JimCass98

Trust me. I've tried it all. What you said used to work for me, however at the time I posted this I was getting the CTD on save 2 minutes after I tried that little trick. I've gotten it working again, because it's was caused by certain mods in my game(no clue why or what they effected). The sad thing is is that it affects 95% of mods I install from this point on. So basically, every time I install a new mod, I have to play for a few hours. If I don't get a CTD on save in a few hours that means it's fine. If I do, then that means the mod is the cause. Luckily, I'm all set with my mods. However, Interesting NPC's is about to go out of beta, and the only way that Interesting NPC's works for me without causing a CTD on save is downloading one of the old updates on the latest version. Somehow it fixes that. However, I had to uninstall mods like Enhanced Mighty Dragons, Higher Level Enemies, LIAT, Immersive Patrols, and another one which I forgot the name of because they seemed to cause a CTD on save for me. All in all, it's better to find a permanent solution even if it means sacrificing certain things, rather than keeping those said things and only having a temporary solution that,(in my case) eventually becomes obsolete. If this is happening for you, I suggest you go through your mods, go to a save with the CTD on save issue, and then check which mod causes it(Note: Deactivating the mod will temporarily fix it. To permanently fix it, you have to remove the archive from the data folder or completely uninstall it via NMM)

I'm pretty sure the mod author of Civil War Overhaul(which is why this is happening) said that if you lose a battle, you need to wait for a few days. You'll then have a courier approach you and tell you that an Imperial Owned City(Markarth, Falkreath or Morthal. Most likely Falkreath) is under attack. Then you have to go to that battle and if you win then you'll be allowed to start your attack on the Stormcloak terriotories. If you lose again, then the same process will repeat until you lose the Civil War. Hopefully this helped you.

Well, it depends. Since you're planning to play a heroic sword and board character, you can make him a paladin(if you wish). I'd either make him a werewolf or nothing at all(can't be a vampire for immersion purposes). Instead of hack and slash you could use alteration spells (as paladins are gifted in defensive magic, specifically restoration although alteration is up there as well). I'd also try to use range once in a while(maybe install Crossbows Revamped and use crossbows). Really, it's up to the backstory and planning you're doing. Chances are that you will have to hack and slash from time to time, but you can use your ranged weapon when needed and pop up a few armor rating alteration spells. When things get ugly(if you chose to become a werewolf) or if you just want to go on a feeding frenzy use your beast form and let nothing stop you from going on an all you can eat buffet. Hopefully some part of this helped you.

Wouldn't worry about it too much. My saves start at 6-7 MB. At level 30(currently) they are 20.5 MB and the game runs as smoothly as it did in the beginning. I wouldn't worry about it until you notice a 1 second freeze every 1 minute and your saving times take about 2 minutes(no exaggeration). That's when your save is severely bloated.

Hello. Recently, after reinstalling Skyrim I started a new character. He's an Orc Warlord, that starts off as a Barbarian. His family and clan were murdered by soldiers and vampires, due to a curse/blessing in their family that allows the main clan to transform into monstorous beasts(which I used Werebears from the Moonlight Tales mod). However, I planned out my character to have a unique transformation(meaning I allowed no other werebears to be present in Skyrim). Now thinking this through, I wanted my character to end up from being a Barbarian to a feared and deadly Warlord. He'll be coated in a demonic type of armor, and will use Sauron's mace in his main hand(from the LOTR weapons pack) and some sort of waraxe in the offhand. Anyway, back on topic. I was thinking that werebear form just will not fit this evil,demonic warlord mid-end game. I'd much prefer a different transformation that UNIQUELY replaces ONLY your character. I ran into a Demon replacer for the werewolf on the Steam Workshop, however it replaced ALL werewolves, which is definetly not what I'm looking for. I saw a mod on the Nexus that allowed you to become a demon, but it looked very plastic and I'd figure that I wouldn't be using it as much as my Werebeast form. So, my question is does anyone know of an alternate STANDALONE form for your character as a werebeast? It'd be really cool to be that Evil Dark Warlord on my Orc char with the power to become a deadly beast that can level entire holds. If anyone knows of such a mod, I'd really appreciate it. Worse comes to worse, I'll stick with the Werebear because it looks badass on it's own, but it'd be nice for a more character fitting transformation. Thanks in advance.

