Atmogenic Posted April 6, 2018 Posted April 6, 2018 I've had an issue since yesterday and have been trying for a day how to make my elinrace NPC.esp to work again but still haven't had any luck. To bring context, yesterday I decided to try and fix the dark face bug that some elins (including my own follower) had and realised that maybe they didn't work because I didn't save (I know silly me) but when I saved I got an error saying "File "skyrim" is a master file or is in use. PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER FILE TO SAVE TO." so i looked up on how to fix this and I believe I saw somewhere that i had to delete the parent masters of the plugin file to make it work, so I did just that but that's when everything went downhill fast. I got rid of all the parent files for elinrace NPC.esp and saved because it allowed me to and after that I booted up skyrim to only come across problems such as unable to travel when I loaded a save and I couldn't create a new game at all because both made me CTD, I then looked up to see if there was anyway for me to revert what i did in creation kit with the master files for elinrace NPC but got no answer other then what parent masters are. So I did what most people do which is uninstalling and reinstalling elinrace npc from loverlab thinking it will all work again but it didn't do a thing but waste my time more I then read from some threads that a program called Wrye Bash could do a number of things so i downloaded that and opened it up, I saw that i could add masters to my files so i went to the file needing the masters and added all from vague memory which was skyrim, update, dawnguard, hearthfire, elinrace, elinracetaint and racecompatibility. I added all those only to get an error from the program saying that it can't do that because elinrace npc.esp is already open by itself but when i clicked ok it showed them added anyway as its master files. After i did that I thought for sure I got this and that everything was going to go back to normal....nope went back on skyrim, I started up a new game and thankfully it didn't crash BUT whenever I went into an area where there is suppose to be a replacement for the character such as ysolda in whiterun it would make me CTD, it was late at night and I remembered a friend of mine has the same elin mods as mine. So the next day I got him on and he showed me the parent files for elinrace npc.esp and unfortunately he actually had less master files then I do, but i went on skyrim anyway only to not even get to the main menu because it just CTD which i don't understand why, I didn't do anything else before I went to bed that could change that but Skyrim being Skyrim just doesn't even want me to go to the main menu without CTD. So I'm completely stuck and unable to use elinrace NPC.esp at all. Yes before anyone asks i have used LOOT,TES5EDIT,FNIS and even BOSS but none of them say anything about fatal errors or say that i'm missing something TL;DR: I tried to fix the dark face bug but couldn't due to creation kit saying i can't save when no file was an active file. I removed the parent masters from elinrace NPC.esp which made the file completely broken and crashes my game. tried to uninstall and reinstall which made no difference at all used LOOT & TES5EDIT to see any fatal errors but it didn't tell me anything was wrong. installed a program called wrye bash to add masters to elinrace npc.esp which it showed it did and was finally able to play the game until I go into an area where a character from elinrace NPC.esp is meant to be which it just makes me CTD. Got a friend who has the same mods as me shows me the parent master files he has for elinrace NPC.esp only for his to have less then mine which doesn't help at all Starts up skyrim only for it now not even able to get to the main menu for it to CTD
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