Loading screen "stopped responding" temporarily.

[kingkong11]

Good evening.

So recently i've been playing a lot of skyrim. I got myself set up with mods again and everything was running smooth like a dream.

As of now i have 122 Active mods.

The thing is, this issue didn't come after i installed a mod. I have gone about 2 days without adding something to the mix.

This started happening yesterday.

 

Any suggestions as to what it may be?

Ps - i've tried the following.
Upgraded graphics drivers
Unclogged my save (it was 28mb)
Disabled all mods and tried a new save (didn't work)
Reinstalled the game (vanilla) and it still happened.

Used a ENB and set it up correctly with those memory tweaks.
tried a few various other tweaks too.

Specs are:
AMD fx6300 @3.8ghz
8gb ddr 3 ram
MSI gtx 750ti oc
The game is on my SSD, so load times are usually 5-10 seconds. Now its 20-30 if i wait out the unresponsive game.

All help will be greatly appreciated :laugh:

Load order is done VIA LOOT.

Edited August 19, 2016 by kingkong11

[Darkstyler35]

Hello,

• <The game is on my SSD, so load times are usually 5-10 seconds. Now its 20-30 if i wait out the unresponsive game.> The more mods you'll install, the more loading time you'll have, especially with heavy mods with many scripts, NPCs, etc... Infinite loading screen troubleshoot.
• See also /// Settings / memory
• Make sure you have enough free space on your SSD, (I think a disk full at 50% runs better than a 90% because of swap file) clean the disk cache + defrag, (if 10% = defrag), check disk if necessary.
• Make sure you're using the good mods >> Dangerous mods list.
• Verify gamecache.
• CTDs troubleshooting page on Reddit, depending on what's happening in game, choose the subsections that describes the best your problem.

Here is a list of things that may help stabilizing your game if not already been done. :

/// Cleaning and correcting potential bugs :

• Clean your master files to eliminate potential problems : Gopher's videos cleaning your masterfiles on the Nexus Tesedit page. You may use this updated guide to clean your masters. It contains the same automated cleaning procedure as Gopher explains in his video + repeating once for Dawnguard.esm + some selective manual cleaning.
• The method above can be used to clean mods. LOOT should tell you which plugin you should clean. You may also do a check errors.

/// Load order / mods conflicts :

• Use L.O.O.T once and click on the "sort plugins buttons".
• Create a wryebash patch including leveled lists.
• Create a merged patch with Tesedit excluding leveled lists
• How things work in Tes5edit : load order / conflict looser - winner / Forwarding / adding as a master. More specifically, you may create a manual patch between two or more mods.

/// Settings / memory :

• Preferably, use crash fixes with the UseOSAllocators=1 instead of skse memory patch or SSME.
• You may also install safety load if you experience infinite loading screens or freezing in game.
• Memory blocks log will help to refine memory settings.
• Skyrim performance monitor.
• Backup your ini files and delete the files. Skyrim.ini / SkyrimCustom.ini / SkyrimPrefs.ini found in C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Skyrim then use your vanilla launcher to autodetect and use best settings for your computer.
• STEP INI tweaking wiki.
• You may install ENBOOST >> ENB graphics / ENB haxx.

/// Save game :

• Don't uninstall mods at mid-game, there are no clean save in Skyrim but using save script cleaner can help removing orphan scripts.
• New SkyrimTools, (corrupt saves topic).

/// Meshes healer :

• Read here, this is potentially a cause of CTD that you can resolve by following the mod procedure on this page.

/// Useful informations :

• Selective loading : untick 50% of your mods, beginning by the end of your load order and test in game. Then depending on if the problem occurs again or not, increase /decrease the remaining loading mods to find the culprit.
• If you're using win8-10 + a GPU with more than 4GB VRAM + a heavily modded game and experiencing stuttering, random freezes or / and FPS drops, this may occur when the VRAM usage exceeds 4GB, read here for more details.
• Skyrim requirements wiki.
• Skse installation : skse on steam or Manual install. (SKSE, memory and skse.ini). SKSE logs are here : C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\SKSE. SKSE troubleshooting guide.
• STEP troubleshooting page.
• An efficient guide to build your game : STEP / Official S.T.E.P. Mod Organizer video series.
• Ensure your skyrim installation is healthy = Make skyrim vanilla again.
• Make sure you're using the latest USLEEP instead of the obsolete unofficial patches. If some of your old mods require them, you may use the USLEEP swap masters.
• Crashdump analysis.
• Papyrus log is a scripts log only and doesn't cover anything else, not a crash log. Interpreting Papyrus Log Errors, thanks to Arthmoor. Enabling papyrus logging
• Need a tool to manage GPU fan speed that works with ENB ? You may try Afterburner, (tested)

Hope this helps.

[kingkong11]

Hi, thank you a lot for this. I am working my way through it now :geek:.

so far these haven't done the trick:

/// Cleaning and correcting potential bugs

/// Load order / mods conflicts

I loaded up the game, before attempting any of these fixes again and the problem wasn't there. After restarting the game to see if it had really gone away, it happened again. So frustrating.

[MaxShadow09]

Are you playing in a window or borderless? I do, and the loading screen sometimes stops responding, but it's still loading. After a while, the game starts. If your game is not starting, then you may be experiencing the "infinite loading screen". You should try the SKSE memory patch, Crash Fixes or (less recommended) SSME.

Edited August 20, 2016 by MaxShadow09

[GNinja89]

This may be old but I was having same issue and I fixed it. I know for certain it is ENBoost as it doesnt happen without it.

 

For some reason it was my anti virus. I was watchn a video of crash fixes etc and they guy mentioned that norton and other AV can interefere with Skyrim when its on. I disabled Norton AV and loaded up and had no issues with not responding anymore.

 

Hopefully this is ueseful to anyone who comes across this.