Hey man I found a way to get rid of the leveling bar in the loading screen. So here it is step by step. You're going to need a program which can get into the Shockwave Flash Files in your Skyrim/Data/Interface folder. I use a program called JPEX (Here's the download link: https://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/download/). Once you have this program installed go to your Skyrim/Data/Interface folder in your game directory, then select the SFO file called "loadingmenu" (BACK UP THIS FILE JUST IN CASE) and open it with JPEX. Once you open it, JPEX will prompt you with a message about certain assets, just click no to all. From there, you will see a tab tree to the left of the window, click on sprites. Once you click on sprites you will see boxes with pictures. Click on the picture with a heading at the bottom called "DefineSprite (18)". To the left, again, in the tab tree it will have DefineSprite (18) expanded with a lego looking block as the logo left of the heading. Click on the plus sign and you will see another heading called Frame 1. Expand this and right click on the following files and click remove: PlaceObject2 (14) Depth 1 (LevelProgressBar)/ PlaceObject3 (15) Depth: 13/ PlaceObject3 (17) Depth: 14 (LevelNumberLabel). Once removed just click on the icon at the top that says save and boom you're done my friend. Keep in mind I just thought about this and done it when I saw your post. it worked for me, thats why I urge you to back up the main file just in case something doesn't work for you and the game messes up. Also I do have Special Edition but I don't see how that would make a difference. Anyhow I hope this all works for you my friend, best of luck!
