Interesting NPCs causing CTD in specific areas

[TheSeagull4]

Hello friends, I have been having a great time getting back in modding recently and I am not quite sure that is a good things as my backlog of games is increasing ever so slightly. I even bought a few more games during the fall Steam sale. Check out Low Magic Age by the way --game shows great potential if you're a fan of DnD.

Anyhow, I am happy to report that everything has gone smoothly after following the Nordic Skyrim guide except for one hiccup, 3DNPC. Now I have downloaded all the patches I could find but it keeps CTDing. I tried running it through SSEEdit but and while there were some conflicts in worldspace, the issue persisted even after disabling the conflicting mods.

The issue occurs when I get near Riverwood or when I start LAL as an Alchemist. Haven't tests other instances (sorry it took me a lot of time and frustration until I found the source of my CTDs).

It works fine as long as I don't get near Riverwood.

Here is my Modwatch link: https://modwat.ch/u/DevicsPrey/

Also, please feel free to give advice (or recommended mods) on any other topics or issues that you might notice. I am still a newbie modder and get through my watching hand-holdy videos and guides.

Thanks a lot and happy thanksgiving to you all.

[mangarian]

yeah I was able to get in Windhelm or riften on a new game start and very shortly after CTD started. any how I just avioded them and a few other places. even up to level 28 game play I randomly test fast travel or various places to go through gates and CTD.
I just unticked 3dnps and loaded a save and fast travel into windhelm no issues, then fast travel into riften and again no issues.
No I can go back and finish the quests in those cities

OK it is NOT interesting NPCs, or many other mods ppl think it might be. I just did a whole battery of tests and this is my conclusion...

So people think its a missing mesh, or weather and they get sunny days in Wilhelm mods and among other things.

I removed many dev mods I thought might have conflicted. like 40 mods and the same damn saves on a new game or even old game would continue to CTD entering Windhelm.

so on the new game save , I waited 6 hrs till it was 1 pm and it entered windhelm with no issue. load save again and waited 24+24+24 hrs and enter and it CTD.

Older game Level 28 save enter windhelm CTD, repeat, waited 24 hrs ctd repeat again took 5 days an I was able to enter windhelm and finish blood on ice.

so much for unloading a bunch mods, this is a random thing.
new game not BD started so it can not be dragon in the city spawn, hmmm NPC nif or replacer edit? well I removed a bunch and still had the issue.
older game put everything back and random times waiting to get into windhelm day or night so its not a schedule thing thing NPC causing the CTD during its time set tasks.

Only thing I can think of is a messed up weather random choice or some other random event that gets spawned from a mod with a bad choice to run at the time entering Windhelm when it is chosen.

even running like 280-300+ mods yes it can put a strain on a game play, but it is not a consistent CTD but a random one.
Once inside the city If a save I have greater than 80% chance I can reload a save once inside the city.

Edited March 7, 2021 by mangarian