SSE CTD when entering certain interior cells

[ChewNTobacca]

I've been putting the final testing on a village I've been working on (for over 2 years now). I use a separate PC for testing, and until recently I haven't had any probles. There are 6 buildings, and now I'm getting CTD when entering 4 of them on the test PC. Ideally I would have the exact same setup for testing, but here's the differences:

 

The design rig is Windows 10 running SSE prior to the anniversary update (1.5.97). The test rig is on Windows 7 with the anniversary update (1.6.64). I suspect that this may have something to do with the problem.

 

On the test rig, I checked for any conflicts in SSEEdit and LOOT, none found. Then I disabled every mod except the one in testing, and the problem persists. Some people say that it is a texture mod, but I have none installed.

 

I would love to get to the bottom of this, as once I do my village will be ready for release. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Chew

[Sovrath]

I've been putting the final testing on a village I've been working on (for over 2 years now). I use a separate PC for testing, and until recently I haven't had any probles. There are 6 buildings, and now I'm getting CTD when entering 4 of them on the test PC. Ideally I would have the exact same setup for testing, but here's the differences:

 

The design rig is Windows 10 running SSE prior to the anniversary update (1.5.97). The test rig is on Windows 7 with the anniversary update (1.6.64). I suspect that this may have something to do with the problem.

 

On the test rig, I checked for any conflicts in SSEEdit and LOOT, none found. Then I disabled every mod except the one in testing, and the problem persists. Some people say that it is a texture mod, but I have none installed.

 

I would love to get to the bottom of this, as once I do my village will be ready for release. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Chew

 

Well, I can't say that "what I'm going to say for certain will help, but here it is.

 

I tested my mod on both a "good" computer and a toaster and I usually play in first person so never caught an issue where, when in 3rd person, there would be a crash.. This was found by several players.

 

There were two things causing these crashes.

 

1, I had bowls of gems out in the open. This wasn't an issue in "oldrim" but for special edition there was always a crash in 3rd person. I removed them (sadly, they looked good) and that solved the crashing.

 

Do you have anything "shiny" or a lot of shiny things, things that might deal with how light reflects off of them, that are in the area?

 

2, I discovered that one room was too long. Again, in 3rd person it would crash. I truncated the space and that fixed the issue.

 

this large room was made using an interior cell and not an exterior cell.

 

 

Maybe either of those things will help?

[greyday01]

Any custom meshes? Any meshes that haven't been optimized for AE? Bad meshes often cause CTD.

[ChewNTobacca]

You are both correct. Thank you, Sovrath, once I saw you say "lot of shiny things", I knew exactly what to check. Sadly, it was an item I made with a custom texture. I removed the item from one location, repacked my archive and tested. No more crash when entering that interior cell! I did discover that I still experienced the same crash while in 1st person ( I always play in 3rd person, so it never occurred to me). Then I removed the item from the other problem cells, and now they all load perfectly every time (so far).

 

Thank you for the suggestions. I appreciate it very much. I think I can put on the finishing touches.

 

Thanks again.

-Chew

[Sovrath]

You are both correct. Thank you, Sovrath, once I saw you say "lot of shiny things", I knew exactly what to check. Sadly, it was an item I made with a custom texture. I removed the item from one location, repacked my archive and tested. No more crash when entering that interior cell! I did discover that I still experienced the same crash while in 1st person ( I always play in 3rd person, so it never occurred to me). Then I removed the item from the other problem cells, and now they all load perfectly every time (so far).

 

Thank you for the suggestions. I appreciate it very much. I think I can put on the finishing touches.

 

Thanks again.

-Chew

 

I'm glad we could help and even more glad that you were able to find the culprit.

[GreyMtnFox]

And now, more than a year later, I looked in here because of a location that liked to crash on entry.  Guess what I had: bowls of freakin' gems LOL.  I made a quest called "garnets are forever". Maybe I should call it "garnets are forever unless you leave a ton of the damn things lying around". Put them all into a chest. 
Much better now!

Muchas Gracias
~GMF~