I just built my first gaming PC about a week ago, and since then I have only played about 30 minutes of Skyrim, and about 15-20 hours tearing through and configuring mod combinations to try to get the game to look as amazing as possible without dropping below 60FPS. I have already decided on the Texture Pack Combiner, because after my extensive texture testing, I feel it really gives me the best combination of high resolution textures at a fraction of the hassle.

Now here is where the real problem comes in: ENB, yay or nay? After testing about 10-11 different ENB mods, I am starting to realize why none of them fit my tastes. It's the color, or more accurately, it's the typical vibrancy and saturation that is associated with ENB mods. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, it all falls into personal taste, but I really feel Skyrim plays the cold, desolate land a lot better than it does the natural and vibrant land. I'd rather leave that behind in Cyrodiil.

But now that I have finally figured out what it is I am looking for, I can't really seem to find anything that really truly fits the bill, while at the same time not making me take a noticeable performance hit. I found a couple of ENBs that give me amazing lighting, and just the right amount of vibrant colors and saturation, but sadly, and I don't see why, they take my $1,300 rig to its knees.

Something that I have been looking a lot at is http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802. I haven't actually installed it to try it out, but it looks like a vast improvement to the Xbox 360 version that I have been playing since launch. The thing is, this mod seems like it is a full package (sort of like the Texture Pack Combiner) in the sense that it does what a lot of separate mods might try to do together, but with little compatibility to add in additional lighting or post-processing mods.

I guess my question is that since Project Reality is a full package sort of deal, does it fit the bill by itself, or should I look elsewhere?