Intermittent crash to desktop on start up.

[wonkuruben]

Hello,

 

I have come across a rather odd occurrence. My game 'has' to crash once before I can launch it. This is also the case when I exit Skyrim and play, say, one hour later. It will crash when launched from NMM once and work the second time.

I have already 'thinned out' my mod list to what I find essentials.

 

My mods:

 

Skyrim.esm

Update.esm

Dawnguard.esm

HearthFires.esm

ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

SPIKE.esm

HighResTexturePack01.esp

HighResTexturePack02.esp

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

HighResTexturePackFix.esp

Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp

Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Dungeons-Hazardous.esp

ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp

EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

CLARALUX.esp

CLARALUX-DG-Patch.esp

CLARALUX-HF-Patch.esp

Fantasy Music Overhaul Redone.esp

StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp

BirdsHFclean.esp

lt_camping.esp

Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

DYNAVISION Dynamic Depth of Field.esp

SkyUI.esp

iHUD.esp

Cloaks.esp

1nivWICCloaks.esp

DK_Armor_By_Hothtrooper44.esp

hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

DeadlyDragons.esp

Hypothermia.esp

Immersive Weapons.esp

No Fast Travel.esp

RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp

RND_Dawnguard-Patch.esp

RND_HearthFires-Patch.esp

The Dance of Death.esp

Crimson Tide - Blood.esp

SkyRe_Main.esp

SkyRe_Combat.esp

SkyRe_EncounterZones.esp

SkyRe_EnemyScaling.esp

SkyRe_StandingStones.esp

HothFollower.esp

Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

SkyRe_Races.esp

WATER.esp

RND_Water-Patch.esp

warburg's 3d paper world map - dawnguard.esp

Bashed Patch, 0.esp

SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp

ReProccer.esp

WTF.esp

Warburg's 3D Paper World Map - Texture 2.esp

[MShoap13]

Sounds like it could be a RAM issue, how much System RAM do you have?

[wonkuruben]

Sounds like it could be a RAM issue, how much System RAM do you have?

Thanks you for your timely response.

 

These are my specs:

Win7 Ultimate

8GB of ram

Geforce GTX 570

Soundblaster X-fi Xtreme Audio

AMD Phenom II x4 black edition

[MShoap13]

32-bit or 64-bit Windows? If it's 32-bit, try out GameBooster and see if that doesn't help. If 64-bit, it's most likely not a RAM issue.

[wonkuruben]

64-Bit of course to accommodate the RAM. Forgot to write that down . :P

[MShoap13]

Exactly when does it crash? Do you get to the menu? Do you see the Dragon Logo? Does it play the menu music?

 

Have you used anything like BSAOpt to recompress/optimize any of your .bsa archives? Recompressing makes the game take longer to decompress them when needed and recompressing the meshes, animations, sounds, music (basically anything besides textures and the misc. .bsa) is known to cause hangs/crashes/stutter.

 

HDD or SSD? If you're on an HDD, how large is your Page File?

[wonkuruben]

Exactly when does it crash? Do you get to the menu? Do you see the Dragon Logo? Does it play the menu music?

 

Have you used anything like BSAOpt to recompress/optimize any of your .bsa archives? Recompressing makes the game take longer to decompress them when needed and recompressing the meshes, animations, sounds, music (basically anything besides textures and the misc. .bsa) is known to cause hangs/crashes/stutter.

 

HDD or SSD? If you're on an HDD, how large is your Page File?

My game crashed even before the Bethesda logo shows up. It is rather instant. I see SKSE initiate, the game launches showing a black screen and that's when it returns to desktop.

I have used TES5EDIT to clean my .BSA. I have done so a while back though and I only had this problem until recently.

 

I have 2 HDD's and sysdm.cpl tells me I have aprox 8GB allocated to the pagefile. I have set it to automatic allocation.

[wonkuruben]

I have now come to a point where the game launches 1 in every 10 tries. Has anyone else come across this problem?

 

UPDATE: I think I found out the problem. It seems Overwolf conflicts with the game. *Facepalm* I'll be most sure after a few play sessions but all seems fine now.