I have infinite loading screens regardless of mods or unmodded.

[randerzo]

On new game or COC from main menu the loading screen never ends, though the animation of the loading screen doesn't freeze (fog and rotating object). I am at a loss and google searches haven't proved fruitful as they all seem to address this problem as related to mods.

 

I have tried this with mods, with mods purged by Vortex, and with a clean untouched installation with the same result.

 

Can anybody give me some advice?

 

Please and Thank You,

 

Randerzo.

Edited September 24, 2020 by randerzo

[Algabar]

Strange case indeed. As you pointed out, infinite loading screens are usually mod-related....

 

There are just two things I can think of:

 

- Did you really start from a "clean" installation of Skyrim SE? "Clean" in this case means: "Delete the whole Skyrim folder, not just reinstall or verify game cache". If you don't start from a brand new folder, you may still have leftovr files from mods that might cause trouble.

 

- Permission issues on your system: The folder ".../program files (x86)" on your system drive (i.e. the drive that contains your Windows installation)is treated similar to a system folder by Windows. Therefore Windows might block access to necessary game files. Solution: Install Skyrim SE (and also other games) in separate folders outside "program files (x86).

 

Other than that, no idea - apart from hardware issues. What about other games? Do they run without problems?

[randerzo]

- Yes it is really clean. I changed the folder name and installed a new one.

 

-I tried copying the folder to my desktop and launching it from there but it did not fix the problem.

 

-Yes other games all work fine.

Edited September 26, 2020 by randerzo

[randerzo]

I deleted my Skyrim Special Edition folder in Documents and that solved the problem. I'm assuming it was either skyrim.ini or skyrimprefs.ini