Well, I think the game is officially corrupt with no way back. That means that Skyrim can R.I.P. It really sucks because Skyrim was my favorite game in TES series, and I've played since Daggerfall. Anyone have any good games like Skyrim that you recommend I buy?

Okay. I can honestly say I'll have to save this post and show it to my friend because I understood little of it LOL. As for the CTD on save bug, I just had it again right now. However, here's what I noticed. When I validate the Steam files, every time I had the CTD on save issue I get "5 files failed to validate and be reacquired" message. Also, if I can play smoothly for a few hours without a single crash, and THEN I get a crash, I get the CTD on save glitch. However, if I crash 2-3 times in the beginning, than on that playthrough I WILL NOT get a CTD on save glitch. It's really wierd but it's a pattern I'm noticing.

Yeah. One of my friends works with computers so he helped me build this PC. Whatever you tell me, I'll probably have to report to him for any updates. You've been a REAL help so far, so thank you. Anyway, here's what that dxdiag thing wrote. Good luck to anyone who wants to decipher this LOL. Anyway, thank you again for your help. And I am going to go watch Avengers with my GF as well, but I'll check in from time to time hoping to see anymore help from anyone. Thanks.

Alright, I'll give that a shot. I personally keep Firefox running for multiple reasons, however that is not relevant. As for my computer specs, here they are: I can run Skyrim on Ultra with all DLC's and no mods, even though it detects my system as high. However, I prefer to run it on medium or high(usually medium) and with this many mods I have to say no to ENB's. Hope this helps, and I'll see if shutting down Mozilla helps. Thanks for all your help thus far.

Thank you again for the response. I verified the Steam Files and it seems to be working fine now. I've been playing for like an hour without the CTD on save glitch, which is a ray of hope. I will post my ini's below. As for all the computer related things(CPU, GPU, etc.) where can I find them? I use this PC for work, gaming, and just watching videos/movies online, so it's multipurpose. Overall, I'm a total moron when it comes to computers LOL. But if you tell me where I can find the information, then I'll post that also. As for background programs, I minimize Mozilla Firefox, but other than that I don't have anything else running(except for Steam, although it isn't noted as running on my Taskbar). I also use Cleanmem, which com es with a minimonitor on the side of my screen, and it runs itself every 15 minutes or so to help with the 3.1 GB issue. Like I said, verifying the cache SEEMS to have stopped it for now, but who knows? Just in case here are my ini's SkyrimPrefs Skyrim.Ini

Well, this is my last attempt at solving this issue. I just start the game now, save once, and it CTD's giving me another TMP file. So ignore the message about this mods because SOMETHING is screwing my game up beyond playability. I may just have to give up on Skyrim completely, which is going to literally crush me. I honestly want to break my PC in half and just start screaming everywhere. This issue is beyond annoying and I don't know if ANYTHING could fix it. If it persists, then I'm officially done with Skyrim because I cannot play it without mods, and even then it'll still probably crash on a save.

Download and install TES5edit. Although BOSS is a great tool, a CTD after the Bethesda Logo doesn't indicate a bad loader order, but rather a dependency issue . Run TES5edit, wait for it to give you an error message, and then look at the mod ABOVE the error message. If it's a bashed patch, you need to rebuild the bashed patch. If it isn't, then you need to either A) Find out the Dependency issue for the mod(whether it requires another mod to work properly) or B) Uninstall the mod.

Yeah, I do use both Wyrebash and Tes5edit, as well as BOSS. I cleaned all my mods, and I have a bashed patch. I guess there was just something fierce going on between them that wouldn't allow me to save properly. Either way, I took your advice about saving and I see a great difference between my save size from now and previous characters(in reference from the file I made just for them). It's good to know that it's a problem with mods and not my game. Hopefully it won't occur again. However, it seems the reinstall fixed my Whiterun crashes(I only had one crash in Whiterun, probably because I hit the 3.1 GB limit), which means it wasn't an actual Whiterun crash. But anyways, let's just hope this problem has sorted itself out. I hope that I won't have to post more technical issues on this topic, or any technical issue topic again.

