Unofficial Patches

[quindia]

At the risk of being "yelled at" what's happened with the unofficial patches? All of the links here go to pages that aren't available... manual searches turn up patches in other language translations. I KNOW I'm missing something, but I've been screwing with this all day. I have everything else installed and conflict free, but the game crashes with 'Dawnguard' etc. enabled. It runs fine if I disable these (and any mod that requires them). Help would be appreciated.

[Allannaa]

The first thing you might try is to uncheck/disable (NOT delete) ALL mods except Update, HF, DG, DB, and the HiRes Texture packs.  Start Skyrim, but don't click NEW to start a new game. 

 

Instead, open the console with the ~ key and type

COC HelgenHomestead

Then hit Enter.  Let the game load you into that cell (it's a relatively empty, totally safe, vanilla cell).  Then exit, without saving.  That should generate a Skyrim.ini that "understands" that you have all the official content.  Then, one by one, check/enable your mods and as you do each one, again load into the HelgenHomestead cell, make sure the mod is "up" and not crashing you, and exit without saving to go on to the next mod.

 

This method generally works, whether you use MO, NMM, or manual install of your mods.

 

If it didn't work, try this:

 

Check your User>MyDocs>MyGames>Skyrim> Skyrim.ini file

Be sure you have this:

Spoiler

 

[Archive]
bUseArchives=1
sResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa
sResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, HearthFires.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa

 

 

 

 

Now check your Steam>SteamApps>Common>Skyrim> SkyrimEditor.ini

Under General, you want to be sure you have

Spoiler

 

bAllowMultipleEditors=1
bAllowMultipleMasterLoads=1

 

and under Archive, be sure you have

Spoiler

 

bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
SArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa
SInvalidationFile=ArchiveInvalidation.txt
iRetainFilenameOffsetTable=1
iRetainFilenameStringTable=1
iRetainDirectoryStringTable=1
bCheckRuntimeCollisions=0
bUseArchives=1
SResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa
SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Hearthfires.bsa

 

 

 

 

NOTE the order of things in the SResourceArchiveList2 in both the Skyrim.ini and the SkyrimEditor.ini.  For some reason, for some people, it must be exactly that order.

 

That should clear things up for you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MadMansGun]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214

 

and other useful things here:

https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/5815-uslep-unpatch/

 

[quindia]

Thanks.. will try these tonight..

[quindia]

Oh, I have the Unofficial LE patch and all of the official ones..

 

Thanks.. will try some of these workarounds tonight..

[quindia]

For some reason the expansions were not in the .ini file, even though they showed up in NMM.. I uninstalled them and reinstalled them and NOW they seem to be working.

 

Thanks for that. I’m not a noob at adding mods, but that was a frustrating afternoon..

 

Thanks, again..

[Allannaa]

Now you know why there are still some of us who don't bother with NMM or MO *wink

 

It is frustrating, but sometimes Skyrim just won't play nice with itself.  Glad you got it going!