Game Dies Whenever I Approach Four Skull Lookout - Need Help

[Gearfist0]

As I am doing the Destruction Ritual Spell quest, I need to go over there in order to use the shock spell to unlock the spell from the Power of the Elements book. But as the title says, if I approach it, the game dies on me. To elaborate: throwing spells at it is fine, I have triggered the bandits that live in it and killed them by constantly chucking projectiles into the lookout, but if I cross a certain boundary I can't see, the game will instantly freeze and I have to force relog into my desktop profile because I can't see the Task Manager and Skyrim wants to hog everything and will not show anything else on my screen (barring Ctrl + Alt + Delete menu).

I'm stuck and I don't know why this keeps happening. If I need to, I'll post a list of the mods that I'm currently using, but I don't think it matters for the time being because I'm using small script things that do not impose heavy loads on the game.

[kyr]

This also happened to me. Could you post your mods?

However, I wasn't in the mood to interrupt my game so a simple fix is as follows:
Before crossing the boundary which causes the crash, open the console (tilde, ~) and type
coc FourSkullLookoutExterior01
This will teleport you directly in front of the entrance. The game does not crash from here in, so do the ritual, and then fast travel out.

RE task manager, if you can't see it, you should use the keys:
Ctrl+Shift+Esc (open task manager)
skyrim (or s, or sk, etc. so the skyim process is selected)
alt-E (for end task)
Enter

[Gearfist0]

kyr, for stuff I can see off the top of NexusModManager, I have: Immersive Armors, Unlimited Rings and Amulets, ApachiiSkyHair, Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patches, Infinite Torch, Less Grass and Such, Alternate Start - Live Another Life, Improved Gauldur Amulet SSE, Run For Your Lives, When Vampires Attack, NPCs Run and Walk at Your Pace, Insignificant Object Remover, Extended Stay - Longer Inn Rental, No Collision Between Actors SSE Edition, Revenge of the Iron Daggers and Leather Bracers, Achievement Mod Enabler.

From stuff on Bethesda's website, I have: Sensible Faster Respawns, Breezehome Basement, No Armor - Dragon Priest Masks, Improved Archmage Robes, Buster Sword, Better Sun Spells Arsenal (and therefore Drakon's Sun Enchantment and S'rendarr's Arsenal), Enhanced Smelting, Simple Werewolf Ability Boost, Flames Mining, Better Magic, Balanced Damage Scale [PC], Realistic Weapon Weights, Unleveled Items, Falskaar, 50 pct More Perk Points, Weightless Dragon Bones and Scales, Rich Merchants of Skyrim, Hearthfire Building Materials God Chests, and No Snow Under the Roof enabled.

[kyr]

The only overlap I have with you is the unofficial skyrim patch, run for your lives, when vampires attack, and the achievement mod enabler. I have a feeling this would most likely be a vanilla and/or unofficial patch bug.

In any case, once you've worked around it, there's no reason to visit again.

[Gearfist0]

Yeah, i followed your advice to coc myself to four skull lookout and was able to complete the spell to learn Fiee Storm. Worked nicely and hopefully i will not have to go back there.

[Kix]

So I could NOT coc to the location. HOWEVER:

For anyone still looking for a fix for this: The bug is (currently) related to the Skyrim Special Edition Skript Extender. To fix it you need to remove ALL files associated to the Script Extender. Once you do that, you will be able to run into any "crash areas". Make sure to remove all mods, also, if you still want to get achievements. Afterwards you can put everything back.

[Sinsling]

Originally posted by Kix:

So I could NOT coc to the location. HOWEVER:

For anyone still looking for a fix for this: The bug is (currently) related to the Skyrim Special Edition Skript Extender. To fix it you need to remove ALL files associated to the Script Extender. Once you do that, you will be able to run into any "crash areas". Make sure to remove all mods, also, if you still want to get achievements. Afterwards you can put everything back.

Based on their mod list, they did not have skse64, and skse64 only went into alpha recently if I am not mistaken. They were also able to use script movement to get there without ctding.

Your information may be relevent to some other posts I have seen since I started playing sse, but this is not one of them.