New to modding - been having a few problems

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

Hey! I'm pretty new to skyrim modding and I've been having a couple problems.

 

1) my game started to crash after leaving riverwood for the first time, I'm not sure what's wrong and LOOT hasn't pointed me in any helpful directions.

 

2) I installed the unofficial skyrim patch after having these issues, hoping it may fix the random crashes, but the patch won't even appear in my loot order, so I don't know how to get it into LOOT.

 

I'm running an rtx 2060 and an i5, this is a list of mods I have installed.

 

Immersive Weapons

Immersive Creatures

Immersive armours

Barenziah Quest Markers

Immersive Patrols

Enhanced Textures Detail

Apocalypse v945

The Forgotten City

Skyrim Flora Overhaul SE v2.72D

WARZONES Civil Unrest for SSE

Valkyrja Castle Whiterun

OBIS Special Edition

Skyrim Undeath SSE

Skyrim re engaged dolomite

TB'S improved water

enb helper

LC riverhelm sse

hammett's dungeon packs for sse

I just need a little help to fix these constant crashes. I arranged my mods in loot and there are no issues besides with the DLC, which show some warnings, however i'm running special edition so that shouldn't be an issue. Let me know if there are any knowledgeable people who can help :smile: I would love to have my game working normal, and learn some more about the modding process. Thanks!

Edited October 21, 2020 by mrmagoordrdrd5

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

please gimme a hand <3

[HadToRegister]

Did you install the Unofficial Patch and expect to use it on your already in progress save game?

Because you can't do that.

You can't add or remove mods, and expect your save game to work properly without crashing after that.

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

Nah I wasn't expecting my save to work with unofficial patch after already starting, it's two separate problems.

 

firstly, my original save just kept crashing and LOOT didn't provide anything helpful, THEN after i installed the unofficial patch, it wouldn't appear in loot.

so yeah, i'm trying to figure both out!

[arthur853]

1.Immersive Creatures tends to be quite buggy from my experience and isn't something I would recommend using

(a few users claim turning off "additional spawns" seems to help)

 

2.Are you using SkyUI and SKSE?

 

3.Do a reinstall with Vortex for USSEP and remember to enable and deploy, if that still doesn't work do a manual install.

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

I am using skyui and skse, both seem to be working fine.

As for immersive creatures, I'll give that a shot but if problems persist I'll just stop using it and see if that helps.

 

and cool, I'll just reinstall it and see if it puts it in LOOT.

 

Just got home from work so I'll do this in a little and update the thread.

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

So I installed the unofficial patch fine, but again after finishing Helgen my game will crash intermittently, whether I fast travel or merely sit in game doing nothing for a little. i'm almost 100 percent sure that my mod order is good, and loot isn't really showing any problems with my mod list so I have no idea why it continues to crash.

If i have to play through helgen one more time omg I'm gonna lose it.

[arthur853]

1. Loot merely suggests an order, it doesn't really help against conflicts.
2. You mentioned you're using SKSE, did you get the engine fixes and properly tweak them?
3. Is the Helgen crash occurring during the cart scene or after you leave the cave?

Edited October 22, 2020 by arthur853

[Algabar]

Since you got a very short load order, troubleshooting shouldn't be too hard. Although your load order is short, there are some mods that MIGHT cause problems - simply because they change a lot of things and might also partly conflict with eachother. I've marked these mods in orange.

 

 

Immersive Weapons

Immersive Creatures

Immersive armours

Barenziah Quest Markers

Immersive Patrols

Enhanced Textures Detail

Apocalypse v945

The Forgotten City

Skyrim Flora Overhaul SE v2.72D

WARZONES Civil Unrest for SSE

Valkyrja Castle Whiterun

OBIS Special Edition

Skyrim Undeath SSE TBH - not sure. I don't really know that mod....

Skyrim re engaged dolomite

TB'S improved water

enb helper

LC riverhelm sse

hammett's dungeon packs for sse

 

To be clear: I don't want to blame any of these - mostly very well known - mods. I'm not saying they don't work or anything.

 

On their own, they are absolutely fine. It's the combination that might be problematic IMHO. Both OBIS and warzones for example add a lot of stuff - and so does Immersive patrols. Same goes for Immersive Creatures. Then there's Riverhelm castle, that changes an area where Immersive Patrols places soldiers and so on.... There could easily be conflicts or other interferences between these mods. Different events / spawns at the same location for example can crash the game.

 

Make sure to check the description pages of these large mods and maybe also the "comments" section, if patches are needed.

 

In general, I'd recommend choosing lighter/smaller scale mods for the beginning. Adding a player home, some weapons or armors, some nice textures...

 

For troubleshooting:

1. Start a new game without mods. Play through Helgen and the cave - or maybe even to Riverwood. Save your game. You can now use this save as a "test save". If you want a "shortcut" to bypass the somewhat lenghty intro, you can also use Alternate Start.

2. Now reinstall your mods one by one and test. If the CTDs start to happen again, you've found the "culprit" (or maybe rather the combination of mods that don't play nicely together).

[mrmagoordrdrd5]

@arthur

I'm not entirely sure what you mean so I'm gonna go with no - I don't think I got the engine fixes or made any adjustments.

 

The crashes occur after escaping Helgen. Typically after visiting Riverwood.

 

 

@Alagbar.

 

Thanks, I'll give this a shot. I ran TESedit and it showed that there were some errors in Riverhelm so I disabled it, I'll create a test save shortly and see how everything goes.