Skyrim SE not starting after installing mods

[TheRerabox]

So basically I had decided to get back into playing SKyrim. I downloaded some mods and figured everything was going well. I used LOOT to organize my load order, I ran FNIS and it said it had a 4.3% chance of crashing and I thought I was good. Sadly, however, when I click to play SKSE through Vortex, it proceeds to look like its running, but then nothing happens, don't even see the game pop up. Load Order is as follows:

0 0 Skyrim.esm

1 1 Update.esm

2 2 Dawnguard.esm

3 3 HearthFires.esm

4 4 Dragonborn.esm

5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp

6 6 Paradise_City_RESOURCES.esm

7 7 BSAssets.esm

8 8 LegacyoftheDragonborn.esm

9 9 BSHeartland.esm

254 FE 0 RealisticWaterTwo - Resources.esm

10 a BS_DLC_patch.esp

11 b Campfire.esm

12 c Falskaar.esm

13 d Gray Fox Cowl.esm

14 e Wyrmstooth.esp

15 f ClimatesOfTamriel.esm

16 10 SkyUI_SE.esp

17 11 SMIM-SE-Merged-All.esp

18 12 Prometheus_No_snow_Under_the_roof.esp

19 13 NSUTR_bugfixes.esp

20 14 NSUTR_groundsnow_mesh_fixes.esp

21 15 NSUTR_improvements.esp

22 16 ELFX - Exteriors.esp

23 17 ELFX - Weathers.esp

Vivid WeathersSE.esp

24 18 EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

25 19 Skyrim Immersive Creatures Special Edition.esp

26 1a Enhanced Solitude SSE.esp

27 1b The Great City of Winterhold.esp

28 1c The Great City of Falkreath.esp

29 1d Helgen Reborn.esp

30 1e Undeath.esp

31 1f The Great City of Solitude.esp

32 20 The Great City of Dawnstar.esp

33 21 Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

34 22 moonpath.esp

35 23 JRMoonpathtoElsweyrPatch.esp

36 24 Clockwork.esp

37 25 Immersive Weapons.esp

38 26 UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp

39 27 Arcanum.esp

40 28 The Great City of Morthal.esp

41 29 The Great City of Rorikstead.esp

42 2a Paradise_City_Merged.esp

43 2b The Great City of Dragon Bridge.esp

44 2c BecomeKingofSkyrim.esp

45 2d Frostfall.esp

Winterhold Restored - NSUTR Patch.esp

254 FE 1 Falskaar - Boat Location.esp

46 2e BBD_SkyrimFishing.esp

47 2f ForgottenCity.esp

48 30 Sneak Tools.esp

49 31 LevelersTower.esp

50 32 USSEP - The Great City of Solitude Patch.esp

254 FE 2 Falskaar - Fast Travel.esp

51 33 Apocalypse - Magic of Skyrim.esp

52 34 Apocalypse - Cheat Chests.esp

Falskaar - Better Dynamic Snow Patch.esp

Falskaar - SkyTEST Patch.esp

Falskaar - SkyTEST and Bruma Patch.esp

254 FE 3 Falskaar - Bruma Patch.esp

Falskaar - CLLF Patch.esp

254 FE 4 Falskaar - Unique Region Names.esp

254 FE 5 Falskaar - YASH Patch.esp

Falskaar - iNeed Patch.esp

Vivid Weathers - Extended Rain.esp

53 35 Jop - BrumaPatch.esp

Vivid Weathers SE - Bruma Patch.esp

Vivid Weathers SE - Extended Snow.esp

Vivid Weathers SE - Falskaar.esp

54 36 DiverseDragonsCollectionSE.esp

55 37 JoP - Immersive Armors Patch.esp

56 38 Ars Metallica.esp

254 FE 6 Falskaar - Bug Fixes.esp

57 39 SimplyKnock.esp

58 3a Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

59 3b icepenguinworldmapclassic.esp

60 3c FNIS.esp

61 3d FNISspells.esp

62 3e RaceMenu.esp

63 3f XPMSE.esp

64 40 Joy of Perspective.esp

65 41 Sneak Tools Vanilla Hoods.esp

66 42 Sneak Tools Vanilla Masks.esp

67 43 RaceMenuPlugin.esp

68 44 dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

69 45 EBT - IC PATCH.esp

70 46 dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp

71 47 CBBE.esp

72 48 RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp

73 49 Ordinator - Perks of Skyrim.esp

74 4a Apocalypse - Ordinator Compatibility Patch.esp

254 FE 7 Ordinator - Beyond Skyrim Bruma Patch.esp

75 4b Alternate Start - Live Another Life.esp

76 4c Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul.esp

