Bleak ENB Grain Effect and Intense Saturation

[S12]

Hi guys, so I'm semi-new to modding, and I installed Bleak ENB. It looks great, ran fine, and I used the Quality preset because the performance hit was minimal. However, I messed up pretty bad and installed RLO and ELFX without thinking. The game turned into a saturation nightmare- the water was red as blood and matte black textures gleamed a dark purple. I disabled RLO and ELFX but the saturation still remained. I then disabled every Mod I had except Alternate Start and the mods needed to run Bleak ENB. The saturation still remained, but it was noticeably less. I then did a complete reinstall of the game and ENB, and though the Gaming preset works fine, the Quality preset still turns extremely grainy and saturated if I'm in a menu, third person, or near a light source. Can someone diagnose my problem? Here is my load order and some screens below that might let you know kind of what I'm talking about...

 

Load Order (Again, after a fresh reinstall)

Load Order:

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Dawnguard.esm
Hearthfires.esm
Dragonborn.esm
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
RevampedExteriorFog.esp
SkyUI.esp
Dark Dungeons for Skyrim- Dawnguard- Dragonborn.esp
Alternate Start- Live Another Life.esp

 

Screenshots (After fresh reinstall)

 

Normal Glare with Quality Preset

https://i.postimg.cc/9Fx64qsL/Quality-Preset-glare.png

 

For contrast, here's a photo with the gaming preset;

https://i.postimg.cc/x8fZ805r/Gaming-Preset.png

 

Thanks you guys. Any help would seriously be appreciated!

 

Also, I have here my papyrus logs. I think. The game would not crash with the crazy ENB + RLO + ELFX installed, but just rather looked even more saturated than the quality preset photo. 

 

Logs.7z

[S12]

Also if anyone would know how to address the fuzziness of the ENB that'd be appreciated... I read a few posts ahead of me that it might be caused by a noise filter turned way up but when I checked my Enb Effects txt in game I couldn't find anything about a noise filter anywhere. Thanks again

[Mez558]

When you say you did complete reinstall of the game did you uninstall and then delete everything left behind in SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Skyrim before reinstall?
Also there are ini files in Documents\My Games\Skyrim that you might want to remove or back up.

[S12]

When I did the reinstall I just used steams uninstall function then went to the steamapps/common/skyrim folder and deleted everything in there. I'll try deleting the files in the My Games too. 

[Mez558]

4 minutes ago, S12 said:

When I did the reinstall I just used steams uninstall function then went to the steamapps/common/skyrim folder and deleted everything in there. I'll try deleting the files in the My Games too. 

I don't know how much steam removes also, the entire directory or just the vanilla game ones. Just rename the skyrim folder in My Games, incase there there is something there you want. Your saves are there, for example.

[S12]

So I made a back up of my saves and all of my important data, then deleted both the directory and the folder in documents/my games, but to no avail... The game still looks like this after reinstalling everything. I'm following the same installation procedure as I used the first time, and I'm also making sure that all the plugins for my mods are still on and up to date, and I even checked the game with other ENB's, but they all seem intensely out of wack. Thanks for attempting to help me out btw. I've never used the forums before for anything but reference, and it was pretty cool to see how fast someone tried to help me out. 

 

 

[Mez558]

I've no idea what is causing that. It's like a setting (or 5) in one of the INI's is way off.

Installing an ENB is just copy and pasting a couple of files, d3d9.dll and enbhost.exe from the Wrapper folder into the Skyrim directory

The installation of the preset is pretty much just copy and paste as well. Just a few more files and then adding some lines and changing some settings in the skyrimprefs.ini

As long as you followed the instructions in the readme and are using ENB 292 or above I can't see what is causing an issue.

There is that thing about Windows10 needing to go back to DX10, which is kinda odd as I'm running Unbleak on Win7 with Dx11. Don't why it would need to go back to 10.

 

You did say it looked ok until you installed two mods that aren't compatible (RLO and ELFX) but providing you deleted the Skyrim directory none of the files should be there anymore.

Just make sure, in you Skyrim/Data dir. there is nothing saying RLO - or ELFX - 

Just wondering if your mod organiser is reinstalling them or something... Seems stupid but then I don't use MO or Vortex so I don't know what features they have.
 

 

[S12]

So, I managed to fix it. I deleted all the INI files, and did a complete reinstall with that, and with all of that done, I played around on vanilla for a little bit. That seemed to reset everything back to normal, and from there, I managed to just install the ENB with no more problems. I managed to also figure out the ELFX was the culprit and not RLO (which surprised me since ELFX is recommended with Bleak) but I broke the game again so I'll just fix it like the first time. Also, when I reinstalled them, I reinstalled all the mods that BLEAK depends on from scratch. So, maybe that did something? Anyway, I think I figured out how to fix it, so thank you for your help dawg

[Grey Cloud]

43 minutes ago, S12 said:

but I broke the game again so I'll just fix it like the first time. Also, when I reinstalled them, I reinstalled all the mods that BLEAK depends on from scratch. So, maybe that did something? Anyway, I think I figured out how to fix it

You really need to find out what you are doing wrong. Reinstalling the entire game is seldom if ever necessary.

You should install the weather/lighting mods the preset asks for if you want things to look like they are supposed to.

 

As Meh558 said, installing the preset is copy n paste. So if you have to remove it, reverse the process - go through the install instructions and delete the files.

[S12]

If it helps, the real solution was that my ENB wasn't working with SweetFX. It worked with it find for the first two boot ups, but then everything got messed over. However, Bleak ENB without SweetFX works just fine. I might try to install SweetFX with my ENB later, but evidently it's quite the process.