TROUBLE SHOOTING

BepInEx itself never hooked the game. In order of likelihood:

• winhttp.dll is in the wrong place. It must sit in the same folder as LornsLure.exe — if your extractor created a BepInEx_win_x64_5.x wrapper folder, its contents need to move up one level. Compare against the reference screenshot.
• Wrong build. The zip must be BepInEx_win_x64_5.4.23.x.zip — x64, 5-series, not a 6.0.0 pre-release and not an IL2CPP build. Lorn’s Lure is a Unity Mono game.
• Overzealous antivirus. Some AVs quarantine winhttp.dll on sight because DLL hooking is what it looks like. Restore it and whitelist the game folder.

The loader is fine and the plugin isn’t being found. Check:

• The DLL is exactly here: Lorn's Lure\BepInEx\plugins\StixsworldHD.LornsLure.UngodlyGFX.dllCopy — the classic miss is a nested BepInEx\BepInEx\plugins created by extracting the archive into the BepInEx folder instead of the game folder.
• Windows didn’t block the file: right-click the DLL → Properties → if an Unblock checkbox exists at the bottom, tick it and Apply. Windows sometimes marks internet-downloaded DLLs this way.
• You’re on BepInEx 5.x x64 — a 6.x install runs, writes logs, and simply ignores 5.x plugins.

Usually seen right after a game update changes internals. This is a designed-for situation, not a crash: failed hooks fall back to the plugin’s watchdog, which re-applies your settings every couple of seconds — so everything still works, just less instantly. A healthy load on the current game build reports:

[Info   :UngodlyGFX (Lorn's Lure)] Harmony: 34 patches applied.

The sharpener is built on Hidden/YassifySharpening — a shader the game already ships (it’s the engine half of the game’s F8 joke filter). If a future game build ever removed that shader, the plugin logs one warning and disables the feature safely rather than breaking anything. Check the log; every other feature keeps working.

This guide targets Windows, but the same files run under Proton with one addition — Wine must be told to use the game folder’s winhttp.dll instead of its own built-in. In Steam: right-click the game → Properties → General → Launch Options, and set:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%

Everything else — folder layout, the plugin, the config — is identical.

Open the menu (F10), Master tab, and switch MasterEnable OFF. The plugin restores every original value it captured — a true vanilla frame for your screenshot — and flipping it back ON re-applies your whole setup. No files touched, no restart.