Please help me solve my own mess

[greyxael]

Hello all,

 

I've tried installing mods and it's all gone wrong. My apologies, I'm sure this is asked all the time.

Whenever I try to start a new game the error message "Expression Error Unable to find global variable "ab01boNoLight2" in script ab01bogBoatScript" comes up and everything goes CTD.

I've tried running MLOX and updating the load order (with the 2019 mlox_base) and ran TES3cmd through Wrye Bash, neither of which have obviously helped. I've run the distant lands setup as well in case that fixed it but it didn't. I assume I've somehow managed to delete something or installing one of the mods did?

Here's the list of the mods I'm using if that's any use:

 

Morrowind.esm

Tribunal.esm

Bloodmoon.esm

Sadrith Mora - seat of power.esm

Patch for Purists.esm

Balmora_Seat of power.esm

Morrowind Patch v1.6.6_beta.esm

Tamriel_Data.esm

OAAB_Data.esm

VSW_Tomb_of_the_Snow_Prince.esm

RR_Holamayan_Eng.ESP

Passage of Prayers - Full.ESP

Thirsk Expanded for HOTV TOTSP.ESP

Sheogorad - Redaynia Restored.esp

AreaEffectArrows.esp

Missing snow armor.esp

bcsounds.esp

master_index.esp

LeFemmArmor.esp

MDP - Khuul - 1.0.ESP

MDP - Gnaar Mok.ESP

adamantiumarmor.esp

EBQ_Artifact.esp

Siege at Firemoth.esp

Patch for Purists - Book Typos.ESP

Patch for Purists - Semi-Purist Fixes.ESP

Expansion Delay.ESP

LowerFirstPersonSneak.ESP

DBHQ.ESP

Red Vos.ESP

Dramatic Vivec.esp

Axe Sound ID Fix.esp

OldVosTradepost.ESP

Interiors_of_Solstheim_V2.1.esp

Interiors_of_Mournhold_V2.0.esp

Clean Ashlander_Camps_Expanded.ESP

Lake Fjalding Anti-Suck.ESP

Meteorite Ministry Temple.ESP

KogoruhnExpanded.esp

Divayth Fyr Puzzle Fixed.ESP

Tower Vos.ESP

QL_SevenGracesShrines.esp

Palace of Vehk.ESP

Balmora Guilds Expanded.ESP

DD_Caldera_Expansion.esp

RR_Telvanni_Lighthouse_Tel Vos_Eng.ESP

Tel Branora LightHouse.ESP

DXM_masterindex_journalfix.esp

CAP Bridge.ESP

CAP Daedric Engravings.ESP

The Warrior-Poet's Gate.ESP

Urshilaku Spiritual.ESP

Vivec Ports.ESP

bw_striderports.esp

Concept art Gnisis - Lightweight.ESP

Ebonheart_Underworks.esp

Dagon fell additions.ESP

Izi cities - Ebonheart_tweaked_TR Statue.esp

Moonmoth Legion Fort Overhaul.ESP

Vivec Waistworks Expansion.ESP

HlaOadBrujoEdit_RP.esp

Aldruhn_PfP patch.ESP

AldRuhn_seat_of_power.ESP

entertainers.esp

Snow Prince Armor Redux.ESP

OAAB_Tel Mora_Female Guards.ESP

OAAB_Tel Mora.ESP

VSW_TOTSP_Patch_for_Purists_3.2.0.esp

VSW_TOTSP_abotBoats.esp

VSW_Solstheim_TD_Item_Expansion.esp

Redaynia Restored.ESP

Concept Art Palace.esp

HOTV Sosltheim Wooden well.ESP

Seyda_Neen_Gateway.ESP

Cozy Pelagiad.ESP

Properly Cluttered Ald Velothi.ESP

Carelessly_Crazy_Caldera_Community.ESP

Suran_the_pearl_vanilla_style.ESP

XE Sky Variations.esp

multipatch.esp

 

If anyone can help me fix whatever it is I've done I would be eternally grateful. Thank you.

[Dragon32]

One thing I see: don't run two unofficial patch mods at once.

[criminalboy]

Hello Greyxael :)

When you get that error, there's a problem with a global variable in a script, probably in one of the mods, because I don't recognize it as a vanilla game global variable. Since you don't usually change scripts when installing, I doubt that you did anything, there's probably just a bad script in a mod, but which one? Error mentions "BoatScript", so which mods have to do with boats? I'd turn all of those mods off, and of course any mods that are dependent on them, and try launching the game again.

 

Please let me know if this helps, or if you have any questions.

 

Have a good one. :)

 

"global variable "ab01boNoLight2" in script ab01bogBoatScript"

[greyxael]

Hello all,

 

Thank you for the replies, I solved the problem by installing some additional mods that altered boat travel and this appears to have 'fixed' things.

[abot]

Hello all,

 

Thank you for the replies, I solved the problem by installing some additional mods that altered boat travel and this appears to have 'fixed' things.

For people having similar issues:

If some mod is a different version/patch for another mod, there are essentially 2 possibilities:

1. the mod is a patch (it usually needs to be loaded after the original mod)

or

2. the mod is a replacer (it needs to be loaded instead of the original mod)

 

if you fail to find the information about this in the mod documentation, a simple rule to establish if mod is a patch or a replacer is to compare the mod size with the original. if the original is much bigger, the mod is 99% a patch that needs to be loaded after the original.

 

I guess VSW_TOTSP_abotBoats.esp is a patch changing only boat routes to moved Solstheim so it needs to be loaded after the original abotBoats* mods

[leonardo2]

One thing I see: don't run two unofficial patch mods at once.

Yeah, the OP can remove MPP 1.6.6. as it is unfinished.

[lukangamer]

Hello all,

 

Thank you for the replies, I solved the problem by installing some additional mods that altered boat travel and this appears to have 'fixed' things.

 

 

Do you still remember what mod you had to add?

I am also getting this error.

 

Nevermind found it:

 

abot boats which I didn't even know of since think that mod long gone.

->

There a small optional patch included in Popular Solsteim tomb of snow prince of it.

Edited August 8, 2021 by lukangamer