duude98 Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 All of a sudden my creation kit has lost seemingly all ability to open or edit scripts in the slightest. When I try to open a script(or, more importantly, the properties window, as I can at least write scripts outside of the ck), the quest/reference/whatever window I was in greys out as if the window I requested opened, like normal. However, the properties/script editor window never actually does open, it just leaves me with a reference/quest/whatever window that I cannot move or close. No error, nothing. Oddly, the creation kit doesn't actually crash; I can still use it fine, as long as I don't mind an unmovable window in the middle of my workspace and an inability to save. I tried reinstalling the creation kit, and even skyrim, which did not work. I googling around for this issue, the closest thing I found to it suggested the cause might be scripts that are in a .bsa I added to the archive list in skyrimeditorprefs.ini that aren't in my scripts folder in the data folder. I can't find the thread now, and I had not touched my archive list at all recently (all it has is the vanilla skyrim+dlc stuff anyway), but I still decided that extracting the scripts from those .bsas would be worth a shot anyway. No luck. In my time using this confounded program, it has adopted many strange behaviors that seem to come and go as they please. Once the main background window got too big for my monitor and became un-resizable for like a month, fixed itself on its own. For the past like year and a half, if not more even, it refused to be launched outside of steam at all, always gave me a weird error. Now it suddenly starts with shortcuts just fine, but I can't edit scripts! Its incredibly frustrating. I have a feeling if I were to just set it down for like a month and come back to it, it would probably work fine, but I would rather keep working... Idk what to do about this, I tried everything I could think of. Does anyone know what the cause to this might be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsharaMeradin Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Possibilities:The window has opened but opened underneath one of the other windows. Try resizing some windows or moving them off to the side before hand as a test.The window has opened but is off on the inaccessible extended desktop space. This happens if you work with multiple monitors at one point and leave the offending CK window on the second monitor. Without that second monitor those windows would be lost (unless you are good at guessing where they are and dragging it back to the main desktop). Open your SkyrimEditorPrefs.ini file and look for the following (your values and order may be different): Papyrus Properties Window Column Size 0=187 Papyrus Properties Window Column Size 1=92 Papyrus Properties Window Column Size 2=416 Papyrus Properties Window H=335 Papyrus Properties Window W=857 Papyrus Properties Window X=518 Papyrus Properties Window Y=384 Papyrus Script Edit Window H=790 Papyrus Script Edit Window W=858 Papyrus Script Edit Window X=573 Papyrus Script Edit Window Y=141 You can try testing to see if changing the X,Y positions to 0,0 allows you to see the window at the top left of the desktop. Beyond that, no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duude98 Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 One of the downsides of multi monitor setups I suppose, the window was coming up way off screen. Thanks, that was super helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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