ENBSeries

[Sosna 0]

Found this interesting application recently: ENBSeries

It allows for extra Direct X effects to be added to games, similar to Kegetys' DXDLL for OFP.

So far I have gotten it to run with ArmA, but the only things that show up in the 3D environment are the sun and a single colour sky (the colour changes with time/weather).

I have not tried all the presets, and certainly there are many settings in the ini which I have not played with. It's possible there's a combination of settings which will work.

Personally, I don't want any crazy bloom/blur effects, but there are things that could be enhanced in ArmA. Sunny and Daylight conditions are pretty much perfect as they are IMO, but cloudy and twilight conditions looks too bland and light. It would be nice to be able to tweak these things.

If you want to try it out, you can get it here.

Also, check out these threads for reference.

http://www.simhq.com/forum....2512633

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=28109&st=0

[HGuderian 0]

Hi! How do you use it. I've tried to install but nothing change

Thanks

[Sosna 0]

Just place the d3d9.dll and enbseries.ini into your Arma directory. If you are using the beta patch then the files just go in the ArmA\beta folder.

[mattxr 9]

I got an error saying it could not find d3d9.dll although it was in the folder when i started arma.

[roberthammer 582]

I tested this ,but it didnot worked ,because i see only big blue/green fog and nothing else  

btw which one u used , which one is working?  

[max power 21]

Just when you thought you've run out of ways to make ArmA run slower!

[Enixj7 0]

Good find; cant wait to try this out.

[gL33k 0]

i tested nearly all settings, doesn't works....

maybe send an email to author ?

[firefox1 12]

aff... doesn't works....

[USSRsniper 0]

even if it works, it will lag the ArmA, if your arma runs perfect on highest settings, this mod will ruin it

[maddogx 13]

Even if it did work with ArmA, what kind of effects could we expect it to add?

[s_Hole 0]

well, i'd like to adjust the mip-mapping logic in some way atleast

it's silly that everything looks very pretty, but only up to 10 meters, and then everything turns into blurry mess

look at arma2 shots and this effect is only emphasized

arma1;

http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek....dg6.jpg

arma2; (bottom left and middle right)

http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek....og1.jpg

um, yea

[CptBohno 10]

How Enbseries performs depends on your GPU. It works fine here (ATI Radeon 4850 x2), but there no huge quality shift as in i.e. FSX where the improvement is significant. In Arma 2 Free the contrast is a bit better which adds a little bit extra depth in my opinion.

And no, there isn't a drop in fps. This ini file basically tells DirectX how the GPU should render stuff. It just overrides default settings which are used for all engines. Maybe you've seen 'game profiles' for your GPU, it's basically the same thing, though you have more freedom to tweak. You activate and deactivate Enbseries with shift-F12. It doesn't conflict with the default control layout.

How to install? Well, I copied enbseries.ini, d3d9.dll, d3dx9_26.dll and d3dx9_40.dll from FSX to the Arma 2 Free main folder and restarted Arma2. I am not sure if you need all three DLL's. There are several different enbseries.ini files around to test and if you have time you could tweak the file yourself. Most settings are quite easy to understand, i.e. shadow amounts, blooming, night darkening amounts and so on.

One important thing: make sure the refresh rate settings under [engine] is correct for your monitor.

Sorry for bumping an old posting, but Enbseries really improved the quality of some games/sims with little effort. You can download Enbseries.ini and two DLL's here: http://enbdev.com/index_en.html

[CptBohno 10]

I don't see my posting? The night is a big improvement here. Needs some tweaking, but much more realistic. Street lights looked like umbrellas, now that effect is gone and orange blooms. The moon really shines.

Edit: this posting immediately shows up. Something must have gone wrong.

My previous posting in short: enbseries depends on your GPU. It basically tells DirectX how to pass things, overruling 'stupid defaults'. There is no set back in fps and quality improvement is sometimes huge, i.e. in FSX. Download enbseries.ini and the DLL files, copy them in your main Arma folder: http://enbdev.com/download_en.htm . There are plenty of examples how to tweak. Enable/disable enbseries with shift-F12. Oh, and make sure the refresh rate settings in enbseries.ini are correct for your monitor.

Edited July 18, 2011 by CptBohno
older posting didn't show up apparently