Retrieving a character face from an unloadable save

[Nazgren]

Hi,

I have not long bought a new rig to be able to run skyrim with decent textures and an ENB and since my old character wasn't loading (i think due to save bloat from having 7 ugrids) i thought it would be a good time to go and find new mods. I thought it would be easy to recreate how my old character looked, but i was wrong, i think i must have lucked out when making it because when it comes to making skyrim characters i am inept to say the least. No matter what i do i just cannot reach how good looking my old char was.

 

I cannot load the save in Skyrim, is there any way to retrieve my old char and make it a preset?

[ongwk733]

Did you use Enhanced Character Edit when you created your character before? if you saved his/her in a slot for ECE you can retrieve it from your Documents folder.

If not,then I don't know any other way of retrieving a face.

When you say fail to load, do you mean it'll crash when loading from the main menu or infinitely load?

[Nazgren]

I didn't use ECE, and if it doesnt crash due to different/missing mods then it will infinitely load. is there no way i can do it in the Creation kit? or by decrypting the save and removing the player char files?

[ongwk733]

Try starting a new game on that machine.

After the new game loads and you enter the world, hit esc and then try loading your character save.

That's how I bypassed the infinite loading bug when I had it.

 

If the game crashes to desktop upon loading your save, what I usually do is keep retrying, but load another save each time(I have lots of characters). Hopefully, after a few attempts you'll get in.

 

I have no experience with the Creation kit so that's the best advice I can offer. Hopefully someone else can come and help you better soon.

[Deedlit]

try using that command at skyrim menu selection (the one with new game, continue,etc)

when at menu open console and type: coc ctest , and load your old game.