(moderators this is a possible fix for issues not a help so please don't delete this :D ) TLDR at bottom

I have spent countless hours trying to fix an issue I had. I doing a fresh install of my Skyrim game. No mods or anything. I followed the beginners guide on here and tested it at every step. But I ran into an issue with the ENB. It would constantly crash Skyrim on load if I had the base ENBoost installed. It wasn't even consistent. Sometimes it would crash on load. Sometimes one minute after. Sometimes it didn't crash at all.

I looked through every forum every help post. I did everything from doing another clean install of steam to installing the old directX9 drivers and every other fix I could find. If I never make another edit to a .ini file it will be too soon (yes I know it is inevitable but I still am burnt out of doing that).

So here is the wonderfully simple fix. This little ******* program called "Nahimic". It came preinstalled on my machine. I found a single post on their site : https://nahimic.helprace.com/i294-nahimic-conflicts-with-enboost-and-skyrim

I thought to myself sure I'll give it a go and if I don't get it I will go to bed defeated (again) and try tomorrow. Well what do you know, uninstalling this monstrosity fixed it. Thats it! No other changes necessary!

Sorry for the long post but I needed to vent a little bit and I wanted to post this so I can help anyone else that might be having the same issue.

TLDR: A program called Nahimic was crashing ENBoost