Blankward Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 My system is a desktop with Intel® Core i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 16.0 GB RAM (4.0 GB video) with an Nvidia GeForce 660 graphics card. My hard-drive is 465 GB, with 264 GB free. I was using the latest versions of Skyrim, SKSE, BOSS/LOOT, and NMM. My game was located in the standard steamapps/common/Skyrim directory. I had around 40 mods (60 something ESPs). The game was functioning normally around 40 esps. I installed a few more, including PerMa, some relevant compatibility patches, UFO, ASIS, and Apocolypse spell package (can't remember the others). Something just broke. I have no idea what it was. The game began taking exponentially longer amounts of time to load, until it quickly stopped loading at all. I tried refreshing my load order, disabling certain mods, and then all mods (still didn't work), running all SkyProc patchers, restarting my computer, running SKSE/skyrim launcher as administrator, and verifying my game cache. Nothing fixed it. So I chalked it up as a loss, uninstalled the game, and went to sleep with plans for a fresh start the next day. When I got on my computer to try running the base, non-modded, fresh install of Skyrim (just to see if it would function correctly), I was still having the exact same problem. All I would see is the main screen sans menu text (New Game, Load, Settings, etc). I saw the Skyrim logo, the black background, and the smoke effect, but nothing else. And it would remain that way indefinitely. If I alt-tabbed out, it would not allow me to return to that screen. If I halted the application, I would also have to separately halt the process. I'm just at a loss here. I don't know what's going on. I've since re-uninstalled the game, deleted EVERYTHING that I could find pertaining to skyrim (SkyrimPref.ini in my documents, Local AppData files, and the entire Skyrim folder in steamapps/common). I've run Ccleaner for default as well as registry files, and I'm currently defragmenting my hard-drive with Defraggler. After that, I plan on restarting my computer and again re-installing Skyrim. I was just hoping that someone could shed some light on what's happening. Any help/advice would be very much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfacil Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I had a similar problem after installing to many mods, the game would just load for an infinite amount of time, so I installed the Safety Load mod, and it worked for me. I don't know if you tried it already. Just give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankward Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 I also tried the Safety Load mod, but it didn't seem to fix anything. Nothing changed, at least. About a year and a half ago, I had up to 240 separate ESPs, but this is the first time I've ever had this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Do a full uninstall. Then, delete any residual folders left over. (after having made some backups, of course.) Restart your machine, then reinstall. Another trick you might consider is deleting the skyrim*.ini's in the My Games\Skyrim folder. The uninstallers just don't clean up after themselves well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankward Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Deleting the residual files fixed it! Or at least, I assume so. Everything is working now. Thanks for the help and suggestions, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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