Skyrim depth of field not working

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Skyrim depth of field not working

Hi ya,

I can't get the depth of field to work at all on skyrim. I'm using the latest realvision enb, with series 0.221. I have tried default inis with the relevant parameters changed and also Ewis custom inis. Can't get any sort of dof effect to work. I have tried a whole different enb (true vision enb) with the same result. Can anyone help with this please? I'm getting increasingly frustrated with it, I Built my rig specifically to be able to max out the mods for skyrim.

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I7 3770k @ 4.8 ghz (custom watercooled)
Gtx 780
16gb ddr3 ram 2400mhz
Samsung d940 Pro ssd

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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

bFloatingPointRenderTarget=1 not set in skyrimprefs.ini
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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

Got it to work by changing enblocal.ini namely forcefakevideocard to true. The depth of field is now working but will this ini change cause any other problems?

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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

It's obsolette, slow and unsupported mode.
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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

Okay, we'll If this is the case and knowing that using this enables the depth of field can anyone shed any light onto how I can enable the depth of field effects without using the forcefakevideocard parameter as this is the only thing that has worked for me.

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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

bFloatingPointTarget=1 in skyrimprefs.ini
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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

That is in their already, no effect without forcefakevideocard

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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

Set bFloatingPointTarget=0 and compare screenshots, if they are not the same, then drivers (because it's new videocard) or may be skyrimprefs.ini wrongly set. Antialiasing must be disabled if i remember (not sure) in game video options and in nvidia control panel ("application controlled" or "off").
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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

Hooray finally got it sorted! The issue was in the inis in that I was editing the inis in my documents and because I'm using mod organizer to manage all the mods it has it's own ini files and editor and my changes weren't effective. Copied the inis into the mod organizers editor and presto all is good.

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Re: Skyrim depth of field not working

I know this is an old thread, but I am having the same problem and cant figure it out. Can you point me to the .ini files that you ended up having to edit to get this to work? Thanks!
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