ntdll.dll & TESV.EXE - Windows Exception (Solved For Real on Windows 7)

[punkbuzter]

Hi.

 

Ok so I have went through hell and back for this... There are so many things I have done I don't know if it was a combination or just the one thing that solved it.

Problem was, game was crashing at random times between 0-30 minutes of gametime, I could just stare at the world and the game would crash, not at startup, not anywhere specific, just plain random.

So I activated and checked the papyrus error-log, I checked Mod Organizer error-log, came to the conclusion that the problem was not in my mods and was not in my loadorder, cuz everything was clean and working, and no specific mod were causing the crash. At first, I suspected SOS or FNIS Sexy Move or perhaps even Archery Overhaul but it was too random.

 

I followed every solution I could find on several forums to the letter, fixed permissions and ownership of the C drive, ran Tes5Edit on all my mods and had them cleaned, started everything as Admin, had everything up2date (every mod, every driver, every language of .NET and C++), performed RAM checks, got the SKSE memory patch, everything...

 

Now, I'm gonna tell you about the last thing I did, after this I've been playing 2 days straight and not a single crash. I would go as far to say that I solved the problem.

... In my crash logs I would find Windows Exception errors, and specifically the "ntdll.dll" file in SYSWOW64, and so after everything I did without success I actually went to download a new ntdll.dll file and replaced it. After PC restart I got stuck in infinite bluescreen bootloop and thought I was screwed for sure. But, googling for a solution I found that using the Windows Installation Disc for repairing Windows worked (I did not restore from any backup or revert to any previous date, all I did was the repair).

And that's it... Repairing Windows 7 with the installation disc got rid of my random Skyrim crashes, no more Windows Exception errors! ((correcting myself in the updates below))

I don't know if you're required to fix permissions or do all the things I did, but during my testing nothing fixed it until I repaired my OS.

 

Hope this helps someone stuck in my situation in the future! After all, TES6 is pretty far away from being released.

 

 

(edited) PS: To those who don't have a DVD drive like myself, if you have a an image/iso of the disc, you can use "Rufus" to create a bootable USB. The repair tool can be found just about after you selected language. It might be that you actually need to corrupt the file for the repair tool to actually find a problem, so if you intend to try this out, I highly suggest you have the installation disc ready before you replace the file. I'm not certain of anything, I did this in desperation to fix my game after months of modding and learning to fix individual problems.

Best of luck to everyone with this problem!

 

 

[UPDATE]
It appears I could play for 3 days now, and got another Windows Exception Error but this time it's not c0000006 ntdll.dll, this time it's c0000005 TESV.exe.

So in other words, ntdll.dll got fixed but moved to somewhere else... But this is good news, at least the number and file changed. I'll keep posting updates as I go.

 

[UPDATE]
Changed the enblocal.ini settings and removed ELFX (it was causing weird glitches and I was tired of fixing it), been playing and leaving the game active while afk for the whole day and not a single crash. I had 1 ILS but that was caused by a badly sorted conflict between ImCH and Dolls, some vampire script failed but it was not a Windows Exception, just had to iron those two mods out and boom, I am done! I shall post MY settings in the attachments so people with these errors can resolve them!

Only took me about 2-3 years failing with my mods to figure things out

Let's just hope things gets better and more stable when TES6 gets released, and I hope this community still lives on!

 

[UPDATE] So I just figured out that c0000005 may be related to memory shortage (not hardware), so playing with the "MemoryPatch 1.2" and "MemoryBlocksLog" further extended the time between crashes and perhaps a very finely tuned memory block would solve it. Or at least further extend the time before crash long enough to not be bothered about it. I mean, 0-2 crashes a day to me smells like success... Before I fixed the ntdll.dll issue I had like 20 crashes a day... Turns out this is taking a turn for the better.

Anyway, it has been a long journey and it feels like this is going to be my final update on the matter, at this point there's just the badly/unstable written game code left and having a 100+ mods written by random people sure calls for a few minor errors every now and then and yeah, stacking a couple of minor errors can become as bad as a big one.

Best of luck to anyone with c0000005 or c0000006 errors, I hope you find my story here helpful!

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