Advice needed: how to debug CTD on load while New Game works fine? [SOLVED for now]

[Twycross448]

Hi folks.

 

I got a bit of a puzzle in front of me and would like your input on how best to go about solving this conundrum.

 

As of yesterday, my Skyrim suddenly decided to throw a CTD my way whenever I try to load a saved game. (Note: I already use Crash Fixes, and have been using that for years now.)

Starting a New Game works without a hitch though.

 

So, I start a new game, create my character and let all the notifications in the upper left corner run their course, then safe right there in the LAL Cell without touching any MCM menu or anyhing else, quit the game, start the game again, try to load the save game I just created and bamm! - CTD.

 

I tried cleaning the save with Savegame Script Cleaner, but that does not find any problem it could fix in the saved game.

 

The last changes I made to my Skyrim installation (I use MO) were to update Devious Devices - Equip (from v3.41 to v3.42) and Prison Overhaul Patched (dito), recreating the Tes5Merged Patch, the Bashed Patch, the DSR Patch, the DynDOLOD data and the FNIS data.

 

Oh, and Windows 10 did an update of some kind in relation to the Intel CPU security issues that were in the news these last days.

 

I have already verified that neither DDe nor POP can be the culprit (i deactivated them, then started a new game and tried the whole shebang with the same CTD result on game load).

I am honestly on my wits end here how Skyrim can go from working properly last week to always throwing CTDs on game load this week with only a few minor things changed. ^_^"

 

Has anybody here ever experienced something like this and give me a hint or two on how to properly debug this and find the culprit?

 

EDIT:

changed topic title to reflect SOLVED state

[Stiffon]

On 1/8/2018 at 8:43 AM, Twycross448 said:

(Note: I already use Crash Fixes

Do you also have  'Load Game CTD Fix'?  Use it alongside Crash Fixes - worked for me.  You could also try 'Safety Load v1.2'

[pinky6225]

enable papyrus logging by adding

 

bEnableLogging=1
bEnableTrace=1
bLoadDebugInformation=1
bEnableProfiling=1

 

to skyrim.ini in \Documents\my games\skyrim

 

new game working and then pretty much new game failing to load would make me think either is it something to do with something your setting (i.e. on racemenu are you always switching to female and then load of saved female pc fails?) or something that is starting up, there are mods that won't start up until they detect a save load as they require other stuff to load first (i assume) so wont be loaded on new game but will be loaded on loading of a save game

[Lodakai]

Open the console

type COC QASMOKE

Soon as you load, try to load the game that would not load before.

 

If you succeed then you can either use this method, or load game ctd fix to load your games that do not otherwise load.

 

[Twycross448]

Thank you for your participation, folks.

 

I still do not know what exactly happened to make this issue appear, but for now it seems I have fixed it.

I reverted back to Devious Devices Integration 3.3 and Deviously Cursed Loot 6.1 (was trying to use DDi 4 and DCL 6.2 before), updated FNIS Sexy Move from version 6.1 to 7.1.2 and recreated all the patches (Tes5Merged, Bashed, DSR, DynDOLOD, FNIS data etc.) from scratch.

Now it works as it did before.

 

If this was a case of some problem with a mod conflict, or maybe a problem with a generated patch, or any other cause, I cannot say.

But I am content that the crashes have gone now.

 

Thank you again for your participation and suggestions. I appreciate it.