ENB(oost) messed up my game

[Katarsi]

Here's my sad story, I'll try to be brief.

 

I had dark mist and foam on water during overcast weather, and after some troubleshooting people pointed out that it's an ENB problem. I've always only used ENBoost and it had served me well - but apparently it doesn't play nice with water and weather mods, producing aforementioned mist and foam darkness that resembles ghastly pollution.

 

To be clear, I've never used ENB overlay in the game. Since I was instructed that lighting and particles should be adjusted in the ENB menu in-game, I had enabled the setting UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics, switching from true to false. After I started the game, I saw that the lighting had changed: the bloom was now very strong, textures were softened and fuzzy, and saturation kicked up. Outdoors seemed darker and desaturated, while indoors it was opposite. Some people may like these things, but I don't. Not to mention my FPS went to bust (worse than usual).

 

After looking up basic ENB settings, I pressed Shift+Enter and the menu appeared - but I couldn't click on it at all. I'm playing with a controller, so some key commands might be off, plus I had two cursors visible. Being unable to influence lighting settings, I decided to remove ENBoost from my game entirely. I'd rather downgrade some performance-heavy stuff than suffer another moment of polluted water and black mist.

 

I deleted the files for ENBoost: d3d11.dll, d3dcompiler_46e.dll and enblocal.ini, including the folder enbseries containing weatherlist.ini and intlightsprite.fx.ini. That is all this ENBoost entails. I tweaked Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini back to how it was before ENBoost.

I started the game again...and the ENB overlay was still there.

 

Trying to find the solution for this entirely new issue, I discovered ENB and ReShade Manager and gave it a shot. The utility did its thing, and found that there are no files to remove - I've already removed everything. Which brings me to a conclusion that my game is now visually corrupted in ways I can't either comprehend nor fix.

 

I changed my weather and water mod; from Dolomite to Cathedral, from RWT to Cathedral. The water looks fixed, no dark mist and foam anywhere. But the rest of the visuals is busted, in ways I already described.

And before you ask - I had the combination of Cathedral Weathers and Cathedral Water before and it also had the dark issue. I actually switched to Dolomite and RWT trying to fix the issue, but it actually made it worse (the mist and foam were nearly black).

Well, I've finally fixed the water, I think. In exchange for messing up everything else.

 

Can someone help me? What should I do? I've also posted this issue on S.T.E.P., so any help is appreciated from both forums.

Edited April 14, 2020 by Katarsi

[wfandrews]

I do not use ENBoost for SSE myself, just in Legendary but I have fooled around with ENBs and reshades in SSE when it first came out so I am familiar with ENB and ReShade Manager. Because of this, in my opinion, you are going to have to start a new game.

 

You might check out this pinned topic on Steam SSE forum, "Helpful Links and References" by smr1957.

 

You can scroll down to "ENB 101-Under the wrapper" by Avrie. A little further down is "ENBoost installation" by the same author. Further down under "General Troubleshooting" is a link to "Resetting Skyrim SE to venilla" by grimus.

 

I include the last because if you are going to start a new game I would advise starting with a completely vanilla game. Just uninstalling SSE by deleting local content leaves hundreds of files behind.

[jjb54]

2 / B honest, I've never had any luck with ENB's of any kind. The headache they caused became a point that I simply do not use them period.

 

Understand - the ENB was tested and worked on the creator's system .... so IF you are going to try to get it to work on yours, you are going to have to roll up your sleeves and start the HUNT AND PECK ... there is no specific answers we can give, as we too, do not have your system, we have our.

[wfandrews]

2 / B honest, I've never had any luck with ENB's of any kind. The headache they caused became a point that I simply do not use them period.

 

Understand - the ENB was tested and worked on the creator's system .... so IF you are going to try to get it to work on yours, you are going to have to roll up your sleeves and start the HUNT AND PECK ... there is no specific answers we can give, as we too, do not have your system, we have our.

Exactly the way I feel about all those ini guides out there, including beth.ini. Either one must be tested on each individual machine.

 

Having said that both ENBoost and beth.ini have been used quite successfully by loads of players so it is tough to generalize. I do feel those two ENB guides I suggested are good basic guides to installing and setting up ENBs.