Dawnguard buggy as hell!?!?

[Keychains5]

So I downloaded dawngaurd and I can't even get past the first few quests because of the bugs. I have tried disabling all mods and add ons. Absolutely no change.

 

Three main errors:

 

1- The crossbow is broken and looks like a sword in your hand

 

2- Some of the enemies namely the gargoyles do not animate properly and remain standing when dead.

 

I was ready to ignore all theses errors before I hit one I couldn't.

 

3- When you are told to "Press ctrl" to toggle between flight and ground in the vampire tutorial nothing happens when you press control. you just keep floating and he just keeps saying "Land and we can continue"

 

Has anyone else experienced these problems or found a solution?

 

I have disabled all my mods and they are not causing it.

[Lycan109]

So I downloaded dawngaurd and I can't even get past the first few quests because of the bugs. I have tried disabling all mods and add ons. Absolutely no change.

 

Three main errors:

 

1- The crossbow is broken and looks like a sword in your hand

 

2- Some of the enemies namely the gargoyles do not animate properly and remain standing when dead.

 

I was ready to ignore all theses errors before I hit one I couldn't.

 

3- When you are told to "Press ctrl" to toggle between flight and ground in the vampire tutorial nothing happens when you press control. you just keep floating and he just keeps saying "Land and we can continue"

 

Has anyone else experienced these problems or found a solution?

 

I have disabled all my mods and they are not causing it.

 

Hey I have had the exact same problems as you have...still no solution unfortunately..

 

Even trying the dawnguard side of the quests comes to a halt as the NPCs freeze.

 

I take it you're also on PC as you mentioned mods. I have emailed Bethesda about it but with no response.

 

Guess we will just have to suffer until the wonderful modding community finds a solution.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Lycan109

[GodMircea]

i don't now if you have this problem but when i equip a bow my mouse stop working.

i have no mod (all disable) and update 1.7 ?

if you now a solution pls help

[Keychains5]

I started having problems with skyrim since 1.7 event before I installed dawngaurd. 1.7 caused some dialogue in the game to disappear unless I saved and reloaded and my companions wont leave my service when i tell them to piss off. Needless to say i was excited for dawngaurd, but it seems like we got the short end of the stick over the console. They spent so much time fine tuning it for the xbox that the PC is choking. Oh well, hopefully they patch it. Im sure a lot of people are having this problem

[Keychains5]

UPDATE: Fixed it.

 

I did a clean install of skyrim without any mods (Just saved the main files so I didn't have to download them again). Even though the mods were unistalled on the previous version they had left trace errors from scripts and modifications to main meshes for different actors.

 

To fix this:

 

Step 1:

Back up your entire skyrim folder (Data Folder, settings and all) in a safe place.

You may want to back up save files as well and delete the old ones C:\Users\YOUUSERNAME\Documents\my games\Skyrim\Saves

Step 2:

Clear you skyrim cache (uninstall with steam open Steam skyrim>Properties>Local Files> Delete Local Game Content)

After that delete all the remaining files in the original skyrim directory.

 

Step 3:

Start the download of the fresh Skyrim files, then pause it and copy all the main esm and bsa files from the backup (Not including the mods ) into the new directory for skyrim. (Danwguard.bsa, Update.bsa, Skyrim.bsa and the esm files)

 

Step 4 :

Once you have copied the files into the new skyrim directory you essentially don't have to redownload anything. Just click properties on Skyrim from steam as in step 2. open steam skyrim>properties>Local Files>Verify Integrity of game cache.

Steam will now "download" in a matter of seconds.

 

Step 5: All clean! copy your prefered save file from C:\Users\YOUUSERNAME\Documents\my games\Skyrim\Saves

(Note: if your save file is completely dependent on certain mods this may crash the game. One way to fix this is trial and error with load order. A better way is to cut you loses and load an earlier save if possible that is not dependent )

 

Troubleshooting:

 

If you are recieving a fatal error that has something to do with "Error: OnInIt() String cannot be validated" or something like that. This can mean that the load order needs to be adjusted. Dawnguard needs to be first.

 

DO NOT ENABLE ALL MODS RIGHT AWAY. This will serve only o put you back to a broken version of dawnguard. Play the game for awhile, make sure the game is stable before adding new mods.

 

I suggest enabling mods no more than 3 at a time so you can figure out which ones are causing the mods problems and then report it to the author.

 

If the mod changes any meshes in the game it will more than likely cause some sort of problem with dawnguard until the authors have a chance to patch them. Only enable mods that change meshes, textures or scripts one at a time.

 

Good Luck and I hope this helps, I know this pissed me off.

Edited August 5, 2012 by Keychains5

[Goliatron]

I was afraid of this. Yeah, apparently Dawnguard is pretty well hosed with anything but a perfectly stock game. I realize Bethesda cannot possibly make their DLCs compatible with all mods... But any mod that changes meshes?!? COME ON. There are TONS of those.

 

Getting around the stuck NPCs is easy with the console (setstage in particular), but I am getting random CTDs to the point where I believe I will be uninstalling the DLC until something can be done about it. Just had my Skyrim install looking beautiful (ENB and MANY mods) with screaming frame rates... Now I can barely play the game.

 

Hopefully most folks know by now that playing a custom race in Dawnguard is asking for trouble. ShowRaceMenu and switch to a vanilla race. It will help a little bit.

[Keychains5]

I was afraid of this. Yeah, apparently Dawnguard is pretty well hosed with anything but a perfectly stock game. I realize Bethesda cannot possibly make their DLCs compatible with all mods... But any mod that changes meshes?!? COME ON. There are TONS of those.

 

Getting around the stuck NPCs is easy with the console (setstage in particular), but I am getting random CTDs to the point where I believe I will be uninstalling the DLC until something can be done about it. Just had my Skyrim install looking beautiful (ENB and MANY mods) with screaming frame rates... Now I can barely play the game.

 

Hopefully most folks know by now that playing a custom race in Dawnguard is asking for trouble. ShowRaceMenu and switch to a vanilla race. It will help a little bit.

 

It's more specifically mods that modify the base scripts. If the meshes are stand alone and don't interfere with what bethesda decided to change in dawnguard. Follower mods will need to be patched because there is a lot of new companion content that is part of the main quest.

 

If you follow the instructions and do a wipe of the game. And use as many of the original scripts as you can mod wise you should be able to use most of your mods. The visual enhancement mods should work. But Big mods like Tytanis, Midas Magic, big overhual mods should probably be patched. if all else fails return to stock. beat the main quests. turn all your mods back on. The load order plays a big role on the certain mods working together. Just turn on your mods one by one and figure out which ones break it then either change the order or remove them until they are updated. Or skip dawnguard for a long time.

[quinlan6565]

I started having problems with skyrim since 1.7 event before I installed dawngaurd. 1.7 caused some dialogue in the game to disappear unless I saved and reloaded and my companions wont leave my service when i tell them to piss off. Needless to say i was excited for dawngaurd, but it seems like we got the short end of the stick over the console. They spent so much time fine tuning it for the xbox that the PC is choking. Oh well, hopefully they patch it. Im sure a lot of people are having this problem

 

What do you mean in step 2?

[zhenle1994]

I was told to enthrall Dexion in Prophet quest, I used vampiric seductive on him and feed on him, the quest just won't proceed and unable to command him.

[ioshilee]

I was told to enthrall Dexion in Prophet quest, I used vampiric seductive on him and feed on him, the quest just won't proceed and unable to command him.

I had this one - he was just kneeled and when I tried to talk to him I just got the message "this person is busy". Then I reload a save made before I release him, and all worked fine.