Spacedog

It sounds like you are hitting Skyrim's strings limit. Try Crash Fixes to resolve it, it did wonders for my modded game. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/?

I am playing a sneaky sniper character and while on the roof of Layton Towers I thought I had cleared the outside area and went to loot a body when a raider and his dog attacked me from behind. Not ready for this they killed me (how many bullets can any one dog take btw? That's another story). I was a bit put out because I thought I had been really careful in clearing the area. I reloaded the save and the same thing happened again, attacked by a raider and his dog.... strange. Reloaded again and kept checking behind me and lo and behold the guy and his dog were just spawning out of nowhere as soon as I crossed a certain point. Oh ffs what is this s***? It happens every single time I reload that save. Frankly I don't think this gameplay "mechanic" is fair, especially on sneaky characters. Does anyone know of a mod that removes this "feature"?

I have some basic questions that I think it would be useful for myself and others to have answers to before we take the plunge in to 0.60. Some may sound silly but my install of skyrim has lasted since release day and my character has over 400 hours invested so some clarification would be nice. I have mods that have been there since before NMM even existed. What will happen to these mods during the upgrade? Some larger mods have had to installed by copying the data folder in to skyrim instead of via the installer. Will these be left in place or should I uninstall them, package them up and re-install them via NMM? I have several mods that are installed from other sites but are installed through NMM, will these be OK? I have had to edit an error in at least 1 mod with TES5Edit (stray floating stones from Shadow of Meresis) from the most up to date version on NMM, will this be reverted during the upgrade? Are there any other pitfalls we should be looking out for that we could deal with in preparation for taking the 0.60 plunge? Many thanks for all your hard work.