Hi, I made an account just for this post, so yeah, its my first. Anyways, my problem is that my shadows are WAAAAAY to blurry if I'm like 10 feet away from them. I can't figure out how to fix this. I've tried deleting my skyrimprefs.ini, and that doesn't reset my shadows. it resets everything else BUT my shadows. I've messed around with iBlurDeferredShadowMask, still no changes. I've tried changing my shadow resolution, but that resulted in messing up the shadow maps, so now in some areas the shadows are way too short, so I'd like to fix that as well. Hopefully you guys can help me with this. Maybe next time I should make backups before editing the ini...

Try the skyrim prefs ini tweaks below, but copy and paste your current ini settings to a new file incase you don't like the new tweaks or if they are too demanding for your system:

fShadowBiasScale=0.1500

fInteriorShadowDistance=2500.0000

fShadowDistance=2500.0000

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=3

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iShadowMapResolution=4096

iShadowFilter=4

fShadowLODStartFade=500.0000

iShadowMode=4

bTreesReceiveShadows=1

bDrawLandShadows=1

bDrawShadows=1

bShadowMaskZPrepass=0

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=-4096

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=40-96

iShadowMapResolution=4096

Did you try the ini tweaks?

One of the main reasons I generally use an ENB preset is the shadows. With little to no tweaking an ENB preset can give shadows which no amount of tweaking without an ENB preset ever could.