Consistent CTDs in the Faldar's Tooth cage area

[Lantera]

Hi everyone!

 

For the past hours I've been struggling to get through a bit of Faldar's Tooth, where I was recovering a Captured Dreams package. The game would always CTD if I got anywhere near one patch of ground. It is the room where the gambling happens; the semicircular room with two wolves having a cage fight and a few gambling bandits. After a lot of CTDing and restarting, I've narrowed down the area to a fairly small patch of ground marked on the images below. This area just about covers the door to the area with water, the door to the fighting cage and the door to the teller area, where people go to place their bets. In the image you can see the fighting cage on the right, the teller booth to the left and the door to the next area just behind the teller booth.

 

I managed to complete the quest anyway by using the 'tcl' console command, using the no clipping mode to grab the item inside the cage and run through the wall to get to the other end of the door in a wide enough circle.

 

I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing this, and Papyrus is no help either. In all my logs, everything seems to go as per usual until, out of the blue, the CTD happens with no prior warning. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be very grateful to hear them.

 

 

Load order:

 

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[slonez1]

Same issue, I wish someone had a better solution. thanks for narrowing it down.

[Ashra XIII]

I too am having this issue! I thought it might be a texture thing, so removed all the texture mods I had for landscapes, dungeons, cities, etc. Still crash.

 

This does inspire me to try entering the room and going a different way, as my character is currently right behind the door on the other side of the cage, right next to the OP's designated 'crash site'.

 

Thing is, I also have a consistent crash in the Riften Ratways, but not the first time I enter! I can go through it once, say for the Thieves' Guild quest, but once I've traveled through to the Ragged Flagon, I cannot again enter the Ratway from either end, or I will CTD. Related? I have no idea.