Whats the longest you have gone on 1 save?

[Ghatto]

Steam reports about 461 hours. My first and only character. Not sure how much is accurate or the game idling/testing. That said I've probably spent about half as many hours just modding the game and trying to get it back up and running. I'm starting to resent this game and it's terrible nature. Never gotten to the dlc missions. I've got unending script lag problems and a spate of CTDs and I'm almost ready to throw in the towel.

[DurtyNelly]

 

Ok sweet thank you very much im going to look into all this info right now and see if it works.

 

Which of those mods you listed are the worst of them? I never use Paradise Halls and never even notice any changes with CWO so I can take those out if the first method wont work but AA and realistic need are a must for me head tacking isn't 100% necessary but ill take it out if I must. But what ever you recommend ultimutly ill take out just to get the game running right.

 

 

Player Headtracking is pretty heavy. It's like Locational Damage, at first it will be sweet and work perfectly, but later on it might bog down and get screwy. I use it, but not for actual gameplay. It's good for screenshots and videos. CWO is a good mod, but known for being buggy at times. It's not surprising considering what it does. You won't see much of a change until you join a side in the Civil War, really.

 

If you can't live without a needs mod and are having issues with RND (it's unsupported now, sadly) I would suggest iNeed. It's not as heavy as RND but does many of the same things.

 

The issue is that taking all these mods out isn't going to be healthy for your current save. There will be orphan scripts clogging things up. If you HAVE to save it, and don't want to start a new character, I suggest you use Save Game Cleaner on your save to get ride of the orphan scrips that removing these mods will leave behind. You can find it here.

 

I would also suggest Mod Organizer, like Sdesser. You will have way less trouble, because MO gives you more information and doesn't touch your Skyrim data folder which is really a life-saver sometimes. It means no more re-installing Skyrim because of issues like this.

[dennisj]

 

 

Ok sweet thank you very much im going to look into all this info right now and see if it works.

 

Which of those mods you listed are the worst of them? I never use Paradise Halls and never even notice any changes with CWO so I can take those out if the first method wont work but AA and realistic need are a must for me head tacking isn't 100% necessary but ill take it out if I must. But what ever you recommend ultimutly ill take out just to get the game running right.

 

 

Player Headtracking is pretty heavy. It's like Locational Damage, at first it will be sweet and work perfectly, but later on it might bog down and get screwy. I use it, but not for actual gameplay. It's good for screenshots and videos. CWO is a good mod, but known for being buggy at times. It's not surprising considering what it does. You won't see much of a change until you join a side in the Civil War, really.

 

If you can't live without a needs mod and are having issues with RND (it's unsupported now, sadly) I would suggest iNeed. It's not as heavy as RND but does many of the same things.

 

The issue is that taking all these mods out isn't going to be healthy for your current save. There will be orphan scripts clogging things up. If you HAVE to save it, and don't want to start a new character, I suggest you use Save Game Cleaner on your save to get ride of the orphan scrips that removing these mods will leave behind. You can find it here.

 

I would also suggest Mod Organizer, like Sdesser. You will have way less trouble, because MO gives you more information and doesn't touch your Skyrim data folder which is really a life-saver sometimes. It means no more re-installing Skyrim because of issues like this.

 

Still I don't even know if taking these out will do anything. Im starting to want to give and just start a new save and import my character with FF and switch over

 

The thing is tho im not really sure if my new save will just end up acting up a few hours later like this old one. I really wish I knew the exact cause.

 

I do use MO I really thought that was a must for modding

[DurtyNelly]

Oooh, you use MO already. Okay, awesome. The problem is that I'm not sure what is causing that crazy of a bog either. I don't recognize all your plugins, so it really could be one of the ones I don't know. I can only say that the ones I listed are heavier ones, but my current save is way past what yours is and I have a few heavy script mods like Frostfall on top of Requiem. I just don't know.

 

It could have been having those heavy mods on top of the dirty plugins, maybe. I guess the only thing I can suggest is testing the set up you want and see what happens. I do it by enabling 3 mods at a time, go in game and test it. I do this on a Test profile with a generic character called "Test" so I can identify it in my save games, or just save with console. If it's all good, I add 3 more. If not, I go back and disable one at a time until I find the one causing it. It's not always that easy, though. Sometimes a mod 6 groups up, doesn't like a mod 2 from group whatever and starts slinging crap like a howler monkey. Then it becomes a pain to figure out that the issue is. It took me ages to figure out that Immersive Armors just did NOT like something about my set up. I had to switch to Heavy Armory, but it was a good 3 weeks of head scratching before I figured it out.

 

I do hope that it was the dirty plugins that was causing issues and it's all good from here. :smile:

 

Also, if you use Race Menu, you can save your current character's face as a preset. That way if you do have to start over, you can just install the beauty mods you used with them, go into Race Menu and load the face. Just be aware that when you save the preset, it will get dumped into your Overwrite folder in MO and you'll have to drop it up into Race Menu manually.

Edited December 3, 2014 by DurtyNelly

[Sdesser]

I'm still on the same one since I bought the game 14 months and 2000+ hours ago. I had to run it through a savegame script cleaner once as some weird stuff was happening trees floating in midair and the like which I put down to a badly uninstalled mod. Its been fine ever since. I'm more careful now especially with script heavy mods.

 

If you're trying out mods and you don't like it revert to an earlier save after removing it, adding and removing mods on the same save is a really bad idea. I have so many mods though that it's become very specific to this machine if I try and use it on a different PC it'll crash very quickly. Which is one very good argument for keeping your game vanilla.

Damn! You have my respect. 2000k+ hours on one save?! Phew. I could never do it. I feel like I ran out of content in my 150 hour save (literally couldn't find any more quests, anywhere). Then again, I started the save up with same stats and gear as my oldest character had, so I was powering through content pretty efficiently. Like on my newest one, I had all three main stories complete at 14 hours played (Skyrim, Dawnguard and Dragonborn).