Okay... I'm beat...

[Kanori24]

Well this has been the longest-lasting experience I've ever had until something

broke and completely ruined everything for me. I'm not looking for help, so I didn't

post this in troubleshooting. All I want to do is rant. :tongue:

 

Here is my problem... modded Skyrim just screws up on its own. Yes, I know this

is to be expected. But so quickly after running reliably with no problems for months

before?

 

I WAS using XP32, CBBE, and Joy of Perspective with absolutely no problems.

During the reinstallation of Skyrim and all my mods for, oh, the 5th time, I followed

each mod's instructions to the letter and everything was wonderful. I have never

had such a wonderful gaming experience.... until... it breaks...

 

I didn't say "I decided to screw with critical files and use all kinds of weird load

order and incompatible mods" I said... "It breaks" like.... IN-GAME just BREAKS.

 

I'm making my way through a dungeon and find a draugr. Excellent oppurtunity

for a sneak attack... so I draw my bow... aim carefully... and put the draugr down

in one clean shot. Oh yes. Find another draugr... aim... and... what's this?

 

SUDDENLY THE BOW WON'T ANGLE WITH THE CAMERA? I can look up and

down but not through the bow unless I'm looking straight ahead on a level plane.

Again, I didn't leave the game and mess things up myself. I learned my lesson

during my first attempts at modding. This happened in-game, in real time.

 

SO what do I do? I search for logical solutions. None. I reinstall XP32. No fix.

I reinstall JoP AND XP32. There! FIxed it!

 

But... now when I look down... my breasts... they distort and crush and UGHGGHH!!

And I used the same exact mod files and install order and everything!

 

I went through a slew of possible fixes. FINALLY found that JoP and XP32 seem

to have conflicting instructions on how to install to one another. Well that's their

problem, because I figure it out on my own. So I fixed that. Now I can look down,

see my endowments. They seem fine.... but... NOW I CAN SEE DOWN THE

CENTER OF MY HOLLOW BODY?!

 

Change FOV. Fixed.

 

...now my butt goes flat when I walk. "Oh that's easy to fix. I've had this issue before."

I tell myself. "All I have to do is re-install XP32 because the skeleton file was

overwritten by something else." :tongue:

 

Wrong.

 

Re-install XP32. No effect. Annnnnnnnnnnd my mammaries are all messed up again.

 

So let's recollect.. I'm playing my beautifully modded, well-working game... and it

just breaks... all this months after my MCM just stopped working and I know there

is no solution for that problem.

 

These events have made it quite scary to try to play the game, vanilla or modded,

if it's just going to break itself and then every solution I have, and have done BEFORE

suddenly will not work.

 

And before you throw the "noob" flag at me, I am not new to this... have been modding

Skyrim since modding Skyrim was possible. I understanding which ones are compatible

and which ones are not. Load order, patches, yes I know about all of that stuff.

 

But my game just breaks itself and now I'll most likely have to reinstall and then

reinstall all of these awesome mods and play a little while until something beyond

my control just comes along and sweeps it away from me.

 

Can't a girl get a break? :sad:

[Lisnpuppy]

Nope...not a one. At least you stand a chance here. My real body does all that and I am pretty sure re-installing my skeleton isn't an option.

 

Seriously though, that is just how it is sometimes. My Skyrim broke recently, had been running like a CHAMP...I did absolutely nothing to it. Nada and from one play and the next..BAM would not even get to the menu screen. *throws up hands*

 

So I decided to play something else for a while. :)

 

Good luck to you. One thing...maybe you should just...streamline or something. Regardless of what you have run before or in what order or what mod gods may have loved you...it just sometimes won't work and by making it do less you sometimes get to enjoy more.

 

I wish you the best. I hope your rant helped!

[csbx]

The perfect modded Skyrim setup is like an abusive relationship that is difficult to give up--even with the constant threat of glitchy chaos and violence. I've been lucky with a level 16 character who hasn't yet been severed by a single CTD; but the 150 mods I have going will catch up to me eventually.

[Kanori24]

I am so....SO stupid. :P While I still can't explain what happened to set off this

unfortunate chain of events, I did find what I was doing wrong... apparently

the files for my skeleton that I had stored away was the incorrect one. I was

supposed to be using XPMSE. Apparently I never stored that one and I was

trying to use an earlier, incorrect version of Maximum Skeleton. So my body is

back to normal now. Yay!

 

Now let's see if I can do anything about the increase in frequency of CTDs... :blink: