Constant crashes at windhelm

[Lathalias]

Hello everyone, I've been modding for awhile now, since the launch of oblivion. However i've done a new Skyrim install since I got a new ssd but im having some ctd issues. Im hoping that someone here may have an answer for me as to why I am constantly crashing when I fast travel, take a carriage or walk to windhelm. The crash happens as soon as i enter the area around windhelm/windhelm stables. Generally when coming from the west along the river to where the wolves in my case attack just before the bridge. As stated I get a ctd if I try to fast travel or take a carriage to windhelm as well. In addition I occasionally get random ctds, sometimes immediately when i start skyrim before i even get the bethesda logo, though these are rare.

 

I've cleaned all files that Loot said to clean, as well as sorted my load order and made a bashed patch. I've attached my load order, skyrim.ini and skyrimprefs.ini. Also this skyrim install was done around a week ago, so fairly fresh. Not shown on my load order is obviously texture mods im using, which include tamriel reloaded hd, skyrim 2k, vivd landscapes and amidianborn texturepacks, they're may be others, if someone knows how to get a list of all texture mods installed and could tell me I can upload that if required. I am also using skse, and have done the memory patch. I currently have block1 set to 768, but have tried 1024 as well, didn't make any difference however. I am using an enb as well, and will include my enblocal file in case its needed. If any other information is needed just ask. Thanks everyone.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Lathalias

[Darkstyler35]

Hello,

• CTD in a particular cell / location.
• CTDs troubleshooting page on Reddit, depending on what's happening in game, choose the subsections that describes the best your problem.
• Make sure you're using the good mods >> Dangerous mods list.
• Verify gamecache.

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 button".
• 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.
• Direct-x 9 C, 9 C update.
• In NMM settings, see where your tracelog path is (C:\Users\User\Documents\Nexus Mod Manager), open a request in the NMM open beta forum and post your tracelog.txt.
• 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 / Enabling papyrus logging
• Shut down background programs such as intellipoint, fan manager, etc... Need a tool to manage GPU fan speed that works with ENB ? You may try Afterburner, (tested)

/// Credits : these persons deserve their kudos, (among others) not referenced here by an accessible profile but provide help with articles and other stuff linked above.

• Thallassa / Matortheeternal / Arthmoor / BorisVorontsof / GamerPoets / Gopher / TheCompiler (+ all the STEP team) / Luco81 (NMM forum) / Tannin42 / I2edShift /

Hope this helps.

[Lathalias]

Hello, and thanks for the quick response, Ill begin to go through these suggestions now. I've updated my original post to reflect some things you suggested that i've done and forgot to add such as using Loot to sort my load order, making a bashed patch and cleaning files that needed cleaning. I will however go through the rest of this list and make the changes suggested and report back.

[Lathalias]

I've run the mesh tool and it did find a few bad meshes, now my question is do I rename these new meshes by removing the _new in the name, or do I just copy the new meshes into their respective places in my meshes folder?

[Darkstyler35]

<do I rename these new meshes by removing the _new in the name> yes you must, if not, the game won't recognise the file and the one that is in the bsa file will be used instead.

[Lathalias]

Thanks Darstyler. I've done this and crash fixes, going to check if anything has changed and will report back.

[Lathalias]

Well after checking every mod and bsa pack for mesh errors, and copying over the new meshes as well as using the crashfix plugin im still getting the same crash. So I guess next is check for mod conflicts with tesedit.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Lathalias

[Darkstyler35]

You may also try a 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. Then, if you find a mod that seems to be the culprit, load all your mods in Tes5edit to go further, using Thalassa manual patch video above to patch the involved plugins..

[Lathalias]

Alright, I did as you said and hurray I found the issue. Better dynamic snow was causing the game to crash. I've now disabled it because it isnt all that important to me to have. Thank you for all the help Darstyler.

[Darkstyler35]

You're welcome.

Ensure to use the save script cleaner in my first post and good luck with your game.