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Mango Sep 17, 2018 @ 2:59pm
Crash upon Character Creation?
Like the title says, it happens every time the character menu comes up.. Whether it be after riding all th way to Helgen or during the "Alternate Start" mod.. I tried using mods, such as Racemenu and ECE in tandem, and plenty of other mods. Naturally, I figured this would be what causes it to crash.. So I disabled 'all' my mods, even an Alternate Start, and it happens again. I'm running windows 10, and it seems that even with all the mods disabled, it just crashes to desktop when the character menu appears.. Also, for some weird reason, whenever I start the game 'without' Alternate Start, the carriage is going NUTS, flying around, spinning like crazy, hitting things.. I validated my game files, everything is 'fine' apparently, and I just don't know. Any help would be appreciated.
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fauxpas Sep 17, 2018 @ 3:38pm 
The cart going crazy is your fps running over 60.


As for the rest, do a CLEAN INSTALL using the guides to ensure you completely nuke your game folders to make sure you don't have a stray file messing things up.
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Mango Sep 17, 2018 @ 4:42pm 
That's the thing, it's the 'first' trying to play it since I installed it. Doing a restall now would be a 'massive' waste of memory, and my computer would slow down even further. I just hoped there'd be a fix.
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fauxpas Sep 17, 2018 @ 4:53pm 
No, you said you were playing with mods, and "disabled" them.

What you NEED to do before ANY meaningful troubleshooting can even begin is delete your game through Steam, THEN manually delete any leftover files and folders that Steam missed, including the ones in your documents folders.

Only after you've wiped every last trace if Skyrim from your computer can you reinstall it through Steam, reclean your Masters and install the Unofficial Patch (and ONLY the Unofficial Patch).


Only then can we even hope to wade through whatever issues that may remain, although I suspect that if you do everything I just told you your game will work like a charm. (You may have to limit your fps using V-sync of course.)
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fauxpas Sep 17, 2018 @ 4:55pm 
And THAT is "the fix".
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fauxpas Sep 17, 2018 @ 4:58pm 
Naturally, you are more than free to continue to attempt to play a game that you broke, just quit whining that you don't like the solution when it is given to you on a silver platter.
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fauxpas Sep 17, 2018 @ 5:10pm 
Wryebash is an excellent modding tool, but first things first is the op needs to start from the solid base of a working game before adding mods into the mix, and the op doesn't currently have that.
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Mango Sep 17, 2018 @ 11:59pm 
I wasn't trying to whine or assume that the advice wasn't appreciated.. I apologize if it came off as such. It was simply frustrating. I 'did' reinstall it with fresh files and no mods whatsoever besides the Unofficial Patch, and I can get to the character creation screen just fine. As a side note, a friend 'did' tell me that it's most likely a problem with the latest SKSE64 being incompatible with the latest skyrim update, and SKSE has to be updated, which is what caused the crash. Not sure it right though, but worth the wait I guess.
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Dexter Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:08am 
Originally posted by Bunners:
I wasn't trying to whine or assume that the advice wasn't appreciated.. I apologize if it came off as such. It was simply frustrating. I 'did' reinstall it with fresh files and no mods whatsoever besides the Unofficial Patch, and I can get to the character creation screen just fine. As a side note, a friend 'did' tell me that it's most likely a problem with the latest SKSE64 being incompatible with the latest skyrim update, and SKSE has to be updated, which is what caused the crash. Not sure it right though, but worth the wait I guess.
SKSE64 got updated to latest Skyrim SE version, in other words, it should work just download latest version FOR SKYRIM SPECIAL EDITION, pointing out just in case.

Also, I am little confused, just play without any mods, patches or SKSE64 and check if crash happens. Also also, cap your fps to 60 like others mentioned(going over 60fps causes various glitches in game).
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SpeedFreak1972 Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:10am 
well you don't have to cap it anymore there's some coded lines in the game now that keeps it under 60. You have to explicit edit the ini files to get it above 60
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