maelos61

I was able to get Skyrim mods to work again by reinstalling my whole Steam installation. I had changed steam's installation spot before and that seems to have somehow messed up my game. Anyways, if all else fails, try to reinstall steam.

Hello potential helper I've been having this annoying problem where none of my mods work for Skyrim. I already posted a topic about the same issue more than a year ago and received no help, hopefully somebody will be able to help me this time. The problem is that no matter what I do, my mods won't load. I've tried using NMM, MO, manual installs, disabling steam cloud (can mess with ini files I read somewhere), reinstalling steam, reinstalling skyrim, reinstalling MO or NMM and so on and so forth. I once again noticed this issue when after downloading every single mod for 'Skyrim ultimate' and making sure everything is ready (I followed every step) it still didn't work. Now, 'Ultimate Skyrim' has 300+ mods, so I wouldn't really be surprised if I f***ed up somewhere, so I did what I did before. I got a fresh install of Skyrim, deleted everything in 'my games/skyrim' (so the ini files and saves) and then ran skyrim once to generate new ini files. After that I limited myself to trying to use 1 mod, namely 'alternate start live another life' due to how easy it is to detect whether it works or not. It didn't work. Alternate start live another life doesn't need anything. It doesn't need DLC, it doesn't need SKSE, it doesn't need anything to work, you just drag and drop it in your data folder, but still it doesn't work. I have 4 'hints' that could help with explaining/finding the issue: 1. Texture mods work: It doesn't matter whether I install them manually, with NMM or with MO, they work. this leads me to think that the issue is related to ESPs, but I'm not an expert, so don't mind giving me other explanations. 2. When I tried running 'Ultimate Skyrim' it didn't crash or anything. The ENB I installed should've been working correctly (there was a message displayed at the start menu that I was using an ENB) and I also saw '$mod configuration' in the esc menu. The strange thing is that no other mods were listed in the MCM menu and also of course the '$' which might indicate an issue? What both the ENB and SkyUI have in common though, is that they're installed using an installer and while both use an ESP, maybe just the files that were installed by the installer are enough to make them 'pseudo-work' ? 3. When I run NMM and look at the plugins everything is checked. When I run Skyrim, play and quit when I see alternate start didn't work (stupid carriage beginning) I see in NMM that Skyrim.esm and update.esm are unchecked for some reason (which is strange since they're about as 'core' as core-files can get). I'm not sure if this means anything, but it could help you, the helper, help me :tongue:. 4. When checking the 'data files' in the skyrim launcher I can see that everything is checked (including the mod 'alternate start') I'd really appreciate any help you can give me, and even if it seems stupid or obvious, if you can think of something I might've missed, please tell me. Oh and as an afterthought: I have been able to play with mods and didn't have any issues. I don't remember if I ever got my mods to work after that 1 year old forum post, but I have been able to mod.

I have no problem making vanilla Skyrim work. I need help with a mod issue. The whole problem is that my Skyrim is too 'vanilla' for my taste xD.

My problem is that while everything seems fine, I can't get my mods to load. My mods are ticked and activated, the launcher says they're activated, everything is as it should be and I even started with a fresh install of steam as well. The save game fix is highly likely useless as I'm not trying to load a save, I'm starting a new game, which is also why I chose to try with the 'alternate start' mod as I stated in my first post. I have already had to clean my masters before, but I highly doubt that's the issue as even without cleaning, 1 measly mod shouldn't give any trouble (doesn't hurt to try I guess). I don't have a CTD problem so meshes healer will also be useless unless it also resolves other issues. I'm not sure about the SKSE patch, but again, I made it work on my other pc without the patch so I'm guessing it won't matter (again, I guess I can try). The ini file thing is yet again useless as I got rid of every trace of skyrim (I could find which means the conventional places to look) by uninstalling everything as I said in my first post. My load order is perfectly fine as it highly likely doesn't matter which official DLC loads before the other, but for argument's sake I'll try. The CTD troubleshooting page is useless as I don't have a CTD problem. I took a look at the dangerous mods list you mentioned and none of the mods I use are on it. Last but not least, I guess I'll try USLEEP and hope that fixes it (which I doubt, but I guess I can always hope). Edit: I'm going to try yet another clean install Edit 2: tried it and didn't work

I've been having an issue with my mods for a long time now. I played Skyrim with around 130 mods on my older pc, but after getting a new one and setting things up just the way I did with my old one, it wouldn't work. I've tried everything I can think of. I tried NMM, I tried MO and I tried manually. When using MO and NMM I also made sure to have them in admin mode, I also start steam in admin mode and I even went as far as to change the permissions for some of my folders so that 'everyone' has full access over them. In the end, Skyrim does not care. It's also not an easy to fix issue where I actually get an error. No, Skyrim wants to make it difficult. Every time I start the Skyrim launcher it says that everything's fine. My mod is ticked and I should be ready to go, still it doesn't work(Yes, I did try to use SKSE to start too and it didn't work either). After thinking that 130 mods might be a bit too much I of course kept going down until the only mod I had left was the 'alternate start' mod, as that one is easy to download and to check if it's working. I gave up after many tries and have only recently tried again after re-installing Skyrim, MO, NMM and even steam itself. As I'v put a lot of time in trying to fix this, I thought I might try and finally get some help (as it seems most people with 'mods don't load' issues have rather easy fixes which don't work for me). Any help is welcome. PS: There's another file that's a whole 18KB too big, but it pretty much shows that I tried loading with MO, that the launcher shows that 'alternate start' is ticked and in the end it of course didn't work.

My dear god... like... I'm honestly tearing up a bit. It worked! I seriously love you! You don't know how much I appreciate your help. Thanks for the help ^^. I will now retreat back into my veil of modded goodness and waste the rest of my life. I'm going to have exams soon... who cares!

Thank you for the reply dubious. I've already tried multiple times to make it work. I've tried installing them on separate drives and seeing as that didn't work I tried doing it all on the same one. I'll try mod organizer and hope that it can help me.

Here's a screen of the FNV launcher who also recognises the fact that all my mods are 'active'.

Hello dear potential helper. I've had this annoying issue where I downloaded mods perfectly like I was told and for some reason the game doesn't load them. The DLC loads, but the mods don't, even though they are 'recognised' by FOMM,NMM and the FNV launcher itself. I've installed NVSE, used FOMM and NMM, launched the game with the launcher the first time and even started a new game before modding, I haven't changed anything in the ini file, I've used FOMM to invalidate the archive, I've tried manually installing the mods and I've even reinstalled the game, steam, FOMM and NMM multiple times even going as far as to try other install directories. It just doesn't want to work. The other thing is that some years ago I played the game with all the mods I'm using now, but for some reason it doesn't want to work now. I might've had the same issue back then (not sure anymore) and somehow fixed it, but I don't remember how... Please help me.