"Would you like to play a game?" Message on New Game, instant death by ice spell - Help!

[Splintered_Lizard]

I'm a bit lost as to what is going on, but I'm copying the text another user on reddit said because he explains it perfectly:

 

with every new character when I load a save this happens:

The frostbite spell shoots out of my chest, I die even if I have TGM turned on or set my health to insane levels, then the death animation plays over and over again while the frost is still shooting out.
While this is happening a menu pops up saying "Would you like to play a game?" and asks me to choose a difficulty level or cancel.
I have to click an option at least five times before it disappears, and no matter which I choose nothing happens. It'll keep popping back up every few seconds too.
If I try to open the menu or console I can but only for a few seconds, then I'll be forced out of it.

 

This is also happening to me. Supposedly the issue on their end was going over the plugin limit, but this isn't the case for me. I'm at exactly 255 plugins. Plus how on earth would that be the problem? If I go over, Skyrim just doesn't load past the main menu, which is fine.

So I am curious what the *real* reason is and how to stop it. I also want to post to bring light to this issue because I'm sure there's no way I'm the only one on the site to have experienced this.

[Grey Cloud]

1 hour ago, Splintered_Lizard said:

I'm at exactly 255 plugins

Skyrim SE can go a lot higher than 255 thanks to esls.

 

Never come across your problem before. Are you using an alternative start mod or are you loading into a vanilla start? Do you have a mod which involves some sort of games? Do you have a mod which dickies with frost spells?

[Just Don't]

20 hours ago, Splintered_Lizard said:

This is also happening to me. Supposedly the issue on their end was going over the plugin limit, but this isn't the case for me. I'm at exactly 255 plugins. Plus how on earth would that be the problem? If I go over, Skyrim just doesn't load past the main menu, which is fine.

If you mean ESM+ESL it should be 254, since the 255th slot is used to load all the ESL files in your loadorder. Have you tried disabling one (1) ESM/ESP to see if it makes any difference?

[anjenthedog]

Ice blowing out your chest on game load with a ~new character seems like a symptom of a  mod to me. Not sure which one, but the symptom sounds vaguely familiar, like I've read another post(s) in the past that outlined the same symptom.

 

on the plugin limit, in 1.5.97,  my game got janky once they came anywhere near the 254 plugin limit, even 250 and things got a bit dicey... I'm just getting started on 1.6.1170, so I can't say how it responds (yet) to being maxxed out, but if I were you, I might be inclined to back off a bit on lower register entries and "lighten" as many in your present load as can be "made light" (or ESL-ify, if you prefer)

[traison]

17 minutes ago, anjenthedog said:

the symptom sounds vaguely familiar

 

Yup.

[Splintered_Lizard]

Yes so...  I dropped by plugins (ESMs) to 253 and the game worked just fine! I guess once I hit EXACTLY 255, bam, insta death by ice.... I'm still curious what mod does it, because I can't tell. But I would think it's some fundamental mod like the Unofficial Patch or... yea I just have so many. I have over 600 mods, so who knows.

 

But yes, it will happen on any game/save IF you hit 255 plugins apparently... because it didn't happen when I was at 254, either. Strange!

[traison]

6 hours ago, Splintered_Lizard said:

I'm still curious what mod does it

 

I would assume its the last mod does it, i.e. a non-esl plugin that gets the mod index 0xfe or 0xff.

[Just Don't]

16 hours ago, Splintered_Lizard said:

But yes, it will happen on any game/save IF you hit 255 plugins apparently... because it didn't happen when I was at 254, either. Strange!

Like I said, 255th slot is for ESL plugins. You can't have 255 ESM+ESP slots and ESL files in the same loadorder.