Fix for Skyrim crashing instantly with enb on Windows 10

[arvid0131]

 

Edited November 4, 2015 by arvid0131

[Frustrasiian]

Windows 10 user here. I am using the latest NVidia drivers and GFE and my ENB is working. A few weeks ago I was having the same problems with my ENB. I had CTD's with certain ENB's and I would also get an error "shown below". I decided to stop trying other ENB's and stuck with Project ENB and then went from there. The solution for me was to remove 2 files from the ENB. I use Project ENB with ENB wrapper v0.279

 

Here is the error I was getting. If anyone else has this problem just do what I did. http://i.imgur.com/MafUNjX.png

Skyrim folder

dxgi.dll

dxgi.fx <-- after doing some reading, I guess its ok to leave this in.

 

Here are a few SS's to show my ENB is working after removing 2 said files.

 

 

Before I tweaked for performance

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/428196161243482712/888C9AADC94A474649EC6682319FA8EE6BF3D5E6/

 

After tweaking for FPS

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401178373814038284/33D54035D2C0F6109FFBE5329B2A7B97C80A06BC/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401178373816961974/859939154A1BA676A48F54F224D8E38DCD72F09F/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401178373814032729/63046F8972CDD71A7457981B7B4C700BE6EDA6BB/

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/401178373817730578/CE13B04982F09217EA919C51A0167731C9023E0C/

 

OMG THIS. SoloCreep. Seriously. I love you man. I've spent the last two hours trying to fix this issue. I can't believe it was that simple to fix. Thanks so much. XD

[JEIKARAH]

Hello!

 

First of all, I don't know if this damages somehow the built in DirectX 12 installation of Windows 10 but I think it doesn't and don't see the reason how it would for DirectX installers do check if components of the installations need to be updated and don't replace the whole installation. Still, if you somehow damage your Windows 10 installation or hardware by doing this, I am not responsible.

 

So, I made a clean install of Windows 10 after upgrading to it. After getting all of the drivers and other software installed, I installed Skyrim and restored my mod setup. When I tried to boot the game, it would crash instantly, before the Bethesda logo. This could be fixed by deleting the d3d9.dll binary that is required for ENBs, so it clearly was not a load order issue (as it shouldn't have been as my load order was identical to the load order on Windows 7 installation).

 

Well, first I tried to install the injector version of the ENB. That got me through the Bethesda logo, but crashed after that.

The fix that worked for me, so I could run the wrapper version of ENB was to install the DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) from Microsofts official website.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

 

There is the link for it. I haven't posted to these forums much, so I am not sure actually if we are allowed to post links, so moderators feel free to edit the post if it is against the rules and apologies for the inconvenience. D:

 

And if the link is removed, you can find the right page (Microsoft's official website) by googling "DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)", at the time of writing this.

 

After following the link it gives a download for directx_Jun2010_redist.exe, which asks you for a location to unpack the files. Give it a temporary location, then find the files that were unpacked and run the DXSETUP.exe. This is what actually installs the DirectX 9 components that ENB neets to start without crashing. (Thanks for this clarification to Realfriend)

 

 

As this is getting rambly, I hope that I helped at least someone. It took me 8 hours of stressful googling and not finding a solution. Somebody in the ENBseries forums had posted half a year ago that he had had some very similar crashing with a preview build of Windows 10 and had installed DirectX 9.0c to fix this. As the web installer DirectX 9.0c versions are unsupported on Windows 10, at least for me it popped an error, and those seem to come up very easily when searching for DirectX 9.0c, this information didn't solve the problem for me, put it pointed me to the right direction so credits to him, I guess. :3

 

Thanks for reading and have fun with Skyrim on Windows 10! :3

 

 

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[melliejoy]

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[bullittls7]

 

Thank you williamlee it works know.

@popnlocke have you disable the Xbox Game DVR Overlay some say that also is a posibility that the game CTD.

I disabled the Xbox Game DVR overlay. This did not fix it. I also set ExpandSystemMemoryx64=false like dracofish suggested, but that did not fix it either. Right when I try to continue a save, it goes immediately to desktop. Once I remove the 3 enb files, it's fine even with SKSE.

 

CPU: i5 2500k

GPU: GTX 780

16GB Ram

Windows 10 Pro

ENB .279

SKSE 1.7.3 (this beta got rid of the "Content is missing" error when loading saved before applying ENB)

 

I have the exact same problem, crashed when loading an old save, started a new game then crashed at helgen keep, weird.

[Grimmace696]

Thanks you wery much, it worked flawlessly :laugh:

[bullittls7]

Thanks for the fix, it was still crashing after loading a save, so what I did was tried was using enb V 0.262, reinstalled my enb preset, and it has been working ever since.

[SatixLV]

You are a saint. Thanks so much!

[sunnycloud]

Didn't work for me. I take out the core files d3d9.dll and enbhost to stop enb from running, starts up fine... With the files, (running Bleak Enb 2.79), crashes. Dx files all up to date. Nvidia drivers up to date. Reinstalled Skyrim, (before I realized it was the enb).. Checked expanded memory x64 thing, it's false.. Tried 2.79 enb, and 2.62. Fallout enb works fine, of course it's dx 11? 12? one of those.

 

 

Edit - I fixed my problem. I'm now using 0.251 enb, takes a few tries to launch skrim, but no ctds once I'm in the game.

Edited December 17, 2015 by sunnycloud

[Hiusen]

FINALLY!!, thanks bro, i really love you :)