Hey, everybody. I thought I'd share my case study of finding the cause of Skyrim crashes after aggressive modding on my part))
Perhaps someone has already written about this method, but personally I was very impressed by its simplicity and speed. So I want to share it with you.
So, how the events unfolded. I as usual put a bunch of mods trying to take everything into account and install all the necessary patches, observing the order of loading. But as a result, the game collected by me, although I started, but at some point crashed (when I walked in the inn in Windhelm).
And then I had an interesting idea - why not throw the Crash Log from CrashLogger SSE and the Loot utility log into ChatGPT?
In fact, this should be enough to understand what the problem is. After all, I don't understand how to read the Crash log file, but ChatGPT sure does!
I will not describe the whole sequence of actions, here is the prompt I used:
In the first case, ChatGPT unmistakably pointed out the cause of the crash, after which I installed the hair physics fix for the NPS and everything worked. I was extremely impressed by the accuracy, because as I wrote above - the crash happened exactly when I entered the Windhelm Inn.
The second bug I caught was when the game started crashing when fighting draugrs.
Following the same pattern, I threw the files into ChatGPT and it again super accurately pointed me to the problem with the patch for DF for blood when dismembering draugrons (why I even put it - I do not understand)... Having removed the patch, the crashes disappeared.
This is actually the method I wanted to share with you. The whole process of finding the cause of the game crash I took something like 10 minutes in both cases, taking into account going to the kitchen for tea.
I hope for someone this topic will be very useful.
ChatGPT's queries and responses in the screenshots in the post