Help with SKSE based mods not working

[SparkleWoof]

Greetings all,

I'm having a lot of problems getting SKSE to work correctly. I have had several mods installed before that did not use SKSE and have had no issues, asside from the game being laggy at times.

let me start by saying, i cannot start a new game when i run skyrim through the SKSE loader, if i do try to start a new game it just sits at the skyrim logo playing the music, but doesnt load anything, and the game is not hung up. so becasue of that, i made a clean install of skyrim, following the tutoral that was posted on the "step-project" and then made a clean save with no mods installed.


after that i installed SKSE, as well as skyui, the unofficial skyrim patch,the three zaz animation pack mods, sexlab framework 1.59c, more nasty critters, both the normal and creature FNIS, dimonized UNP, animal mansion, 4udiks, and xp32 maximum skeleton extended.


When i run the SKSE loader.exe one of three things happens, depending on how i run it. if i run it from the desktop shortcut, it starts the game, the bethesda logo comes up, then it crashes to desktop, if i run the shortcut as an admin, it brings up the normal skyrim loader, goes to bethesda logo (if i tell it to play) and then crashes to desktop, or if i search for the skse loader and run from what comes up it goes to the start menu where i can select a new game, load, ect.


If i load my clean save it gives me the "this save relies on content that is no longer present" message, and if i tell it to load it anyway it crashes to dekstop.


I have tried the save game cleaner scsript cleaner  application that was suggested to use in the description of the animal mansion description, and then tried rerunning the game on the "clean" save and it gave me the content message, and then crashed if i tried to load it.


I am honestly at a loss for whats going on, unless one of the mods i installed is causing issues with another. I am somewhat concerned that having them all installed at once is what is causing the issue, rather than doing them one at a time and running skyrim till it breaks.

Google has, so far, been a waste, i have tried every suggestion i have found on google and none seem to work, any help would be very much appreciated

[Swissenergy]

Have you deleted ALL saves made so the only option is to start a new game, or are you starting a new game with no mods then trying to run Skyrim through SKSE with everything else on a previous save? It sounds like you have some missing master files if it's crashing at the beth logo and there are some mods that have been removed from the saves you are trying to load. 

 

Are you using a mod manager? Nexus Mod Manager, Mod Organizer, or are you doing this manually? I'd also recommend getting LOOT to help sort your load order and tell you if some mods are missing others they rely on, if you haven't done so already.

[SparkleWoof]

I think i may have figured it out... maybe. I was able to get the game to load a save... after i just randomly started turning off parts of mods. it seems something about the "hentai creatures" part of the nasty critters was causing it to crash, however, once i got it in SKSE says my version of skyrim isnt the latest version (which it is), so skse wasn't running, which caused all the skse dependent mods to not work fully.

 

It also said i was missing the jcontainer, which i find a download on here that i'll give a go in the morning.

 

another google search gave me some information about what might be wrong with skse, but i wont know till tomorrow, since its 1:40am, and i've been fighting this for the better part of 6 hours, i think its time to callit a day, and try again tomorrow

 

as to your question about the saves, i deleted everything aside from a few data files and the directx folder, and then had steam reinstall all the missing files. game ran just fine vanilla, and i use nexus, but in my googling i found someone suggesting mod organizer and the loot tie in, neither of which really helped, though for whatever reason mod orginizer couldnt get skse to run just said something to the effect of could not run/find " " and that was it

[SparkleWoof]

*update*

 

Ok, so it is the HentaiCreatuers.esp thats causing the game to crash to desktop when trying to go past the logo screen, as well as trying to load a save, i THINK its becasue i disabled Sexlabnudecreatures that requires dawnguard and dragonborn. i did have the just normal sexlabnudecreatures mod checked to run and it ran fine. Also, the Jcontianer issue is still preasent after downloading http://www.loverslab.com/files/file/563-jcontainers/that one. However, i did notice that it said that the creature framework wasn't compatable.

 

That leaves me two questions, one am i going to have to buy both DLCs, which are both twenty bucks each, to get the hentaicreatures mod to work (which i assume is probably important for one of the mods) and, do i maybe need to see if theres an updated version of the creature framework.

 

On to SKSE, i tried the steps here -> http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/810921274058741854including the renaming the tesv file and doing the verify step, and skse is still saying that skyrim is out of date. Also, running the verify integrity step after testing skyrim, says 1 file failed to validate and will be reaquired" again. this makes me wonder if theres something important missing that even though its saying its downloading.... it's really not

 

oh, also, this http://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Troubleshootingis what i followed to give skyrim a "clean" install, though i'm wondering if maybe i should uninstall skyrim through steam, and then delete any extra crap left over then let steam fully reinstall skyrim as if it never existed on my PC in the first place

[BruceWayne]

http://www.loverslab.com/forum/39-skyrim-technical-support/

[Swissenergy]

If you're going through the headache of having reinstall all mods again then it's not a bad idea to just completely uninstall Skyrim and download it again through Steam. Just make sure you've updated checked for updates under Skyrims properties in Steam, I'd try installing SKSE and launching it with no mods installed if you haven't done so already. You do need to make sure that Skyrim is updated to the latest version as SKSE will not work otherwise. Also, I would recommend watching the video the tutorial video linked on the SKSE site, yes it is fairly lengthy but just follow along step by step and hopefully you will get things installed correctly. When I installed SKSE, I used the same video for the tutorial and had no issues at all.

[SparkleWoof]

Yeah, i went ahead and just deleted everything from my pc and reinstalled Skyrim cleanly, when i did this all yesterday i used the provided video on the skse site, cause i had no clue what to do.

 

I have successfully instaleld SKSE, sexlab (and fnis). now i need to install the other mods one at a time... and see if those break it somehow. its looking like the clean install may have fixed whatever was wonky, but time will tell

 

*update*

 

Seems the only thing that causes a crash to desktop now is more nasty critters, i went ahead and gotthe two DLCs, so i'm not really sure whats causing it to do it, however, thats a topic for another thread

 

*update update*

 

Critters wasnt working becasue the two dlcs weren't activated in the plugin area, after activating them, it worked fine

[Swissenergy]

I know I mentioned this earlier, sorry if you have already done this, but I would highly recommend installing LOOT to sort your load order and let you know if any mods in your current load order are missing another mod that is required for it to work. Apologies if you are still having issues after trying LOOT, you said in a previous post that you were recommended LOOT but I wasn't clear if you actually used it or not.

 

Hopefully the fresh install and the two DLCs will help the issues that you are having and you're able to run the game with all desired mods installed.

[SparkleWoof]

yupyup, i think the clean install is what fixed it, i've had no problems and i've been messing around with it all day. the thing that was brekaing the critters mod was the fact that even though i downloaded and installed the two dlcs, they weren't activated vie the plugin area, so i activated them and bam! worked like a charm

[Swissenergy]

Great! Glad to hear that things seem to be working now!