Skyrim crashes after language change

[j3s]

Hi. I have an issue with my Skyrim game. I live in Russia and I bought Skyrim and Dawnguard in retail and than activated it on steam so in my account details it states Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (RU) Retail and Skyrim - Dawnguard (RU) Retail. I decided to play skyrim in English so after downloading an update for language change game just crashes after the bethesda logo. Any help?

Для русских: купил ритейловские скайрим и dawnguard. В информации об аккаунте написано - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (RU) Retail and Skyrim - Dawnguard (RU) Retail. Захотел поиграть на английском, поменял язык, скачал свои 2 гб апдейта - игра крашится после лого беседки. Чувствую, что это из-за того, что ссаная русифекация (pun intended) софтклаба не может в язык чая и моноклей. Кто-нибудь сталкивался с подобной проблемой? Как решили, если решили вовсе? Очень хочу поиграть в оригинал, а не слушать кал русских локализаторов.

[j3s]

Originally posted by grimus:

fhave you tried rom Steam's help pages, Language Settings:
"If you are experiencing problems enabling a language, make sure your desired language is selected in both locations."
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8487-WSCN-4121

Well, let me be clear on this. I've been using Steam in Russian when I installed Skyrim initially, then after some time I changed Steam language to English and after that I still played Skyrim in Russian. And when I changed the game language to English too, things went haywire. Now I re-installing the game in english, hope it's gonna work.

[WaspEater]

My Skyrim crashed after changing laguage to English.
First Question is: "Do you use Mods?"
I am using Mod Manager from Sykrim Nexus.

What was working for me:
I started the game form the Steam library without any akitve mods (no SKSE). It started normaly in english language then. After that I started it normal over the Launcher in the Mod Manger and it works.

What probably helps if you dont use Mod Manager:
Disabled all active mods. Started the game (without SKSE). I switched the mods back on.

Hope it will help you, too.

[Boo]

Ok, i think your problem is solved now, but i'll write my solution for all the other people who have that problem:

(This is only for SKSE users, otherwise I don't know what you can do)

Simply start the Skyrim launcher from steam, not skse_loader!
Once you got to the main menu, you can close Skyrim and normally use the skse_loader!

Yes, it's easy as that :D

[Seefor]

Got the problem about a week ago and tried to fix it.

Originally posted by svend9951:

Simply start the Skyrim launcher from steam, not skse_loader!
Once you got to the main menu, you can close Skyrim and normally use the skse_loader!

Tried this several times, but that did not work. Disabled all my mods using NMM too, but it still crashed.
Very important: Check the data section in the Sykrim launcher to see if there are still mods that will be loaded at start. Found some mods that I loaded via Workshop. Disabled them and it worked.

[Wilkowy Luke]

Had the same issue. It's an easy fix. Documents>My Games>Skyrim>Skyrim.ini
In the .ini file remove every _RU from the .bsa's, as well as change RUSSIAN to ENGLISH.

[Jack Ryan]

Had the same problem, Skyrim worked fine, it also worked fine with mods.
But once I changed the Skyrim language from Steam Skyrim, modded Skyrim crashed.

In my case, it's because I used mod Organizer to play skyrim modded, and the Skyrim.ini files for the profile remained in the original language compared to the now changed Steam Skyrim, which made it crash to desktop.

So I went to the Skyrim.ini file for my modded profile and changed it as well to match the Steam Skyrim and then it worked.

I know it's very simple and obvious, but I still want to leave this answer here in case it helps anybody else.
Thanks to Wilkowy Luke right above for his suggestion which made me think of this.

[Gruin'Kazzak]

Well what the ...... I guess I'm lucky I only came back to the 'Limited Edition' version when they added all the new content a few months ago. Because now when I updated what I thought might be new content to the 'Skyrim Regular Edition' version I got a surprise !!! The game crashes and freezes and won't even open now !!! I think we should get our money back for being robbed !!!!!

[Nanami]

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