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Here's what fixed the Bound Sword CTD for me: Load my current Save Made a note of all Active Effects (important!) In console, targeted self then used command: Resurrect After resurrect, all Active Effects are gone, however they can be restored from the console using: Player.AddSpell <ID> In my case I just had to restore the following: Ancient Knowledge (0010EB60) Force Without Effort (000E8281) Resist Frost (Nord) (000AA020) Agent of Mara (000CC79A) Thief Stone (000E5F45) More IDs can be found here: http://www.skyrimsearch.com/magic.php Then I un-equipped and re-equipped all my gear to regain their effects, and voila! Bound Sword no longer causes CTD and I didn't have to revert to an old Save.

Thank you, everyone, for this thread!!! I had uninstalled an armor mod so I could install an updated version. I stupidly neglected to remove the old items first. Then I played many, many hours before realizing there were ghost effects due to all the dual enchantments I had placed on the old armor pieces. The net result... I was enormously overpowered, and it was sucking the fun out of the game. The resurrect and addspell fix worked perfectly, and it was really pretty simple! Thanks again!