[HELP]infinite black screen since i reached solstheim

[DonTheooo]

hi everyone, i played a LOT of skyrim recently, im lvl 57 just finished the main quest and some other guilds stuff and i wanted to end this playthrough with the dragonborn dlc.

So yesterday i reach solstheim, i do some quest and ♥♥♥♥ for about 10 hours.

and today when i launch the game, the game loads as usual but after the game finished loading im greeted by a black screen.

i can hear the sound of my healing spell in left hand, i hear the music and ambient sounds but i cant pause the game or enter any menu, i cant move or switch things in my hands.

i tried to load different saves but the only one that loads properly makes me lose 15 hours of the time i spent. And i dont want to play those 15 hours again just for this glitch to happen again once i reach back solstheim.

and i also tried to uninstall reinstall but it didnt help

mod list:
• Alternative armor – Daedric Mail
• Alternative armor – Elven Hunter
• Alternative armor – Ebony Plate
• Arcane Archer Pack
• Bone Wolf
• Dawnfang & Duskfang
• Dead Man’s Dread
• Chrysamere
• Civil War Champions
• Divine Crusader
• Forgotten Seasons
• Goblins
• Hendraheim
• Myrwatch
• Pets of Skyrim
• Plague of the Dead
• Rare Curios
• Ruin’s Edge
• Saints and Seducers
• Saturalia
• Spell Knight Armor
• Staff of Sheogorath
• Stendarr’s Hammer
• Sunder & Wraithguard
• Survival Mode
• Tundra Homestead

thx to anyone who took time reading and are willing to help

[alexander_dougherty]

I was going to say an alphabetical list of your mods is no use to anybody....
But those are all Creation Club mods, so it's unlikely to be that.

Load a save from before it happened, and make regular manual saves.
I am sorry you don't want to hear this advice, but it is the only advice to give.

And 15 hours is nothing in Skyrim, I once dropped three months worth of play because a bug had grown to unplayability. Quite often the only viable solution is to drop the bugged gameplay and start again.

[Alex]

1. Did you use quick/auto-saves? How often?
2. How big is the latest save?
3. Uninstalled any mods?
4. Any SKSE plugins or something? Perhaps ENB?
5. What are your PCs specs?

Try this: Load an earlier save, travel to the location where you made the new save, and then try to load it.

[DonTheooo]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

I was going to say an alphabetical list of your mods is no use to anybody....
But those are all Creation Club mods, so it's unlikely to be that.

Load a save from before it happened, and make regular manual saves.
I am sorry you don't want to hear this advice, but it is the only advice to give.

And 15 hours is nothing in Skyrim, I once dropped three months worth of play because a bug had grown to unplayability. Quite often the only viable solution is to drop the bugged gameplay and start again.

I know it how it usually is in a bethesda game but what if i replay those 15 hours just for the glitch to happen again ?

[DonTheooo]

Originally posted by Alex:

1. Did you use quick/auto-saves? How often?
2. Uninstalled any mods?
3. Any SKSE plugins or something? Perhaps ENB?
4. What are your PCs specs?

Try this: Load an earlier save, travel to the location where you made the new save, and then try to load it.

i quick save a lot but its not really useful since the game only keeps 1 quicksave in stores and erase the previous one if you quicksave again.

did not touch my mods as those are the anniversary edition ones, no enb used, not a pc specs problem

and its not a specific area in solstheim its every save i have here that are doomed

[Alex]

Originally posted by DonTheooo:

i quick save a lot but its not really useful since the game only keeps 1 quicksave in stores and erase the previous one if you quicksave again.

The issue is that quick/autosaves may get corrupted.

Imagine the saving mechanism like that:
- For a full save, the game is paused to "paint" a full picture.
- Quick or auto-saves, on the other hand, are snapshots made on the fly. Sometimes, stuff which moves too fast is left out of the picture (especially scripts being processed). Those errors accumulate until the save is corrupted.

Solution: Don't rely on quicksaves, make full saves instead. Don't spam quicksave/load in rapid succession. Don't quicksave if there's a lot going on.

Originally posted by DonTheooo:

did not touch my mods as those are the anniversary edition ones, no enb used, not a pc specs problem

But did you uninstall anything? Check the save file size as well, and try the trick with pre-loading a save.

Originally posted by DonTheooo:

and its not a specific area in solstheim its every save i have here that are doomed

Uh-oh.

Anyway, there's this interesting tool called ReSaver:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/5031
It's certainly not a panacea, but it might be educational to learn it, especially if you want to start modding the game. If a save is busted anyway, might as well experiment on it a little. Of course, the chances to actually "fix" a save are very slim. The only real solution is to go back to a working save.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by DonTheooo:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

I was going to say an alphabetical list of your mods is no use to anybody....
But those are all Creation Club mods, so it's unlikely to be that.

Load a save from before it happened, and make regular manual saves.
I am sorry you don't want to hear this advice, but it is the only advice to give.

And 15 hours is nothing in Skyrim, I once dropped three months worth of play because a bug had grown to unplayability. Quite often the only viable solution is to drop the bugged gameplay and start again.

I know it how it usually is in a bethesda game but what if i replay those 15 hours just for the glitch to happen again ?

then you have proof that something is causing the bug... and it becomes a mod debugging thread.