I recently upgraded to the legendary edition of skyrim (because its cheaper than buying the dlc on their own) and found I couldn't actually play the damn thing.

Would experience a CTD at some point during the opening sequence with Ralof, Lokir, and Ulfric in the cart.

After some assistance from Support I determined that Steam fricking svck because while installing the LE Steam decides to only install about 8gb of the game from disk and wants to download the other 5gb. But didn't download it correctly and I had to do a "verify game cache" to fix the problem.

So problem sorted and I could play.

But I wanted SkyUI, and SkyRE.

So I installed like 20 mods including SkyUI and SkyRE.

And at first insta CTD right away before even hitting the menu. Which I fixed by doing a bashed patch.

But now I am experiencing (with mods) the same problem as with out - CTD during the opening sequence. So I decided i'd need to methodically determine what was causing the problem; which mod or combination of mods was breaking my game. It's taken me most of the last week of fighting with Skyrim but I have finally determined the problem.

SKSE plugins.

It doesn't even matter which plugins - just any plugin active and the game CTDs during the opening sequence. Which of course means I will be losing a lot of the functionality of SkyRE if I can't use plugins with SKSE.

Basically I have no mods on except for SKSE and it runs fine. No mods and I put in a plugin (the uncapper) and it CTDs.

Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this so I can actually play my game the way I want?

Are you loading the game with the SKSE loader?

- Hypno

Yes.

EDIT:

Lovely.

It's just made a liar out of me.

It is now CTDing without any plugins and just SKSE.

*sigh*

Post your load order

Are you using BOSS to sort your mods?

- Hypno

@hypno88

My load order consists of the game, its patch, the high res tex pack, and the dlcs. Thats it. Right now anyway.

I am only using that and SKSE atm. As I said I uninstalled everything to try and track down the problem, which as I said was leading me to a problem with SKSE cause the game is launching fine (now) from the Skyrim Launcher, but launching using the SKSE_loader it seems to CTD during the run into Helgen.

I've got both the archived version and installer version of SKSE. I thought maybe my download of it was broken so I downloaded the other. And its stil buggering up.

I'm baffled as to what SKSE isn't liking here. lol.

EDIT:

When I was experiencing this exact problem with the main game (I have been fighting with this damn thing since last thursday) Support suggested verifying the cache, and if that didn't work disabling the hi res tex pack.

Verifying the cache worked - it fixed whatever corrupted files were causing the problem (or so I thought). I did 5 test runs through the helgen opening sequence, and with the last "run" i played all the way to escaping Helgen with Ralof. And no CTDs.

So I fot problem was fixed.

So keeping Support's advice in mind I thought on a hunch to disable the hi res tex pack for the SKSE attempt just now.

I've just done 3 test runs through to the headsman's axe. And no ctds.

SKSE doesn't like the hi res tex pack? Lol.