A bit of help please

[Bannock]

No matter what I do,my realism settings always go back to easy mode.I tried changing them in my documents,cfg ,game play settings,and I even went into SH V game play settings and set all realism settings to the one of my choice.I even reinstalled the game to another hard drive.
I like everything at true except manual targeting and external view,which ends up at 69%.The game launcher must be doing the resetting I think just before I enter a loaded game,or start a new campaign.I don't know how to fix the game launcher,if that is whats causing the realism settings to go back to easy mode every time.If someone could help me,I sure would appreciate it.I don't think it's any of the mods I'm running,so I really lost on this one!