Skyrim Uncontrollable CTD's

[Vendeter]

The game crashes for no apparent reason. When I am in the building, I can play peacefully. When I walk on Riverwood, everything seems to be fine, but if I get to the bridge, the game crashes. Anyway, if I am on the street, I can take off at any moment. I have a bunch of fixes. But nothing helps. I don't want to reinstall the game as I will lose all mods. New game crashes at the beginning, after Alduin shouts.

[Psalam]

14 minutes ago, Vendeter said:

The game crashes for no apparent reason. When I am in the building, I can play peacefully. When I walk on Riverwood, everything seems to be fine, but if I get to the bridge, the game crashes. Anyway, if I am on the street, I can take off at any moment. I have a bunch of fixes. But nothing helps. I don't want to reinstall the game as I will lose all mods. New game crashes at the beginning, after Alduin shouts.

Please upload your load order (preferably in a spoiler).

Assuming you are using LE (since this is an LE thread), among your fixes do you have:

 

Many tools have been developed to help stabilize and improve the modded Skyrim experience. In my opinion, among the most important are:

 

1) Crash fixes. Found here and fairly self-explanatory (as always, do read the directions):

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725

 

2) ENBoost. This one is more difficult and I hope to do a walkthrough at some point in the future. It is VERY important if you have less than 4GB of VRAM. If you have 8GB or more you probably don't need it. At 4GB it's your call (I have 4GB and I use it). Anyway, you will need to look in more than one place in order to complete this (although it will take you through it). Start here:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/73618

 

As if ENBoost is not difficult enough MicroSoft has chosen to throw some additional glitches in for users of Windows 10. If you have problems getting ENBoost to work and you run Windows 10 take a look at this (I had to):

 

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/3089504-fix-for-skyrim-crashing-instantly-with-enb-on-windows-10/?p=56131491

 

3) SKSE. ini. The SKSE program does not come with this. As a result you do not get all the benefits of SKSE. While you can make your own version this one is already complete and optimized.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51038?tab=files

 

4) SKSE plugin preloader. Helps organize SKSE so as to improve management.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75795

 

5) Bethini. Skyrim's .ini files give it directions on how to handle your game. Problems with .ini files can cause all sorts of problems. While it is entirely possible to deal with these files by yourself Bethini gives you a tool with which to handle them safely. It is also much more intuitive than editing the files by yourself. It can be found here:

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/69787

[Papitas]

I'll give some general rules of thumb I developed by experience.

 

Once having all basic bug fixes up to date, CTDs can be caused by:

• Lack of memory. Culprits are usually mods that spawn new enemies and such.
• Corrupt assets. That's specially true if you always get CTDs at some specific location, like your case.
• Mods that handle NPCs for a long time. I've been having random CTDs with some sex matchmaking mods. It's like if sometimes there are in-game struggles between scripts to control one specific NPC.
  I don't know the technical details behind this, but disabling sex matchmaking mods (by MCM will do, no need to uninstall them) usually does the trick.

[Vendeter]

On 8/29/2020 at 1:41 AM, Psalam said:

Please upload your load order

The problem is that the game can crash without mods

 

On 8/29/2020 at 1:41 AM, Psalam said:

Crash fixes

I use this and other similar plugins

On 8/29/2020 at 1:41 AM, Psalam said:

ENBoost

After installing this and ENB, I got the feeling that my FPS has decreased. So I removed it.

 

On 8/29/2020 at 1:41 AM, Psalam said:

SKSE. ini

There is this too. These are the settings... Hmm, I just opened the file and saw that there are different settings (yesterday were not the same)

Spoiler

[Display]
iTintTextureResolution=1024 (changed by me now)

[General]
ClearInvalidRegistrations=1

[Memory]
DefaultHeapInitialAllocMB=3072 (changed by me now)
ScrapHeapSizeMB=512 (changed by me now)

[Interface]
EnableContainerCategorization=1

[Loader]
RuntimeName=TESV.exe

[Debug]
WriteMinidumps=1 (changed by me now)

 

On 8/29/2020 at 1:41 AM, Psalam said:

Bethini

I also used it. Although I did not understand how it would help. I, perhaps, changed the graphics through this and put a checkmark on some functions.

[Vendeter]

On 8/29/2020 at 2:10 AM, Papitas said:

Lack of memory

Perhaps, but the game can crash without mods.

 

On 8/29/2020 at 2:10 AM, Papitas said:

Corrupt assets

Hmm... There is a possibility. I downloaded pure Skyrim and can replace Skyrim files with mods with pure Skyrim files. But I have to re-install various fixes and changes in the meshes of the characters' faces and so on.

 

On 8/29/2020 at 2:10 AM, Papitas said:

Mods that handle NPCs for a long time

Unlikely.

[Grey Cloud]

6 hours ago, Vendeter said:

After installing this and ENB, I got the feeling that my FPS has decreased. So I removed it.

Then you did something wrong.

 

6 hours ago, Vendeter said:

Hmm, I just opened the file and saw that there are different settings (yesterday were not the same)

Then you are doing something wrong here too. The settings do not change of their own accord.

 

6 hours ago, Vendeter said:

Although I did not understand how it would help. I, perhaps, changed the graphics through this and put a checkmark on some functions.

Then you did something wrong here. Read the instructions. Pro tip: do not make changes to ini files if you do not know what those changes do. The idea of using Bethini is that it can either reset all your inis to default settings thus removing all your cockups or reset them to a known good configuration.

 

6 hours ago, Vendeter said:

Perhaps, but the game can crash without mods.

An unmodded game still uses memory and if your memory has not been configured properly then it will CTD.

 

'Random' CTDs are 99% of the time caused by memory issues. Installing and properly configuring the stability tools will eliminate 99% of the CTDs.