Crash to Desktop outdoors or during combat

[DarkGabriel1701G]

I'm experiencing "random" crashes to desktop, I've noticed that they happen mostly outdoors and during combat.

My computer is kinda weak because of the country I live in.

CPU: Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93GHz

Video: GeForce 8400GS 512MB

System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit SP1

RAM: 4GB DDR2

Running Skyrim on medium settings, Fullscreen 800x600. Aero effects off and not many programs in the background.

Game version is 1.9.32.0.8.

SKSE version is 1.7.3.

Running Dawnguard, HearthFire and Dragonborn DLCs.

Using Nexus Mod Manager (NMM).

I also used Save Game Script Cleaner by Hadoram.

LOOT tells me this about some .esm:

http://puu.sh/r3QZD/68cb34bf2b.png

http://puu.sh/r3R0u/9e6258f50a.png

I don't know how to "clean" these, I've looked into it, but since I'm a noob in this subject, I stopped to think if I should.

This is my current load order:

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 ApachiiHair.esm

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

HighResTexturePack01.esp

HighResTexturePack02.esp

HighResTexturePack03.esp

Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp

6 6 RaceMenu.esp

7 7 RaceMenuPlugin.esp

8 8 ScopedBows.esp

9 9 ScopedBows_EagleEyeTweak.esp

10 a ABT - Faster Arrows Improved +50%.esp

11 b ABT - Faster Bolts Improved +75%.esp

12 c ABT - Increased Bolts Damage (Vanilla) +100%.esp

13 d ABT - Increased Progressive Damage (Vanilla) +100%.esp

14 e ABT - Loot Arrows +75%.esp

15 f ABT - Merchants Arrows +75%.esp

16 10 ABT - Recover +50% Arrows and Bolts.esp

17 11 SkyUI.esp

18 12 LycHairstyler.esp

19 13 WondersofWeather.esp

20 14 dD - Easy Lift Bodies and Objects.esp

21 15 morerealisticcarrying.esp

22 16 Insanity's Dragonbane.esp

23 17 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

24 18 dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp

25 19 DeadlyHeadshots_v200.esp

26 1a Cloaks.esp

27 1b Insanity's Sorrow.esp

I'd appreciate some help, I've abandoned the game many times because of CTDs, freezings, infinite loading screens, etc. I'd love not to do that again.

Thank's in advance. :smile:

[Combat333]

You may want to use Crash Fixes mod, be sure to turn on memory allocator patch. Also, i recommend you to clean files with TES5Edit, just do step-by-step with cleaning guide, It's much more simple than It looks.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/?

[Project579]

Use the Unofficial Syrim Legendary edition patch (needs to be right after dragonborn before apachiihair.esm) instead of:

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp

Place SkyUI as first esp.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Project579

[DarkGabriel1701G]

Hi there, thank you for your replies.

I cleaned the DLCs and the Update.esm using this guide and placed SkyUI as first esp. About the Unofficial Skyrim Legendary patch, I can't install it no matter what (I've tried downloading it multiple times, too). NMM tells me a problem occured during install and doesn't provide me with any other messages. The frequency of CTDs seems to have dropped, since I've spent some two hours playing it and I only got a CTD when fast travelling to Whiterun once, but nothing that ruins the gameplay enough. Thank's for your replies, seriously.

Edited September 9, 2016 by DarkGabriel1701G

[Project579]

Are you already using Crash Fixes and set up skse.ini? And are you using ENBoost?

Edited September 9, 2016 by Project579

[DarkGabriel1701G]

I'm not using Crash Fixes mod yet and I didn't mess with the skse.ini. I don't use any ENBs since there's some regions in the game (usually interiors and caves) where the fps goes down a lot to the point it's nearly unplayable because of my low end pc in vanilla (also, that's why I play in 800x600 instead of 1360x768).

 

Is editing skse.ini part of the Crash Fixes mod or is it something else entirely?

 

Sorry if I'm too newbie. Thank's for the help.

[Project579]

skse.ini should not exist or if it is already there you should have written inside it (skse.ini is located in Skyrim\Data\SKSE\skse.ini):

 

[General]

ClearInvalidRegistrations=1

EnableDiagnostics=1

[Display]

iTintTextureResolution=2048

[Debug]

WriteMinidumps=1 ;<----you can leave this to 0

After that download and install crash fixes: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725

After having installed it navigate to Skyrim\Data\SKSE\Pugins\CrashFixPlugin.ini

Modify in CrashFixPlugin.ini UseOSAllocators=1 follow the instructions above this line to make it work.

ENB can be used without graphics modification and will improve your performance in game by a lot:

First download the latest ENB ( http://enbdev.com/mod_tesskyrim_v0308.htm ) in the archive extract from the wrapper version: enbhost.exe, d3d9.dll, enblocal.ini and enbseries.ini to your Skyrim directory (where TESV.exe is located)

In enblocal.ini edit:

[GLOBAL]

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false ;<-----set this to true

UseDefferedRendering=true

IgnoreCreationKit=true

ForceFakeVideocard=false

 

[MEMORY]

ExpandSystemMemoryX64=false

ReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true

DisableDriverMemoryManager=false

DisablePreloadToVRAM=false

EnableUnsafeMemoryHacks=false

ReservedMemorySizeMb=64

VideoMemorySizeMb=4064

AutodetectVideoMemorySize=false ;<-----set this to true

Edited September 10, 2016 by Project579

[DarkGabriel1701G]

I did as you instructed and I got no crashes so far, thank you very much, sir!

[Project579]

It should improve performance as well.