Very Strange Shader Error

[DavidBudreck]

OK, all of a sudden when I cast Detect Life, either by spell or be equipping an object, the game crashes immediately. It does not matter if I am in a cell with anything that would be detected or not.

 

Loading a previous save from several saves ago solves the problem. It's only about two hours of playing time, so I'm not too concerned with losing anything.

 

I am just concerned that it might happen again.

 

I have not loaded any new mods between the saves, and I do not use any mods that affect the detect life shaders, so it is not mod-related that I have been able to determine, especially since I can load a previous savegame with the current modes activated.

 

Any clue what could have gone wrong? Is this just a corrupt game? Why would it corrupt so that I can't cast Detect Life? If it was a problem with the shader, wouldn't that only happen when there was actually something alive to detect?

 

I have not loaded a game from an Autosave, but I do have autosave enabled on travel.

 

 

-EDIT-

 

OK, this is just too wierd not to report!

 

I have determined that what caused the problem was wearing a certain set of armor! It does not matter whether I am wearing an enchanted version or non-enchanted version, and it does not matter which of the three pieces I am wearing.

 

The armor is Rosana Outfit White Version for EyeCandy http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11989. I am not using Exnem, but it still looks OK as long as I wear all three pieces.

 

That is a big WTF?

 

 

-EDIT-

 

Originally, I had copied the armor into my own mod; I wasn't actually using the .esp from the author. So, I re-downloaded the mod and installed it, went to the chest, put the armor on, and CTD when casting Detect Life. I can replicate the issue on demand, and it does not matter whether from the original .esp, or if the armor is imported into another mod.