[TIP] Possible Helpful Technique for loading difficult saves

[gooser]

I have found a technique that consistently "rescues" me when I regularly have trouble loading saved games. I'd love to hear comments on this (even those of the nature "that's stupid you should really be doing x, y, z").

 

I normally use Live Another Life, and so when I  cannot load a saved game (when it CTD's) I just load the old "Prison Cell" save that I keep around, and after that loads, then I load the problem game save. 

 

I'm using a lot of SL mods, I think of total of over a hundred mods, including Skyre, SOS, etc. 

 

My theory on how this works is that SOS puts a lot of pressure on the game engine, so loading a simple save game with small Cell, no respawns, etc, allows the runtime to fully initialize before it has to deal with a real saved game.

 

This consistently works for me, nearly 100% of the time.

 

cheers

[Rokabur]

Think many people use the coc ctest command. Once a save reaches so many hours played on it loading from the main menu always results in infinite loading screen. I use coc ctest from the main menu and load the save from there and everything works fine.

[demack]

I have found a technique that consistently "rescues" me when I regularly have trouble loading saved games. I'd love to hear comments on this (even those of the nature "that's stupid you should really be doing x, y, z").

 

I normally use Live Another Life, and so when I  cannot load a saved game (when it CTD's) I just load the old "Prison Cell" save that I keep around, and after that loads, then I load the problem game save. 

 

I'm using a lot of SL mods, I think of total of over a hundred mods, including Skyre, SOS, etc. 

 

My theory on how this works is that SOS puts a lot of pressure on the game engine, so loading a simple save game with small Cell, no respawns, etc, allows the runtime to fully initialize before it has to deal with a real saved game.

 

This consistently works for me, nearly 100% of the time.

 

cheers

I found that if you keep CDT on a certain save you could backwards until one loads that works and then load the save that keeps CDT.

 

If you go forward however the save will still CDT. I think this is because the engine is trying to reference data that has changed because of load order or new updates/changes to the mods.