CTD with Skyrim

[xxzodiacxx]

Hi there! I've been having some issues related to CTDs. I tried many things - first, I thought it was something I downloaded that resized textures (to fix stutter), so reinstalled... then, I tried the lowerin uGrids value, and it seemed to work, but after a while, I started crashing again. I haven't tried deactivating the mods and playing (no, I'm lying, I've tried, and seemed to work, but as I was in a rush, I wasn't paying much attention).

 

Problem is, I've already started 5 characters in the last 3 days, and, playing as a thief (such a pain in the ass the beggining of the game...), it's getting annoying. I'm gonna try looking for a mod problem or something like that, and I'm trying this to see if it solves the problem. I don't think it's the .inis or this programme (though it seemed it was causing some problems with the textures).

 

So, if anyone cares to help me, I'd be much appreciated :D I'm going to bed now, so I post my mods and my inis to see if someone smarter than me sees something I don't. It also seems to happen after I join the thieves guild (weird thing...).

 

(PS: I'm a bit chaotic with my mods - I never do clean saves, I install a lot of them... -, but I think I know how to install them and about load orders, though not having the Edit tool - FNVEdit was so great - makes it very difficult for me to check incompatibilities)

 

Mods:

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5479/image1uiy.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8808/image2gt.jpg

My .ini s

 

Prefs:

 

 

[General]

fBrightLightColorB=1.0000

fBrightLightColorG=1.0000

fBrightLightColorR=1.0000

iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1

bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0

[imagespace]

bDoDepthOfField=1

iRadialBlurLevel=1

[Display]

iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1

fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000

fShadowDistance=2500.0000

iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048

iShadowSplitCount=2

iMaxAnisotropy=4

fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000

fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000

fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=3600.0000

fGamma=1.0000

fDecalLOD2=1500.0000

fDecalLOD1=1000.0000

fSpecularLODStartFade=1000.0000

fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000

fLightLODStartFade=2800.0000

iTexMipMapMinimum=0

iTexMipMapSkip=0

iWaterMultiSamples=1

iMultiSample=1

iShadowMode=3

bTreesReceiveShadows=0

bDrawLandShadows=0

bFull Screen=0

iSize H=1024

iSize W=1280

fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000

fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000

fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000

fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000

fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=10000000.0000

fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=10000000.0000

iScreenShotIndex=4

bShadowMaskZPrepass=0

bMainZPrepass=0

iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=3

iMaxDecalsPerFrame=500

bFloatPointRenderTarget=0

sD3DDevice="NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470" Ignore!!!

bFXAAEnabled=1

iShadowMapResolution=1024

fShadowBiasScale=0.3000

iShadowMaskQuarter=4

iAdapter=0

iPresentInterval=0

iShadowFilter=3

bTransparencyMultisampling=1

bDrawShadows=1

iPresentInterval=0

bShadowsOnGrass=1

bDeferredShadows=1

[Grass]

b30GrassVS=1

fGrassStartFadeDistance=4200.0000

fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000

fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000

[MAIN]

bGamepadEnable=1

bCrosshairEnabled=1

fHUDOpacity=1.0000

bSaveOnPause=1

bSaveOnTravel=1

bSaveOnWait=1

bSaveOnRest=1

fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000

bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1

bReflectExplosions=1

iWaterBlurAmount=4

bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=1

bForceHighDetailReflections=1

[GamePlay]

bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1

bShowQuestMarkers=1

iDifficulty=3

[interface]

bDialogueSubtitles=1

bGeneralSubtitles=0

bShowCompass=1

fMouseCursorSpeed=1.0000

[Controls]

fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.0000

fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0180

bAlwaysRunByDefault=1

bInvertYValues=0

bGamePadRumble=0

bMouseAcceleration=0

bUseKinect=0

[Particles]

iMaxDesired=750

[saveGame]

fAutosaveEveryXMins=5.0000

[AudioMenu]

fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000

fVal7=1.0000

uID7=0

fVal6=1.0000

uID6=0

fVal5=1.0000

uID5=0

fVal4=1.0000

uID4=0

fVal3=0.3000

uID3=94881

fVal2=0.4000

uID2=466532

fVal1=1.0000

uID1=554685

fVal0=0.9000

uID0=1007612

[Clouds]

fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000

fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000

fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000

fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000

[TerrainManager]

