SineWaveDrox

I noticed that you say that you have the texture pack combiner. I have had issues related to using this. The issue is that it is too awesome and Skyrim simply cannot handle it. From what I understand, Skyrim is only able to address as limited amount of RAM, and when it tries to use more than that, it will CTD. Large texture packs tend to use quite a bit of RAM, and seem to cause this, at least for me. I have a second monitor set up, so I can stare at Skyrim's RAM usage while playing, and it will crash as soon as it tries to use more than 3GB. Perhaps this is your problem as well. The only potential solution I have found is to open up the console periodically and type PCB. This will clear out anything that is not needed, and can postpone the crash.

I am getting this on the New Today, New Recently, and Top Files, on the Skyrim Nexus. Using Firefox on Windows 7.

Relevant information here: Link 1 and Link 2.

I find fights with dragons to be too easy. It's not really a matter of how much health they have, or how much damage they do, but, rather, the tactics they use in combat. They're flying around, spot someone, fly over, launch a couple of attacks from the air, and then land right in front of you and start trying to chew your face off. The problem I have with this is especially noticeable when I'm playing a character that focuses on melee damage. The thoughts in the mind of the dragon must go something like this: "Oh look, something to kill, I guess I'll attack it. Oh hey, it has a gigantic daedric sword! Instead of staying in the air and killing it with ranged fire attacks, completely immune to any damage he can do, I'll go land right next to him." It just doesn't make sense. With non-melee characters, it is also a bit annoying, as dragons are pretty much always more difficult to damage when they're flying, so why would they land at all?

I notice you have Skyrim HD 2K Textures. I noticed that, with this mod, and other large texture mods, Windhelm can become unplayable simply due to Skyrim's limited ability to use RAM. Try deactivating that mod, and see if that helps. If so, then that may be your problem.

I was having a problem with getting it to launch correctly from the GUI as well. If you go into the Skyrim\Data\ATTK and run the attk.exe from there, it may work. I set up all the options I wanted from the GUI, and now just run it from there with no problems. Edit: Just read you post in the mod comment thread that you already tried that. No idea what else to try.

I just get into the habit of manually saving quite often, which is made quite easy to do by the mod that adds the ability to do that with a keyboard press.

I had always read about autosaves causing various problems in Oblivion, so I turned them off. I don't know if they still have problems in Skyrim, but I turned them off just to be safe.

Do you have any other mods? If so, are they working properly? Also, what version of the game are you using?

I've been using This one.

If you increase above the default, and decide that your computer can't handle it to your satisfaction, and then decide to change it back, trying to load a save that was made with the higher setting will cause a crash. There are ways of fixing these saves to use the lower number again, but I don't think they are 100% effective, and there may be lasting effects (not entirely sure on this point). To be safe, I would recommend keeping your old saves and make note of which one was the last save made with the default setting, so if you need to drop the number back down, you will have that save to fall back on.

I, too, get crashes all the time on that bridge, as well as within the city. A far as I can tell, the cause of the problem in my game is texture packs simply trying to take up more RAM than Skyrim is able to use, causing immediate CTD. If you are using any large texture packs, you could try uninstalling them and see if that helps the problem.

I hardly ever use fast travel. There is more chance to run into a random adventure when on foot. Generally, the only times I fast travel is when either there is some anomaly in my path causing me to CTD, I would have to go through an area that is affected by too many texture mods that cause my RAM to fill and CTD my game, or I have an idea for an awesome screenshot that happens to be on the other side of the world.

Perhaps then, This, This, or This? A bit more covered.

Perhaps you might like This One.

I have this problem with some ENB settings as well. I don't have a great understanding of how ENB works, but from the testing I've done, messing around with the settings, I think it has something to do specular lighting. I could be completely wrong though.

I like the Texture Pack Combiner.

Perhaps This would work better for what you want?

The UNP Female Body mod has some under optional downloads.

In Nifskope, I usually just right-click on the armor piece itself and click remove branch. Works for me.

I just upgraded my graphics card to a GTX 680 4GB, and I still get a significant drop in framerate when using ENB (from solid 60fps without ENB to 30-40fps with ENB) so I'm thinking that a framerate hit is to be expected unless you have a seriously powerful machine. However, if you want to avoid that as much of a fps hit as possible, you can disable the Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field in the ENB. Those seem to be the biggest causes of framerate drop, as far as my experience has told me.

I always play the game through at least once without mods, so as to see the game as the developers intended. Only after that do I install any mods. The only exception to this that I ever make is fixes for major bugs, and graphics improvements that do not change the game in any way other than appearance. My personal opinion is that it is better to play without mods first.

I could be completely wrong on this, but I believe that it has something to do with the NiStringExtraData in the .nif. One handed weapons seem to have that set to WeaponSword. Perhaps try that, see if it works. Make a backup though, I could be remembering completely wrong, since I haven't messed with doing that type of thing since sometime last year.

I believe that Oblivion is available through the Games on Demand thing through xbox live.

I prefer to use loose files versions of mods when offered, so that I can easily go through and look at the individual files that come with a mod, and perhaps modify them. When they're packaged in a .bsa, it just adds a bit more time to that process.