Alternate Start mod works fine - uninstall it? Skyrim won't start&

[Malathorien]

Hi there,

 

Installed 'Alternate Start - Live Another Life' = Works fine.

Uninstalled it = Skyrim will not load. I see the Bethesda logo and it crashes immediately.

Using NMM for both install and uninstall.

 

I desperately need help, I can normally figure out my own mod problems and i have over 130esps active.

'Alternate Start: Live Another Life' mod works fine. HOWEVER, when I uninstall it (making sure bsa and esp are both removed), Skyrim will no longer start! Shows me Bethesda logo then just crashes! I used NMM to install and uninstall it. I reinstalled the mod and Skyrim worked fine again. My Skyrim seems dependent on this mod to even function. I want to do the old start again...please help? What is going on with this? Papyrus log gives me nothing and I don't want to be dependent on a 1 mod being active.

Edited May 27, 2013 by Malathorien

[Georgiegril]

So just to be clear, you want to start a new character/game, but without Alternate Start? (Rather than removing the mod for your current game/character)

After you uninstalled, did you try verifying your game files on Steam?

[prod80]

"Uninstalling Live Another Life
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First things first. You need to be sure the main quest has been started before you can uninstall this mod. The quest "Live Another Life" must have been marked as completed, AND you must have "Before the Storm" listed in your journal. Uninstalling prior to this will break the main quest as well as the civil war.

It should also go without saying that if you're using the farmhouse start, clean your stuff out of it first because if you don't you'll lose it all.

Once that's done, use your preferred method to uninstall the mod. The .esp and .bsa file must both be removed entirely."

& make sure you have no mods in your current load order that required LAL as master.

[Georgiegril]

That would be irrelevant if the OP was starting a new character/game.

[Malathorien]

i never change or uninstall mods when i start a game. I can add mods but never remove unless they are without doubt causing problems.

 

LAL is causing me to crash BEFORE LOADING SCREEN, even though i have no files in my skyrim 'saves' folder and want to just make a new char and new game.

[Malathorien]

fixed. has a misnamed esp which was using LAL as a masterfile. ty.

[anthonyvu1985]

  On 6/3/2013 at 8:20 PM, Malathorien said:

fixed. has a misnamed esp which was using LAL as a masterfile. ty.

I'm having the same issue as OP but you could you reword this so I can also fix my skyrim as well? It also crashes after the logo appears.

[cdcooley]

If some other mod (usually something created by an auto-patcher program) has a dependency on LAL the game will crash as described when LAL isn't present.

[Yanqui9]

I apologize for necro'ing this thread but I had the same problem and found this old thread in a search. Cdcooley is correct. I used the Nexus Mod Manager to uninstal the mod but had left behind the "ASLAL - Hearthfire Support" plug-in. So I was trying to start 'vanilla' Skyrim with this mod still in and that was what was causing the CTD. I removed this part and ASLAL manually and the game started fine.

 

For future reference, if anyone has this problem and finds this thread, see if you had ASLAL plug-ins like mine and they are still in the game.