Crashes, rendering, and pathing fails.

[ThomasJLS]

Ok, guys this is my first forum post and I'm new to modding so bear with me.

 

I've only had Skyrim on the PC for about two to three weeks. I got one good character start up before I installed any mods and everything went peachy. Now that I've begun adding mods, it's been downhill...fast. I've been having issues the past, oh two weeks, with Skyrim crashing....a lot and very hard. The past few days I haven't even been able to open the game to the main menu, it goes through the "Bethesda" sign and just crashes to desktop. Every time I try it does the same thing: "Bethesda" finishes rotating/fading in and BAM the game is gone. Before this, last week, IF the game would get to the main menu, I'd go to load in and it would start loading, freeze until I had to forcibly end the program. If I was lucky enough to get into the game to start a character, I would count it the success of the day to get into Helgen.

 

It looks as if the NPC pathing is royally screwed up. I.E. Hadvar's and General Tulius's horses are much faster than either carriage, or the carriages are much much slower. The carriages no longer follow the road past the first right turn, they seem to be overly-sensitive to every tiny bump in the path and have rolled over, been launched into the air, the horses stop and spin around in vertical circles in the harnesses, rolled sideways and blocked the entire path. My character has just...stopped in mid air while the carriage and Hadvar go past me, then fallen through the map.

 

The following are rendering errors (I think). Helgen was literally not there a couple times, except for the main gate which remained closed and when the horses and carriages collided with it, after 30 seconds of walking to it, both carriages were launched across the valley. The gate and wall were partially there but without the rest of Helgen, the gate would open for Tulius but would shut before the carriages got to it, or would stay closed and Tulius would walk through and the horses would keep walking into the closed gate until they were thrown across the map. However, it seems to be that once I succeed in getting into Helgen, the game proceeds as normal without these glitches and few crashes.

 

Here are my questions: Is this possibly caused by mods? If so could this be caused by too many active mods or maybe it's related to a single/group of mods? If it's not caused by mods what might be the cause? And of course How in the hell can I fix this?

 

Here is my computer set up if it helps: i5 processor, Nvidia GeForce 550 Ti 1GB, 16gb RAM, 500gb SATA hard drive and a 600W Power source. Skyrim optimized for Ultra graphics and I wasn't experiencing lag when I played.

 

Sorry for the super long post, guys, I just wanted to give a good amount of detail about the issues.