Broken quest - related to other CTD problems

[nitevision92]

Well, this has finally done it. The game is now officially unplayable for me.

 

Nocturnal quest, chasing down Mercer.

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This screenshot shows me standing in front of an invisible wall.

 

This has occurred to me many times before this. The game also tends to crash when I am in the area around Riften.

Any idea how to fix this? I'd really hate to abandon everything at this point, not after I've invested 150+ hours into this character.

[trees415]

Well, this has finally done it. The game is now officially unplayable for me.

 

This has occurred to me many times before this. The game also tends to crash when I am in the area around Riften.

Any idea how to fix this? I'd really hate to abandon everything at this point, not after I've invested 150+ hours into this character.

That is beyond strange...

There are a couple of ideas that come to mind:

a.) Load from an earlier save, even your previous auto-save might allow it to load properly, though this would not be a permanent fix

b.) Do not launch the game with any additional esp mods to see if that will allow the section to load.

c.) Reinstall the game and update to 1.4, but keep it vanilla for now until you finish the quest.

d.) Give up and play BF3 instead...

 

I had an issue in which I had created and installed a lot of mods for solitude, and in time the city became so glitchy that I couldn't enter the city without risk of corrupting my save. I fixed the problem by reinstalling the game and updating to latest version. If you haven't done this yet, I hope it helps/works.