Steam did something now I CTD after the Bethesda Logo

[ArtMurder]

First off, I've seen 'fixes' for this before, but all of them are based on having a problem with a mod. YESTERDAY I spent ALL DAY fixing and testing and cleaning my mods, I launched skyrim probably 20 times in total after fixing them all (tweaking a lighting mod) and I had an average time of about 15 seconds between hitting the launch button and playing my game. I had a really random CTD issue I couldn't track down, but it was only happening in game, and seemed to be based around the companions quest-line. Issues like this are usually ESM based, and I KNOW all my ESMs are in the right place and the right order.

 

Here's my L/O just in case.

 

 

 

skyrim.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

SkyMoMod.esm

moonpath.esm

Nchuzzrezar.esm

ApachiiHair.esm

ApachiiHairFemales.esm

ApachiiHairMales.esm

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

RaceCompatibility.esm

Update.esm

buildablehouse.esp

UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp

HighResTexturePack01.esp

HighResTexturePack02.esp

AIMP - Antz in my Pantz.esp

Vampire Eyes Fix.esp

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

Chesko_Frostfall.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

Economics of Skyrim.esp

83Willows_101BUGS_V4_HighRes.esp

BabettesFeastOverpowered.esp

Behemoth Dragon.esp

BetterFishAdded.esp

Cannabis.esp

Chesko_WearableLantern.esp

CookingExpanded.esp

FishingInSkyrim.esp

humans drop human parts.esp

Legs.esp

sextoys-calyps-2.esp

SkyMoMod_lists.esp

Tiny.esp

Auto Unequip Ammo.esp

iHUD.esp

Mart's Savegame DeBloatifier.esp

battleflute.esp

1nivWICCloaks.esp

DwarvenMech.esp

DwarvenRifle_Guilmonex.esp

Dwemer Goggles & Scouter.esp

DwemerAutoBlade.esp

DwarvenPowerArmor.esp

FlameAtronachArmor.esp

Futanarium.esp

hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

LB_EnemiesEssplode!.esp

Mechanos Dwemer SteamPunk - Revolver.esp

Mechanos Dwemer SteamPunk - LawnMover.esp

Space Wiking's Dwemer Exoskeleton.esp

SuccubusCBBE3GiftByNausicaa.esp

DeadlyDragons.esp

DeadlyDragonsArmory.esp

Aethernautics.esp

Dwemer_Skyship_v1.esp

DA_Skyship.esp

moonpath_questdata.esp

Nchuzzrezar.esp

Better Dynamic Snow.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

dD-Dawnguard-MonsterMod EBT Patch.esp

Vile Art of Necromancy.esp

Open Cities Skyrim.esp

Open Cities Skyrim -- No Gates.esp

TRO_BasicNeeds.esp

CookingExpanded - TRO_BN.esp

Better Vampires.esp

AdvancedWerewolf.esp

ToL_Core_by_Brevi.esp

ToL_SKSE_by_Brevi.esp

midasskyrim.esp

Improved Dragon Shouts.esp

ASX_Spells.esp

dovahkiinrelax.esp

BFSEffects.esp

Sneak Tools.esp

Sneak Tools Vanilla Hoods.esp

Sneak Tools Vanilla Masks.esp

The Dance of Death.esp

Locational Damage.esp

SkyRe_Main.esp

SkyRe_Combat.esp

SkyRe_EncounterZones.esp

SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp

SkyRe_EnemyScaling.esp

SkyRe_StandingStones.esp

OhmesRaht.esp

SphereBox.esp

moveitLWT.esp

Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

SkyRe_Races.esp

PC Exclusive Animation Path.esp

PC Exclusive Animation Path - Elder Race.esp

Lady of Death.esp

Improved Dragon Shouts - Dawnguard.esp

KMM_2-1a.esp

DwarvenArmy.esp

DBset.esp

PocketProtectors.esp

PsilocybinMushrooms.esp

Spriggan Armor 2.esp

Rainbows.esp

Spells Cast Light.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-VanillaNights-Lvl-1.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dungeons-Hardcore.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp

WATER.esp

 

 

 

Alright, this morning when I turned my computer own steam INSTANTLY started downloading something for skyrim, I kept trying to launch skyrim and it said "This is open in another program" I tried to stop steam from doing what it was doing, but then I kept getting an error "this is not a proper .exe file', so I replaced the SKSE launched and tried again, and it launched skyrim to a black screen, and then locked up and never did anything,

 

So finally hours later steam finished downloading whatever, I replaced the 'TESV.exe' with the steam launched again, now Skyrim CTDs after the Bethesda logo every single time.