77 4d Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp

RDO - CRF + USSEP Patch.esp

78 4e RDO - USSEP Patch.esp

79 4f Open Cities Skyrim.esp

254 FE 8 OCS + LOTD5 Patch.esp

80 50 Immersive Citizens - OCS patch.esp

81 51 Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

82 52 ELFX - Exteriors Open Cities Patch.esp

83 53 ELFXEnhancer.esp

84 54 Immersive Citizens - ELFXEnhancer patch.esp

85 55 RealisticWaterTwo.esp

Edited July 22, 2020 by TheRerabox

[anjenthedog]

1) make sure steam is running.

 

The game will not start if steam isn't running.

 

2) try making a shortcut to the skse64_loader.exe and then run it from the desktop (or wherever you place the shortcut)

 

Running from a link-button in Vortex (or afaik MO2) sometimes fails because of a mod manager mis-configuration. The desktop shortcut to the loader skips any potential issues with the intermediary mod manger link-button.

 

Beyond that I ain't gotz nuffin. Good luck!

[TheRerabox]

Yeah, it didnt work, thanks anyway

[TheRerabox]

Would it possibly be the amount of mods I have? If it is, I find that to be weird since FNIS is reading that there is a 4.3% CTD chance

Edited July 23, 2020 by TheRerabox

[anjenthedog]

The number isn't an issue...you appear to have far less than the max number

 

What could be an issue is an LE mod, or a mod with a problem, sometimes an undocumented contention between two or more mods, or one that Is patched but the patch isn't installed, or too many were installed "simultaneously and when they're loaded into the game (i mean when you boot the game, not the deployment step) they choke or crash the script handler or something, or there's a missing dependency that somehow misses being flagged as a "missing masters or similar by your mod manager, or things like I pointed out above. It can even be as silly as tying to launch SKSE64 loader via a button in vortex or MO2 or NMM that hasn't been properly configured.

[Algabar]

In addition to anje, doublecheck SKSE:

- installed correctly? It HAS to be installed manually, at least the files that go into the .../Skyrim SE folder.

- Current version of SKSE? And SKSE for SE, not the "Oldrim" version?

- Do you have more than one file named "skse64_1_5_xx.dll"? If you have leftover .dll files, SKSE won't start either.

- Did you update mods dependent on SKSE - in your case especially Racemenu?

- Do you use "engine fixes"? https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17230

 

For more troubleshooting:

- Did you test with a new game?

- And what happens if you start Skyrim without SKSE?

[oofyespapi]

I hope this thread isn't too dead, but I have been having the same problem recently after adding a couple silly sound mods and Better Jumping SE to my already modded game.

 

After my game failed to load, I unistalled them, tried running game without skse, tried uninstalling even more mods, ran LOOT, SSE EDIT, even FNIS and Wrye Bash a couple times and got no errors.

 

I then completely reinstalled the game and was able to run it again with just enb and a couple basic mods, But I got impatient and added all the same mods back again and the problem persisted. This makes it seem like it is the problem anjenthedog mentioned.

 

Tomorrow I will go back and add them all little by little and see if I can find a solution to our problem. We on that love-hate relationship with skyrim

 

 

***Ok so I went through and reinstalled everything again only this time niblet by niblet, and now everything is working fine. It looks like it was what anjenthedog said "too many were installed simultaneously and when they're loaded into the game they choke or crash the script handler or something"

 

Wasn't my post but thanks for the answer!!

Edited July 31, 2020 by oofyespapi