Random CTDs now game breaking - help appreciated!

[ChunkeeMunkee]

Hi all,

 

I've been experiencing random CTDs for a couple of weeks now, which generally seemed to be confined to when loading into a new area and taking the first step or two forwards. These were pretty few and far between, maybe once every 2 or 3 play sessions, but the last couple of days they've been happening repeatedly in one particular area, meaning I now can't advance in the game.

 

My load order:

 

 

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GameMode=Fallout4

Fallout4.esm=1

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Worsin's Garage.esm=1

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More Power Armour Mods.esp=1

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Jetpacks Unlimited Master.esp=1

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Armorsmith Extended.esp=1

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MakeYourOwnSynths.esp=1

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Not sure if it helps, but my character's situation is currently (minor Far Harbor spoilers ahead!)

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at the National Park Visitor's Center on Mount Desert Island, trying to get Mitch's Uncle to come home. The Visitor's Center gets immediately hit by Trappers when I load my newest save, and the game consistantly CTDs during the battle.

I've tried uninstalling a number of mods, including all of those that were installed at the time that the crashes started right up to the most recent, with no joy. For a while now I've had a warning message pop up on loading a save, saying that there is a conflict between Unlimited Companion Framework and another mod, but this used to appear even when the game was stable. I've narrowed this down to a Vertibird overhaul mod which I've now uninstalled. This solves the warning message, but the CTDs persist.

Let me know if you need any more information, and thanks in advance for any help you can give!

[damanding]

Since you keep crashing in one particular battle scene and continue to do so even with mods uninstalled it's possible that particular save file has become corrupted. It's happened to me before that a save file got corrupted during a CTD. Try loading an earlier save file.

[ChunkeeMunkee]

Thanks for the tip - tried loading up an earlier save but I can see the instability creeping back in.

 

Decided to go back to a fresh install of Fallout 4 and reinstall everything. Thought it'd be a good opportunity to migrate back to Mod Organizer as well, seeing as the latest beta is apparently quite stable, plus both MO and NMM are frozen whilst the new mod loader is being worked on.

 

Fingers crossed I get my stable build back!

[ChunkeeMunkee]

All reloaded in MO and all seems good so far!