Some words on the game crashing after the 1.4.21 patch

[nosisab]

Many threads have popped about crashes after the patch. Albeit the actual stability of the game is not yet granted, most of the actual issues can be traced down to some common causes.

 

To start with, understand your savegames may be already seriously compromised and itself being the cause of the issues. That's specially true if it was saved with previous mod versions known to fail even at a new game under the new patch. Lucky is the one to whom that save game simply refuses to load for the problem is patent from start.

 

Less lucky are those cases it seems to be working but the crashes talk by themselves.

 

To be sure is not something from the past haunting you, start a new game and play it for a while. But first try to find out the mods you already have have new versions, this might be the single most important step at this point.

 

Before it is done is hard to tell what can be wrong and frustration is going to accumulate.

 

I don't know if this 1.4.21 will be the last structurally changing patch, let's hope so and the possible new patches can finally focus on non game breaking stability issues.

 

May be the time to start a new game... anew, clean, enjoying from the start all changes the mods brings to you. Give it a try.

 

These problems are being experimented now are not unknown to all veterans around here. It was the same for the early Morrowind patches which invalidated most games and mods at the time, it was so for Oblivion at the transiction from 1.1 patch to 1.2 and so on.

 

To make things worse, the delay at releasing the CK is not doing any good and helping too little to understanding the game's structure. Non modders users normally can't realize how critical those changes in the UI are. They look so simple... but aren't, they are structural changes in that game, to a point no previous TES game would ever need. For Skyrim UI is so awkward it must be changed deeply, at engine level. And then, too vulnerable to the patching.

 

I must not extend this post longer. I hope those "possible" reasons for instability are understood, but for the while, unless some tool is developed to allow efficient cleaning of these previous save games, they may be beyond hope. The same for a long list of mods with many non updated mods which may cause instability.

Edited February 4, 2012 by nosisab

[MotoSxorpio]

Easiest answer to this is: Start a new game with new mods installed.

[PoorPaddy89]

I was getting crashes after half an hour of playing. Checked around and it was actually down to SKSE. Updated it to the latest version and it worked fine. Hadn't got a message ingame saying it needed updating as it was only a minor update. Seems to be a good fix for a lot of folks.