Edeldios Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 (edited) I use Mod Organizer and SKSE, I have a few modded skyrim setups for various characters. Today I tried to launch Skyrim using the SKSE launcher through Mod Organizer like I normally do. Instead of launching the way Skyrim has normally run it is attempting to run the Steam launcher for some strange reason. The only thing that has changed between today and the last time I played Skyrim was that I restarted my computer. Somehow something has gotten scrambled between then and now and I have no idea how to fix it. How do I fix my game so it won't try to launch the steam loader and will go back to functioning correctly and run SKSE as intended? Edited July 8, 2014 by Edeldios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garon Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Usually (without any launcher patches), Steam has to be running before you launch skse_loader, else skse will fire up Skyrim via the launcher to ensure Steam is running. When do you normally start Steam? Do you have a Steam icon on the Windows Taskbar, that is, are you sure the Steam client is running before you launch the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edeldios Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) It did seam to fix itself for a few days anyway, not sure what I did. It ran fine until today again it keeps trying to run steam when I use the SKSE launcher, no explanation, I just can't play my damn game. Steam is running in the background but when I launch through SKSE it just sends it on an endless loop of the steam preparing to launch but it never does. This is really becoming a pain in the A@#! I even tried to launch through the normal Skyrim launcher and this is happening, it's making me wonder if this is a Steam problem! Edited July 14, 2014 by Edeldios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Garon Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) If you use Mod Organizer(MO), running Skyrim\SkyrimLauncher.exe directly should fire up Steam (if its not running) and launch a purely vanilla game when you click PLAY. If SkyrimLauncher.exe is not working normally, I would suspect an install or system problem. I would first make sure that SkyrimLauncher.exe and tesv.exe are both set to run with administrator privileges. In the Skyrim game folder, right-click on them-->Properties-->Compatibility--> check "Run this program as an Administrator"-->Okay. Next, I would stop any GPU/CPU/FPS monitoring software that might interfere with any ENB (d3d9.dll) you have installed. Then try running SkyrimLauncher.exe directly from the Skyrim game folder, not MO, and see if you can PLAY a vanilla game, a NEW one, just for testing. If you still can't launch normally with SkyrimLauncher, I would next do a Verify Game Cache from Steam to verify your base game setup. This may, or may not (I don't use MO), cause Steam to download any game files that were cleaned with TES5edit. Once the game will launch correctly using SkyrimLauncher, then try firing it up normally, via skse, from MO. EDIT: Have you renamed any launcher/loader files as a "workaround" to anything? Edited July 14, 2014 by Lord Garon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edeldios Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 Ok, I think I figured out the problem! Apparently Steam had a couple updates in the last couple weeks that for some reason didn't auto-install while steam was running. I went ahead and manually updated Steam and now it's all running the way it's suppose to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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