Exclamation Marks from one moment to the other

[Mortadella]

Hy,

 

my Skyrim was running pretty well, no big bugs/problems so far.

But today, when Win10 asked for the update while i was playing Skyrim. I closed Skyrim and let Windows do it's update.

After i opened Skyrim and loaded my last savegame, i got a pretty weird bug.

 

All weapons from the mod "Immersive Weapons", where gone and instead of the weapons, there now is a big red square with a big white exclamation mark in it.

I guessed it's missing meshes, google said so too.

My next step was to reinstall Immersiv Weapons, but that didn't helped. Someone got this problem too, with smim. So i tried reinstalling SMIM too, didnt help.

 

I doubt this was caused by the Win10 update. But what could have cause a "Closing game, restarting, loading last save and boom ultra bug".

 

Anyone a idea how i can fit in those missing mashes again?

 

Without reinstalling the whole game, there must be a way to get the originals source fail fixed.

[Grospolina]

Is Skyrim installed to the default location?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim

Windows Update may have changed permissions there, even if you had changed them manually before. If your Skyrim is installed there, it's best to move it out of the Program Files directory. This is because Windows keeps the permissions locked down in that directory and mods work better without those restrictive permissions.

 

One way is to create a Steam Library folder. Another way is to move your entire Steam directory. This Steam guide covers both. Be warned that if you have a lot of games, then moving the entire thing and re-verifying all games can take a long time. There are other ways that you can find on YouTube or Google.

 

Or you could just need to reboot.

[Mortadella]

Yes, I got one on C: my SSD. I only got Skyrim and Fallout 4 on it, because of better performance.

 

The problem is, steam does not allow a second games directory on the same drive.

 

 

Edit1:

Just for curiosity i moved skyrim into a new blank folder on C. But still got those awefull mesh replacers.

I don't think it's caused by the windows update, just a bad coincidence. But i have no idea what could cause a running game to break without any changes too... Maybe a broken/corrupted mod? Out of nowhere, can that happen?

 

I was so happy with how it was running.

 

 

Oh and i forgot to mention. The snow, everywhere, was violett/blue, like no texture. When i reinstalled "Better Dynamic Snow" and "10x Better Snow", it was in most over normal again, but a few parts stayed without texture.

 

Edit2:

Ok, i mentioned something absolute strange.
I wanted to veryfy Skyrim with Steam, but befor doing that, i kopied the Skyrim folder to a new position outside of the programm86 folder.
While doing that, i got errors that files can't be copied cause their not existent. I said ok go on.
After it copied the Skyrim folder, i compared them and mentioned, that there was like 2gb more data in the copie as in the Steams Skyrim folder.
How the absolute heck can this be? It copied nonexisting files, or better, files they do exist but with 0 size, to the right of its size?????

I started Skyrim from the savecopie and all was fine, no exclamation marks, no missing textures nothing, it just runs fine.

How is this possible?

I only can say, it has to do with the Windows 10 update, but what did it to the files??

Edited November 22, 2017 by Mortadella

[Grospolina]

Definitely weird. Well it sounds like your Skyrim files got corrupted, but I don't know how. That it happened around the time of a Windows Update is somewhat suspicious. However, you can't do much about Windows Updates. I'd perform a disc scan on your SSD just in case. Here's a decent guide. I'd go with Option Two.

 

I know the problem of Steam not allowing a second folder on the same drive anymore. I think there are ways around it, like closing Steam and editing the library folder file manually, but I haven't tried it myself. It should work though, unless Steam went and killed that too. However, since you only have two games on it, you could move the entire Steam folder. It's covered in the first guide I linked halfway down the page.

[Mortadella]

Thanks for your help!

 

I guess, Steam corrupted the whole Skyrim folder with matching uploaded data somehow.

 

The solution was, to look what folders are at 0 and manuelly copie the lost files into it.

NMM was not able to install the files correctly, it always spit out 0kb files.

Whole perkus maximus had to be reinstalled too. Aswell as a bunch of textures like mentioned before, 2gb lost data.

 

Since that point, everything is normal again, but in a different steam untouched folder.


Overall, i found out NMM got corrupted. But i have no clue how that happened.