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I also had a similar issue on a 2019 Macbook Pro running Windows 10 home via Bootcamp. Booted up yesterday and Vortex shortcut had blank icon and would not open, original app file also wouldn't run (forgot the exact error message though). I assumed the auto-update failed as it was trying to run the last time I shutdown - maybe didn't exit the install before shutting down? Anyways I tried to reinstall the latest 9/11 v.1.3.8 again manually. Vortex runs, redeployed, then got to the Skyrim SE start screen, but CTD before I could even attempt to load a new/saved game. Rolled back to Vortex 1.3.6 and everything is running OK again..?.?.

Thanks SteveTheJedi for the macrumors walkthrough - seems to be working for me on a 2019 16" MBP. Also a couple notes for others, I wanted to keep the game on the C: drive and just move the audio files, basically worked. A few notes though: I made a 4GB virtual drive for the files, which is now about 75% full with the core game audio BSAs.I first moved just the Data\Skyrim - Sounds.bsa which fixed combat sounds and music, then Data\Sykrim - Voices_en0.bsa which fixed the shout voice.I also tried to symlink the entire Data\sound directory just to be safe, which contains extra sounds from mods. This worked, but Vortex won't deploy to the virtual drive (I think because Vortex uses hard symlinks which need to be on the same disk partition.?.). So if you're using Vortex and having issues with mod sounds too, I'm guessing it would work to just move the whole game and Vortex onto a bigger virtual drive so that everything runs on the same partition.