New/old game

[MacSuibhne]

Sorry for the long post folks but I could use some expert advice and figured some background would help...

 

Some years ago, I played Skyrim to its conclusion. I enjoyed it a lot...in my memory it might be the best game I ever played. I liked it so much I went on to play the Falskaar DLC and Enderal.

I have a Win7x64 machine with 3Gb video memory on a Radeon R9 200, 8GB ram and an i7 870. I played Skyrim with about 20 mods and with the help of Loot never had a conflict or a problem

 

I kept Skyrim on my hard drive along with my savedgames out of laziness, I suppose but as many know Enderal modified all that.

 

Recently I decided to get rid of Enderal, reinstall Skyrim and get back into Skyrim with Helgen Reborn.

 

Since then I have had some problems that I cannot seem to resolve:

 

I can usually play about 15 minutes or so and then suddenly, for no apparent reason, I will be thrown out of first person perspective such that my POV is about 10-15 feet above and behind my character. Hitting the "F" key does not bring me back to 1st Per. Nothing I can do will bring me back to first person. Nor can i play in third person as the movements of my character does not seem one-to-one.

 

The only thing I can do is "exit" but even that glitches such that I cannot select "Main Menu" or "Desktop" with my cursor. The whole exit menu shifts upward. I can use the movement keys to get to "desktop" and then hit enter, and that will take me out. At which point, I can reload the game and play for a while before this problem reoccurs in a different place and scene. So i can make progress.It's frustrating to be in the midst of a battle and suddenly be thrown out of 1st. Per.

 

I have refrained from saving a game at the point where the problem occusrs but I do use quicksave a lot...as you might expect.

 

When I reinstalled Skyrim, several weeks ago, I had the same hardware and the same mods as I had when I originally played it. I reinstalled (or woke up) Loot and NMM.

 

Loot warned me that I had 97 dirty edits, etc. in Update.esm. Loot pointed me at TES5Edit Auto-Clean and I used it. I didn't understand either how to use it or the information it provided. Some "scripts' (?), "cells" (?) in the left pane were highlighted in yellow or green and frankly I didn't know what that meant either. But at the top of the left-hand pane i got this message:

 

"A filter has been applied. The treeview contents is fossilized and will not adjust structure to changes. Please remove or re-apply the filter if necessary."

 

But when I got done, Loot displayed a "waterdrop" icon next to Update. esm and that said the plugin has been clean and certified.

 

Subsequently, I have tried cleaning other mods even though Loot hadn't reported any problem with them. Sometimes I get pretty much the same results...including the message and the water drop icon...and sometimes, nothing.

 

I don't know how to fix this problem in the game and am not even sure it can be fixed, but I feel out of my depth with TES5Edit and wondered if it was telling me that the mods can be fixed and where and how.

 

Any suggestions / advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated even if it doesn't involve TES5Edit. The only thing I am not prepared to do is wipe it all clean and start over. I have played the game to conclusion and don't want to do that again --for no real reason other than I am at level 55 and don't want to lose that (the armour, weapons and skills) and have "been there, done that and bought the T-shirt."