Crash after new game character creation in alternate perspective (can't fix for two weeks!)

[Pogfishxx]

After I start a new game, enter the racemenu, and name my character, the game autosaves while the new-game initialization scripts are still running. The game then freezes and crashes. What’s interesting is that the crash is inconsistent—sometimes the save completes successfully and nothing happens. The most likely cause is that the autosave occurs while heavy scripts are loading in the background, leading to a lack of available memory and an overload.

After testing:

• Disabling autosave in Skyrim.ini does not disable the racemenu save.
• Setting a 40 GB pagefile (due to limited RAM of 16 GB) does not resolve the issue.
• Disabling Alternate Perspective Tweaks.esp does not resolve the issue.
• Cleaning all plugins that had bad ITM records did not resolve the issue.
• The “Pit Fighter” entry [0xFF0019EF] in the crash log is probably not related to the problem.
• Waiting 3-5 minutes in racemenu does not solve the issue.

Disabling autosave after racemenu would probably fix this issue but I can't find how.

crash-2026-09-20-19-08-19.log

[traison]

3 hours ago, Pogfishxx said:

The most likely cause is that the autosave occurs while heavy scripts are loading in the background, leading to a lack of available memory and an overload.

 

Nothing here points to this actually happening. You'll know when it's happening, and this is not it.

 

Edit: And since that was not helpful at all I'll add that when your storage device utilization hits 100%, your game fps drops to sub-1 and Windows starts yelling at you about resource deficiencies: now your RAM is getting dumped into the swapfile and you're about to hit the point when malloc returns a null pointer - this is most likely about the same point when the entire OS goes bye-bye.

 

3 hours ago, Pogfishxx said:

Setting a 40 GB pagefile (due to limited RAM of 16 GB) does not resolve the issue.

 

Let the OS decide this number instead.

 

3 hours ago, Pogfishxx said:

Disabling autosave after racemenu would probably fix this issue but I can't find how.

 

Your crash is coming from Papyrus. The answer is in the Papyrus log, and there's a paper on dealing with this in my signature below.

Edited 3 hours ago by traison

[Pogfishxx]

2 hours ago, traison said:

Your crash is coming from Papyrus. The answer is in the Papyrus log, and there's a paper on dealing with this in my signature below.

 

Thanks I'll start by fixing missing scripts in my papyrus log

[traison]

43 minutes ago, Pogfishxx said:

Thanks I'll start by fixing missing scripts in my papyrus log

 

You're most likely to find the answer to your immediate problem in section 5.5 of my paper, but cleaning up Papyrus in general is a good idea (sometimes necessary) so you might as well start with the missing scripts. A warmup for what is to come perhaps.