Ryunney Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 So, I don't exactly know when this might have started happening, as I haven't played skyrim in about a month. But after downloading and installing dawnguard today I loaded up my game and quickly learned that I cannot attack. Which is to say that I tap mouse 1 or mouse 2, and nothing happens. I can still power attack, I can swap out my gear, I can draw or sheath weapons or spells. In fact I can draw weapons or spells by tapping mouse 1. But I can't perform any normal attacks. I searched around and saw that some people had similar problems (from months or years ago) and tried things such as deleting my preferences file, deleting the skyrim.ini in my games folder, and either changing the keys and/or resetting them to defaults. Whatever keys the attacks are mapped to react the same way as they did as on my mouse, I can draw weapons and spells, select things in my inventory, and power attack, but cannot otherwise attack or cast spells. So of course, I turn to you, and hope that you can provide help of any kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitstick Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Same here. I installed dawnguard today amd realised that i can't attack. I can't cast spells, bows don't work. Also, if i try to change to another weapon while i have something drawn, my character starts floating.When i deactivate dawnguard, everything works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryunney Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 So dawnguard is conflicting with something, huh? I wonder. Maybe it's conflicting with a mod like dance of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4DC1 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) So dawnguard is conflicting with something, huh? I wonder. Maybe it's conflicting with a mod like dance of death. Except when I start a fresh game with nothing except dawnguard enabled this happens to me. I exit and start the game up without dawnguard and the issue is fixed. It's not a problem with any conflict it's a problem with dawnguard being bugging Edited August 4, 2012 by N4DC1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryunney Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 So dawnguard is conflicting with something, huh? I wonder. Maybe it's conflicting with a mod like dance of death. Except when I start a fresh game with nothing except dawnguard enabled this happens to me. I exit and start the game up without dawnguard and the issue is fixed. It's not a problem with any conflict it's a problem with dawnguard being bugging Well that's even better, now I don't even know what to do to try and fix this aside from wait and hope a patch comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaze205 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Dang, this is happening to me too but i thought it was because of a mod conflict. I didn't know that it also happens on a fresh install. Has anybody managed to solve this bug yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryunney Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Dang, this is happening to me too but i thought it was because of a mod conflict. I didn't know that it also happens on a fresh install. Has anybody managed to solve this bug yet? No luck yet, I've confirmed that uninstalling or otherwise disabling the DLC fixes the problem, but I have no idea what in the dawnguard DLC could be causing this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaze205 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 (edited) Hmm, it seems like someone from LL has narrowed down the problem. "Anyone else getting a bug where the only attacks that work are power attacks? For anything else, the character just stands there. It's not even that the animation isn't playing, the attack just doesn't happen. I'm about ready to see if it's a mod conflict, but I'm a bit worried that my save won't even load if I deactivate everything. Update: Bizarrely, the conflict seems to be with the dummy Update.esm that I've been using ever since Beth deleted it. Go figure. Guess I'll have to go through and edit the masters for all the files that depend on it."-karagdan I've sent him a message to see if he's come up with a solution. In the meantime, anyone know if this is an easy problem to fix? Edited August 4, 2012 by kamikaze205 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoapVahKiin Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Please can someone tell me if there is a fix ? It's the only topic i've found on the internet regarding this game-breaking bug... and I'd like to play the Dawnguard story-line :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Did anyone try using one of the attack animation mods? Those are usually what cause this sort of problem, but if it's already broken, maybe adding one will somehow fix it? It may be worth a try anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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