Suspect issue with Vortex prevents game loading

[GhostHost8]

I've been playing Skyrim Super Edition recently again and started to mod for the first time through Nexus Mod Manager. After I was no longer able to open NNM I switched to vortex as the website suggested and redownloaded all my SSE mods. Everything was working fine until a couple days ago, when, frustrated with how a jewerly mod wasn't loading any new textures, I attempted to merge the mod and it's update. I downloaded winmerge for this but was unable to figure it out so nothing was merged. However, now when I try to open my game it with only go past the bethesda logo and with then stay on the dragonborn logo indefinitely while the loading circle spins.

Googling it suggested that it may be due to a load order issue with my mods in Vortex, but I cannot seem to figure out how as I dealt with all file conflicts how it suggested me too. I tried deleting and then reinstalling all my mods and/or plugins but that also doesn't seem to work. I am not very computer literate and do not know what else I should be trying to do, but I want to play my game. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Edited August 12, 2019 by GhostHost8

[AugustaCalidia]

Did you sort and deploy your mods after you reinstalled them?

 

What happens if you disable all of your mods and then restart Skyrim SE? Does it launch?

 

What happens if you disable only the problem mods? Can you launch Skyrim SE then?

 

You don't need Winmerge to update mods. Vortex can handle that quite well on its own. I suspect using Winmerge is the root of your problem, not Vortex.

 

Also, NMM is stilll alive and well and can be used to download from the Nexusmods site. Look for it on GitHub.

[GhostHost8]

Did you sort and deploy your mods after you reinstalled them?

 

What happens if you disable all of your mods and then restart Skyrim SE? Does it launch?

 

What happens if you disable only the problem mods? Can you launch Skyrim SE then?

 

You don't need Winmerge to update mods. Vortex can handle that quite well on its own. I suspect using Winmerge is the root of your problem, not Vortex.

 

Also, NMM is stilll alive and well and can be used to download from the Nexusmods site. Look for it on GitHub.

i have deployed my mods, my plugins are on auto sort and i have clicked the sort button on them about 1 million times. I can try disabling all mods, the only problem is i dont know which mods are the problem to try and isolate it. I'll try and uninstall winmerge, although I wasn't able to actually do anything to anything with it. Will come back with results.

[GhostHost8]

Did you sort and deploy your mods after you reinstalled them?

 

What happens if you disable all of your mods and then restart Skyrim SE? Does it launch?

 

What happens if you disable only the problem mods? Can you launch Skyrim SE then?

 

You don't need Winmerge to update mods. Vortex can handle that quite well on its own. I suspect using Winmerge is the root of your problem, not Vortex.

 

Also, NMM is stilll alive and well and can be used to download from the Nexusmods site. Look for it on GitHub.

Okay, so I manually deleted winmerge (which i probably shouldn't have done manually as i deleted the uninstall file) and deleted all my mods and the game loaded, so it must have been a mod or winmerge. Still don't know which, but im just going to carefully redownload mods and see what happens.

As for switching from nmm to vortex i had only had nmm for like, 2 months before they stopped supporting it which was annoying but i figured seitching wouldnt kill me. Thanks for the help!

[AugustaCalidia]

I'm glad to learn that your vanilla game is OK.

 

A suggestion. Install your mods and test them in game one at a time. Yes, it's time consuming (I know from personal experience), but it's the best way to detect a mod that's a problem.

[rmm200]

Don't get too carried away re-downloading anything.

You never need to reinstall the game unless you move it. Steam Validate makes sure your installation is valid.

Do clean your game directory after you Purge mods from Vortex. Get rid of all your old manually installed mods and leftovers from NMM.

You never need to re-download mods if you have the files you originally downloaded (archives). Those no one ever writes to. Just install them from the archive.

[HadToRegister]

I've been playing Skyrim Super Edition recently again and started to mod for the first time through Nexus Mod Manager. After I was no longer able to open NNM I switched to vortex as the website suggested and redownloaded all my SSE mods. Everything was working fine until a couple days ago, when, frustrated with how a jewerly mod wasn't loading any new textures, I attempted to merge the mod and it's update. I downloaded winmerge for this but was unable to figure it out so nothing was merged. However, now when I try to open my game it with only go past the bethesda logo and with then stay on the dragonborn logo indefinitely while the loading circle spins.

Googling it suggested that it may be due to a load order issue with my mods in Vortex, but I cannot seem to figure out how as I dealt with all file conflicts how it suggested me too. I tried deleting and then reinstalling all my mods and/or plugins but that also doesn't seem to work. I am not very computer literate and do not know what else I should be trying to do, but I want to play my game. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

 

Winmerge isn't an ESP, ESM mod merging tool

It's a utility for comparing binary files, directories, text files etc, like the program I use called "Beyond Compare"

It saves me a lot of time comparing a default ini file with one I've edited, or to restore changes from one file or another.

 

Your loading problem was because of a couple of ESPs merged into something Frankenstien-esque you created with WInmerge that never had any possibility of working

[GhostHost8]

 

I've been playing Skyrim Super Edition recently again and started to mod for the first time through Nexus Mod Manager. After I was no longer able to open NNM I switched to vortex as the website suggested and redownloaded all my SSE mods. Everything was working fine until a couple days ago, when, frustrated with how a jewerly mod wasn't loading any new textures, I attempted to merge the mod and it's update. I downloaded winmerge for this but was unable to figure it out so nothing was merged. However, now when I try to open my game it with only go past the bethesda logo and with then stay on the dragonborn logo indefinitely while the loading circle spins.

Googling it suggested that it may be due to a load order issue with my mods in Vortex, but I cannot seem to figure out how as I dealt with all file conflicts how it suggested me too. I tried deleting and then reinstalling all my mods and/or plugins but that also doesn't seem to work. I am not very computer literate and do not know what else I should be trying to do, but I want to play my game. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

 

Winmerge isn't an ESP, ESM mod merging tool

It's a utility for comparing binary files, directories, text files etc, like the program I use called "Beyond Compare"

It saves me a lot of time comparing a default ini file with one I've edited, or to restore changes from one file or another.

 

Your loading problem was because of a couple of ESPs merged into something Frankenstien-esque you created with WInmerge that never had any possibility of working

 

 

I didn't realize that. However I never actually 'merged' anything with it- I couldn't find where the two files I needed were, and when I did try it the program told me they were the same files. Would it have merged something without telling me?

[GhostHost8]

I will try disabling all my mods and testing one by one. It's just frustrating because I know they were all working before and nothing will tell me what has changed.

[GhostHost8]

Ok, FINALLY found the issue, it was a mod for children, which is odd bc that wasnt anywhere near the mod i was messing with. As for the one that the modder suggested merging I think i'll leave it for a bit. Thanks for the assistance!