Hi there all-knowing ones!

After being on halt for a few month to give place for Witcher 3, I finally decided to continue this lovely game. When I last ran it it worked flawlessly even though I have about 115 active mods.

So I started upp Nexus Mod Manager and updated the outdated mods. Kinda expected to get an SKSE update message, but nothing. I then started the old SKSE and booted the game.

But thats all. I didn't even get to see the Bethesda Logo, it just crashed giving me an Error message.

So I'm currently looking for reasons this would happen. So Mods, my first thought. I ran them all with TES5Edit and not a single Error there. Second thought, system changes. I recently upgraded to Windows10. I guess this could be a problem.

There was an update for Nexus Mod Manager recently where it required you to reinstall every mod. I decided this was too much of a headache and downgraded to a previous version. Could this be the problem?

I added a few lines to the Skyrim.ini in order to get a crashlog, but noone where generated so I guess the error occurs before the game boots properly.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Did you resort your load order with LOOT when you finished updating your mods? Your problem sounds like a missing or late loading master file - I'm guessing the updates have gotten your load order all out of whack.

Hi Gator Country and thanks for the response!

I actually forgot to mention that I used LOOT to sort all the mods before I ran the game. However, when you mentioned this I looked it up and found out that a new version of LOOT was available.

Dowloaded it and spent a few minutes cleaning all of the dirty mods. Mainly ITM problems and a few incompatible mods.

I then updated the masterlist and sorted it but still no success... The game keeps crashing just as the screen turns black.

A couple of other suggestions you can try before starting the fun time of disabling mods to figure out which one is causing your crashes -

Verify your local files through Steam.

Delete the Skyrim.ini and SkyrimPrefs.ini files in your My Documents\My Games\Skyrim folder to force the game to create new defaults.

Review the documentation for all of the mods you updated or added to make sure you have all necessary master files.

Thank you again for great options! I valdiated the cache files and lo and behold. One was corrupt and replaced.

I then went to boot skyrim via Steam instead and when the launcher tried to detect recommended settings it crashed. So I guess this points us away from the game itself to some system conflict.

Has there been any problem with running Skyrim on a newly upgraded os? Is Windows 10 the problem?

I am not quite sure, but with so many mods - most probably it's mod related as related to W10. (considering Skyrim runs on W10 *well enough without problems, at least without heavy mods)

*I would say (as i have tested it) the performance should be near W8.1 performance. However Skyrim on W10 seems to use approx. 10% less system memory as W8.1)

All those on an PC with 3-4 mods

Ah thanks for the input Mark41. I can say however I found the problem. Drivers... Specifically Nvidia drivers. I updated the drivers and now instead the problem shifted towards the SweetFX and some modified Shaders from an ENB. (Kinematic Southern Light).

It appears the Windows 10 Nvidia drivers doesn't like anything tampering with their videosettings and that's to whole of it. I managed to solve it by hibernating the dxgi.dll basicly by putting a .bak into the filename of it.

This made everything run smooth again.

Hopefully anyone with the same problem can get something out of this! And also thanks for the help guys!

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