Very interesting. Thanks for the info wolfgrimdark. If nothing else, hopefully anyone else who runs into this issue will find this post when searching for answers.

Thanks for the reply. I managed to get it working, but it's strange so hear me out. I gave up, and just decided to install SKSE ( non-steam version ) and went to play the game. When going to load it up, it gave me an error regarding "CreateDXGIFactory2". I then re-named the dxgi.dll file t...

Hi all. I was originally playing with Project ENB installed, but ran into a rather large mod conflict down the road and ultimately decided to reinstall from scratch. After doing so, Project ENB, Seasons of Skyrim, and listless other ENBs I installed would not work correctly. There were vague changes...