Corrupted Files and Bloating

[CME117]

Alright, so here's how it all started. I went to the Skyrim Nexus and downloaded a few mods. Here's what I got:

 

-All Enchant Recipes - Via Disenchant

-EzEs -Artifact Disenchanting

-Stones of Barenziah DROPPABLE plus Quest Markers

-Zoners High Performance ENB

-Skyrim Performance PLUS

-WATER - Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux

-Enhanced Distant Terrain

 

While I was playing, I noticed that my performance was a lot slower than usual. At first I just though "Okay, I guess I put too many mods on" (I don't have the best computer or anything, I would say it's a mid - semi-high level computer). Then the game crashed. That's when I decided to take out one of the mods I had just downloaded (because my game had worked perfectly fine until I downloaded all that junk that I listed earlier, so I knew one of them had to have been the cause). So -obviously- my first suspect was the WATER mod. I then deactivated it to see if it would fix the problem. Unfortunately, though, it didn't. The game was still just as laggy as before. So I went to check and see if my saves were bloated or something, and --sure enough-- they were. In just a couple of saves, the files had grown like 20000 KB. So I deleted those so I could revert back to what looked like the last "normal" sized file I had (it's about 7600 KB). Before I started up the game, though, I deactivated a few other mods. I deactivated all three of the "Sounds of Skyrim" mods (the Civilization, Wilds, and Dungeons ones) because I remembered reading that those mods could cause savegame bloating or something a long time ago. Me being me, though, I didn't deactivate them because I hadn't had a problem with them ever before (honestly, I've had them all activated for months with no problems, so I don't know if they could be the cause of something this late into the game). Anyway, so yeah, I loaded up the last "normal" file after deactivating a ton of stuff. It loaded up fine and so I immediately made a new save just to see it if it would save correctly and not "bloat" up. Problem is, when I saved, it took FOREVER to finish saving. Like a million times longer than a usual save. So, right after it finished saving, I quit the game so I could check to see if the file was bloated. Instead, I found that the new file (the one that took forever to save) was now only like 3300 KB. So now I load the game back up and I attempt to load the new file. After loading for a few seconds, I get a message telling me that the file is corrupted and that it can't be loaded. Even new autosaves do this.

 

So yeah, now I am pretty much stuck on this one save because any new save I make instantly becomes corrupted. I have no idea what to do. Any help, please? And thank you to anyone who even bothered to read to read all this. Sorry, I know it's a lot. I just wanted to make sure I covered every little step I took.

Edited September 26, 2012 by CME117

[Georgiegril]

Sounds of Skyrim has been causing problems for people after deactivation. read the "you need to uninstall SOS" thread on the Skyrim techinical forum.