But that seems very drastic so I would like to make sure I have checked absolutely everything first. My last step is going to be uninstalling everything. Those changes just do not affect the game at all anymore. If I change everything to random values then click save and exit the game then go into the Skyrim folder and open the enbseries.ini, it does reflect all of the changes I made. And if I change the ENB settings in-game and click 'save configuration' it does in fact save the configuration. I have disabled all lighting mods just to be safe (though i swear yesterday and every day up until today I could make these tweaks even with Climates of Tamriel and ELFX installed). Same goes for changing direct lighting, ambient lighting, point lighting, etc. But if I go down to the settings and raise the value of the bloom all the way up or all the way down, nothing happens. For example, if while in game i press shift + enter and pull up the GUI and uncheck the box for bloom, the bloom will deactivate. Now, if I deactivate something listed under then that will change in game. It's very strange and even more frustrating. I also tried using different versions of the ENB binary itself. I downloaded several ENB profiles as well just to make sure it wasn't something I had screwed up with my preferred ENB preset. Specifically, I can change the numerical values of settings both in the ini file itself and also with the in-game GUI but those changes have NO effect on the game. I can no longer tweak the settings in the enbseries.ini at all.

I have not changed anything or added any new mods or updated any drivers. This is an issue that just started today.

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