can't get the game to start

[ZaneFHarrel]

Hello all, I recently reinstalled Skyrim Special Edition and my mods for it. When trying to launch the game through SKSE64, Steam, or directly launching the launcher nothing happens. Not really much else to say, my mods are installed with Vortex, sorted with LOOT, FNIS is doing fine, and my SKSE64 is up to date and should work fine. My load order is attached, thanks in advance

[TravisMan95]

Hello all, I recently reinstalled Skyrim Special Edition and my mods for it. When trying to launch the game through SKSE64, Steam, or directly launching the launcher nothing happens. Not really much else to say, my mods are installed with Vortex, sorted with LOOT, FNIS is doing fine, and my SKSE64 is up to date and should work fine. My load order is attached, thanks in advance

Though I'm no expert on this I do have some ideas that might help:

• Check your path that your executable files such as skse64_loader.exe loads in, Its most likely it's in the right place already such as your Skyrim Folder but if its not going to the specified path that it calls for to start it through vortex it may not be referencing the file from the right location. I've changed my path to go straight to my C:\Steam Library\Skyrim Special Edition\skse64_loader.exe
• Another note that might help that I was informed of from a tutorial off YouTube is to have all your game files in a separate folder on your C:/ Drive or other drive. I guess this helps any issues involving permission/administrative access that some mods might require.
• Clean Install - I recently did this and it fixed my game. I actually uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Before uninstalling I deleted my Skyrim SE folder completely, uninstalled all my mods then reinstalled the game as well as reinstalling SKSE64. I ran into the problem previously of not being able to run the game and if it did run at every save it would crash. I think this was due to either corrupted files/mods or missing ones that it was looking for. I tried installing each mod that it was missing but still had issues. If you do this I'd look up AI Cave's video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUUS1xl2H0 , it seemed to really help me start my game with a fresh start.
• Another thing you can try is starting a completely new game (If you get the game to a working state but still have issues with your last save) and get to a point where you can save that game and see if there is any issues there. Amazingly with all the troubles i had with my corrupt save starting a new game seemed to let me save that one without crashing even though the other one didn't.

If any of these dont work try looking on youtube some more. It was frustrating for a while for me but I finally got my game back and running to a clean point without any issues. Hope this was useful, if not hopefully you can find something that will work or somone else can offer some better advice.

 

Happy 4th!

[blitzen]

SKSE has a log file. Have you checked it? It might log something related to your problem. Also, when you say "sorted with LOOT", you are referring to the sorting embedded in Vortex?

Edited July 5, 2019 by blitzen