How do I clean Dawnguard.esm with SSEEdit?

[MajinnFranky]

I'm at a complete loss, completely confused at every explanation that there is to using it. My brain is just not comprehending it at all. Long story short, my game crashes near the dwemer ruins Bthalft by Ivarstead (the one with the aetherium forge) I can't walk towards it, let alone look at it without the game crashing. Doing a little digging, I find that it might be dawnguard.esm causing the problem and that I would need to clean it twice to get it working? So I downloaded the latest sseedit and I'm trying to look at guides for this, but I'm getting more confused between the guides and the program itself. Could someone help an idiot like myself out?

 

If it helps out a lot, I don't use mo or vortex or even loot. I'm fairly confident in my ability to manually install mods. However, I know nothing about this. Its absolutely out of my hands, any help is greatly appreciated. :)

Edited August 20, 2019 by MajinnFranky

[Gorsha]

Here is a guide.

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/2667094-guide-manual-cleaning-skyrim-master-files/

[MajinnFranky]

That guide is out of date and doesn't support the latest version :(
I've looked at many of those.

[Algabar]

That guide is out of date and doesn't support the latest version :sad:

I've looked at many of those.

 

The procedure hasn't changed at all. It still works exactly as shown in the guide linked above.

 

I cleaned my game files exactly as described in this guide only some days ago. Works perfectly.

 

EDIT: I'd strongly recommend using a mod manager (my favourite is Vortex, but MO is also good). Installing mods manually might not be too hard. The trouble starts when you want/need to uninstall a mod. You WILL forget some files and mess up your game sooner or later...

[wfandrews]

Depends on which SSEEdit you are using. If you have downloaded version 4.0.2 you must use auto clean to clean any files. I would recommend downloading and installing version 4.0.1 which that guide was intended for.

 

Elminster taking the option as to which files to clean, UDR, or ITM, or both, out of the hands of the individual cleaning the files was IMO a mistake. Which is why I have not upgraded to 4.0.2.

[MajinnFranky]

Algabar, I have tried to follow with that procedure using 4.0.2 SSEEdit, whenever I right click to use the cleaning I always get the notification pop up saying that the function is out of date for this version and said to use auto clean. So I tried auto clean, I don't know what I'm doing other than opening up the program and individually selecting dawnguard. After that, I get confused as its not all cleaned up. It feels like it just only scans the plugin and not clean it, and I'm lost at that point. I'm not interested in using MO or Vortex, I have a separate hdd that I fill up with backups of the mods. As tedious and archaic as that is, I make it work out somehow, I just look at the folder structures of the back up and go one by one from there.

wfandrews I suppose I'll try an older version and see where that gets me. Hopefully I'll make some headway. Thanks guys.

[leonardo2]

That guide is out of date and doesn't support the latest version :sad:

I've looked at many of those.

I think the same tutorial is up to date on AFK Mods. :smile:

[speedynl]

get the latest version, copy paste the exe to another folder, rename it as SSEEditQuickAutoClean.exe, copy paste it back, run it select the esm/esp you wana clean, all done

 

everything is explained in the watsnew file

Edited August 21, 2019 by speedynl

[COMBATFUN]

hi there. the main change to clean plugins with the new SEEEDIT version is the -quickautoclean parameter.

in my modlist/guide (german): https://www.computerbase.de/forum/threads/lets-mod-skyrim-sse-tuning-guide.1631118

i recommend to read this stuff (english): https://tes5edit.github.io/docs/5-mod-cleaning-and-error-checking.html#s_5-3-2

Edited August 21, 2019 by COMBATFUN

[MajinnFranky]

 

That guide is out of date and doesn't support the latest version :sad:

I've looked at many of those.

 

The procedure hasn't changed at all. It still works exactly as shown in the guide linked above.

 

I cleaned my game files exactly as described in this guide only some days ago. Works perfectly.

 

EDIT: I'd strongly recommend using a mod manager (my favourite is Vortex, but MO is also good). Installing mods manually might not be too hard. The trouble starts when you want/need to uninstall a mod. You WILL forget some files and mess up your game sooner or later...

 

A few things after trying it. First was that in the procedure that the process would prompt you to save once you close the program after doing those steps, I haven't gotten any prompts at all. I even tried to manually save it, but a message popped up saying I haven't edited anything to save with, even after following the process. Another problem I'm having is with editing that encounter zone in riften ratway that seems to have a problem. The guide tells me to right click and select remove, however, I see no option for removing. I made a bit more headway than before, but the results still go to naught. I can't figure out how to clean this damn thing, and now I believe I could never do the lost to the ages quest and not reach the aetherium forge. :sad:

Edited August 21, 2019 by MajinnFranky