Just ran into this problem myself. I had occasionally ran into an infinite load screen but just restarting would fix it. Then a couple days ago I couldn't do the Thalmor Embassy quest because it would go infinite trying to enter, so I loaded an earlier save and decided I'd just do other quests. Then yesterday I tried to leave Whiterun and was greeted with the problem. I can go to any of the shops in Whiterun, but if I try to entire Dragonsreach or leave the city I get an infinite load screen. I can load an earlier save before Whiterun and it works fine. Did some searching and someone recommended starting a new game and loading that game before your original one. Did that, and now I can't even load my saves in Whiterun without infinite screen. So far I've tried deleting old saves, lowering graphics qualities, running without mods/SKSE (I was only using a few anyway), and checking my skyrim.ini for anything map related, but there's not much there. Any ideas? Here's my .ini: [General] sLanguage=ENGLISH uExterior Cell Buffer=36 [Display] fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0 fSpecularLODMaxStartFade=2000.0 fLightLODMaxStartFade=3500.0 iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048 bAllowScreenshot=1 [Audio] fMusicDuckingSeconds=6.0 fMusicUnDuckingSeconds=8.0 fMenuModeFadeOutTime=3.0 fMenuModeFadeInTime=1.0 [Grass] bAllowCreateGrass=1 bAllowLoadGrass=0 [GeneralWarnings] SGeneralMasterMismatchWarning=One or more plugins could not find the correct versions of the master files they depend on. Errors may occur during load or game play. Check the "Warnings.txt" file for more information. [Archive] sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa sResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa [Combat] fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0 fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0 [Papyrus] fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0 bEnableLogging=0 bEnableTrace=0 bLoadDebugInformation=0 [Water] bReflectLODObjects=1 bReflectLODLand=1 bReflectSky=1 bReflectLODTrees=1
