[Solved] Early CTD when any ENB dll is used on clean system

[DanielCoffey]

I am setting up a clean Win8.1 build here for Skyrim and am getting a CTD very early in the game loading process when an ENB wrapper DLL is present. I need help tracking down the culprit. I can reproduce the issue on Vanilla Skyrim loaded from Steam with only the 0.251 ENB dll and inis present.

 

Symptom - CTD immediately after the Bethesda logo fades out when ENB dll is present.

 

Skyrim - vanilla, no mods, launched via Steam. Also does it launched via SKSE through MO.

SKSE - CTD occurs with both SKSE 1.07.00 and 1.06.16

ENB - Wrapper version - CTD occurs with both  0.236 and 0.251. Does not occur if ENB is disabled through ENB Manager

Hardware - ASUS ROG Maximus VI Formula, Intel 4770K, 16GB RAM, nVidia 780 Ti 3Gb at 2560x1440, drivers 334.89

Software - Win8.1, Kaspersky Pure 3.0 (still crashes when AV and Firewall disabled), some ASUS ROG tools

 

The sequence of events is this... I start Steam, I click Play and get the Launcher. I click Play and the fullscreen goes black. The Bethesda logo appears along with the ENB white status messages for 0.251 and the GPU is correctly identified. The Bethesda logo fades out and the game immediately crashes.

 

I have posted my enblocal.ini over on the ENBSeries forum on the 0.251 thread but folks seem to think it is a background task messing with the ENB.

 

Any clues to start diagnosing this?

Edited March 5, 2014 by DanielCoffey

[Tarikko1]

I had this issue and i posted the solution in Skyrim Revisited Prerelease feedback like 10 days ago.