Crashing After Reinstallation?

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So I got fed up with my metric fuck ton of mods screwing up my game, nothing else was working, so I took the plunge. Deleted everything (moved my saves elsewhere temporarily). Then, fresh start, got back to work getting all my mods back into place. I'm pretty sure I did everything the way I was supposed to, (installed mods, ran FNIS, ran LOOT) but then the game started crashing on me whenever I'd load up an old save and try to exit the cell I was in. I thought okay, I'll just start a new game, but that crashed when I tried to customize my character. So I uninstalled Live Another Life, and this time it would crash at the load screen. LOOT's not telling me there's anything wrong, and I doubt reisntalling would do shit as this is from a clean install itself.

 

Any ideas?

[myuhinny]

When deleted did you delete everything from the skyrim folder then use the uninstall option from steam then reinstall?

If yes then download. TES5Edit http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859/? unzip it and run the .exe that is in it. It will start to load up every mod that you have installed if it hits a error in your load order it will stop and tell you why in the bottom right hand area read it fix shut down TES5Edit then restart TES5Edit till it no longer hits anymore errors then try your game again.

 

Crash at loading screen means missing master if you don't have a master turned on that is needed for another mod the game will crash.

[Suludi]

You could run the savetool and delete those orphaned scripts from your save.

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Okay, got TES5Edit however, new development (or rather I just noticed it)

 

Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp

SMPC.esp

Unofficial Dawnguard.esp

Unofficial Hearthfires.esp

 

All of these have red text next to them that says "WARNING: This plugin has the file extension .esp, but it's file header marks it as an esm!"

 

I have never encountered this before.

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bumping

[gvman3670]

Don't worry about the Unofficial patches being mislabeled. When you run LOOT or BOSS they still treat them as .esm files and will put them in their appropriate spot in the load order for you.

 

The real worry with Update, Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn is those are some dirty DLCs Bethesda gave us and they need cleaning with TES5Edit. If you don't know how there are tutorial vids showing you how on YouTube. Here's the one I watched back when I needed to learn how to do it.

 

 

Still not sure on your crashes. But if you clean the .esm files and run LOOT you will have eliminated most issues right up front. If the problem persists you can start picking away at it.

 

If you're using Mod Organizer you only need to hover over the game save and it will tell you if anything is missing.

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Welp, nothing's worked, and the backup failed me so nuking everything again. This is rapidly becoming tiresome.

[gvman3670]

Seriously, I would suggest just making the switch to Mod Organizer at this point. Nuke everything (including the whole folder at documents/my games/Skyrim) and once it's reinstalled clean all the masters with TES5Edit, add SKSE (and get the mempatch working), download and install Mod Organizer then only use MO for your mods, saves and ini files.

 

If you do this you'll never need to reinstall again and you'll have a pristine, untouched, cleaned Skyrim directory until your HDD breaks.

[Suludi]

Did you try the Savetool? And what does the Papyrus0.log say? It usually shows the last thing Skyrim tried to load before it crashes.

 

 

(Speaking from frustrating experience here. I must have had every possible Skyrim crash in history.)

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I did try the savetool, and no dice. And I forgot to check papyrus before nuking again.