Dawnguard ESM refuses to open in the CK

[Kendo 2]

Someone recently asked me to reproduce the Dawnguard content I made for myself that doesn't use the esm, only the meshes, textures, hxk's and animations (it's for crossbows).

 

I forgot how I did it so I opened the Dawnguard esm in the CK (yes, I have AlllowMultipleMasters enabled) and I get an error about not being able to read the file C:\_Skyrim\Code\TESV\TES Shared\misc\BGSLocalizedString.cpp.  I look in C:\ and the _Skyrim folder doesn't exist (it never did).

 

So in the CK I click 'Yes to all' to ignore the error and then this error comes up:

"MASTERFILE:LOCALIZATION:Zero entries or empty block size read from strings file STRINGS/Dawnguard_ENGLISH.STRINGS.Strings will be missing."

 

Okay, so I extract the English strings for the BSA and reload the CK.  I'm getting the same two lines of errors and the esm will not load.  Dragonborn won't either but Hearthfire will.

 

My game is legal and all of the DLCs were bought from Steam.  I have modded both the Dawnguard and Dragonborn esms before, but now I'm getting this error and I don't know why.

 

Does anyone know what's going on?  There is nothing I could find on Google or Yahoo about this.

 

BTW, the esm works fine in game.  All the dialogue is there (in English), the vampires spawn, etc.  It works, just not with the CK.

[Sailing Rebel]

yes, I have AlllowMultipleMasters enabled

 

This is what the Archive section of my SkyrimEditor.ini looks like:

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
SArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa, Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa
SInvalidationFile=ArchiveInvalidation.txt
iRetainFilenameOffsetTable=1
iRetainFilenameStringTable=1
iRetainDirectoryStringTable=1
bCheckRuntimeCollisions=0
bUseArchives=1
SResourceArchiveList=Skyrim - Textures.bsa, Skyrim - Meshes.bsa, Skyrim - Animations.bsa, Skyrim - Voices.bsa, Skyrim - Interface.bsa, Skyrim - Misc.bsa, Skyrim - Sounds.bsa, Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa
SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, DawnGuard.bsa, HearthFires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

Maybe there's something missing from yours?

 

[Kendo 2]

@Sailing Rebel

Thanks. I'll check that out.

[azmodan22]

you are missing these in the SkyrimEditor.ini

 

SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, DawnGuard.bsa, HearthFires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

[Kendo 2]

you are missing these in the SkyrimEditor.ini

 

SResourceArchiveList2=Skyrim - Shaders.bsa, Update.bsa, DawnGuard.bsa, HearthFires.bsa, Dragonborn.bsa

  Actually I wasn't.  After reading Sailing Rebel's post I checked.  They were there so I scratched my head, saved the ini...and Dawnguard loaded the way it use to.  Go figure.  The only thing I've changed in my system recently was a new video card.  I don't have an explanation.     At least it's fixed now.  \o/

 

[azmodan22]

I have an explanation

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Skyrim :-)