CTD Near Riften

[TBDM]

As the title says, I cannot seem to be able to get near Riften, as every time I approach the city (or at least from the North to the main gate). I get a CTD. My game otherwise seems to be stable, with very few crashes in the first ~25 hours of gameplay (I had problems with the Whiterun giant, but command killing him fixed it), but now is the first time I actually tried going to Riften and I cannot and was hoping someone may have some clues as to what is causing it. My load order and most recent papyrus log is attached.

loadorder.txt Papyrus.0.log

[deadmetal]

I had the same issue, quick question do you have the most up to date nasty critters installed?

[TBDM]

I do not think so, I'm pretty sure I have version 11.5 installed. I don't think I installed any of the v12 releases as I have not been using animated beast cocks, and those releases seemed to be geared toward people who use that mod.

[uscno84]

In my experience, ctd when approaching town/cities are texture mod related

[TBDM]

I wasn't aware of textures causing crashes. I thought that texture issues resulted in graphic glitches, and mesh problems were more likely to cause crashes. I do have Authentic Riften installed which could be a reason for the Riften specific issue, I could try disabling that and seeing if it does anything.

[Grey Cloud]

4 minutes ago, TBDM said:

I wasn't aware of textures causing crashes. I thought that texture issues resulted in graphic glitches, and mesh problems were more likely to cause crashes.

The textures can eat your VRAM which causes CTDs. A broken/faulty mesh can cause a CTD too. @uscno84 is prbably correct especially if this Authentic Riften mod adds more leaves and whatnot to an area that is already notorious for being VRAM hungry.

[uscno84]

Try it and see... but yeah, my game has an issue where if i insall any texture mods or have slyrim official texture pack installed, i crash when approaching towns.

[TBDM]

No luck, I crashed in basically the exact same spot (those three towers).

[uscno84]

If possible, uninstall ALL texture mods, then go to steam, validate install, launch a brand new game, let it run for about 30 secs, exit to main menu, re load a save before your last save, run toward riften and tell me what happens. By texture mods, i mean for example, roads and bridges parralax or vivid land scapes etc

[TBDM]

Validating the install said one file failed and was reacquired. I tried running the game after that and it crashed again in the same spot. I then deactivated all texture mods that did not require plugin changes. I did not start a new game, but loaded up the save file that I make immediately after making my character using Alternate start. Back to main menu, then loaded up my save. Crashed in the exact same spot. 

[yatol]

2 minutes ago, TBDM said:

Validating the install said one file failed and was reacquired.

and that may be a new problem later

 

anyway, when you have a ctd zone, you create new profile test

you load the game, and coc to ctd zone

if that don't ctd, problem is in the save, and you are in deep shit

if that ctd, you retry with just skyrim.esm

if that ctd, problem is a file (not a texture, a nif), so you put skyrim bsa in overwrite, the bsa that make ctd disappear, overwrite the nif that is the problem (to find it, you unzip bsa, then rename x to _x, until no more ctd, then rename folders in x)

if that don't ctd, you tick back esp, until it ctd, and the conflict is in one the last activated esp

once you know what esp it is, either you check its conflicts, either you get rid of it if you can't patch it