Drowchyld777

I seem to have found a fix. I read somewhere that the upgrade workbenches can cause issues. I was able to upgrade every room besides the basement and removed all of the benches (besides basement). My housecarl is wandering around and I've not encountered one crash since! Before I took them out I had experienced a few forms of CTD. I've ONLY CTDed inside Lakeview Manor in dozens of hours of gameplay and almost 400 hardsaves. So if anyone is reading this with the same issue try disabling all the benches and see if that helps you as well.

Your save game is corrupted. Your mod list is huge. I mean HUGE. While mods are amazing and awesome, you need to balance the mods you wish to play for performance AND STABILITY depending on your machine specs. If you run a box with TOP of the line hardware a $1K cooling system and triple GPUs that cost $!.2K each with a processor that would be able to run a super computer at a military bunker then you can run a mod list that big. Just keep in mind that using mods that use loose scripts are far more deadly then mods that do not. So if you use 40 little mods that use single scripts that would be much worse then one mod that uses 123 loose scripts.

I've an issue with Hearthfire - Lakeview Manor. When I am inside the house and another NPC (Housecarl of Falkreath and Barbas confirmed so far) is in the home with me I experience random CTDs that happen fairly often. I told my housecarl to "follow me" and then "wait here" outside the home: no CTDs. It seems linked to NPCs wandering around in my home. I have built the kitchen, greenhouse, and storeroom...upgraded pretty much 99% of everything besides a few mounted heads. I am concerned because I believe adopted children, a steward, and a wife will make my home pretty much unplayable. But as it stands now I either have to kill off the Reguard woman or recruit her and have her manually wait outside; making me never able to recruit a follower. I should note I have not hired any NPCs or anything yet, just built and furnished my place. Running very few mods: the three unofficial patches, brawl bugs batch, requiem, realistic needs and diseases, and a mod called "improved skillbooks." If anyone has any guidance on this issue I would really REALLY appreciate it! Google did not help me in my question :( Its just discouraging because I have invested a lot of time into this game and kinda irked I can't really use my home, apparently. And making a hard save every 2 minutes is dumb.

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Open console and type "animcam" without the quotations. This will allow your mouse moments to pan around and zoom in/ out while you are moving. However you cannot turn your character's direction (IE walk from north to point and walk east). You can still use some ontrol to alter your current angle by W-A or W-D which will point them directional variants of your current path (like if you were going north you could alter to NE or NW). This will allow you to kinda move around some objects in your path, like a fire pit. Well if you manage your geometric angles correctly. You can return to 1st person mode by simply pressing your "POV" key command. But when you press POV or mouse scroll out you will still be in animcam mode. I would highly advise against engaging in combat with this mode active, as you can't change direction outside of 1st person. But its WONDERFUL to use when walking down a long straight road so you can look around at the scenery or watch for potential threats. To turn the mode off you will have to open the console once again and type "animcan" without the quotations. Its not a very pretty system but its really the only way to do this. I personally created a bat file I named A with the command in it. So all I have to do is type "bat a" in console to turn it on/ off. And I own a keyboard that allows me to use 6 macro keys that can program keys. SO all I have to do is press one key and it does the following: ` B A T SPACE A ENTER ` all inside like 1.5 seconds :D

Okay. So I got a new monitor for Christmas! Its a widescreen 22" running at highest resolution. So playing Skyrim I have increased my FOV from 70 (what I used to use) to 85. Its a LOT nicer...aside from one aspect! When I enter 3rd person and zoom all the way in (the closest zoom level before 1st person) its kinda far behind my character now! I really really like the closest zoom level to be like right on my character. So I am a bit dismayed. I have spent a while in Google and on the chat channel looking for the value but I can't seem to find it! I see a lot of camera tweak settings but nothing about what setting does what. So I am asking for help from YOU now. I need to know what the value is called. I know it goes in the SKYRIM.INI under [Camera]. I would like to know what the vanilla value is of the setting and if increasing the value (xxx = 1.0 changed to xxx = 1.1) would cause the 3rd person camera to zoom closer or further from the player. I don't need to change anything else like zoom increments or anything; just how many 'ticks' it takes to get from max zoom to 1st person.

Thanks for the reply. If anyone knows a work around via console please PM me or reply.

I would like to know how to make the UI text that appears in the top left hand corner of my screen (display messages) display longer before fading. I run a lot of mods that display a number of things I need to watch. Some of these messages are very long and need more time to read them when I am doing other things. There has to be an ini change that I can do to double the life of all text before they fade. I would be very happy to know it along with the default value. Thanks for reading, Merry Christmas.

I noticed that BOSS just updated their masterlist today so I am guessing there is a glitch in the program somewhere. This problem happened to a lot of users in January (Lord Google told me so!) EDIT: I tried to delete all files in the SKyrim folder and it fixed it for me too. Must have been a corrupt masterlist download?