Can't Load Skyrim Main Menu

[ScreaMoluvR]

Hi guys, been having a problem for a while where Skyrim loads like this, then no menu options pop up. Ever. It just sits like this.

 

http://i.imgur.com/pcoxMKO.jpg

 

Now I can only assume this is occurring due to one of my many, many mods. Much googling has led to little that's actually helpful, so here are a few more details to help out the troubleshooting process.

 

Mod List

https://modwat.ch/u/alkeir

 

Computer Specs

 

http://i.imgur.com/JrD5EL0.png

 

 

Loot

 

http://puu.sh/s13pg/39f847decb.png

http://puu.sh/s13qd/0fc32c0922.png

http://puu.sh/s13qO/331982b414.png

 

 

Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated, as this is my third game time getting to end game and not being able to complete the Dragonborn DLC due to mod issues. Thanks!

[ScreaMoluvR]

Can anyone help?

[ScreaMoluvR]

It's been a few weeks now and I still can't fix this problem...

[ymf331]

honestly, that's a lot of plugins. hardly any of them are patches, either, so i'm guessing there are probably a few conflicts and i'm guessing they're ordered with loot. people might have some idea of a conflict you'd have, but there probably aren't many who use those exact ones in that exact order. aside from making sure you're preloading crash fixes, have skse.ini set up, all that junk... i think you'd have to dig into the game records and see what all those mods are doing.

[Varichi]

The easiest way to figure out what's causing this is the old fashioned way-untick a fourth of your plugins, load it up. Keep going until you get the menu, then slowly but surely add esps back into the load order until the menu goes away again. I used to have this problem quite frequently with Fallout New Vegas, only once or twice with Skyrim. Fortunately it is an easy problem to get to the root of, because you're not trying to load any saves and test out the worldspace.

 

Trust me, the solution sounds a lot less tedious than it actually is.

 

EDIT: I can tell you off the bat that there are a few mods in your load order that I would avoid. I don't think they would cause this issue but they should be replaced nonetheless:

 

Crimson Tide-a good replacer is Enhanced Blood Textures

 

Lost Art of the Blacksmith-are you using sharlikan's patch, or the original?

 

Babette-Same as above

[ScreaMoluvR]

The easiest way to figure out what's causing this is the old fashioned way-untick a fourth of your plugins, load it up. Keep going until you get the menu, then slowly but surely add esps back into the load order until the menu goes away again. I used to have this problem quite frequently with Fallout New Vegas, only once or twice with Skyrim. Fortunately it is an easy problem to get to the root of, because you're not trying to load any saves and test out the worldspace.

 

Trust me, the solution sounds a lot less tedious than it actually is.

 

EDIT: I can tell you off the bat that there are a few mods in your load order that I would avoid. I don't think they would cause this issue but they should be replaced nonetheless:

 

Crimson Tide-a good replacer is Enhanced Blood Textures

 

Lost Art of the Blacksmith-are you using sharlikan's patch, or the original?

 

Babette-Same as above

So I disabled those mods you said and it still didn't work. I'm going to start disabling a lot of mods at once to try to narrow it down like you said, but before I screw anything up, I wanna ask what the better way to do this is; should I uninstall the mods with NMM, or simply disable the corresponding esps/etc that correspond to the mods I want to disable? Thanks for your help.

 

Edit: So as I'm trying to repatch my Automatic Variants plugin, I'm getting tons of errors with that as well; namely, it's freezing at particular points in the "matching with profiles" phase. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm trying to add mods I think are suspect to the blocklist, but it doesn't seem to be working...

Edited November 26, 2016 by ScreaMoluvR

[ScreaMoluvR]

Alright, so I finally narrowed it down to one mod that gives me ctds when I disable almost all other mod esps/etc. And it is...Expanded Towns and Cities. Now, will it be easier to just straight up get rid of this mod, or does anyone have any idea why it may be causing me problems?

 

Edit: specifically, the exact esp where it begins to crash at when enabled is ETAC - Complete EWDR Patch.esp. This is one of the patch esps that refers to Winterhold - Expanded Ruins.

Edit 2: It appears my ETaC patches are out of date. I'm going to try uninstalling my current, then installing the new one, and see if that fixes it! *fingers crossed*

Edited November 26, 2016 by ScreaMoluvR

[c04nd3r]

As far as i know the infinite start screen is caused by the RS Children ETAC patch. Try downloading the RS Children ETAC Patch from the ETAC download section and not from the RS Children one.

[aristotle99]

As far as i know the infinite start screen is caused by the RS Children ETAC patch. Try downloading the RS Children ETAC Patch from the ETAC download section and not from the RS Children one.

More than 5 years after this post, it led me to the solution. I have over 1150 plugins, meticulously patched, sorted and put together. Game works perfectly. And then, suddenly, I came across this "infinite start screen", where the logo shows, but no music and no start menu. I have only ETaC Darkwater Crossing, not the whole mod. I disable one plugin, RSC ETaC DWC Patch, and BAMM! -- problem is solved. Hope this helps someone.

[Thairat]

I had this happen to today after setting the SKSE_loader.exe to run as administrator. Changing it back to not requiring administrator rights fixed it for me.