Crash on Load

[Shtewart]

I've been having a problem recently with loading my Skyrim saves. I've really only had trouble loading my most recent save. It would crash on load but I would then be able to load the most recent save after successfully loading an earlier save. However, my most recent saves would occasionally load after a computer restart but that didn't always solve the issue. I have 100+ mods installed that run smoothly with little to no conflict and I experience very few crashes while playing.

I have run BOSS and cleaned mods and masters with TES5Edit and both of those have caused all of my saves to not load. I manually changed some mods in my load order but to no avail. I have been experiencing this problem for months and up until I ran BOSS and cleaned my files, I have always found a way to load a save.

Suggestions? Many solutions just involve TES5Edit and BOSS.

Edited May 16, 2013 by Shtewart

[prod80]

I believe this has something to do with custom animations, or too high load on your system... Do you happen to have this PC Exclusive Animations Path mod installed? I remember I read on the page about loading games where custom animations cause it to crash and to fix it was to load an older save before attempting to load your current save...

 

Just reading that on the mod page made me wonder why you would install it in the first place... it's just a nice way of saying 'This mod has the potential to completely destroy your save games' ...

 

Anyway.

 

• Dont TES5Edit the Skyrim Masters, causes more issues... nobody in their right mind is making mods that require you to have cleaned masters to work.
• BOSS is just a guideline... sorta, but I've stopped using it... it will attempt (attempt, lets repeat it) to sort your mods, but mostly (at least for me) it does more harm then good. Even mods where the authors state the correct load order and what to load before or after on nexus are completely ignored by that software and many things end up in wrong places causing issues from CTD to missing objects.

 

I can also very well be that you are just overloading your system, and that why your saves wont open sometimes.... eg. you have a lotta high res textures and your save game is in a city and so on... lotta stuff to load... the program, the engine and your system has limits you know.

 

I can tell you from my own experience yesterday evening that I had the 'not able to open my save' problem after I modified all NPC's in the game to use extremely high res face/skin/clothes textures... My save (which was in whiterun city exterior) would not open... I suspected the textures to blame (just too high) and placed originals back... Save opened fine. I went interior made a new save... installed the ultra high res textures, and the save opened up fine. Went outside... made a new save, tried to open it... same issue, didnt open.

 

It was just too much to handle for my system.

 

Anyway troubleshooting 100+ mods and this will be a pain :S

 

 

Since you say they sometimes load after system reboot, I believe you are overloading your system... see if reducing some settings help;

 

1. If you modified your skyrim INI's ...specifically uGridsToLoad, set it back to default. uGridsToLoad shouldnt really be used when modding your game this heavily. If you need to change uGrids, please find the correct instructions to change your current save game back to the default setting of 5! Or your save wont work at all.

2. Disable high res (pure) texture mods... see if your game becomes better. Uninstalling/Reinstalling texture mods (so mods that JUST have textures, not something that has other elements as well!) should not cause issues

3. If you have overclocked your RAM beyond specifications (so if it's factory approved for 1600Mhz, thats fine, but if you figured it runs fine on 1866Mhz, put it back to 1600.

4. Actually this applies to all overclocking... high load on overclocked components cause more stuff to fail. Even if stress tests show 100% green, just do it. My vid card can also overclock a 15% higher in any other game but my heavily modded skyrim.

5. If using ENB, see if diabling ENB helps... if that fixes it, try and use a newer or older ENB. Actually the older versions offer better performance and really, they dont look bad at all.

 

HTH

[Shtewart]

Thank you very much. I will turn down some settings and see if that helps my problem. Luckily for me, I have already troubleshooted (troubleshot?) my many mods and they work well with each other. I also don't have PC Exclusive Animation Path. I didn't really understand the purpose of that mod, so good for me I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

[Shtewart]

I lowered the graphic settings on Skyrim and loaded a game. It successfully loaded the most recent save. I then quit out and tried to reload the same game, but with no success. After about three attempts on earlier saves, I turned my settings back up to where they were and tried to load the game; nothing. I toyed around with some mods and load order but still nothing would load; even rebooting didn't help.

 

The only .ini edits I made were for ENBs that are now long gone and the .ini being returned to normal. I have no ENBs and no overclocked equipment.

 

Any more suggestions?