Enable Crash Logging with Skyrim Mod Organizer [fixed]

[Blaank]

SOLUTION FOUND

Originally posted by SmooshieBanana:

You need to edit your .ini files through Mod organizer. Click on Tools uptop and then inieditor

I need help enabling crash logging. I'm using Skyrim Mod Organizer. I've googled and done the following.

C:\Users\[myname]\MyDocuments\mygames\skyrim\Skyrim.ini

added lines

[Papyrus]
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0
bEnableLogging=1
bEnableTrace=1
bLoadDebugInformation=1

Then after a crash I go to C:\Users\[myname]\MyDocuments\mygames\skyrim\Logs\Script and there are no files there. I put in those lines several crashes ago and have never seen any log files. How do I enable crash logging?

[SmooshieBanana]

You need to edit your .ini files through Mod organizer. Click on Tools uptop and then inieditor

[Blaank]

Thanks, I'll try it and get back to you if it works.

[SmooshieBanana]

If you want, list out your load order from mod organizer here, both the left and the right pane load orders and we can see if there any conflicts or such.

[Blaank]

It works. Thanks.

[76561198348890257]

Best answer I've seen! thanks.. no one else had mentioned that you had to edit the ini (thru) MO; and it WORKED! now to go thru all those lines and find all my conflicts/missing items. thanks again

[Blaank]

Edited OP with better title to help people searching for this and a solution provided by SmooshieBanana.

[Falro the Great]

Just so you know, the Papyrus log is NOT a crash log, and is more often than not completely useless for figuring out the cause of a crash.

It's really only useful for debugging scripted mods, and even then it takes a skilled eye to make sense of.

[Chromes]

is it possible to edit those ini files with vortex? if so, how?

[Remix]

Just run a search on your pc for skyrim.ini and pay attention to the location as it will find more than one. The one in documents/my games/Skyrim is NOT the one you want as organizers use their own separate version.

In MO2, its found under "M02 INSTANCE/profiles/skyrim.ini
(not MO's own folder, but where it stores the mods)