I have been looking into ENB lots, over the past few weeks - pictures, requirements e.t.c.

Anyway recently a 1.0.7.0 was released and I have decided - the time for graphic enhancement has come. However, I have heard a horror story - that ENB can fry your entire PC (motherboard, GPU, CPU, RAM e.t.c). My system specs are;

• Nvidia Geforce GTX260
  
• Intel core i5-2400 processor @3.10 GHZ
  
• 4GB RAM
  
• 1050Watt PSU
  
• 850watt fan (I think)
  

Though I also read that so long as you have shader model 3.0 it should all be fine, I don't trust Russians (the dev of ENB), and don't particularly want to play Russian Roulette (clever eh?) with my PC. Should I risk it for the biscuit? Are there any alternatives aside from road textures and/or does anyone know an extremely good Timecyc.dat file?

Regards,

Hench

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Hench

There is no ENB version for 1.0.7.0 - It's not being developed anymore. You may find one made for 1.0.4.0 tweaked to work on Patch 7. Personally, I'd stay away from ENB. It's quite ressource intensive and you get all kinds of nasty bugs. On top of that, ENB 0.082 has a tendency to fry nvidia cards.

There is no ENB version for 1.0.7.0 - It's not being developed anymore. You may find one made for 1.0.4.0 tweaked to work on Patch 7. Personally, I'd stay away from ENB. It's quite ressource intensive and you get all kinds of nasty bugs. On top of that, ENB 0.082 has a tendency to fry nvidia cards.

Resources aren't really the problem neither are bugs, but frying

Yeah, I don't use ENB purely because of its instability and high resource usage....

Your GPU should work, if I'm right only the GF8800 as well as the GF2XX, the GF4XX and the GF5XX are having problems.

I don't know enough about computers to really tell you if you can use ENB or not. What I can tell you is I've tried umpteen versions of ENB in my EFLC 1020 and my computer has yet to blow up on me. Some of them work and look rather nice, others are too bright or too dark and are useless. Maybe I underestimate the risk but the only problem ENB has ever caused me is crashing GTA, I like to think my computer will simply stop working and crash before completing breaking itself. It also seems ENB is simply some extra textures and a bit of bloom added and some fancy reflections. I don't have a super computer, regular GTAIV I usually get (according to Fraps) around 20-30 fps with ENB that drops to 15-20 fps but still playable.

If you don't want to try it though you give RealityIV a bash, it gives the game a fantastic look during the day:

http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/realityiv-162-timecycle-mod-f7929

Well, I have and HD 6870, and I use KBL's modified settings of L3EVO, it looks great, and it works awesomely. Doesn't eat FPS like Icenhancer, gives me the same performance as normal graphics.

Like I said resources aren't the problem and they weren't either, it was more a problem with the orange tinted sky and ugly, dull shine on cars blurgh. Aha a Timecyc.dat file, definitely give that a shot. To say something though - I really want the look of that first trailer - why rockstar didn't keep that look in GTA is beyond me.

Thanks Cj24, TomH, Braveheart and neostriker,

Regards,

Hench

Edit: Realism IV is more or less better than most of the ENB's I've seen problem solved - better graphics without fried gpu

Edited February 1, 201214 yr by Hench