» Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:27 am 
), however I've gotten a little stuck on the issue of HD textures.For the record, my rig is a PhenomII x4 955 Black at 3.2GHz(factory OC'd), 4 gigs of Mushkin Silverline RAM(stock), and an XFI Dual-fan 6850 1Gb(factory OC'd).
I understand that which actual textures a person uses essentially comes down to personal taste, but I'm more concerned with what my computer is actually capable of running; there's Vano's optimised versions of the Bethesda HD pack, there's cestral's Texture Pack Combiner and all the associated texture packs, there's AdPipino's Optimiser tool....
So, am I better off looking about for Vano-style "lite" 1024 texture packs and just running them straight up, or can I get a better look with similar performance using the Optimiser on the bigger 2048 packs? If the latter, is it safe/possible to use the Optmiser and the Combiner together? Further, as I currently understand it, I could use the Bethesda pack and the Combined pack together, providing I install the Combined pack second so that it overwrites the Bethesda pack where appropriate; am I correct in that?
I also plan to run one of the more modest ENBs and SSAO(if I can find a tutorial/explanation on the latter that doesn't make my brain melt out through my ears), but from what I've read if I pick the right one it should have a negligible performance impact. Does anyone know of an ENB preset that has decent performance, decent SSAO, -very- mild DoF(as in, just barely enough to soften the distance to help with LOD, most of the ones I've found make the game look like I've taken my glasses off), and doesn't make the game really oversaturated and vibrant(I quite like the bleak, cold feel of vanilla, although it could use a couple of small adjustments)?
Any advice is welcome,
Cheers.
