Improved Visuals CTD Help

[taintedbyu]

Being a long time lurker I've learned a fair bit here but I think it's high time I suck it up and ask opinions and help formally. CTDs. They plague me and while I have fixed many issues in my learning process here I keep running into them over and over.

Basically I'd like some input on what could be my issues. Currently I've toned down pretty much everything except my 'prettifying' mods and still I crash.

My computer is running Win 7 with 8gigs ram, an Intel Core i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz and a AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series.

Mods being used are as follows :

• 3rdEraWeaponsMoS
• SPIKE
• bardsoundsmalukah
• StaticMeshImprovementMod
• Moss Rocks
• Footprints
• Immersive Armors
• PrvtI_HeavyArmory
• 3rdEraWeapMoS-lvlList.
• bandolier
• lightweight potions and poisons
• armored-horses
• dynamic fires
• Guard Dialogue Overhaul
• waterbreathing breathless emerge
• combat fists
• sit anywhere
• Beards
• Brows
• TheEyesOfBeauty
• Extended Slider Colors
• AzarHair
• aMidianBorn Book of Silence (including expansions for weapons and Immsersive armors)
• Bellyaches Animal and Creature Pack
• Improved NPC Clothing (with the expansion for necromancers, etc.)
• Better Circlets
• Benjamin318s Tents Weathered
• Better Females by Bella, less makeup w/normal maps
• Cover Khajiits M&F
• MacKoms Real Skin for Males
• More Freckles by Zhoken - Cute Freckles
• Nicer Snowflakes - Realistic

I'm all for the immersion factor of nicer visuals and lighting.

Should I tone that down? Can my rig handle this at all? (I should think it would anyways) Any help from anyone would be more than welcome. I am simply beyond the point of reading and learning on my own.

[ripple]

Can you replace that load order with a BOSS log (with the messages)? Include the list of plugins not recognized by BOSS if one is generated. Enclose them in spoiler tags so they don't clutter the screen.

[taintedbyu]

Alright, here's the list with tags.

Not everything that's active shows up though.

 

3rdEraWeaponsMoS.esm Active
SPIKE.esm Active
portal2mod.espContains dirty edits: 5 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs TES5Edit cleaning. A cleaning guide is available here.

bardsoundsmalukah.esp Active
StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp Active
Moss Rocks.esp Active
Footprints.esp Active
hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp ActiveBash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev, Relev}}

PrvtI_HeavyArmory.esp ActiveBash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev}}

3rdEraWeapMoS-lvlList.esp ActiveBash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev, Relev}}

dr_bandolier.esp
crystalis.esp
deadmanor 1.1.esp
lightweight potions and poisons.esp Active
armored-horses.esp Active
dynamic fires.esp Active
Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp Active
masterenchanter.esp
waterbreathing breathless emerge.esp
apocalypse - the spell package.esp
combat fists.esp Active
sit anywhere.esp Active
Beards.esp Active
Brows.esp Active
TheEyesOfBeauty.esp Active
Random Alternate Start.esp Active
RAS - Riverwood CharGen.esp Active
Extended Slider Colors.esp Active

 

And the others

saturationboost.esp Active
heavylightperk.esp

golden egg hunt (clean).esp
AzarHair.esp Active

 

 

 

Thanks for looking it over.

Edited March 6, 2013 by taintedbyu

[ripple]

1) The 'and others...' are those the plugins that BOSS didn't recognize? Also, not sure what you mean by "not everything that's active shows up." Do you mean texture replacers that don't come with plugins, or did something happen when you were trying to generate the BOSS log?

 

2) Have you made any edits to the game ini files?

 

3) Need more details about CTDs. 'Outdoors', in interior cells, during combat, while casting certain spells, with followers, basically any discernable patterns you've noticed.

 

4) You mentioned you trimmed some mods. Did you start a new game or simiply attempted to continue with existing save games?

[taintedbyu]

1- The others are the unrecognized plug ins and the texture replacers are indeed what's not showing up. THey are however listed in the origonal post if you needed to know them.

2- Not made any ini file changes. Not something I've looked into yet, mostly just mods themseleves.

3- The crashes are much more common outdoors. Very rarely inside any interiors at all. Nothing really sets them off other than simply being outside. Rarely a texture from an item of clothing or armor won't show up correctly, being too dark or over shadowed but not missing entirely but they don't seem to effect the crashes. They merely confuse me.

4- I always start a new save file while testing mod changes.

[taintedbyu]

I've continued on my own and actually foud the cause of my CTDs. However now I'm confused as to how to fix them. Oddly enough texture replacers are what's causing them. But ones for the people like better skin textures or beards are fine while a wolf or bear reskin is not. Static items and equips being even less okay. I'm rather upset at this discovery due to the fact that I haven't the slightest idea how to circumnavigate the crashes and keep my game looking sharp. I'm more than open to any input on this.