Scripted NPC interactions not executing at all...

[Dahveed]

Sometimes the pre-scripted NPC exchanges won't start at all, and the NPCs will just stand there doing nothing. I can still interact with them and they have all their regular dialogue options, but their "speech" or conversation won't start at all.

 

Examples:

 

When I enter the Bee and the Barb for example, Maramal is supposed to give his preaching script, but instead he does nothing at all and just stands there forever.

 

When I enter the Ratway there are a couple bandits near the front gate who always executed a scripted dialogue, now they do nothing.

 

Upon entering Windhelm there is the entire scene where the Nords are harassing a Dark Elf woman, who then turns to the player character and asks "Do you hate the Dark Elves?"

 

These are just a few examples; there are other instances where they work without any issues (like Roggvir's execution in Solitude for example, works every time), but it is getting annoying now. I could handle it if only a couple interactions were bugged but this is getting on my nerves now and I am starting to question my game's stability for future quests and such.

 

Can anyone offer advice? I have already looked into papyrus script tweaks in the .ini files, and I've tried a new .dll plugin for SKSE, but nothing helps. I've never had this persistent problem before. I can't imagine which of my mods would cause this issue.... As far as I know there are no specific mods which would touch any of these interactions or NPC scripts in general.

[sonicp]

must be another issue of stack thrashing.

[03/30/2013 - 12:21:08PM] Suspended stack count is over our warning threshold, dumping stacks:

[Dahveed]

  On 12/10/2013 at 6:48 AM, sonicp said:

 

must be another issue of stack thrashing.

[03/30/2013 - 12:21:08PM] Suspended stack count is over our warning threshold, dumping stacks:

Care to explain? What does this mean, and how can I fix it?

[Georgiegril]

If that line were related to your problem, you would see it in your Papyrus log.

 

The most likely cause of that message is having increased your value of

iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes in your skyrim.ini beyond the default.

 

If you have

iMinMemoryPageSize=128
iMaxMemoryPageSize=512
iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=768000

 

Then that probably isn't the cause. If you have changed these, then you need to revert them back to the default.

 

If you have not changed those lines, it would be helpful to see your BOSS log (copy/paste text file format of log, enclose in spoiler tags)

Also, list mods that you have removed from your game, as it could be related to that.