As Midgetalien mentioned at the PES site of his SAB mod, it conflicts with GCD. In the beginning, all the character creation menus pop up at once and are all on top of each other.


http://i54.tinypic.com/2zojbzr.jpg


I can pick my birthsign, character class (although the head is mostly in the way) and race. At the very end is where I put my name, but it won't let me type anything. Pressing OK just tells me I need to type a name in first. He was suggesting maybe I could disable GCD until I get past the beginning, but I was afraid since it's such a crucial mod to the game, something might get messed up. Any ideas?

I've taken a look at GCD but I cannot find the conflicting scripts which cause this too happen.

What I am going to do is do a test with GCD turned off, then turn it back on and see if anything happens.

I got that with other alternate start mods too.

Try loading the alternate start mod far down in the loadorder.
If that ain't working, maybe you could try the ( and now I'm guessing, since I'm not home and cannot take a look at my install) GCD delay esp. that came with GCD or was it in alternate starts?
All that needs is a script that times the windows.

Have you tried the chargen delay2 patch that's included with GCD? It adds delays for the Chargen mod but it might work here too.

Personally, I thought I had the patch installed and checked, and the Solstheim Alternate Beginnings Mod was almost at the end of the list. I still had problems. It seems like the delay patch didn't do much in this case.

GCD is written so that you can add it mid-game. Remove GCD from your load list, go through all the char gen stuff, find a nice place to save your new character, exit the game, add GCD to the load list, restart.

Do it early on to minimize stat disparities, make sure all enchantments and other stat influences are removed, and BEFORE EXITING write down all your character's attribute and skill values. You'll have to answer a questionairre about what those values were before GCD was added.

When the game restarts, you should get a messagebox asking if you have been in Vvardenfel for a while. Say 'yes'. Equip the ring which then appears in your inventory.

You can do this once only so go carefully.

You can try the GCD approach for older saves, as huskobar explained, or try this:

Start the game with both mods and get them to where the problem appears like in the screenshot.

Once the mess is on, open the console and type "enablenamemenu" and press enter. Type some random name and press enter again.

This should set the name Box on top of the stack.


If that doesn't work, just open and close the console, without messing with anything, and as soon as the console closes, type some random letters and press enter.
This should close the name box and you can proceed with the rest.

Later, after your are set, you can change the random letters to a full name via "namemenu".

Cheers

any luck Bryman?

Well, sorry to say I somehow deleted half the files in my MW folder. So i'm in the process of working on starting another game.