Black screen after fast travel

[Eramas]

Hey. Overall, my game is running fine, I do not have any problems... except one. Very often, after using fast travel, I am experiencing a black screen. I can still hear the in-game sound, but the only solution is ctrl-alt-delete. Now, it wouldn't be a big problem, but the TESV process takes 15 MINUTES to close. I do not have similar problems when using the doors, etc. to change location.
It's not a memory problem since I am using "MemoryBlocksLog" to track it.
I have used Wrye Bash to create a Bashed Patch and Tes5Edit to clear the dirty edits... nothing.

I am using a Lenovo Y560 laptop with i5 M430 @2,27, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 (1 GB), 4GB ram, Windows 7 64-bit with Service Pack 1.

Load order (LOOT) and mods:

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
Dawnguard.esm
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
HearthFires.esm
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp
Dragonborn.esm
Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel.esm
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
iHUD.esp
ABT - Faster Arrows Improved +25%.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp
Auto Unequip Ammo.esp
ABT - Recover +25% Arrows and Bolts.esp
Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp
CoT-WeatherPatch.esp
CoT-WeatherPatch_DB.esp
Footprints.esp
dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp
dD - Realistic Ragdoll Force - Realistic.esp
ABT - Faster Bolts Improved +25%.esp
dD-Dragonborn-Dawnguard-EBT Patch.esp
DeadlyMonsters.esp
EnhancedLightsandFX.esp
Footprints - Ash.esp
Immersive Weapons.esp
ABT - Increased Progressive Damage (Vanilla) +100%.esp
DeadlyDragons.esp
SkyUI.esp
ELFX - Dawnguard.esp
Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp
3DNPC.esp
SoS - The Wilds.esp
83Willows_101BUGS_V4_HighRes.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp
ELFX - Dragonborn.esp
Book Covers Skyrim.esp
SoS - Civilization.esp
Birdsofskyrim.esp
SoS - The Dungeons.esp
Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp
Run For Your Lives.esp
Cloaks.esp
SMIM-Merged-All.esp
Immersive Patrols II.esp
Purewaters.esp
Better Dynamic Snow.esp
SoS - The Wilds-PatchCoT.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound.esp
SoS - Civilization -PatchCoTSounds.esp
SoS - Civilization-PatchCoT.esp
SoS - The Wilds-PatchCoTSounds.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound-Dawnguard-Patch.esp
WetandCold.esp
When Vampires Attack.esp
Bashed Patch, 0.esp

Any advices?

[Ilja]

You cleared all dirty edits?

Not all "dirty" edits in mod are bad ones. Many mods actually rely on them, or making them would not be possible.

Dirty edits are important, when master files have them, or several mods would be expected to deal with same variables and values. In some cases mods affecting to same factors would be inheritedly uncompatible with each other anyway, so those are not considered as probelm.

If I uderstood you right and you cleaned all mods from all dirty edits, then you might have broken some of them.

Other than that, there is a chanche that one of your texture or model files is corrupted and game freezes while trying to load it. Pick the files that affect only outdoors (fast travel), reload and reinstall them one by one.

[Eramas]

I've cleared dirty edits for Update, Dawnguard, Heartfire, Dragonborn.esm + few mods such as Sounds of Skyrim - The Wilds, but not all of them. I had this problem before cleaning them.

It's kinda weird, because sometimes I can play for 2 hours without any black screens, and sometimes it's happening after 2 minutes. I can reload the game, and again, 2 minutes.

[Ilja]

Right. Cleaning master files is recommended, but it would be always wise to make sure that mod needs to be cleaned, before touching them. If mod authors are aware of uncleaned edits in their mods, then they usually mention about them in download page or posts section.

Hmm... does that crashing relate to any location? I still think that it might be a corrupted file. You might be able to play, because your character is in the area where that file is not active. When it does active and misses date, your game goes to sleep.

I might be wrong. CTDs are usually easier to track than black screens. I do not find any files from your load order that I know to be conflicting or broken - at least as far as I know -, so I don't know what else it could be.

[Eramas]

Originally posted by Ilja (Ref):

Hmm... does that crashing relate to any location?

Not really. It can happen anywhere. For example, I am using Fast Travel to Whiterun and it's working perfectly. 10 minutes later, I am using Fast Travel to Whiterun once again and experiencing a black screen.

I will have to test it without any mods. Do I have to uninstall them in Nexus Mod Manager, or I can simply uncheck them in the Data Files?

[Ilja]

I would just disable them from NMM, so Data folder is clear, and re-enable them later. I think it would be easier than managing them trough Data Files any way.

[Eramas]

Okay, I'll try to test Skyrim without any mods later. Thanks for your help.

[arathiaes]

I have the same problem and I don't believe it's computer related. I am running an Asus G10AC with 32 gigs of ram and a high end video card with windows 8. I reinstalled my Steam, Skyrim and my most of my mods. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[jeffcollins.emailbox]

happened to me to after updating the creation kit with those ziped files it ask to over right something and i did not read it (like a dummy) and said ok. well, half my screen or 3/4 of it is black on fast travel now so i am going to reinstall everything again and read what ck wants to replace . Anway sorry no answer.

[mitsoswu]

🤨... WAIT A MINUTE HERE.. has NOBODY of you out there noticed, something in
this load list ...??!

Bramas my friend, you are using 3 "outdated" Unofficial Skyrim Patches which are NOT
needed any more. You just need to install the 1 and latest versiom of
"Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch" which is now on version 3.0.15
Here is the link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214?tab=description

AND something more: You are missing the "Unofficial High Resolution Patch" because
you are using the "HighResTexturePack01.esp" 2 and 3. You need to download it.
The link is here: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31255

You NEED these files, because most of the mods are using this latest "library" lets say...
NOT all of the mods, but most of them ....If they are not there, game will crash, or
as you said... black screen.
And please after that, recheck your load order again. For example: I am using THIS
PICTURE here for ordering my mods to load as correct as possible

https://www.flickr.com/photos/194981945@N04/53224825888/in/dateposted-public/

[smr1957]

Originally posted by mitsoswu:

🤨... WAIT A MINUTE HERE.. has NOBODY of you out there noticed, something in
this load list ...??!

Not only are you responding to a NINE year old thread, and posting according to a NINE year old load order (for which the information posted NINE years ago by Ilja was correct), the information you linked as to how to order mods is wrong; LOOT, or the versions built into Vortex and Mod Organizer 2, should always be used to set load order - not some list.

[76561199181522831]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.