[LE] CK Suddenly Crashing When Loading

[ElioraArin]

So I was working away on a mod & the CK crashed - no surprises there! But when I went to reload the CK crashed while initializing, & continued to do so with every attempt.

 

I have tried restoring my Skyrim folder to a vanilla state, reinstalled the CK, reinstalled Mod Organizer - but now when I try to load a mod in the CK I get a message saying MASTERFILE: LOCALIZATION: Zero entries or empty block size read from strings file STRINGS/Hearthfires_ENGLISH.STRINGS.Strings will be missing - & it crashes.

 

Does anyone know what is going on or how to fix it? It was working just fine when this suddenly happened out of nowhere!

 

Edit: All the info I have found so far seems to point to the ini file allowing mulitiple files, loads & adding in the DLCs - but obviously I had already done that or I wouldn't have been able to use the CK for the last few years! This just randomly happened out of nowhere.

Edited August 13, 2018 by ElioraArin

[ElioraArin]

So when re entering the info in my vanilla ini I forgot the s in Hearthfires, with that fixed I no longer get the error message but am still crashing during load just like before I reinstalled everything ... OH MY GOD!

[Crendagord]

That thing is really a s**t compared to the TESCS especially on W10...

 

If that can help, here is what I have in my SkyrimEditor.ini:

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
SArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa
SInvalidationFile=ArchiveInvalidation.txt
iRetainFilenameOffsetTable=1
iRetainFilenameStringTable=1
iRetainDirectoryStringTable=1
bCheckRuntimeCollisions=0
bUseArchives=1
SResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa
SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Hearthfires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

Take also a look at sLanguage at the top of the file. I'm french and if it is set to english, the CK crashes or refuses to launch

[ElioraArin]

Thanks. After re downloading everything it just seems to be the one esp the CK originally crashed on that I can no longer load, I have no idea what would have caused it but I'm extremely annoyed with myself for not making back up copies every now & then - I don't have a lot of time to mod anymore but I had been working on it for quite some time whenever I could & now I've lost everything, I can't even open it with a new file active to copy as much as possible into the new esp :(

[agerweb]

The CK keeps about 10 backups in the Skyrim/backup folder, but these cycle and are overwritten; but might be worth a try.

 

Have you tried getting it into TesVEdit.

[ElioraArin]

Oh thank you, I will take a look at the backup folder. I haven't tried TES5 as I've only ever used it to clean, never to mod. But I will take a look & see if I can get into it that way.

[agerweb]

Check for errors in TesVEdit assuming you can load it.