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kay, SO. skyrim has been giving me constant random crashes. some instances are not so random (like the rock trap in Damphall Mine, and during the scene inside Alvor and Sigrid's house if you follow Hadvar to Riverwood in the intro quest), and my game begins to freeze. like a lot.
though, in Skyrim's defense, I have been playing in a throwaway save where I add and remove mods around--it's not a serious save, more like 'fuck around and find out' save. My plugin number is around 442 including masters, normal, and light plugins--most of them light, most of them armor mods.
I'm also on version 1.640. whatever the actual number is. the AE one, not the big update after that.
EngineFixes seems to be, well not the culprit per se, but like the process that's currently running when the crash/freeze happened if that makes sense. i'm going to reinstall everything (no, not the game, but dll mods) including the microsoft redistributable thing and see if it fixes the issue somewhat. if NOT, bye bye Skyrim, welcome back Inquisition! or, idk. New Vegas. heck i'll go back to Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines if this shit keeps happening.
also my neck hurts.
but seriously though, it's been pretty disheartening and not very encouraging for me to work on my mods ("why do i want to work on this when i can't even enjoy the end result?")
I want to at least, AT LEAST get the game in a somewhat working shape to playtest the new followers and take the needed screenshots. and then i'll take a break from Skyrim or something.
EDIT:
still crashing. I updated everything. I even updated my Windows, thinking it might have something to do with it, but nope. as a last ditch effort (because I really, really need to get my game going long enough to play test), I uninstalled Engine Fixes and... lo and behold. it works. no more crashing.
except that every single save I made became corrupted. Fuck.
my theory is that the memory manager thingy from Engine Fixes doesn't play nice with my laptop. I did try running Engine Fixes with the memory manager disabled, but my game crashed on main menu. only by removing EF altogether did the crashing cease. I'm at a loss, truly.
In the meantime, some lazy sneak peeks.
though, in Skyrim's defense, I have been playing in a throwaway save where I add and remove mods around--it's not a serious save, more like 'fuck around and find out' save. My plugin number is around 442 including masters, normal, and light plugins--most of them light, most of them armor mods.
I'm also on version 1.640. whatever the actual number is. the AE one, not the big update after that.
EngineFixes seems to be, well not the culprit per se, but like the process that's currently running when the crash/freeze happened if that makes sense. i'm going to reinstall everything (no, not the game, but dll mods) including the microsoft redistributable thing and see if it fixes the issue somewhat. if NOT, bye bye Skyrim, welcome back Inquisition! or, idk. New Vegas. heck i'll go back to Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines if this shit keeps happening.
also my neck hurts.
but seriously though, it's been pretty disheartening and not very encouraging for me to work on my mods ("why do i want to work on this when i can't even enjoy the end result?")
I want to at least, AT LEAST get the game in a somewhat working shape to playtest the new followers and take the needed screenshots. and then i'll take a break from Skyrim or something.
EDIT:
still crashing. I updated everything. I even updated my Windows, thinking it might have something to do with it, but nope. as a last ditch effort (because I really, really need to get my game going long enough to play test), I uninstalled Engine Fixes and... lo and behold. it works. no more crashing.
except that every single save I made became corrupted. Fuck.
my theory is that the memory manager thingy from Engine Fixes doesn't play nice with my laptop. I did try running Engine Fixes with the memory manager disabled, but my game crashed on main menu. only by removing EF altogether did the crashing cease. I'm at a loss, truly.
In the meantime, some lazy sneak peeks.
