Nvidia, Optimus and Skyrim

[soluti0ni9e]

Hey everyone. Here is my scenario and all the fixes and things I have tried to try and get my video card to be recognized by Skyrim again. First off, about a year ago I purchased a lovely MSI GT-60 gaming laptop with an nVidia GeForce GTX 770 M Graphics Card. I installed Skyrim and Direct X and an ENB and everything was fine and dandy. Then life hit and I stopped gaming for a while. When I took my laptop back out, I decided to reformat. Everything went fine and I proceeded to install Skyrim and all my mods again.

 

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I downloaded Steam, downloaded Skyrim and installed Direct X. Booted up the Skyrim Launcher and cool - it dettected my nVidia card and set it to Ultra High Quality. Then I downloaded an ENB. I installed all the files correctly and booted up the launcher. It stopped detecting my nvidia and instead detected my Intel Graphics 4600. Here is everything I have tried:

 

1) Tried the Optimus fix - this works but bokeh, bloom and some other ENB elements do not work - what's the point of ENB then?

2) Updated to the latest and greatest nVidia drivers. Still does not detect the card. How come it tworked before (almost a year ago without any problems? When was Optimus technology introduced? Did it install via a Windows Update or some ****?)

3) Tried disabling the onboard gfx in BIOS. Does not work.

4) Tried the whole nVidia CP thing (adding the process and enabling nvidia gpu processor) - still don't work.

5) Tried several fresh reformats from scratch - still doesnt work (should I run as many Windows Updates as I can maybe?)

 

Any advice or help is much appreciated. Like i mentioned before, this used to work just fine on Windows 8 and Windows 7 last December...What if I load the drivers that nVidia had during that time...?

[EssArrBee]

Use the injector version. The optimus fix stop working around v.26X for ENB. Not sure why, but I can't use the wrapper version any more.

 

Just delete the d3d9.dll and install the enbinjector.exe and the injector.ini if you already have the other ENB files installed. You have to run the enbinjector.exe before starting the game through the SKSE loader.

[soluti0ni9e]

Use the injector version. The optimus fix stop working around v.26X for ENB. Not sure why, but I can't use the wrapper version any more.

 

Just delete the d3d9.dll and install the enbinjector.exe and the injector.ini if you already have the other ENB files installed. You have to run the enbinjector.exe before starting the game through the SKSE loader.

I tried Injector and I don't think it worked...Also what are some good Injector ENBs?

[Aiyen]

It does not matter if you use injector or wrapper. It is just two different ways of doing the same thing. 

[EssArrBee]

ENB profiles are the same no matter what version you use. You get the injector or the wrapper from the ENB site then get the profile from the nexus.

 

I can only use the injector since the last major change to ENBoost at .255 or .261, whatever it was. The optimus fix just doesn't work anymore. Maybe you didn't set up the injector correctly last time you tried it.

[soluti0ni9e]

Would any of you know if ENB .236 is affected by Optimuus?