I'm now having this issue. I've deactivated SMIM, deactivated Blood Textures, and I can't seem to narrow it down. This is a fairly new game (only 16 hours in) and the freeze only happens at semi-random places, but always when a save happens. Regular save or quick save, doesn't matter. Still happens. If anyone can provide any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it!!! I can't really go back to a previous save because my saves jump from Level 3 to Level 17. There's no in between. EDIT #1: Ok, so I've also run TES5Edit and LOOT and neither of them seem to find any conflicts. The freeze only seems to happen after a questline update (the Thieves guild, specifically stage 15 of the "Trinity Restored" quest.) I haven't tried advancing the quest past that to see if it's just that stage or not, but it's something. EDIT #2: Ok, that seemed to work. I just used ~setstage TG08a 20, then immediately went to setstage TG08a 30, and I was able to save and move on. Weird how it was something about that specific stage number.