Running fine till I save

[Trinsic75]

An odd problem has cropped up. In the Nightcaller Temple Quest, I am able to save pretty much any time up until after I finish the "dreamstep" segment. Once I return to the waking world, however, if I try to save the game I crash. Anyone able to suggest a fix?

[Uthuriel]

try saving with the console, open the console and type something like: save skyrim

 

this should work

[Trinsic75]

No good. It still happens. Could there be a damged script or something somewhere?

[fiewiel]

I ran into the same bug.

Drink the torpor, make the dreamstep, run out of the temple, save, go in and everything should work again.

[IsharaMeradin]

Oh the Vaermina thing. I ran into a similar issue. Had my auto-save mod running and I crashed right after all combat finished. Figured it was due to my auto-save mod interfering with something. So I reloaded and tried to manually save, it too crashed. What I ended up doing was suspending my auto-save mod, went back to a save prior to drinking the topor, played up to the point of drinking the topor and made a save then did my best to get thru without being killed. Once I exited the dreamstate, I waited till I was fully outside the dungeon to re-initiate my auto-save mod.

 

So the solution is to not save during the dreamstate and to return to Skyrim before attempting to save the game again.

[ripple]

This is a well known bug introduced by one of the official updates:

 

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Waking_Nightmare#Bugs

 

 

As of patch 1.8, saving during or after the Dreamstride portion of the
quest will cause the game to freeze on consoles or crash to desktop on
PC.

• To prevent this, avoid saving during this quest, and disable autosaves as well.
• http://images.uesp.net/6/66/Pc22.pnghttp://images.uesp.net/6/69/Xbox360.png
  Alternatively, after removing the barrier to speak with Erandur, simply
  leave the dungeon to go outside (in icy Skyrim), save outside,
  re-enter, and you should be able to save again normally.
• http://images.uesp.net/6/66/Pc22.png As the bug originates during the Dreamstride, use the console command tcl,
  cross through the barrier, and remove the soul gem. Since the quest
  progress is scripted through the status of the soul gem, this will
  progress the quest just as if you had used the Dreamstride. The only
  impact it will cause on the game is that there will be no enemies except
  two orcs in the dining room, Torek and Veren.
• http://images.uesp.net/b/b0/PS22.png
  The least complicated method to avoid this bug is to exit to the
  outdoor before and after the dreamstride. Exiting before the dreamstride
  will enable you to do it again after the dream, or else you will not be
  able to exit the temple at all.