Skyrim Breaks Every Time

[BenjsminBRE]

I used to play this game a lot back in 2013. I used close to 200 mods on it back then with a GTX 770 4GB. It ran better, both with regards to FPS and application stability. Now, no matter how many times I try, once I start approaching 150 mods or so, the games starts breaking in various ways. I've even tried following some modern preset guides.

 

Back then I didn't even use ANY guides at all. I installed what I wanted to, did small research for incompatibilities, and it all worked A-okay. No crashes, no missing textures, no nothing.

 

Now I experience missing textures, holes in the ground, moving parallax textures, constant crashes, 20 FPS with a 780 6GB,, infinite loading screens, severe hitching, constant quest bugs, etc. etc. etc.

 

What the hell happened man? This game used to run fine. Now no matter what I do, the game ends up in a broken state. I just want to play my modded Skyrim... (cries)

 

EDIT: If anyone would possibly know, what do you guys think about the modding guide I linked above? I've tried to follow it now 3 times and it's failed every time, The game just does not come out stable, and I make sure to follow all the directions in the guide AND more. I individually research every single mod on that list to make sure there is no incompatibilities. I think maybe I shouldn't use this guide anymore. It just doesn't work for me at all. What do you guys think of it? Is it legit or kind of contrived?

Edited May 28, 2017 by BenjsminBRE

[ymf331]

yeah, i had a similar situation and for whatever reason just cramming a bunch of stuff on top of each other in my game folders stopped working at some point (about 150 plugins). that forced me to find a better way. whether or not your game works for a while, eventually you're going to run into some sort of graphical wtf situations, start crashing every time you load your save, and otherwise just miss out on stuff that you overwrote with other mods.

 

personally, i found skyrim revisited: legendary edition to be a good starting point. i just went through it, installed whichever mods sounded interesting from the descriptions, and followed every instruction to the letter and completely -before- i started adding other mods on top. then you can add a few mods at a time, check them out in tes5edit, patch where needed, and everything's gravy.

 

only bad part is that right now, the links to the pre-patched stuff are broken. so, for instance, you might have to just have 2 lighting mods and leave rlo out. but you'll have mod organizer set up correctly, know how to optimize textures, how to use tes5edit, and more. the only other thing i can think of is maybe using step's guide for your game settings.

 

edit: another benefit to this way is that if you grab all the 'looks' mods in the guide you'll be very happy with the result.

Edited May 29, 2017 by ymf331

[BenjsminBRE]

  On 5/29/2017 at 12:22 AM, ymf331 said:

yeah, i had a similar situation and for whatever reason just cramming a bunch of stuff on top of each other in my game folders stopped working at some point (about 150 plugins). that forced me to find a better way. whether or not your game works for a while, eventually you're going to run into some sort of graphical wtf situations, start crashing every time you load your save, and otherwise just miss out on stuff that you overwrote with other mods.

 

personally, i found skyrim revisited: legendary edition to be a good starting point. i just went through it, installed whichever mods sounded interesting from the descriptions, and followed every instruction to the letter and completely -before- i started adding other mods on top. then you can add a few mods at a time, check them out in tes5edit, patch where needed, and everything's gravy.

 

only bad part is that right now, the links to the pre-patched stuff are broken. so, for instance, you might have to just have 2 lighting mods and leave rlo out. but you'll have mod organizer set up correctly, know how to optimize textures, how to use tes5edit, and more. the only other thing i can think of is maybe using step's guide for your game settings.

 

edit: another benefit to this way is that if you grab all the 'looks' mods in the guide you'll be very happy with the result.

See, I always try to research every single mod, and I make sure that it doesn't have any incompatibilities. But in the end it always does. I have to completely reinstall at this point, because I could not for the life of me enter Dragonsreach Great Porch. CTD every time and there's not much information online about that. I tried disabling any mods I could think of and I even looked at the crash log. RIP.