and again this crap . . . CTDs and freezes.

[Elizinator]

this wasnt bothering me until recently, when a few weird things started happening.

 

first off, enemies are casting Phenderix spells at me. spells so overpowered, i dont cast them myself. im getting 1-shot at level 40 by a few of them. i do use ASIS, but Phenderix's magic mod always has been on the mod exclusion list, so the spells never should have been given. yet they are.

 

so i went to QASMOKE and rested for 30 days to get cells to respawn, and maybe the new mobs wouldnt have those spells, right?

 

ive never made such a big mistake. i just dont know why it was a mistake. within 30 seconds of finishing that wait, i crashed. i shot a spell at a dragon, and the instant it hit him, my game froze.

 

so i loaded. one crash can happen. same dragon lands, breathes frost on some guards, and the game CTDs

 

so i loaded. again. this time i kill the dragon, and engage the bandits he was fighting. and my FPS drops by FIFTY. then, of course, it crashes.

 

in all of these cases, papyrus log described nothing of real interest. a few normal error logs about better vampire sun effect scripts and such. nothing to tell me why shooting a dragon freezes my game, or why prior to that, the very first hit in melee had a 20% or so chance to do the same.

 

i have tried to give skyrim a playthough 4 or 5 times now, and every time i do, mods which are acclaimed and "Stable" render my game unplayable at level 40+. it just wont run properly. eventually - and i know this from experience - it will be crashing every few minutes in exterior zones. its already ramping up to that.

 

i use BOSS. i have a proper bashed patch. i have cleaned my Skyrim and Dawnguard .esm. i havent screwed with many script mods, except those i need, and i havent uninstalled them. i have no save bloat. papyrus logs describe fewer and fewer problems as i solve the ones i did have, and through all of this, crashes become more and more frequent. and i still cant kill these goddam phenderix-casting super-bandits.

[pheo3309]

Why not just disable the spell mod in question?

[Elizinator]

Why not just disable the spell mod in question?

 

as obvious as that sounds, that would only be an ideal solution if i didnt want ANYTHING the mod did. in which case, i wouldnt have installed it in the first place.

 

its important to remember that the mod does not add any spells to NPCs. it adds vendor spells, and ASIS adds those spells to NPCs, wherein lies the problem. i have told ASIS not to do that in every way i know how, and yet it does it still. many of the spells from Phenderix's mod i use, and are important to my game. so just yanking the whole mod out would be sortof like curing the disease by killing the patient. im hoping someone knows something enough about ASIS to tell me what im doing wrong so i can keep the mod and yet not get 1-shot.

[Deleted31005User]

I feel your pain and imo skyrim doesn't do well with mods at all, I had to restart a few times as well and every time I removed more and more mods until it was "kinda" stable.

Complete overhauls or mods that change anything in a drastic way have all gone through the window, except for UFO, immersive patrols, npc overhaul, enhanced lights and fx and immersive creatures.

The rest of my mods are just to add some equipment and followers, but thats it :/

Trying more mods or bashed patches only resulted in constant CTDs for me.

[fifteenspades]

In ASIS are you telling it to ignore the entire mod? or just a certain exclusion of spells?

[Elizinator]

In ASIS are you telling it to ignore the entire mod? or just a certain exclusion of spells?

 

both, actually. its in the exclusion sections of both automaticspells.ini, as well as ASIS.ini, and when that didnt work, i tried adding keywords like "Telekinetic" and "Barrage" in Automaticspells.ini under the Phenderix heading. nothing has any effect :c

[Elizinator]

still getting freezes right at the first moment of combat (or not at all - aside from the first instant of combat, the game never freezes) and enemies getting spells from ASIS despite the mods being in exclusion lists