This is not a guide,I'm not associated with any mod creaters nor can I offer support for any mods created it is a simple text edit to make your ELS lights Brighter

 

Not sure if this is the right place for something like this, as I'm fairly new to the forums but it deals with iv visual settings. so I decided to put it here.

REMEMBER TO BACK UP ANY FILES BEFORE EDITING THEM, I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR FILES/FOLDERS.

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Ok so I finally found after tons of google searches on how to make your els lights brighter, my 2 options was to download an ENB or edit the visualsettings.dat (Via # Other emissive lights), which on the contrary in my position neither worked. The ENB just made my game look ridiculously bright especially at night, the roads literally looked white. Tryed several ENB's all did the same thing. 

 

Editing other emissive lights I noticed only made the SURROUNDING'S brighter when my lights flash I.E on the road/side of buildings. The higher the setting the larger the area was covered by my flashing lights.

So I speculated for abit trying to tweak with the ELS.ini and the ELS config coming to no conclusion. 

 

So I googled for hours trying to find a decent fix, around 4 hours later, I went back into the visualsettings after all my speculation and decided to tweak a intensity line, and this is what I came up with.

Under "# car.siren.color2" there is a line that says "car.siren.intensity" I have mine set at 50 right now so it looks like "car.siren.intensity 50.00"

Doing this changed the way my lights flashed from single LED's blinking together to the light actually look like its FLASHING.

(I assume making it to high would intervene the flashing and make them look ugly and bulky, like I said mines at 50 and I havent set it any higher and to me its perfect ATM, also on the contrary if ENB's dont work for you either, try downloading SGT KANYO's - Realistic Time Cycle mod @ '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> if you want Night to actually look like night.)

 

Originally it was at 10.00 I believe and I couldn't handle the way the lights looked. So happy as a little princess I came here to share this simple change that can improve the game "ALOT" By my standards atleast :P.

 

#1 Open your GTA directory > Common > Data>Visualsettings.dat and find # car.siren.color2 (You can do this 2 ways scroll down till you find it or press CNTRL+F and copy/paste the hashtag in it VIA notepad editing) And right below that will be car.siren.intensity 50.00 (<--- my values)  > and simply change the value to a desired number. 

 

Hope this helps. ^_^!

 

 

Edit: Bolded the necessary text line to edit.

Edited May 17, 201510 yr by Malakieapix

I'll definitely give this a shot.

Tried it with ICEnhancer v3, didn't make a difference. Starting to get really fed up over this ENB, I haven't found a single thing that's worked yet.

Tried it with ICEnhancer v3, didn't make a difference. Starting to get really fed up over this ENB, I haven't found a single thing that's worked yet.

 

Haha yeah I installed 3-4 different ENB's, making like 4-5 copys of my EFLC folder so if I messed up I could just move to the next 1 pre-edited.

I finally gave up and just happened to stumble upon sgt's cycle and man Im enjoying the game alot more its not even funny. I'm also using the real life time sync (Dont know the name of the top of my head) so when it gets about 10 pm here its dark in the game, and his mod really brings the game to a more realistic style in terms of darkness in allys and even between street lights.

What about this that has been on here since 2013?

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I used to use Sgt Kanyo's RTC mods with my old computer, now I can run ENBs really well. Also, I figured out my problem. If anybody cares or has the same problem I did, I could let you know, just ask. :-)

What about this that has been on here since 2013?

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 Try reading my full post and you will see the difference ^_^ thank you for the reply though!

Are there any tutorials on what enb settings do?

 

There was an old enb that i liked that had very little performance impact.   But the problem was the bloom(lens flare like effect) was worse than what J.J. Abrams could pull off if you can believe that....

 

I went through all bloom related settings,  changed them around up and down..  Nothing happens..

 

I like my current one which is game4video,  but i take a 25-30% fps hit sometimes.

Are you sure you are using a purely vanilla copy of GTAIV each time you install an ENB?  I remember the first time I experimented with ENBs and the first time I tried, my nighttime looked even brighter than daytime, except with a black sky.  Looked really surreal.  However, I installed the ENB over Sgt.Kanyo's RTC.  It wasn't until I re-downloaded a fresh copy of GTAIV, and installed an ENB on it, did I get a correct result.  ENBs, if done right, really "outshines" anything out there.  Believe me, I've done a lot of experimentation.  Sgt.Kanyo's RTC comes reasonably close for low-mid range PCs, but if you can run an ENB, I highly recommend it...

 

 

 

Edited December 18, 201411 yr by sixium

 

Are you sure you are using a purely vanilla copy of GTAIV each time you install an ENB?  I remember the first time I experimented with ENBs and the first time I tried, my nighttime looked even brighter than daytime, except with a black sky.  Looked really surreal.  However, I installed the ENB over Sgt.Kanyo's RTC.  It wasn't until I re-downloaded a fresh copy of GTAIV, and installed an ENB on it, did I get a correct result.  ENBs, if done right, really "outshines" anything out there.  Believe me, I've done a lot of experimentation.  Sgt.Kanyo's RTC comes reasonably close for low-mid range PCs, but if you can run an ENB, I highly recommend it...

 

 

 

Aye, my computer will run dual nvidia gtx 280's (stock hp blackbird) but one of them stopped working. I plan on replacing it within the next month or so they are really cheap and once I do, I'm sure I'll be able to run ENBs then. 

 

But this what I stumbled upon is completely separate from ENB's or any other mod. Editing the text line merley makes the lights flash rather then blink.

I know, I was referring to the white roads you were talking about when you were trying out ENBs =)

 

I'm going to try changing the siren.intensity value around and experiment with it.  Never thought about changing that value =)

I know, I was referring to the white roads you were talking about when you were trying out ENBs =)

 

I'm going to try changing the siren.intensity value around and experiment with it.  Never thought about changing that value =)

Oh yeah def try it if you want the LED's them self to flash brighter. On the contrary I didnt do it on a fresh install. I may need to try that. Thanks for the heads up.

Also if you are running a ENB look at the following....

[CARHEADLIGHT]
EmissiveMuliplier=2.0
LightIntensity=1.5

This will also help in making the lights brighter without causing the surrounding area to be washed out by the enviroment lighting....You have to find a nice mix between the emmissive setting in the visualsettings.dat file and this

why not just download buggs radiance mod? Worked wonders for me and gives the files to tone down the taxi signs and police laptops

 Try reading my full post and you will see the difference ^_^ thank you for the reply though!

I did read your post, that made my actual lights brighter as well.