Random Crashes in Open world - Whats the cause?

[LobbyRat]

I've looked through all the forums and goodgled different stuff and the "solutions" to the new hot issue of random crashes of TESV in seemingly random but secific areas of the open world vary from simply changing shaders or other graphical options to adjusting gamsettings in the notepads that really just put me in a wtfayta & wtfdtd state of mind.

 

So i think before i do any of this...again... how about a clean install and test.

At the main menu i "coc dragonbridgeexterior01", run across the bridge and about 3/4s to the end i CTD. This is where i 1st encountered the problem.

Reinstalling and applying the latest update i then added select mods that seem to be logical to have initially installed.

 

I made the following observations:

1. I can start a new game with apachii hair, enhanced blood, a skimpy armor mod, body mods for male and female

2. adding The CK resulted in a crash running over the Dragon bridge in dragon bridge.

3.adding mods that add clothes caused a crash running across the bridge

4.adding even 1 player home cause the crash

5. crafting mods caused the crash.

6. if i replaced the initial data file containing the mods reffered to in observation 1 there was no crash.

 

So now... if this sounds like "shading/ers" are the cause i'd like to know why so i can understand better how to fix this. I thought it may be ram, because add ons eat mem, right? but no i have more than enough ram to run on. No idea why the CK would cause the crashes. If there are any other ideas i'd like to hear them.

[abc123qw]

Have you tried it with another save game?

[LobbyRat]

Fresh games, and previously saved games (games played through unbound and saved with the mods referrerd to in observation 1)

[LobbyRat]

weird... i manually installed all my mods and now i run vertually flawlessly. go fig'.