[LE] Creation Kit freezes newly with certain textures (strange problem)

[Novem99]

Hello!

 

I have a serious and strange problem that I cannot solve.

 

I've got a personal mod that contains all the countless texture mods I've collected over the years. It gets replaced with a complete new version regularly and installed via Nexus Mod Manager when I think that enough new mods have been added so it's worth to make an update.

 

Meanwhile it's file size is over 40gb and I never had a problem so far.

 

The last update was about 5gb big and since then I cannot load certain cells (in this case the interiors of Dragonsreach). The CK always freezes when I try to load these cells.

 

I've learned that corrupted meshes or textures can cause this. So I did a little trial and error and removed all 100 subfolders (not just the ones added by my personal mod) from Skyrim\Data\Textures.

 

After doing so I could load the cell in the CK without a problem. I then added all the subfolders one by one and it seems that the subfolder Data\Textures\clothes is the problem. When I add the other 99 subfolders the CK works fine. But as soon as I add the subfolder clothes the CK freezes again.

 

So I dig further and found out that inside the clothes subfolder the folder Skyrim\Data\Textures\clothes\yarl is the problem. Without this subfolder the CK again works fine.

 

The files in this subfolder are from RUSTIC CLOTHING by Gamwich and I'm using this for several years and I never had a problem with these when using the Creation Kit.

 

And now it's getting even more weird...

 

I again removed ALL subfolders from Skyrim\Data\Textures except Skyrim\Data\Textures\clothes\yarl and the CK works fine!!! So it seems that this subfolder only causes trouble when it is installed together with all the other subfolders.

 

I'm pretty clueless so I really hope someone here has an idea.

 

Thank you!

[agerweb]

dds textures apart from being in the correct format also have to be square pixelwise (eg 256x256) and I believe in multiples of 8. You can check your textures in Nif Optimiser which will give you some idea if Skyrim will not like them.

[JobVanDam]

Agerweb is completely correct but the dimensions of the texture have to be a power of 2.

[NexusComa2]

Also in some/most cases the textures need to be flattened then saved. Don't know if this is your problem but worth a shot. This will also make the file data size smaller.

[Novem99]

Thank for all these replies so far!

 

I'm aware that the dimensions of the textures have to be a power of 2. The problem I have with the textures in Skyrim\Data\Textures\clothes\yarl only occur when they are installed together with all the other textures.

 

I don't think that these textures have a wrong format or are saved not properly since the CK does not have a problem with these textures when I only install these without the rest.

 

 

UPDATE:

I think I know what the problem is. A member of a German Skyrim forum suggested that simply my VRAM is running out of ammo. As mentioned I cannot load the cells like the great hall of Dragonsreach or the Yarl chambers in Dragonsreach and especially in these cells I have a lot of 4k-8k textures and high polygon models. So this sounds pretty plausible to me.

Edited November 13, 2020 by Novem99

[NexusComa2]

I found the flattlen thing works wonders. My mod: Enchanted Ship in a Bottle .. has most every texture remade (and I didn't go light at all). I ran across a few textures that for no apparent reason would crash me out when used. After I flattened them in gimp they worked fine and had a smaller byte count. Then again that mod is in it's own land per say. So it had a lot of freed up ram in that area. However I did go really hard on the graphics for and around the boat itself.