TunnelRhino

I might have to look into that because Steam's DRM forces Skyrim to launch Steam anyway even if I launch the game through SKSE while Steam is shut down.

Buddy, you are a saint and I appreciate you tremendously. You got everything working perfectly and didn't bullshit. Thank you SO much, King.

I have SkyUI and I guess RaceMenu counts? Nothing for the start screen though.

I did, yes. That was my first thing because something was telling me a dll file was missing. I don't remember which mod it was but I didn't see the prompt show up again.

I started modding Skyrim for the first time in 2022. An auto update rolled out and broke everything that year but I felt like playing again. So I tried my best to wipe my PC clean of all Skyrim files then spent about 3 or 4 hours yesterday troubleshooting after a reinstall. Enabling and disabling mods one by one, updating them, tediously checking for all the prerequisite mods and plugins, and shifting around load orders that kind of made sense to my limited understanding. No matter what I did, when I boot Skyrim through SKSE, I get the title screen, hit new game, I briefly see a purple and untextured Alduin on the loading screen, crash. This is my consistent result. What could that typically mean? I'm not at all fluent in mods and I staved it off for years because I didn't feel like dealing with exactly s#*! like this. But I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I only had about 20 mods and the majority were prerequisites. I tried using a crash logger I saw recommended on Reddit but it didn't seem to do anything.

Resolved.