Reapeated random crashes during Blade in the Dark

DoctorProteus · February 22, 2013

Greetings ladies and gentlemen, before I begin, please bare with me, as this is a big wall of text.

I recently reinstalled Skyrim after nearly a year, this is my second playthrough. So, I edited the ini to up the render distance setting to 9(up from 5) along with all other variables to support that smoothly, installed a bunch of mods and HD texture packs, with pretty much most of the graphics on maximum, my computer can handle all of this, and I will post specs and such later. As far as I could see, everything had been installed properly and everything was running fine, i was enjoying long walks and horse rides with my character from the start of the game to Whiterun, from Whiterun to Morthal and other area's, as well as dungeon delving, not a single stutter, not a single glitch, not a crash or anything even wobbling. Then i got the quest "Blade in the Dark" and that made my way to Kynesgrove, and that is when things got wonky.

Basicly, at this point, I was plagued by random and infuriating crashes to the desktop. Each crash is detailed below.

#1 On my way to Kynesgrove, a Dragon appears and attacks the Giants at their camp, you know, the one near a Dragons lair. I engage the Dragon but when it lands to attack a giant, I get a crash.

#2 I decide to take a different route and go to kynesgrove, ignoring the above mentioned Dragon. Upon killing Sahloknir at Kynesgrove and talking to Delphine, i went down the hill to get my horse, then I was struck by a crash.

#3 Sahloknir breathes fire on me and I get a crash.

#4 I kill Sahloknir and i get a crash when I loot his corpse.

#5 I kill Sahloknir, talk to Delphine, then press Esc to bring up the menu, hitting Esp caused a crash.

On the fifth attempt, I killed Sahloknir, talked to Delphine and skipped all her dialogue, however, I then braught up the map and fast traveled to Whiterun, went to my home and saved. I had avoided the crash. I saved the game and quit, and have not played since then earlier in the day, so I dont know if it's just restricted to that quest, but It may have something to do with Dragons, though I had no problems with Dragons before this event. So, does anyone have any theories on what might have went wrong? Because if something is wrong it may repeat again. Below are details about my game.

My games performence, even with everything at crazy levels, is performing beautifully. So I dont think it's a hardware problem.

GRID LOAD ALTERATION: I have been playing on very high settings with superb performence and no slowdown, bugs, glitches, etc... for 5 days, until now. I dont think it has anything to do with the load data)

<a href="http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1274926-ugridstoload-skyrimini-comparisons-and-explanation-default-57911/">http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/1274926-ugridstoload-skyrimini-comparisons-and-explanation-default-57911/</a>

My current ini settings.

[General]

uExterior Cell Buffer=100

uGridsToLoad=9

iPreloadSizeLimit=84934656

MODS: Sorted by BOSS. FortDawnguardEnhanced.esp unrecognised and manually sorted to best of my ability. (Have not done any cleaning, Im not confident enough in my modding ability to try stuff like this.

<ul>

<li>Skyrim.esm Active</li>

<li>Update.esm Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 73 ITM, 1 UDR records with 3.0.28. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Dawnguard.esm Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 607 ITM, 82 UDR records with 3.0.28. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev, Relev}}</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>HearthFires.esm Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 171 ITM, 11 UDR records with 3.0.28. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Dragonborn.esm Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 57 ITM, 8 UDR records with 3.0.28. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>ClimatesOfTamriel.esm Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 4 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm Active</li>

<li>Omegared99-Compilation.esm Active</li>

<li>SPIKE.esm Active</li>

<li>HighResTexturePack01.esp Active</li>

<li>HighResTexturePack02.esp Active</li>

<li>HighResTexturePack03.esp Active</li>

<li>Chesko_Frostfall.esp Active</li>

<li>Supreme Storms.esp Active</li>

<li>Supreme Storms - Cot Version.esp Active</li>

<li>BooksBooksBooks.esp Active</li>

<li>Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Climates of Tamriel - default.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Note: Use only one Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One esp.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>UnlimitedBookshelves.esp Active</li>

<li>tailoring.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyUI.esp Active</li>

