Skyrim crashing to desktop before menu, not sure which mod is causing it.

[andypuk1980]

I hope someone can help me, I just downloaded some follower mods on Nexus and my game will now not load for some reason, the splash screen comes up but before I can load my save and view the main menu it will just crash to the desktop. I tried uninstalling the new follower mods but still getting the crash to desktop, the game was loading perfectly fine before i downloaded these mods.

I just downloaded Crash Logger SSE AE VR, tried loading the game again but still crashing, I do however have a crash report but I have no idea how to decipher it, or see whats causing the crashing, if i post the log here, can someone with knowledge help me out here?

crash-2023-10-10-14-05-55.log

[JimUpdating]

one thing is the populated cities/towns/villages LEGENDARY. If using SE, then you should be in https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2005

 

Otherwise what I'm seeing is a lot of references to Highmoon hall in morthal, and a lot of overwrites Skyrim.esm -> HearthFires.esm -> Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp -> Immersive Wenches.esp -> Populated Cities Towns Villages Legendary.esp -> Aiyana BAC_Follower.esp -> CS_Sasana.esp -> HildeFollower.esp

 

If it isn't the legendary mod, then my guess would be a lot of the followers are appearing in Highmoon Hall, and the NPCs are somehow overwriting each other, or appearing in the same location. If Hildefollower is the last mod downloaded, check that the other mods are still intact (ie immersive, populated, Aiyana, Sasana)

 

 

[traison]

44 minutes ago, andypuk1980 said:

the splash screen comes up but before I can load my save and view the main menu it will just crash to the desktop

 

As has been stated a million times before, this is pretty much always a missing master plugin related crash.

 

45 minutes ago, andypuk1980 said:

I tried uninstalling the new follower mods but still getting the crash to desktop, the game was loading perfectly fine before i downloaded these mods.

 

Logic thus dicatates that you didn't in fact uninstall all new follower mods.

 

As for the crash log, and considering the circumstances of the crash, I'm going to guess that the problem involves one or all of the following:

Dragonborn.esm

HildeFollower.esp

AuroraFollower.esp

[andypuk1980]

So I managed to get it back up and running, I can load an old save and everything is intact, the suspected mods are reinstalled and the game loads ok.

No idea why but everytime I create a new save and load that everything just goes missing, Lydia walks off with no clothes on, my other followers have dissappeared, both my Hearthstone houses have dissappeared from the map, and everything in MCM is being reconfigured and loading new with default settings, I have no idea whats going on, also getting messages that certain mods are no longer present when infact they are all enabled on Vortex and was working perfectly before, even the armor my character was wearing has disappeared he's standing there with just a bald head no body and carrying the shield of Ysgramor.

It's even doing this on old saves for this character too.

I'm running the SE version for Populated Towns/Cities so not whats going on there, I'll try one last thing and remove the follower mods from Morthal and Dawnstar and see if that helps otherwise I'll just take a break and start afresh another time.

I'm guessing my save has been totally messed up now and I'll have to restart from the beginning again, very annoying if its doing this, I've lost a good chunk of progress in the story as well, I am not happy.

[traison]

2 minutes ago, andypuk1980 said:

No idea why but everytime I create a new save and load that everything just goes missing, Lydia walks off with no clothes on, my other followers have dissappeared, both my Hearthstone houses have dissappeared from the map, and everything in MCM is being reconfigured and loading new with default settings

 

The related plugins are disabled. Either the files are actually missing or perhaps Vortex messed up the plugins.txt file.

[andypuk1980]

Hmm, everything in Vortex is showing as enabled or at least the mods or plugins that should be working are all enabled, where is this plugins.txt file and how can I get that fixed if thats messed up?

As I said I can load up an old save with everything intact but creating a new save and loading it just messes up and everything gets reset.

Another question is will all this happen again if I start a new game with a fresh new character? I'd imagine everything would work now on a new character save as long as I don't keep adding new mods.

[traison]

8 minutes ago, andypuk1980 said:

creating a new save and loading it just messes up

 

Would need to inspect that new save in ReSaver then.