Stange CTD during "Season Unending"

[LocknLoadJessie]

I've clocked a lot of hours in a brand new gameplay of Skyrim SE recently and I was quite happy to buzz along the quests, and dungeons without a single glitch, freeze, or CTD. All this gameplay with the mods listed below, which, insofar, have all played along very nice. Completed Dawnguard, and Dragonborn, and then I decided to advance the main vanilla quest. Got both sides to agree to a temporary truce, and to meet to High Hrothgar. Insofar, no problem. Until...

 

Until I got freeze after freeze after freeze (and I mean total freeze; game unresponsive to any command) after I'm told to take a seat. I tried to sort out what could cause the damn freeze (which always forced me to CTRL-ALT-DEL, and shut down the game through Task Manager (and yes, the game is set as high priority). I even tried to use console commands to finish the quest (setstage MQ302 300), as suggested, but to no avail. Until I noticed that the freeze occurred precisely as Esbern gets in my field of view, either at the meeting, or at the temple's entrance. Every. Single. Time.

 

Haven't found a damn clue about how to fix this, or circumvent this problem. And I need to talk to the damn bastard to learn the shout, but he freezes my game every time he appears.

Here's my mod list. It's been sorted out by Loot, and cleaned with Tes5edit.

 

Edit: I tried a "workaround" (of sorts), and completed the Empire/Stormcloak storyline in order to avoid the damn truce meeting. After it was completed I was to reach Sky Haven temple to learn the third word. Hell, as soon as Delphine came into view and said "Now we know about Parthunax", boom! Freeze frame. Every time I reload it's the same thing. So I'm thinking the problem might be with Delphine...

 

Help?

 

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Edited April 3, 2019 by Noa