Whiterun infinite load + CTD

[JamesNuge]

So I've been having issues loading Whiterun, but only when exiting a building located in Whiterun. I feel like Open Cities might be the culprit, as I've had a similar issue with it before, but I just uninstalled and moved on, but I'm kinda hoping to fix it because I love not having to load a city each time I enter it. I found a few other posts saying it could be z-levels (? Not sure if that's the correct term), so I adjusted my skyrim.ini a few times with some suggested values but to no avail. I also tried using safety loader, but that seemed to cause some graphical issues and CTD elsewhere. I'm current using MO, LOOT and TS5EDIT.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice

 

Load order is as follows

 

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp

6 6 Skyrim Project Optimization - Full Version.esm

7 7 ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

8 8 ApachiiHair.esm

9 9 SGHairPackBase.esm

10 a ApachiiHairMales.esm

11 b ApachiiHairFemales.esm

12 c notice board.esp

13 d SkyUI.esp

14 e AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp

15 f Differently Ebony.esp

16 10 RealisticWaterTwo.esp

17 11 Weapons & Armor Fixes_Remade.esp

18 12 PerkusMaximus_Master.esp

19 13 Weapons & Armor_TrueWeaponsLvlLists.esp

20 14 Immersive Weapons.esp

21 15 WeaponsArmorFixes_ImmersiveWeapons_Patch.esp

22 16 Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

23 17 RealisticWaterTwo - Legendary.esp

24 18 PerkusMaximus_Thief.esp

25 19 PerMa Expansion 1 - Wintermyst.esp

26 1a PerkusMaximus_Mage.esp

27 1b KS Hairdo's.esp

28 1c LovelyHairstylesCE.esp

29 1d Further Dark Dungeons for ENB.esp

30 1e Cloaks.esp

31 1f SMIM-Merged-All.esp

32 20 RealisticWaterTwo - Waves.esp

33 21 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

34 22 Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp

35 23 TheEyesOfBeauty.esp

36 24 SGHairPackAIO.esp

37 25 Ultimate NPC Overhaul II.esp

38 26 aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp

39 27 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp

40 28 ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp

41 29 ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp

42 2a ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-1.esp

43 2b PerkusMaximus_Warrior.esp

44 2c SFO - Dragonborn.esp

45 2d dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

46 2e dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp

47 2f RevampedExteriorFog.esp

48 30 ENB Snow FX.esp

49 31 Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

50 32 AMatterOfTime.esp

51 33 Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

52 34 hmkLockOn.esp

53 35 DSerArcheryGameplayOverhaul.esp

54 36 TKDodge.esp

55 37 FNIS.esp

56 38 Third Person Delay Fix.esp

57 39 Proper Aiming.esp

58 3a XPMSE.esp

59 3b dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp

60 3c SimplyKnock.esp

61 3d VioLens.esp

62 3e SleepMenuExtender.esp

63 3f PerMa_USLEEP master patch.esp

Wyrmstooth - PerMa Patch.esp

64 40 FluffusMinimus_Legendaryish.esp

65 41 FluffusMinimus_Mage_Warrior.esp

66 42 FluffusMinimus_Mage_Thief.esp

67 43 FluffusMinimus_Mage.esp

68 44 Open Cities Skyrim.esp

69 45 PatchusMaximus.esp

[snelss0]

I would put your xpmse at the very bottom of your load order. Also, I suggest you use the changes mentioned on the Crash Fixes mod. They may help your game stability. Also, avoid moving and deleting mods from active saved games.

[JamesNuge]

I would put your xpmse at the very bottom of your load order. Also, I suggest you use the changes mentioned on the Crash Fixes mod. They may help your game stability. Also, avoid moving and deleting mods from active saved games.

 

Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a go when I get home from work. There are also a couple of 'Only YOU can prevent forest fire' tips I'm gonna give a go as well (most notably Crash Fix ENBoost and Stable uGridsToLoad)

[headfullofdread]

Turn off auto-saves & add the following to skyrim.ini to reduce the fps during load screens to 15, this will make a major difference

[interface]
uTicksToWait=64

 

And definitely get crash fixes and enboost

Edited January 24, 2017 by headfullofdread

[JamesNuge]

So.....I fixed the issue.....but I kinda don't want to admit what the answer was because it's so silly....

 

Turns out the skse.ini I was editing wasn't even remotely close to being in the correct place, meaning the memory patch fix wasn't being used at all (which I only found out after install Crash Fixes mod), so I moved it to the directory recommended by the Crash Fixes Mod warning message and viola, no ILS or random CTD's