Mod Organizer 2, Bodyslide AND FNIS either hang indefinitely or crash on start

[Atterus]

Hello all,

 

Been lurking around for some time. I had a technical question regarding Mod organizer combined with Bodyslide and FNIS (SE). A problem that has been driving me mad the past few days. I figured the coding wizards here would be most likely to have encountered the issue before.

 

So... at some point I deleted some meshes I figured were being overwritten (not needed or I could get them back no problem) and until then, Bodyslide and FNIS were working as per usual. I had done this kind of thing a million times, had issues a million times since I'm impatient, and fixed said issues a million times. I'd say I'm a casual modder, but I've been doing more or less the same procedure since Oldrim was new. But suddenly, after noticing some missing items in the game (which had been working perfectly for a week, stuff was relatively inconsequential) FNIS and Bodyslide both suddenly borked out for seemingly no reason. I had not changed any settings, any inis, or anything beyond deleting a few files and now I wanted to regenerate them.

 

A note, I do all this in MO2 where everything is compartmentalized. Usually you just have missing stuff in the game, like I do, but the programs still run fine enough then complain when I am missing some file. I've reinstalled FNIS and Bodyslide both a dozen times now and tried the handful of suggestions out there I can find. Still same thing, hang forever when run normally, or immediately crash after I reinstall them (then proceed to hang forever again).

 

So, at the visible level, the issue is that when Bodyslide and FNIS are opened from MO2 hang for over several minutes before I force close them. Nothing gets generated. When I reinstall them and run them, they just immediately crash. When they hang, they show up in task manager, when they immediately crash they do not. I've checked my paths and the game still runs fine (probably the most annoying part since it is just the missing stuff bothering me). Like, animations still work, most items are still around, bodyslides are correct (aside from me wanting to mess with a few clothings), making it seem like nothing is wrong on the surface. It's good enough I'm thinking of powering through the missing stuff, or just repeating the mods install since this is the cleanest it has run in a long time.

 

From what I've gathered in my peeks into other people with similar issues, this is a issue with MO or otherwise I'm missing something that is causing both programs to freeze up. It's all very odd since I've done nothing that should cause these programs to flat out break, get frustrated with me deleting files all over, sure, missing presets and locking up, naturally, but refusing to even open? This is new...

 

I suppose I'm asking if anyone knows if there are particular instances that can cause this kind issue? Can missing files in linked mods cause freezing? Did deleting the meshes mean I have to go on the "great mesh hunt" journey now to get those programs working? Is there a profile or something I need to delete to force operation (I've clean installed both programs)? I'm trying to keep the game I have going since not a whole lot is busted, but those FEW TINY THINGS(tm) are bothering me just as I get immersed, and I know I can fix them if I get FNIS and Bodyslide up again.

 

Thoughts or Suggestions? Thanks!

 

Edit: one thing I since did was remove the read-only stuff in the mods folder, didn't change anything, but even running MO as admin, I wondered if Windows was causing some odd issue.

[Atterus]

I figured it out. It's actually pretty insidious and had nothing to do with MO or even anything Skyrim related... it was a virtual desktop app used by a organization. So, you know the various "log into our server and use our apps as if it was on your machine" type of virtual desktops? Yeah those? Well... turns out they can lock up some of these programs... I uninstalled mine and voila!