Can't upgrade armors/weapons at workbench/grindstone

[kablasia]

For some reason I cannot upgrade my armor or weapons at a workbench or grindstone. I have the items needed and in the upgrade menu it shows the armor/weapon in white, but when I press [R] to craft the upgrade nothing happens. I've tried reloading my game, restarting skyrim, trying different benches and grindstones, and trying to upgrade different items.

 

I don't have many mods since I just started playing skyrim on my pc.

 

I just deleted skyrim and I'm re-installing it from steam and I can't post my load order because nmm won't let me see it unless i have the game installed.

 

But it should look like this.

Skyrim

Patch

Unofficialpatch

SPIKE

SKY UI

cloaks of skyrim

immersive armor

immersive weapons

ELFX (Enhanced lights FX)

ELFX exteriors

RCRN (Real Color and Real Nights)

RCRN fog

 

and I have enhanced night sky, but it's not in the load order.

 

I installed the unofficial patch and immersive weapons after I noticed the problem, so they can't be whats causing this.

 

I have already deactivated each mod 1 by 1 to see if any were causing it, but nothing has changed.

 

Note I can still craft items at the forge and make leather strips, I just can't upgrade anything, vanilla or mod items.

 

I did change some controls in the game like making [R] to run instead of sheathing the weapon. I did change it back and made it blank, but still nothing works.

 

Any ideas on what to do?

 

[kablasia]

I figured out what the problem was. I re-installed skyrim and the problem was still there. I googled skyrim issues with the [R] key and I saw a guy had an issue with dropping items with [R] when he changed the function of [R] to a different key. He had to use the new key to do the old functions of [R] even though in-game it tells him to use [R].

 

So in my case I changed to sheath weapon [R] to [F], so when I want to upgrade something i have to use the [F] key instead of the [R], even though skyrim is telling me it's the [R] key.

 

Took me hours of frustration to figure it out lol.

[Shadeybladey]

Yes, Skyrim does that. It does not update most key re-mappings in the menus. I think it shows some (I use M1 for moving, M2 for striking and M3 to activate), but most just don't update.

 

I use Z for sheathing.

 

You can just click on the button in the menu instead of pressing the button on the keyboard. I do that for smelting lots of ores, click and type "Y", click, "Y", click, "Y" etc.