COC command

[chimichanga78]

Hello community,

lately I was experiencing the well known Markarth/ Understone Keep CTD. My copy of Skyrim is running stable at all other places (at least as far as I know). It happens most of the time, but not at every instance, after almost half a minute, being in the keep. I read that for most people with a similar problem, entering from the Hall of the dead, with the command "coc markarthunderstonekeep" fixies the issue (at least temporarily for this specific instance). After some testing, this probably solves the problem for me, too.

Now to my concern: I read a lot about not to use console commands that interfere with game mechanics themselves, as it could corrupt the savegame. After reading all the information, the console provides after using the coc command line, I am reluctant to rely the future of my save-file to the recordings, written into it.

Or better: is it harmless to use this coc command, to avoid the mentioned CTD, or might this damage my save?

Any suggestions or input on the issue is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :smile:

chimichanga

Edited April 12, 2018 by chimichanga78

[WastelandAssassin]

even this console command could technically cause issues , but it really depends on the situation

one of the common causes for corrupt saves (at least as far as I know) could be caused by leaving a cell while there are scripts running there

this could be a quest taking place , and you just teleport out of the cell , thereby breaking the quest and maybe even causing more damage to your save (like save bloat , or even full corruption)

console commands could break the game if used improperly . so you should always use them with caution , but they could still be used

if you know that you aren't breaking anything by using the command , it should be safe to use (though you should save beforehand , and keep the save in case issues arise)

as with modding , try to understand what you are doing , and if you don't understand it and aren't willing to learn , just don't do it (this isn't directed at you specifically , but many people don't understand that these things require some knowledge to be used without issues , so I'm just pointing it out) . but once you are confident at what you are doing , you should be fine (though having backup is always useful)

[Evangela]

COC just teleports you to a COCMarkerHeading if a cell has it, or some seemingly random part of the cell, if it doesn't have one. I'd say it's one of the safe commands.

[chimichanga78]

Thank you both for your effort and your kind replies :)

You two got kudos! :)

I might have solved the problem, without having the console command applied to my save-file. I loaded up my test-save, with the usage of the coc-command and could run the instance without issues. I than re-loaded the improper save with the the ctd-experience and it worked out fine :) Whatever caused the issue (and I had it for a while now, but didn't try to reproduce it with another character yet), must have something to do with loading the cell.

The former save-file is still archived ;) Just in case, you never know what Skyrim holds for you...

Thanks a lot!