All mods stopped working

[Durante]

Game was working fine yesterday. Loaded up Skyrim today and mods no longer work on new game, trying to load an old save gives the message:

 

Missing files: Dawnguard.esm Dragonborn.esm Hearthfire.esm and many other esm's...

 

Nexus mod manager shows all of the mentioned "missing" plugins as activated.

[Grey Cloud]

Is something pointing at the wrong place? Your SKSE Loader shortcut or whatever you use to start the game?

[Durante]

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

Is something pointing at the wrong place? Your SKSE Loader shortcut or whatever you use to start the game?

I use SKSE loader to start the game, the shortcut seems to be fine, I even tried to start the game through Steam version of SKSE.

 

Just a theory but I think it might have to do with Skyrim.esm and update.esm missing from Skyrim vanilla launcher. I remember having a similar/same problem a  year back, but unfortunately I don't recall how I solved it.

[Grey Cloud]

30 minutes ago, Durante said:

I think it might have to do with Skyrim.esm and update.esm missing from Skyrim vanilla launcher.

Strange. I just checked in my TESV Launcher and Skyrim.esm and Update.esm aren't there. Never noticed it before but there again I seldom go near the vanilla launcher.

[Durante]

47 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Strange. I just checked in my TESV Launcher and Skyrim.esm and Update.esm aren't there. Never noticed it before but there again I seldom go near the vanilla launcher.

Eh, you're probably right. Those were missing on NMM. I'm out of ideas since I didn't do any major changes recently.

 

Edit:  I had over 500 plugins. Reducing them solved the problem.

[Grey Cloud]

1 hour ago, Durante said:

Edit:  I had over 500 plugins.

 ? The max is 253 or 254.

[Durante]

37 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

 ? The max is 253 or 254.

 

Total plugins, including inactive ones ?