ones, and at the same time it can add new effects like antialiasing (when unsupported by the dev), reflections, sunglares, lens effects, SSAO, etc.
Those of you who use Skyrim Nexus (for Skyrim Mods, do check it out if you play Skyrim), would know that I chiefly design ENB suites that are extremely high performance and non taxing on your gaming machine (not consoles obviously, they might melt ^^), so if you have previously tried ENB suites for games or mods like iCEnhancer for GTA IV, and your PC couldn’t handle it; maybe these will work for you!
So now let me get down to showing off the ENB suites. I will share download links later, they need a lil more testing before I am satisfied. (except the one for Skyrim which can be found at Skyrim Nexus: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15551)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
(You really need to see it in the game!)
Skyrim showing off the ENB sunglare
Tomb Raider: Underworld
(This one is pretty subtle but does the job)
Grand Theft Auto IV
(This one’s special)
ENB here is used for lighting, reflections on vehicles and building windows, color balance and correction and also anti-aliasing.
Mind you though, the enhancement comes at a price, you will drop at least 5-7 FPS for a well optimized performance ENB suite, 15 for an unoptimised one, and even 50 if it has all effects enabled like SSAO and DoF, so don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Settings and suites are shared at enbdev.com along with the needed files (installation just involves dropping the files into your games folder where the .exe is located). So if you have the performance to spare (use a FPS measurement tool like FRAPS to check your FPS while playing games), ENB is the thing to do!
Until then goodbye and happy gaming!
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