CAO and BSA ----Solved---

[Tlam99]

I have an issue with building BSA's with CAO only with this armor pack.

 

Build a couple of BSA with CAO, no problem up to now.

 

Armor pack, ca. 3.5GB, overwritten by BS builds.

 

1  max size set in CAO 1GB and create placeholder esp-fe

2 building BSA and Textures - BSA game crashes on load

3 building only a meshes BSA, no problem, so it's not the BS overwrite

4 building all in one BSA (textures and meshes in same BSA) game loads but crash open inventory with armor parts in

5 set no compression in CAO, just use textures as they are and alternative compress textures, doesn't matter

 

so it must be textures related. Checked also compress textures, same thing.

 

Any hint what might happen here ?

Edited July 28, 2021 by T-lam
solved

[judge007]

On 7/26/2021 at 6:30 PM, T-lam said:

I have an issue with building BSA's with CAO only with this armor pack.

 

Build a couple of BSA with CAO, no problem up to now.

 

Armor pack, ca. 3.5GB, overwritten by BS builds.

 

1  max size set in CAO 1GB and create placeholder esp-fe

2 building BSA and Textures - BSA game crashes on load

3 building only a meshes BSA, no problem, so it's not the BS overwrite

4 building all in one BSA (textures and meshes in same BSA) game loads but crash open inventory with armor parts in

5 set no compression in CAO, just use textures as they are and alternative compress textures, doesn't matter

 

so it must be textures related. Checked also compress textures, same thing.

 

Any hint what might happen here ?

 

Very bottom of CAO BSA tab does it say SSE in both fields?

[Tlam99]

Yes, actually, I packed some voice packs myself with dummy esp.

I need to check if there is something else in the textue folder.

Tried 1bsa mesh ca 800mb alone works. As soon as textures in textures - bsa

made, ctd. 

Size 1.8 gb 2x, ctd

Size 1gb 4x (texture, texture0  bsa etc.) ctd

Name is correct, made by CAO and checked.

I made it several times before, but this pack won't work.

 

[judge007]

17 minutes ago, T-lam said:

Yes, actually, I packed some voice packs myself with dummy esp.

I need to check if there is something else in the textue folder.

Tried 1bsa mesh ca 800mb alone works. As soon as textures in textures - bsa

made, ctd. 

Size 1.8 gb 2x, ctd

Size 1gb 4x (texture, texture0  bsa etc.) ctd

Name is correct, made by CAO and checked.

I made it several times before, but this pack won't work.

 

What armor pack

 

[Tlam99]

DX,  all those mithril armor, witchhunter red riding dress etc.

Complete pack of all.

The biggest I have. Works fine, only this issue. 

 

[judge007]

1 minute ago, T-lam said:

DX,  all those mithril armor, witchhunter red riding dress etc.

Complete pack of all.

The biggest I have. Works fine, only this issue. 

 

Try to do the fake data folder trick and use Archive.exe from Skyrim/Tools folder

[judge007]

1 hour ago, T-lam said:

DX,  all those mithril armor, witchhunter red riding dress etc.

Complete pack of all.

The biggest I have. Works fine, only this issue. 

 

 

I did a quick howto on the fake data folder trick

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/172905-a-guide-to-packing-loose-files-into-bsa-with-creation-kit-utility-archiveexe/

 

[Tlam99]

2 hours ago, judge007 said:

fake data

Tried it, works, but Texture BSA becomes > 2GB

It is a nightmare -- for me -- to fiddle around in which BSA goes which texture to stay below 2 GB.

Anyway, I found the problem.

 

Solution:

 

I always keep a working version in addition to a new version.

 

CAO 5.1 was the problem, building with 5.0 made working BSA's.

So, everything fine now, got my splitted texture BSA's.

[Tlam99]

how set this as solved ?

[judge007]

5 minutes ago, T-lam said:

how set this as solved ?

 

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