Anselmp

There have been lots of posts like this. Read the answers to others and follow the general advice.

I use Anna's Hjerim to bypass this quest.

It would help others if you said which mod caused the problem.

This makes no sense. What exactly have you loaded?

Not enough information. Having reached that point it seems unlikely that your modlist will help much, assuming that you have checked that all of your mods are correct for SE - the latest versions are now mostly for AE, although many are the same for both. If your internet connection is WiFi you will get occasional blips. Also check your memory - dramatic changes from one area to another can stretch it a bit if you have left other things running.

I believe the Engine Fixes mod reverses the switch that turns achievements off.

Whenever I make major changes to Skyrim the SKSE usually stops working for a time. (The move to AE and changing from C: to E: were the two most recent). Since you have been following the general advice you need to look at some of the detail. (Incidentally, I am older than you). Not having Steam up causes SKSE not to be recognised. Running Skyrim once will set Steam up, but too late for SKSE, so coming out and starting again may do the trick. You must of course still use the SKSE loader, not the Steam one. Do you have the Engine Fixes? You really should have these. Part 1 is loaded by Vortex in the normal way, but you must load Part 2 manually. You could benefit by reading the posts for this and Skyui, since they contain useful information beyond those specific mods.

Most of the more recent mods are flagged as incompatible with the latest version of PoE2. My version of the game was downloaded more recently than the date of many of these. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Try Penitus Oculatus

Look at 'Dragon Age Origins - DAO Followers ...' which adds Anders and Isabela from DA2.

If you don't use followers, that should be fine. I've been packing my game with Anna's NPCs, Interesting NPCs, Citizens of Tamriel and some individual NPCs, which I swap around and put in my various houses. But then I'm the sort of person who reads poetry and novels and so on. There are quests that require one to leave followers at home or simply work better that way (eg Maelstrom). I've lost interest in the fighting for now, so I let the followers do it or use a one hit kill weapon.

As you help so many others you deserve a reply of some sort. Combat animations are more likely to be ok if you limit your followers, particularly mages, not just to avoid crashes but to be able to see what is happening. Also, if it is not very precise there may be more difficulty in avoiding hitting melee followers who jump in front. Personally, I would avoid such mods.

Riften is a dump. You have the option of adopting children. Unfortunately even with mods the limit is six. What would help would be the ability of your stewards in your houses also to be able to adopt so that they could all have a couple of children playing around. I never have room for more than 2 from the orphanage as I don't like to leave the others begging on the streets. There is a mod that provides a large orphanage/boarding school in the middle of Whiterun which is quite a good start but needs cheering up a bit.

I'm not sure where to ask about this. There are mods I would like that are listed in someone's top ten but to keep things simple I now only get mods through Vortex and this only has PoE 2 for some reason. I did try one other route but that switched me to a Nexus NWN2 portrait mod. Thanks in advance for any explanation.

No. I've been there countless times with no problem. So you would have to look at the ones that could affect that environment that I have not used : Northern Grass, Enhanced Landscapes, More Bandit Camps, Immersive Encounters look the most likely. As for SoS - use at your own risk. Which followers are with you? If only vanilla, say how many instead. You seem very fond of mihael.

This list shows SkyRe still in use. If any of your mods have been updated check whether the patches are still required. You have too many patches for comfort. You have lots of overlapping environment mods. Just because some work happily together does not mean a whole group of them will. I doubt if all of those mods have been properly ported to SE. Do you really have to have all of the towns and cities changed? Use Easy Lockpicking.

I know of nothing wrong with this quest, so you need to look at other possibilities. Sometimes quests go wrong because things are done in the wrong order. If you have not started the mage quests then you have done things in the wrong order. However, these kinds of error also appear when you are using mods that seem to be completely unrelated to your problem but are not entirely compatible with your environment (mods, computer equipment etc). Without seeing at least your mod list we cannot help with that. I abandoned two popular mods because they gave trouble with apparently unconnected areas. Also remove any mods that produce random occurrences and limit those heavy on scripts. For other general advice there are already lots of helpful posts on these forums.

Fallout games - terrain: little variation, interesting characters: ? Are there any? (Fully developed, not just snapshots). Building: there seem to be more possibilities here, but it gets to be such a chore. Same quests on forced repeat. OK, they were worth a playthrough, but I've now scrapped the lot. Anyway, I'm tired of bombed-out scenery and the way things are going you may get the real thing by accident. Skyrim is fine. I just wish they'd tidy it up instead of working on completely new things that won't work properly until 2030.

Are you sure these are all for SE? I have found that Vortex rejects some supposedly ported mods as not being for the same game. Also don't keep anything rejected by FNIS. Helgen Reborn is fine, but not for the start - do Dragon Rising first. It is 64bit. Get the right one. Do not have many mods that have lots of patches - it is impossible to keep track, especially of ones that are still updating. What's the thing with all these amulets?

This is not enough information. I have never done Saarthal except as a College quest and it has never gone wrong. Folgunthur locks you out of certain areas until it is ready for you. The journal is outside.

You have to switch off Helgen Reborn until after Dragon Rising to avoid conflicts in Helgen. Also HR and Rigmor both make changes to the border. HR was built to be added later, so it works fine if you remember to do that. I would also leave Forgotten City until later. Your RAM looks too small.

Run the lot as admin.

Is that SKSE64? Do you have SkyUI? How do you launch the game? What else is running? How much memory do you have? How much space do you have?

I am curious about this one as I recently loaded up Live Another Life and set off a whole lot of new characters starting in different places to see how these starts would act out. One of these landed me in Solstheim in the same way as you. None of these has crashed and the one from the island has settled down on the mainland - I had to go there fairly soon as I like to have a home base to store all the stuff (usually Elysium to start with as it is convenient, compact yet comprehensive, and free). So I think there must be something wrong with one of your mods or the way one is used. For example, Helgen Reborn must not be started until the alternative life part is finished. There are also mods against which there are warnings dotted about these posts but which are still popular. I have found it best to heed these warnings and ignore such mods even if they have upgrades that claim to solve the problems. There are some mods that cause difficulties in areas that seem to have no connection at all. Even with those there are oddities. I have one fairly advanced character who started with a faulty mod which I later removed but who still cannot do certain things because of a dialogue strain missing but seems to manage everything else without mishap.

Since you seem to be more interested in the organisers than the game, this should be on a more general forum. I cannot be the only one wondering why anyone would want to do that. You could of course have 2 computers, then you could run both versions of Skyrim in parallel. By the way, your 'their' should be 'there'.