Instant Crash after Bethesda screen

[HitmanNOS98]

I know this is probably a really common error and hopefully has a simple fix but now that I've downloaded a few mods, everytime I try to launch Skyrim it never makes it past the Bethesda screen. Any ideas?

[WastelandAssassin]

well , this could be due to many things , and really depends on what it is you've done

so it sounds like this is your first time modding

which mod manager do you use? have you followed any tutorial on setting your game up for modding? what have you do for this?

which mods do you use? please provide your load order , preferably in spoiler tags

and as a small check , have you made sure you have all requirements for every mod you've installed , and have you followed the installation instructions provided in those mod's pages?

[Markmid]

Believe it or not this is the best kind of bug, if it is happening every time and predictable. Disable half your mods, see if it happens again. If it does you've narrowed it down to that half, disable another half and keep doing this by halves. If it doesn't crash you've narrowed it down to the other half, so enable half of the ones disabled instead, and keep doing this by halves.

Keep going halves at a time either enabling or disabling till you find the issue. You'll get there quite quick this way, most of the time, unless it is an issue with two or more but that is usually bad luck and quite rare.

Once you've found the one it is, chances are with a straight CTD from loading you are missing a dependency which that mods needs or trying to load two of the same mod somehow. Go read the mod page where you got it again in detail. Some mod tools will tell you straight off without doing this process but this is the beginners and easy way to find a mod conflict I am giving you. If you've got all the files and you are not loading two versions of the same thing, you've found a conflict between your mods instead. There are ways to fix conflicts most of the time, which others will hopefully post about here if that is the case. There is no need to make this post more complicated than it need be to start however.

Edited November 14, 2017 by Markmid