Well, it seems that today was the day I would give up on Skyrim due to technical difficulties. I had the "CTD on save" bug once again. However, it SEEMS to be fixed right now. It was a mod issue(shocking). For some reason, the mods Enhanced High Level Gameplay, LIAT, and Immersive Patrols where what caused this(through constant saving trial and error, as well as being able to successfully save about 6-7 times when those 3 mods were deactivated). If even one mod was active, I would get the same CTD on save glitch. Hopefully it passes now that I uninstalled those mods. If it occurs again, I'll post here and apologize for my wrong report. However, it CAN'T be wrong because no matter what mods I had active, only those 3, whether together or not, caused a CTD on save. Well, I just wasted an entire night reinstalling the game, lost 4 characters(2 retired, 1 Semi-retired, 1 current), only to end up at the same spot. But at least it's fixed.....hopefully for good.

Thanks, you've been a real help. As for the characters, I put them in a completely seperate folder to serve as a memory. I don't intend on using them, but I do intend on keeping them as a memento of sorts. I already lost 2 previous characters due to technical difficulties, and with these 4 that I had to give up for the sake of the next playthroughs that means I now lost 6. Well, that's life I'm guessing. But, this reinstall will hopefully fix everything. Thanks for the help once again. I'll post here again in a few days and see if this was cleared up.

I'll definetly check out that mod. I read about it and it seems very useful. So basically it replaces autosaves by NOT allowing overwriting and by making a MANUAL save instead of a regular save? IF so then that's extremely useful. As for the save cleaner, I uninstalled it because I see no difference in my save files and I believe this as the cause of MANY issues in my game. I also uninstalled Phenderix, some other mods I didn't require, and pretty much everything else. Now, I have to wait for Steam to install the game for me, and then I have to clean all my mods, reinstall them and so on. Just saying that makes me stressed out LOL. But thank you for your help. If you have any other advice/tips, feel free to leave them here. By the way, I have one question. The old save files I had, I copied OUT of my save folder and put them in another folder on the desktop so I don't lose the memories. Will does keep my progress or not? Because if the saves are the issue, then I want to start fresh. If I have to, I can delete them off my computer for good but I'd much rather keep that as a reminder(not for playability purposes).

It's not that I consider full saving immersion breaking, it's that quicksaving becomes very addicting and easy rather than manual/full saving. As for autosaves/quicksaves, I probably could live without quicksaves but for me it's honestly very difficult. We'll see how it goes. I'm guessing that this is either due to A. The Skyrim Save Cleaner or B. A continuing bug in my save games. I only started having this issue when I started using the Save Cleaner. I know it's not related to ONE character because it's happened on 3 so far, but the frequency of it is only on my current character. Anyways, I uninstalled Boss, Wyrebash, and Tes5edit. I made a backup of NMM's mod file and I'm going to uninstall that as soon as I deactivate all mods. I also deleted some unecessary mods(one of which were Phenderix Magic Evolved). I will get the new, cleanest version of Jswords. I guess I HAVE to reinstall Skyrim, so I made a folder where I put my characters to "rest in peace" in. I'm going to delete my save file, and everything(I backed up the .ini's just in case). Hopefully this fixes it. But I've had Whiterun and Dawnstar corruption as well(constant crashing/freezing) so I'm hoping this reinstall will fix this. Anyways, thank you for your Help and I'll post here in a few days and see if the crashing on save persists or not. I'm probably going to spend all night cleaning mods and installing all these programs. Thanks again, and wish me luck. Cheers. (P.S. I'll start using the manual save more. We'll see how it goes).