 

My game was working perfectly fine before, now it won't work at all. I really, really, really hate steam, and the fact that I have no choice but to use it to be aloud to play my copy of skyrim I PAYED for is really really starting to make me hate Bethesda, since EVERY DAY it does something stupid and makes it impossible for me to play my game. I have to force it into offline mode just to be allowed to play period, because it just says 'preparing to launch skyrim' forever. I've literally let it sit there for 3+ HOURS waiting for it to pull it up, no luck, the only way it works is to disable Steams ability to connect to the internet. I don't even know how it reconnected to the internet in the first place.

 

Needless to say, I'm sick of Steam already, and now I'm ready to find their customer support number at start cursing people out. Every single day it's doing something different to make it impossible to play the games I payed for, when I never wanted or asked for steam in the first place, and was basically blackmailed into getting it or not being allowed to play the game I payed good money for. It would be easier and less of a pain in the ass to illegally pirate games then to legally buy and use them with steam. It's like they are TRYING to get people to resort to that kind of bulls***.

 

Anyways, does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I have no idea what it did to skyrim, why it did, or why it's doing this, it never said it was updating, or repairing anything it just said 'downloading 3 files for skyrim', and refused to give me any information, and refused to let me play skyrim. I waited patiently for hours for it to finish, and still can't play Skyrim. Yesterday I spent FOREVER getting my mods to play nice planning on FINALLY getting to play all day today after finding through glitches and crashes for the past week, but NO.

 

And lastly, does anyone know how to strip steams privileges without it locking down my ability to still launch games through it? Some of my games like Bioshock and L4D2 can only be launched through steam, so I don't want to make it impossible to use them, but for some reason it seems to be allowed to edit and replace and delete my files without asking permission, and even WINDOWS has to ask my permission before doing that on this computer, it's very frustrating that Steam has found a way to allow itself to totally bypass my UAC.

 

EDIT: I still get the CTD if I try to launch with the normal skyrim launched and not SKSE.

[vroix]

Steam is annoying sometimes, but I have no choice but to deal with it in order to play Skyrim. I think I had similar problem before. After patch 1.8 was out, steam automatically update it. Once the patch is done, I can't get into the game, the screen just freeze on the Skyrim logo. I fixed it by reinstalling skyrim from the latest backup (which is annoying because after restoring from previous backup, steam download some files again. It took me 4-6 hours). But after that I can run Skyrim again.

 

I understand it is painful to reinstall it (and you have a lot of mods too) but maybe my experience can give you some idea on how to fix it.

 

As for a way to prevent steam on downloading updates, perhaps you can take a look at this skyrim unplugged. It will prevent steam from updating TES.exe without having to go offline mode.

 

About the random CTD, have you tried disabling iHUD? last time I had CTD (few days ago after the patch) it was caused by iHUD (but I think it should be fixed by now since Gopher has updated it).

[MotoSxorpio]

Update.esm should be the second plugin, Dawnguard, then Hearthfire. ALWAYS. I suggest BOSS or load order guidelines from UESP Wiki for the rest. Each time Skyrim is updated, you should be sure your load order was not somehow effected.

[modder3434]

i would also recommend to revert to patch1.7.7, if posiable, if you don't have a spare, a user was giving out copies of his 1.7.7 skyrim esm and update.esm, which i have a copy of (i'd be screwed without it)

 

if you need it email me (email is on my profile)

 

if you don't want to revert, double check and see if the mod authors updated thier mods, that could also help