What can cause this error?

[SawyersPaPa]

I have a lot of mods running and no surprise Skyrim has been crashing. Mostly it hangs at loading screens and in my processes it comes up as not responding. Although sometimes when im at the Race Menu screen when i change races mostly to girls sometimes i CTD. I enabled the papyrus and iv noticed a lot of Error: Cannot call Alias_Follower() on a None object. What can cause that>

[AlduinWorldEater]

Sounds like you've got too many chargen-related mods active. I run the Apachii SkyHair mod, and the Oblivion Hair Pack All-In-One, and I have this problem if I don't disable one or the other when I go to create a new character. What's happening is that the game is trying to pull up too much data when you go to the chargen menu.

[SawyersPaPa]

Can that cause the Error: Cannot call Alias_Follower() on a None object?

For that matter what the hell is a none object?

Edited May 26, 2013 by SawyersPaPa

[IsharaMeradin]

When a quest is started it tries to fill all of it's aliases. Should the alias not be filled for some reason the quest will fail to start. Unless that alias is set to be optional. When an alias is optional the quest will skip it if it cannot fill it. Normally this isn't an issue. But should there be a script involved that assumes the alias is filled then there will be error reports as the script will fill that alias property with a value referred to as "None". Scripts cannot process functions using variables or properties with a value of None.

 

The code writer for that script should have gotten the reference of the alias and checked first to ensure that it was not a "None" value before passing it on to any other function.

 

I ran across just such a situation myself when working on something locally. I had an array of 100 containers filled by a quest. The script parsed thru the array and transferred items from the container. On testing, while it worked in game, I had a list of about 80 errors since only about 20 containers were actually filled by the quest.

 

The following check inside my while loop removed all those errors

If ContainerAliasArray[index].GetReference() != None

 

To put it into context of your situation:

Alias_Follower() is a function on some script. That script is trying to process said function with presumably a quest filled alias which in your case happens to have been empty and thus assigned a "None" value.

 

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As far as the chargen issue with CTD due to too much hair etc.

Try this mod: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33526//?

[jojje5]

your crash on race menu can be fixed whit this nifty little thingy http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/33526/?

 

EDIT: oups just saw that IsharaMeradin already beaten me to it, sorry IsharaMeradin

 

 

and for your hang ups on load screen try and adjust fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS under your papyrus in the skyrim ini (if its not there add it)

[papyrus]
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=xxx

default value on pc is 500. increasing the value will give the game more time to set up all scripts correctly but you will get longer loading times.

personally i run whit fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=800

console users keep it at 2000

Edited May 27, 2013 by jojje5