CTD on main save file, constant freezes in new one please help

[Tmax98]

Apologies in advance for wall of text, I'm just trying to provide as much information as possible.

 

Hi, I've been playing skyrim for a decent amount of time now. Not as much others, but a good amount. My main and only save file up until today has about 130 hours logged into it. Now, I say this because I am proving that I have played all that time with little to no problems. I've been adding mods as I find new ones and continue in the game. I'd like say I've been careful. Well two days ago I started having issues. I was doing the quest The Break of Dawn(the one where you get Dawnbreaker), and when I went to give the beacon to the statue, she lifted me up and did her whole speech. After that, she dropped me to my death. I was like wth, and had to start from my pre-fast travel autosave. I activated god mode so if she dropped me again I wouldn't die. I also saved after the fast travel. That time it didn't work at all, I was never lifted up into the air. I was confused, but I've seen quest bugs before and just used console command to advance to the next step to clear the rubble away with Meridia's light. Well the light never appeared. So I had no idea what to do, except console commands again. The rubble didn't clear away, and the disable command didn't take it away. So I resolved to use the console command to move to the end boss guy of the dungeon just so I could get in there and finish the quest and be done. Well I finished that and couldn't get out. I used console commands to move to one of my companion characters outside. All should have been fine, until I went to finish the quest. The white blinding light she did never went away. I figured if I just fast traveled it would go away, well it didn't. I had no idea how to fix it. Well it was late at the time, so I decided I'll just reload the other save the next day and either not do the quest at all or just try again. That was about three days ago.

 

Now, before I started up Skyrim the next day I installed some new mods. Dragonbone equipment, The Asteria, Armed to the Teeth, Bathing Beauties luxury suite with the retexture, and Catagorized Favorites menu among them. There were also some other new armor mods and Economics of Skyrim. That's about it. I'm trying to include as much information as possible here. So I reloaded the save without the white light. Well for the rest of the day it was CTDing shortly after loading. So I thought there was some issue with the mods I activated that day. So I went and disabled all of them with NMM. Still kept CTDing. I use SKSE latest version and latest version of Skyrim. I ran it no mods included and it still kept crashing. I installed Wrye Bash for the help it has with showing mod load order for Save games. I altered according to that where all the mods were green. Still no go. That whole day I was trying to fix my issues, checking online for solutions and everything. I did that yesterday too. Still no go. I tried a new save and then it glitched in the intro(vanilla version). So today I got rid of the whole install and all the data, backing up all my mods on my external hard drive. I then reinstalled it. I activated minimal mods, only a few mods that shouldn't really affect anything. Quality map, SkyBoost, Remodeled Armors, CBBE, SkyUI, Sounds of Skyrim set, and a few texture and animation mods. I don't do the HD stuff, since my computer isn't high-end. I run on integrated Intel HD Graphics, 4 GB RAM, i3 dual core 2.53 gHZ processor with Windows 7 Home Premium. I run all my settings low except the ones view distance of characters and objects. Like I said before, I've logged nearly 130 hours already in skyrim with little to no problems.

 

So, I tried a new save. It worked, sort of. The first time my character was walking to all the wrong places in the intro cinematic, and I couldn't continue. I deactivated some other mods, essentially deleting any mods that added anything besides equipment into the game. This time it worked and all was well for a bit. The headsman was not doing anything for a solid 30-45 seconds and then Alduin finally showed up to stop the show. Some of the quest stuff wasn't working, like the wall in the tower never went away, despite Ralof telling me to jump. I just console command disabled it to get through, since that's essentially what happens anyways. Then Alduin's showing up in parts didn't work properly, but after I just continued on Hadvar went along with me eventually. Once I got into Helgen keep I was experiencing chronic freezes. They stopped for a while then kept coming back. I continued on for a while despite the freezes, hoping that they would go away. Well I'm in Bleak Falls Barrow right before the claw door and I'm still getting the freezes. I can't play the game any more like this. I've done everything I can think of, to no avail. My first save still crashes, and the other one has chronic freezes. I don't know what to do anymore. I've used AdvancedSystemCare to clean out my registries and just the computer in general, reinistalled the game, tried multiple solutions. I've even gotten some mods that are supposed to help with performance and stop crashes/freezes. I've got nothing. If anyone knows of anything else I can do, please let me know. I'd prefer not having to kill my save, but if that's the only solution I will do so.

 

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I saw one forum post where they had similar issues as me, and that his save files went way up in size. Curious, I checked my own save files. Sure enough, they were rapidly rising in size. However, even my brand new save file is still high up there. I have a save 114 hours in at 9 MB. The next was the save before I went to place the beacon, which is 20MB more. Another save I had made with White Screen just 13 minutes later was another MB more. My new save with only 2 hours in it(wow, did not think I had two hours on it haha) is at a whopping 139 MB(another minute later save and a 2MB jump!). I am dumbfounded, please help.

 

*edit*

I saw another post that suggests backing up current save files and deleting the skyrim folder in the My Games directory and then starting a new game. It has gotten late and I should get to the point where I fall asleep in a bed and not on my computer. I am going to try that tomorrow and see if it helps.

Edited July 17, 2012 by Tmax98