Really puzzled on this one, spent 5 hours last night and into the morning trying everything I could think of and find to fix it but no luck. My game was working fine, until I wanted to try some new textures for my character. I applied them, didn't like them, and restored the backup files I had. Now when I try to play, the game loads but quickly freezes a few seconds after my character appears on the screen. Sounds still plays including music and environmental effects like a fire. So is it possible something went amiss when I was restoring my backup files? I don't see how a bad texture could cause a freeze like this. Things I've tried: I copied over my entire skyrim folder (I periodically make backups of the entire folder) Deleted the ini files Deactivated the latest mods I remember activating (suppose I should deactivate everything and work up from there) Here's a list of my mods from the BOSS tool. Skyrim.esm Active Update.esm Active Contains dirty edits: 52 ITM, 1 UDR records. Needs TES5Edit cleaning. (http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit) ApachiiHair.esm Active Mannequin.esm Active RiverHelm.esm Active HighResTexturePack01.esp Active HighResTexturePack02.esp Active Arrowsmith.esp Active bondolf a rich merchant.esp Active moredragonloot.esp Active Convenient Horses.esp Active Contains dirty edits: 4 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs TES5Edit cleaning. (http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit) auto unequip arrows.esp Active Dynasty Armor.esp Active BecomeKingOfRiverHelm.esp Active bluecreek estate.esp Active thereserve.esp Active GetArrowsBack.esp Active Hemet2CircletReplacer.esp Active whiteruninenhanced.esp Active zzzEverlastingWeaponEnchant.esp Active hair.esp Active TemptressVixen.esp Active ANd here is my ini file [General]
sLanguage=ENGLISH
uExterior Cell Buffer=36
[Display]
fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0
fSpecularLODMaxStartFade=2000.0
fLightLODMaxStartFade=3500.0
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
bAllowScreenshot=1
[Audio]
fMusicDuckingSeconds=6.0
fMusicUnDuckingSeconds=8.0
fMenuModeFadeOutTime=3.0
fMenuModeFadeInTime=1.0
[Grass]
bAllowCreateGrass=1
bAllowLoadGrass=0
[GeneralWarnings]
SGeneralMasterMismatchWarning=One or more plugins could not find the correct versions of the master files they depend on. Errors may occur during load or game play. Check the "Warnings.txt" file for more information.
[Archive]
sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, HighResTexturePack01.bsa, HighResTexturePack02.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa
sResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa
[Combat]
fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0
fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0
[Papyrus]
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0
bEnableLogging=0
bEnableTrace=0
bLoadDebugInformation=0
[Water]
bReflectLODObjects=1
bReflectLODLand=1
bReflectSky=1
bReflectLODTrees=1
[TerrainManager]
sIntroSequence= Thank you all for any help you can give me, I'm going to start deactivating all my mods in the meantime and see if I come up with anything.