I'm having a strange issue.

The game loads when I have all my mods by theirselves.

But, after I create my merged patch and bash patch and add them to the load order. My game crashes on start-up.

I currently have my merged patch first and made first, then make my bash patch after that and put it after it.

Is this the wrong way to do it?

do you crash before you see the main menu if so you may be missing a master you don't know about try using TESEDIT to check for conflicts,also doesn't bash run bos maybe it moved something in your load order.

Yea it crashes before the main menu comes up. I ran it through TESEDIT and had no conflicts and everything has its masters. I checked my load order too.

what I do is make the merge patch without the bash patch then rebuild the bashed patch

Thats what I did.

I just ran a test. WIth only my bash patch active, the game ran.

With only the merged patch, the game didnt run.

So something is wrong with my merged patch, but I just remade it and had the same problem.