<li>Cloaks.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 4 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>DaedricMask.esp Active</li>

<li>hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev, Relev}}</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>MaskofBlades.esp Active</li>

<li>Omegared99-WeaponSets.esp Active</li>

<li>Standard-15Percent.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev}}</li>

<li>Note: Use only one optional leveled list. (High, Medium, Standard or Uber)</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>ThalmorRobesEnchantment_2.esp Active</li>

<li>Dr_Bandolier.esp Active</li>

<li>College Of Winterhold Overhaul Release - V1.02.esp Active</li>

<li>RIC_Dawnstar.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 27 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>whiterunMarket.esp Active</li>

<li>WhiterunFortified.esp Active</li>

<li>WhiterunREVISION.esp Active</li>

<li>RRBetterWhiterunInt.esp Active</li>

<li>Immersive Weapons.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Delev}}</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>tos_laintardale_hf.esp Active</li>

<li>Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Illuminated Spells.esp Active</li>

<li>Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Dungeons.esp Active</li>

<li>Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Minor Cities & Town Interiors.esp Active</li>

<li>Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors.esp Active</li>

<li>ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp Active</li>

<li>dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Note: Ragdolls will conflict with other mods that change the skeleton.nif. Check <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16712"> Custom Skeleton Replacers</a> for compatibly with other skeleton.nif.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>SkyRealism - Capacity and Carry Weight.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Note: Use the Dawnguard compatible version please.</li>

<li>Requires: <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/16438">Bandolier - Bags and Pouches</a></li>

<li>Requires: <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13732">Leather Backpack</a>. Install only the black, brown and original varients. Also be sure to choose "Regular" for all install options.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>MidasSkyrim.esp Active</li>

<li>The Dance of Death - Ultimate Edition.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_Main.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev, Delev}}</li>

<li>Warning:

The SkyRe has many conflicts with other mods. Please read the readme

before playing with mod. This will prevent many problems. Read it <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9286">here</a>.</li>

<li>Note: If lockpicikng is not work then try to delete 'interface\lockpickingmenu.swf'</li>

<li>Note: If you have a problem with aiming try to install <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13652">this</a> mod.</li>

<li>Note: To make aiming easier, recommend to add the following lines to Skyrim.ini:</li>

<li>Note: [Actor]</li>

<li>Note: fVisibleNavmeshMoveDist=12288.0000</li>

<li>Note: [Combat]</li>

<li>Note: f1PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.64</li>

<li>Note: f3PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.64</li>

<li>Note: fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0</li>

<li>Note: fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>SkyRe_Combat.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_EncounterZones.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_EnemyScaling.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Bash Tag suggestion(s): {{BASH: Relev}}</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>SkyRe_StandingStones.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_Survivalism.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Contains dirty edits: 3 ITM, 0 UDR records. Needs <a href="http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/25859">TES5Edit</a> cleaning. A cleaning guide is available <a href="http://www.creationkit.com/TES5Edit_Cleaning_Guide_-_TES5Edit">here</a>.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>SkyRe_hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp Active</li>

<li>SkyRe_Plugin_Omegared99sArmorCompilation_3.5a.esp Active

<ul>

<li>Note: Obsolete. Update to latest version of SkyRe.</li>

<li>Note:

Remember to install the original mod before activating a patch or

skyrim will crash when it can't find the supporting files.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>SkyRe_Races.esp Active</li>

<li>Waves.esp Active</li>

</ul>

BASIC SPECS

Processor: AMD Athlon II x3 450 Processor 3.20GHz

RAM: 16.0 GB

System Type: 64-bit OS

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT240

My drivers are out of date by some month's, but this is because I tried using the new drivers some month's back and all they did was cause my games to crash to desktop and other software to ctd mid use, including Windows Media Player. I dont think it's a driver problem since the whole game was fine up until this one quest.

So, anyone got any idea's?

Edited February 23, 2013 by Evil Count Proteus

DoctorProteus · February 23, 2013

Uh, I just edited my post to fix a typo, and now the entire thing looks completely crazy. What the hell?

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