fTreeLoadDistance=25000.0000

fBlockMaximumDistance=100000.0000

fBlockLevel1Distance=32768.0000

fBlockLevel0Distance=20480.0000

fSplitDistanceMult=0.7500

bShowLODInEditor=0

[NavMesh]

fObstacleAlpha=0.5000

fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000

fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500

fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000

fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500

fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000

fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000

fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500

fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000

fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000

fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000

fEdgeThickness=10.0000

fPointSize=2.5000

[Trees]

bRenderSkinnedTrees=1

uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=20

[Decals]

uMaxDecals=100

bDecals=1

bSkinnedDecals=1

uMaxSkinDecals=35

uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=20

[LOD]

fLODFadeOutMultObjects=13.0000

fLODFadeOutMultItems=11.9000

fLODFadeOutMultActors=12.0000

fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000

[Launcher]

bEnableFileSelection=1

bShowAllResolutions=0

uLastAspectRatio=1

[blurShaderHDR]

bDoHighDynamicRange=1

[blurShader]

bUseBlurShader=0

[Water]

iWaterReflectHeight=1024

iWaterReflectWidth=1024

bUseWaterDisplacements=1

bUseWaterRefractions=1

bUseWaterReflections=1

bUseWaterDepth=1

 

 

Skyrim Ini:

 

 

[General]

sLanguage=ENGLISH

fMasterFilePreLoadMB=128.0000

iPreloadSizeLimit=268435456

 

[Display]

fShadowLODMaxStartFade=10000.0

fSpecularLODMaxStartFade=2000.0

fLightLODMaxStartFade=3500.0

iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=256

bAllowScreenshot=1

fDecalLifetime=900.0000

 

[Audio]

fMusicDuckingSeconds=6.0

fMusicUnDuckingSeconds=8.0

fMenuModeFadeOutTime=3.0

fMenuModeFadeInTime=1.0

 

[Grass]

bAllowCreateGrass=1

bAllowLoadGrass=0

 

[GeneralWarnings]

SGeneralMasterMismatchWarning=One or more plugins could not find the correct versions of the master files they depend on. Errors may occur during load or game play. Check the "Warnings.txt" file for more information.

 

[Archive]

sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa

sResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa

 

[Combat]

fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0

fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0

f1PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.2

f3PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.7

 

[Papyrus]

fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0

bEnableLogging=0

bEnableTrace=0

bLoadDebugInformation=0

iMinMemoryPageSize=100000

iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000

iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=3221225472

 

[Water]

bReflectLODObjects=1

bReflectLODLand=0

bReflectSky=1

bReflectLODTrees=1

[Georgiegril]

1. You can't go backwards on the ugrids without restarting a fresh skyrim. You will crash.

2. Your mods need to be installed exactly according to the mod authors directions and ordered properly or you will crash.

3. If you have improperly removed mods, this could also cause you to crash, and can be difficult if not impossible to identlify and/or repair.

 

I suggest you start over, and muster the patience to go slow and do things properly on the front end. It will save you problems like you are having now.

[fleabittendog]

I have reverted my ugrids (more than once) and didn't have any problems as long as I followed proper procedure. In fact, it cured my constant ctds after the last patch. My problem was that I had too many script heavy mods that taxed my cpu at the higher ugrid setting. I would suggest you enable papyrus logging in your skyrim.ini and see what the last script files were that had an error right before a crash. I also noticed you are running realistic lighting. If you used any of the previous versions they had Natural Skyrim Rain included which causes serious errors and ctds. I found many NSR scripts causing ctds before I finally removed the source scripts.

[xxzodiacxx]

Yes, the times I tried to go backwards with the uGrid, I had the red dragon, and after deleting the ini, it would break my savegame, so I decided to just start over. I have a lot a patience.

 

Maybe what you said about realistic lighting is the problem. I think I upgraded before having these CTDs - I don't really know, but I think it was after leaving the Thieves Guild after finishing the first quest (the "deadbeats"). I don't think it's removed mods, though - I reinstalled everything.

 

Will try about the Papyrus log thing and let you know. Oh, and what about the Optimizer Texture? Has anyone tried it? Didn't seem to be causing trouble for me...

 

EDIT: I've uninstalled some of the mods and I'm starting a new game... see if that solves the problem :'(

Edited June 22, 2012 by xxzodiacxx