coc from main menu broken

[ambria]

Rather strange issue that is proving tricky to trouble shoot.

When I start up my game and do coc riverwood (or coc anywhere) it hangs with infinite load

I loaded up my current save (lv 50 with 60 ish mods)

Loaded fine - coc riverwood, loaded fine

I started a new game, loaded fine, coc riverwood, loaded fine

Messing around in game, spawning 50 npc's, leaving the inn, returning, all loads fine.

But that coc from main menu, just won't load

Very strange

Edited October 18, 2014 by ambria

[ambria]

Ok, update on this incase anyone has a similar problem.

After unchecking all of my mods and then testing them one by one I found the culprit to be interesting npc's

Edited October 19, 2014 by ambria

[cdcooley]

Using COC from the main menu (without a game loaded) will put you into a broken and uninitialized world. Why would you do that?

[tonycubed2]

The mode is great for testing various modding scenarios.

[saurusmaximus]

  On 10/19/2014 at 6:24 PM, cdcooley said:

Using COC from the main menu (without a game loaded) will put you into a broken and uninitialized world. Why would you do that?

Not really, the only thing that you might have trouble with is the main quest, and possibly the civil war. I've started more than one playthrough that way, including doing the main quest (it will start when you first enter Dragonsreach). I'll admit it's probably not the smartest way to start a new game, but it won't destroy anything either.

[Thallassa]

COC from the main menu forces the game to load a *whole* bunch of stuff that it wouldn't have to load right away if you are starting with the vanilla start or with ASLAL cell.

Sometimes this is just too much and it breaks the game ;P

For example, I added Immersive Citizens to my modlist (which states right in the description it increases load times) and wanted to check to see if Ysolda and Carlotta would still give me their quests (a common symptom of load order issues is if they refuse to tell you about their problems). Each of these was after entirely quitting out of skyrim and reloading.

- COC whiterunplainsdistrict01 - 9 minute load screen (but it loaded)
- COC morthalmoorsideinn (very small cell) - 4 minutes

- start new game with ASLAL - less than 2 minutes.

- load existing game (that had been started with all the same mods) - less than 30 seconds.

Riverwood's a pretty busy cell so it'd make sense if it took more to load, especially with a lot of mods that affect it. You could see if someone got impatient they would just say the game didn't load ( :P ) or if their hardware wasn't good it would just totally fail (I have a very nice desktop that I was doing these tests on, my laptop would have totally failed to load had I tried to do this).

[Estroya]

You can try it with Safety Load to force the infinite loading screen to be not infinite http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/46465/? . If this doesn't work than you have too many mods that load something at the beginning and it is too much for the game to handle.