AmplSi Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Ok, so I believe I have discovered the problem, and the key to solving it was another thread claiming to have the same problem as I have, but the person who posted it apparently pirated his game, and so nobody cared: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/938018-skyrim-plugins-not-working/ . On the first post, he added 3 screenshots, the third of these being the most meaningful - the Skyrim Data Files menu. It shows Skyrim being at the bottom of the list, which shouldn't be normal. My theory is - somehow, Skyrim's .esm made its way to the bottom of the load order, and since all of Skyrim's DLC & Mods require the Skyrim.esm, they were all void and therefore skipped by the launcher, leaving Skyrim the only thing to load. Now to figure out how to manually adjust this, as NMM shows Skyrim on top, as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 There should be no way for the Skyrim.esm to be anywhere but at the top. It should be grayed out to show it is not movable.One suggestion, try running the Steam verify game cache. This often finds any glitches caused by a borked install and fixes them on the spot. LOOT should also have caught this and at least tried to fix it or warned you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmplSi Posted April 23, 2015 Author Share Posted April 23, 2015 I understand that, but at this point, this is the only thing that makes sense. None of the config or .ini files regarding plugins seem to be missing or altered, and I would not have tried to move it myself. And I do think that LOOT should have warned me if it is the case, but maybe, like NMM, it is not programmed to be able to move Skyrim.esm, or it is specifically programed not to. I did verify the game cache. It claimed that 2 files had to be re-downloaded, and afterwords there was no change in the game's loading. I know that there must be a way to manually adjust load order, outside of mod managers, so it might be that an outside program messed with it eg. antiviruses, or I, in my modding, accidentally did something to it, which I have no idea how that might have happened and then taken affect when it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmplSi Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 This is basically a bump. I really need help with this issue and a full reinstall - my last resort - seems to be the only option left. Please, if anyone has any ideas as to how and why this might happen, post it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saurusmaximus Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 The only other suggestion I can make is completely uninstalling NMM and then reinstalling the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmplSi Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Hello everyone. After weeks of my game mocking me, I finally did a complete uninstall and reinstall - which only fixed the issue once I deleted the Steamapps/common/Skyrim folder and the Appdata/Local/Skyrim folder completely, which led me to believe that the problem was in fact hidden within one of the plugin text files in Appdata/Local/Skyrim. I am now going back and reinstalling mods, as I only backed up the ones that came with BSA's, easy to individually reinstall. Thank you guys for the help you did provide, as I would have never even thought to look in the Appdata folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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