I'd like to bump my ini settings up to the equivalent of ultra as well. I'm running an i5 with 8GB RAM and an AMD 2GB card, if that helps.
There are so many options on Nexus and other sites that I was hoping 'the community' could share some suggestions that would make my research a little shorter. In terms of style or feel, I'm looking for something photo realistic but with warm colours. That said, switching those isn't completely off the table, just something I would rather avoid. Seriously, this one had us, for the first time, play through the game as an Argonian and we never looked back. Besides the usual human-like races, this one is a rarity in the sense that it even has one badass-looking Argonian preset.
This is going to be a bit of a pain, so I'd rather stick with ELFX and COT, only because of the number of patches and merges I'd have to update if I switched to Purity, RLO, etc. DX’s Male Presets is a preset compilation mod that includes 6 different ones, each for a different race. This is my ENB preset for Skyrim Special Edition, this preset enhanced the original SSE’s lighting, color, which more realistic looks indoor/outdoor lightings, this ENB has low impact on. I know, I know, I could I could lighten the load there but given the sophistication of sweet fx, combined with the right lighting and climate mods, I think I could live without ENB. I currently run Realvision ENB and with my heavily modded and retextured configuration I'm getting too much stutter and fps drop.
I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations they can offer on Sweetfx / Reshade presets.