So I'm posting here as a result of over a week's worth of frustrations and issues with Skyrim (the latest Steam version) and my attempts to mod it successfully. I recently decided to get back into Skyrim and having never had a PC capable of running it well until recently, I thought it was time to throw some mods in as well. Initially, I began added mods that improved the visuals of the game (textures, SMIM, W.A.T.E.R, fire effects etc) and dealt with numerous crashes, error messages and so forth until I achieved stability (or so I thought). Next, I moved into adding a few gameplay/immersion mods (Interesting NPCs, Cloaks of Skyrim etc) and have now discovered an issue that I've been unable to resolve with any methods I can think of. Every time I enter a relatively busy area (this has happened upon entering both Whiterun and Solitude but Dawnstar works fine), the game will freeze, staying that way for about 3-5 seconds before the screen turns black for a second. When the screen comes back on, the game is running like normal. This freeze, black screen process will continue intermittently until either I leave the busy area (sometimes it will continue no matter what) OR the game goes to a black screen and becomes unresponsive, forcing me to kill the process via. the task manager. I've tried various things, such as cleaning the master files via. TES5Edit, playing around with the load order in LOOT, trying different combinations of mods, running Skyrim in a compatibility mode, returning to a fresh install of the game and more. Currently, the mods I have in the game are (listed by load order as determined by LOOT): LOOT Log: Unofficial Skyrim Patch Unofficial Dawnguard Patch Unofficial Hearthfire Patch Unofficial Dragonborn Patch Lanterns of Skyrim - All In One Unofficial High Resolution Patch Interesting NPCs Cloaks of Skyrim - Dawnguard Enhanced Blood Textures Realistic Needs & Diseases Inconsequential NPCs Cloaks of Skyrim SMIM Frostfall Realistic Needs & Diseases (Hearthfire Patch) Camping Kit of the Northern Ranger Enhanced Blood Textures - Reduced Splatter Size Deadly Mutilation Enhanced Blood Textures - Dawnguard & Dragonborn Patch Realistic Needs & Diseases - USKP Patch Realistic Needs & Diseases - Dawnguard Patch Realistic Needs & Diseases - Dragonborn Patch SkyUI Alternate Start - Live Another Life This is all running on a system with an i7-4770k, GTX780 3GB and 16GB DDR3 RAM on Windows 8.1. I've been using SKSE to run Skyrim and have the 'memory patch' set to: [Memory]DefaultHeapInitialAllocMB=768ScrapHeapSizeMB=256 As you can probably tell by the mod list, I'm running Skyrim with all of the official DLCs and the High Resolution Textures from Bethesda. If there's any further information that's needed, please let me know. I'm desperate to work out what the hell is going on here and how I can fix it.
