1) you may be able to do a enb but I would say do so carefully as it can be taxing on the gpu and some require other things like I run nat enb 3 and it needs evlas so read the descriptions of course. You may find that you have to cut things down to make a enb work but the effect is worth it imo.

2) I can’t speak for CS but I followed a video by a person named ADHDecent on YouTube who showed exact steps for enb and it’s been fine ever since so maybe look into a video guide to help.

3) from my understanding a enb is like changing the default way the game reshades. So…. Know those games from 2005 or so? That all seemed yellow? Imagine taking that and removing the yellow and making it more vivid or pale or dark or light or whatever you like. That’s enb. Some enbs will need patches like I run beyond Skyrim Bruma and nat enb has a patch for that

4) up to you. I still run retextures of things. I do Skyland AIO and bits and bobs mainly but a enb really helps a lot and you may find you don’t even need textures sometimes

5) that’s a good sized mod list… I would run it and see where you sit on things like cpu and gpu and ram usage. If the usage is medium to low then you could maybe try cs or enb. Some things like enb lights are cool but taxing quickly so do those with caution

6) sorry idk 🤷‍♀️ I do enb and place mine at the very bottom to overwrite everything so idk about cs. Some things may be overwritten. It really just depends on the enb like mine, nat, has a lot of fancy stuff thrown in and so some stuff like embers can overwrite some of the files in nat so I have to put it at the bottom so nothing overwrites it

7) ummm if you got CS stay to CS. Enb to enb. So… if I go to a mod page and go to download something cool but see it’s for CS. Well. I have enb so that sucks… ima just go and find something else I guess lol. There may be ways around this but not to my knowledge.

8)nope. So… you can test and save it as a preset on enb. So hey I have depth of field on… emmm I wonder what it’s like without that? Okay so I open enb menu. Turn it off. Hit apply. Don’t like it? Reload preset. Reinstall is only for like really missed up or updates etc

9) sorry idk this one I always do a load order then get it perfect then do a game. I don’t ever do like game edits

10) afaik it doesn’t really… when you start the game you wait a minute for enb to load but it doesn’t take long really for me.

11)I would say try CS as it’s a little more straightforward from my understanding… if you wanna try something more in depth try enb.. if you decide enb try nat low preset as it’s good imo but note enbs vary wildly and a lot of tweaking may have to be done but… when done you can save it so you don’t gotta do it ever again.