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[markus242005]

It may sound crazy, but here's my suggestion. Make an archive of your Skyrim install, essentially just archive the Skyrim folder in steam/steamapps/common and place it somewhere (I keep mine on the desktop) and pull your Skyrim folder out of documents/my games/skyrim and place it in the same location (again, mine is on the desktop). Then open steam, right click Skyrim and go to local files tab. Click delete local game content. Let steam delete anything you may have left over. Reinstall Skyrim completely vanilla. Play the game and see if you lock up/CTD at all. If not, try the stability test in GrandBulwarks guide:

 

 

• Open up your save, clean(After Helgen) or Existing
• Shut off all forms of autosave and DO NOT SAVE once the test is in progress
• Head outside if you aren't already
• Open the console and enter these commands "player.setav Speedmult 1500", "TGM" and "TCL" (TGM is godmode, just in case something goes screwey and you get killed during testing, and TCL turns collision off so you can run free range around skyrim)
• Fly around the worldspace of Skyrim for at LEAST 5 minutes, Stay within sight of the ground for best results.
• You WILL likely stutter and freeze a bit during this test, you should NOT completely freeze or crash.
• If you crash, then continue reading; if not then you can assume that your save is stable at the moment.

This will essentially stress vanilla skyrim and see if it's stable. This will give you a proof positive answer that it's not a mod issue.

 

If it is your OS, then you now know. If it's not, you can essentially just replace your documents/my games/skyrim with the backed up folder, and then do the same with steam/steamapps/common/skyrim folder, and you're game is back to exactly what is was when you started this test. I would still verify game cache after you replace your vanilla skyrim with your archived backup (same process as deleting local content, instead click "verify game cache integrity") if you actually followed through with this and it turns out vanilla skyrim works normally with no mods. Then, atleast, you can say there's something wrong with the mod setup your chose, and either start over or look further into trying to fix it.

 

Either way, whatever you choose, good luck.

[eradik8r1]

Funny thing, I did try that. My game actually crashed faster without mods than with.

I have tried starting a brand new game with all mods off, went through helgen, and then tried the test. 10 seconds freeze

same process with mods.. 90 seconds

[eradik8r1]

Well the good news
.. I was able to pick my game back up at the save point.
Bad news
... I went back to windows 8. Had been long enough that I was forced to do a fresh install.

I appreciate the answers, and help. 8.1 was broken on a few other things as well that were annoying. Losing my Logitech keyboard and mouse on startup was getting old. Had to either resync or put to sleep and wake with keyboard. Flat panel TVs would change scaling on their own.!one time you needed 0% the next +10%
Having said that I liked 8.1s features and it was blazing fast and ran very minimal ram, it just needs a good number of tweaks.