DrNewcenstein Posted May 14, 2015 Posted May 14, 2015 This is a recent event for me. The CK was running fine until about 4 days ago, and now it throws out a "Stopped Working/Checking for Solution" box at the splash screen. The only thing that changed from the last time it worked is that I installed The Witcher (first game) from Steam, which included older MSVC runtimes. I also "upgraded" to Windows 8.1 from 8, but I cannot recall if the CK worked after that or not. I want to say yes, since it works fine on my 8.1 laptop, which doesn't have The Witcher on it. Skyrim itself runs just fine. I've un/re-installed the CK through Steam, rebooted between un/re-installs, un/re-installed the older VC runtimes, un/re-installed the VCRs that came with Skyrim/CK, copied over the files from my laptop to my desktop, uninstalled The Witcher, copied steamp_api.dll from other game folders, run Windows update again to get all the various insecurity fixes for .NET this and VCRuntimes that. I've verified the local files through Steam without error. No matter what I've done, the CK will not load. All I get is "Skyrim Creation Kit has stopped responding. Windows is checking for a solution." and then "Close Window". Given that Skyrim runs just fine, I'm going to assume it's not the video drivers, and not Win 8.1. Any ideas?
DrNewcenstein Posted May 15, 2015 Author Posted May 15, 2015 Ok, well I've made at least some progress: the CK would not start at all when clicking directly on the EXE, all I got was Steam Error V:0000065432. I could only launch it by clicking the Steam icon and then selecting the CK from the list, but of course I get an immediate Not Responding crash (I mean, it's like as soon as the CK pops up and it's not responding? C'mon, Windows, give it at least one full second before you accuse it of not paying attention). Comparing things to my laptop, which still runs everything just fine, I notice the steam_appid.txt files on the two machines are different - the desktop file has the number for Skyrim, while the laptop has the number for the Creation Kit. So I changed the number in the file for the desktop and I can now launch the CK directly from the EXE. It still crashes immediately, of course, but hey, baby-steps. Just for grins, I manually installed the current drivers for my video card. It did not help one bit, and NVidia Shadowplay stopped working for a few hours, but at least I can say I tried it. All that's left to try is a complete reinstall of Skyrim, a complete reinstall of Steam and all my games, and then a complete reinstall of Windows 8 and this time pass on the 8.1 "update". I'd rather avoid any of that if possible. There's something somewhere that's not getting through or sticking in a loop or not getting to where it's supposed to get, I just have to find it.
DrNewcenstein Posted May 16, 2015 Author Posted May 16, 2015 Wow, really Creation Kit!? Turns out that I had backed up my Plugins.txt (Users/name/AppData/Local/Skyrim) into my Skyrim folder and that was causing the problem. Deleted it from there and it fired right up.
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