Hello. Well, now I have an issue with Skyrim that basically makes the game unplayable. I've had this issue for a few months now, however it wasn't as frequent as what happened today. The issue is that whenever I autosave, quicksave, or manual save, the game instantly crashes to desktop without saving my progress. If I then proceed to go into my saves folder, the type of save I just did is there, however it is a .tmp file. If I delete the .tmp and convert it into .ess, it shows up in my game however if I should load it all I get is an endless loading screen. Before, the solution was simply to double load(load a save before you had the CTD on save bug, and then load the save with the bug). This would fix the problem for a good few days. When it came back, all I needed to do was this or just simply reload a save before the bug ever occurred. However, today this glitch/bug/issue whatever you want to call it has become unbearable. If I'm lucky, I can play 5 minutes without it happening. No matter what I do, in 2-5 minutes it reoccurs again. I've tried verifying my Steam cache, manually chaning the files, the kill/save process, the save cleaner, and nearly everything else that I could find online. Nothing works. It makes me want to rip my hair out because I literally can't play 2 minutes without it crashing. The only other thing I see that would work is COMPLETELY uninstalling the game and reinstalling it, but if there is ANY other way, I'd much rather go with this. I'll give this topic a few hours, and if I get no responses or no helpful response, than I'm calling it quits and reinstalling my entire game and mods. This is going to be a major pain in the ass and I'm not even sure if it'll fix it. I'll post my load order below, and my ini's for the hell of it. If ANYONE knows a fix to this, PLEASE respond. I'm assuming that when I reinstall I'll have to delete all my characters or at least move them from the save folder to keep just as a reminder. Like I said, anyone with ANY clue on what to do, please respond to this. I'd really, really appreciate it. Thank you. Ini Files Skyrim.Ini SkyrimPrefs.Ini

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the message you're getting means that you need to run Tes5edit as an administrator. I used to get a message like that whne trying to clean mods, and ever since I started running TES5edit as an administrator it seems to have gone away. Hopefully that helps you.

Thank you Good sir. This makes things much easier. Cheers.

Hello. So, I'm the type of person who can play a Skyrim(or Elder Scrolls for that matter) character for a long time. However, eventually I do like to take a break and try out something new. Today my Redguard Knight/Crusader Sword and Shield Vampire Hunter, Harbinger, and Werewolf hit Level 50. Usually, when I get bored of my characters I max them to level 80, do the Ebony Warrior quest, the MQ and finish off a few other quests. However, I really enjoy my Redguard and I would like to continue playing him, but I think I need a few days off from him. I was thinking of starting an Orc Gladiator/Barbarian, and I think I have him planned out for the most part. The problem with this is that, like I said, when I'm bored of a character I usually force level them and "retire" them(bad habit, I know). But this Redguard is different,and I'd like to just take a break from him for a short while, and not completely retire him. The problem with this is that I want to use different mods for each character. For example, I need to disable a few mods when starting a new char, so that things don't get severely messed up. Some mods need to be activated at a certain point. Now although the Mod Manager makes this quite easy, it would be a pain that when I switch characters I have to spend like 15 minutes just resorting the load order and activating the mods, making sure every little thing is in place. Now, I would do this IF I had not come across a mod here on the Nexus(this was a few months back) that allowed you to pick which mods to use for certain characters. I never thought I would need it, and here I am regretting my decision. Does anyone know what the name of that mod is? I've tried searching it on Google and on the Nexus but I came up empty handed. This makes things A LOT easier. Hopefully, I can find it again. Thanks in advance.

Alright, well there's a far easier solution than using console commands. Favorite both of your swords(I'd favorite your bow also). Now, go into the favorites menu. Once you're in the favorites menu, select the sword you put into your MAIN(right) hand. Hotkey that swords. I usually hotkey my primary weapon as 1 and my secondary(bow, crossbow) as 2. So, press 1 on your main weapon. You don't have to hotkey the other dual wield weapon. Then press 2 on the bow. Now, whenever you want to switch between weapons in combat, all you have to do is press 1 for your main weapon(the left hand weapon will always stay equipped when you equip your main weapon, unless you manually remove it from your left hand) and press 2 for your bow. Hotkeys are very useful, and I suggest that you start using them.

I'm not 100% sure on what you're asking here. If you want to dual wield, go into your inventory, and then right click on one weapon, and left click on the next. This way the weapons you selected will end up in both hands.

That's known as an endless loading screen. I'd suggest reloading a previous save(if you don't have a previous save check your save folder for autosave.ess.bak and delete the ".bak" part. That way it will allow you to load an autosave that will hopefully not have an endless loading screen). Other than that, there really isn't a fix. Sorry I can't be of much help.

Very good point. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm sure they have they have given this some thought, maybe even planned it out. I don't really have an answer for that one. If I come across it, I'll post it here.