I can't interact with my horse!

[tillicollpase]

I started having a problem with the horse last night.

No matter what I do, I can't interact with my horse. I can't ride it, and although I can kill it, I can't search it's corpse. In other words, no "action" command works on my horse.

This happens with horses owned by me only.

I can steal other horses, ride them, kill them and loot the corpses like I should be able to.

 

But I can't steal the horse that will become mine when I buy it (the one with saddle) and can't ride it after I pay to buy it,

It still fast travels with me.

 

Yes, I am pressing the right button to ride it.

I tried console commands disable/enable kill/resurrect on the horse to no effect.

 

I think the horse mods initially caused the problem.

I had better horse, convenient horse, horses for followers, better textures for horses etc, and something got messed up here, probably. The initial problem was that my horse turned black, like its texture was gone, but I could still ride it. Then I probably removed some horse mods, and this problem started happening.

 

But what's really puzzling me is, this happens even after i disable these mods. In fact, if I keep better horse or convenient horse on (I don't remember which one) I can ride my horse. The problem is when I uninstall these mods. I don't want these mods anymore.

 

I've even uninstalled the whole game, removed the game files manually from the hard drive and reinstalled it, and this still happens with pure vanilla Skyrim.

Loading the save before this problem occurred doesn't help (i.e. this still happens with the saves from long ago, long before this problem happened). I still can't ride my damn horse.

 

I suspected I created this problem by either installing mods that conflict or uninstalled them in an improper manner, but this just boggles my mind as how this keeps happening even after I clean reinstall the game without any mods. It's as if the game has been re-hard coded to prevent me from riding my horse.

 

Has anyone ever had this problem? Googling returns a few people's posts with a similar problem, although I am not sure if we had exactly the same problem. You will notice I went a great length to explain exactly what's happening and what I have done to try solving it.

 

Any help will be really appreciated.

[tillicollpase]

Hm... I think it's Better horses mod.

When I enable that one, I can ride the horse.

Disable, I can't.

And it looks like the modder has provided an "uninstaller" mod, saying that the mod touch the game in deep places so removal can cause problems...

 

I suppose the reason why this kept happening before I noticed the "problem" was because I've had better horses all along... perhaps soon after I started the game, even though I didn't have a horse back then.

[scottmack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDShEPWIcE

Couldnt help myself..

Edited May 4, 2013 by scottmack

[Lipperto]

I use Immersive Horses and i didnt uninstall it before i couldnt interact with my horse and it even runs away from me. The name changed to My Horse and i still own it like i see it in the MCM menu. Other issues are the same tillicolpases. I reinstalled the mod and it didnt change anything so i killed the horse and bought a new one. It worked but the next day i whistled my horse to me and it starts again. The bug came out of the blue like i played over twenty hours with the mod and havent installed any horse affecting mods.