Creation Kit problems

[Suludi]

Yes, it's me again. I think I deserve my own troubleshooting board soon. I had no idea there could be so many errors and breakdowns in a simple (=read: highly complicated) workflow.

 

Anyhow, here goes:

 

When I had to uninstall and reinstall Skyrim due to some [many] catastrophes, the CreationKit got uninstalled, too. When I noticed this, I simply told steam to shovel the entire thing back on my harddrive, which it did. it also eradicated Skyrim/data including all mods from the planet's surface.

 

So I reinstalled Skyrim and dug out some older versions of my total conversion mod, which I will here call MYLAND.

 

MYLAND consists of MYLAND.esm, containing the bare topographic mesh, and MYLAND_land.esp which has all the neat things in it: textures, objects, trees, water etc.

 

I fired up the CreationKit and saw that MYLAND.esm is placed before Skyrim.esm in the load data menu.

 

It also doesn't show Skyrim.esm as its master file.

 

When I checked MYLAND_land.esp as the active file, with both MYLAND.esm and SKYRIM.esm as its masters, CK loaded up MYLAND.esm with no problem, then jumped to "Loading files 46 % (Skyrim.esm)", and there it stopped and would have kept doing nothing until the end of times.

 

After ten minutes of waiting and getting insane, I closed the CK and got an error message:

 

FORMS: Forms were leaked during ClearData. Check warnings file for more info.

"Yes to all" will disable all warnings for this context.

 

"Yes" closed the CK. "No" closed the CK. "Yes to all" also closed the CK.

 

I went looking for anything that was labelled with "warning" and found

 

1. EditorPapyrus0.log

 

[05/25/2014 - 02:44:27PM] EditorPapyrus log opened (PC)
[05/25/2014 - 02:44:27PM] Memory page: 128 (min) 512 (max) 76800 (max total)
[05/25/2014 - 02:45:23PM] Log closed
 

2. EditorWarnings.txt

 

MASTERFILE: ===========================================================
FORMS: Form '' (0109CB6A) of type NAVM in file 'Skyrim.esm' was not freed.
FORMS: Forms were leaked during ClearData. Check Warnings file for more info.

 

I have no idea what this means, or what I should do. I've searched the entire interwebz (yes, ALL of it) but this error seems to be vastly unknown. I'm pretty sure my MYLAND.esm is messed up somehow because CK opens Skyrim.esm alone with no problem at all.

 

So I checked it in TES5Edit and found no errors, but also nothing in the File Header. As in: the entire thing is blank, nothing is shown, I can't add, remove or change anything because it's empty. I also can't add Skyrim.esm as the master file, and I don't even remember if MYLAND.esm needs Skyrim.esm as master file in the first place... I think it does but right now, I don't know my right hand from my left and feel like a total losernoobdumbass cause everything's going wrong and I don't know what to do.

 

Ingame, I can hop into MYLAND via console just fine but if I can't open it in the CK anymore, I'm so screwed.

[b3lisario]

Post the damaged esm file?

[Suludi]

Too big, I'm afraid. The esm has 158 MB, the land data file has 1 GB....

[Guest carywinton]

You are probably missing a line in the CK config file for loading multiple masters, I do not think this comes set with a default install. Take a look at the SkyrimEditor.ini file in your main Skyrim Folder. This would be something like  steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim and open the file with Notepad or far better Notepad ++ a free program that is great for editing ini files and scripting. Add in a line under the (General) category bAllowMultipleMasterLoads=1

 

Also in the same file SkyrimEditor.ini look for sResourseArchiveList2 and just after the last entry add Update.bsa, Dawnguard.bsa, Hearthfires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

 

This will utilize the content from the DLC's, if you have them and correct the error you might receive if you tried to load them as well.

 

I hope this helps you some, I will try to keep checking back here to see how things are going.

Kind Regards,

CaryWinton

[b3lisario]

TES5Edit

Mouse right click in the blank header window -> hide no conflict rows, maybe?

[Suludi]

Thank you but sadly, this is not the problem... I have everything necessary in my skyrimeditor.ini.

[Guest carywinton]

Darn, ok then it would seem the mod maybe corrupt. b3lisario's suggestion for setting up TES5Edit is a good one, this way the only rows that will show are those with a conflict.

 

The "FORMS" leaking directly in the Skyrim.ini seems to indicate a memory space error, more than a Nav Mesh problem, even though it points to a particular record. Try setting your system options for "Performance" in the Advanced System Settings. Just right click on "Computer" and choose "properties". then "advanced system settings". Click on the "settings" button in the "Performance" area and choose the "dot" next to "Adjust For Best Performance", hopefully this will help some.

[Suludi]

Got it working. I won't tell anyone how idiotic I am... let me just say that "Hide no conflict rows" is a REAL BITCH.