Treva's Watch CTD

[zepedachemical]

I am currently on the companions questline when I happened to accept a quest from a man to enter Treva's Watch through the secret entrance. So I go in and finish up the dungeon and happen to make my way up to the tower where there is one chest waiting.

So I take the trap door back inside Treva's Watch and it just crashes.

I worked my way down the tower in the most unimmersive way and completed the quest to open the gate. So I save before trying to go back in to Treva's Watch and it still crashed when i try to re-enter.
This could've been a lot worse had I not been able to complete both active quests...fo' sho'

Anybody else heard of this CTD black hole at Treva's Watch and is this the only location I should avoid from now on?
Thanks

[Bomb Bloke]

Repeatable CTDs caused by entering a certain interior are typically caused by something in your load order.

Have you cleaned your master files, for starters?

[zepedachemical]

I just cleaned them for the first time after watching a youtube tutorial. Thanks.

[zepedachemical]

Ok so I cleaned the master files. Optimized load order. Same thing. I'll just continue playing for a while and avoid that location. This seems like a bug, a horrible bug, that is connected to the other quest to open the gate.

Before this I laways over looked it during the Companion Quest so whatever for now.

[rallicknom]

Next time complete the quest to open the gates first and then make your way to the tower from the outside. I have had that Companion quest a number of of times, usually to get Silver Hand plans and have never had a problem when doing it that way.

[zepedachemical]

Will do. Now at Driftshade Refuge or whatever it's called. Everything was good until I tried entering the second part of the dungeon and it just CTD.

I'm goint to do a quick intergity files check and maybe ice a few mods...seriously considering just unmodding it completely...and i have a very lightweight mod list.

[Bomb Bloke]

Bear in mind that Steam's file validation process will re-dirty your masters.

[zepedachemical]

Thanks for the info :)