[FIXED] CTD after fast traveling and waiting

[spawnzie]

I'm doing the dawnguard quest and after I freed Serana and left dimhollow crypt CTD's have been happening every time I wait or fast travel, it takes a few seconds and then the game crashes. I have tried reinstalling the game, deactivated the mods I recently installed, turned off the autosaves. I really don't wanna give this character, and I'd rather not go back to a save that's too old, I will try to see if it still happens on older saves though.

EDIT: Tried some older saves, the problem still seems to be here. Will do some more testing tomorrow

EDIT: Tried a save before I started the dawnguard quest, I can wait without CTD but it still happens after fast travel

EDIT: On a more recent save I managed to fast travel from steepfall cave near castle volkihar to Solitude and when I got there I managed to wait for 6 hours without crashing so I tried other durations and it crashed at 2 hours. Then I tried to fast travel from Solitude to Whiterun and I crashed. So I guess I CAN fast travel and wait, I just have to be specific about it. It still a problem though if wanna get to the other side of the country :\
Seems like can only wait 5 to 6 hours, same with sleeping

[Indiana_Minotaur]

What is your load order? Did you ran LOOT? and also have the unoffical patches installed?

[spawnzie]

I ran loot and have all the unofficial patches. How can I show you my load order?

[TheDeadDude]

You can type it out or post a bunch of self made screen shots of your load order in discussion for us to see.

[gnewna]

Or if you run LOOT, you can click the Details tab of the window that comes up when it's complete, and copy/paste. If you use Nexus Mod Manager, there's also a button on the Plugins tab which will export the whole lsit to the clipboard.

[spawnzie]

Here's my load order

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
Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm
SkyMoMod.esm
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dawnguard-Patch.esp
SwordsmansCoat.esp
Purewaters.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound.esp
AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp
Convenient Horses - Faster Sprint.esp
AHZmoreHUD.esp
brawlbug-plugin.esp
Chesko_WearableLantern.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dungeons-Hazardous.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Interiors-Warm.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Sound-Dawnguard-Patch.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Dragonborn-Patch.esp
ClimatesOfTamriel-Nights-Level-6.esp
ArgonianTints.esp
Dread Knight Weapon Set.esp
SkyUI.esp
Convenient Horses.esp
Convenient Horses - Unique Frost.esp
CollegeOfWinterholdImmersive.esp
DeadlyDragons.esp
Differently Ebony.esp
Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp
DragonEngine2.esp
mintylightningmod.esp
NB-Scars.esp
No NPC Greetings.esp
Headtracking.esp
HeartBreaker.esp
iHUD.esp
Immersive Sounds - Compendium.esp
winterhold_improvements.esp
Lieyes_v1.0.esp
RaceMenu.esp
RaceMenuPlugin.esp
SeranaSecret.esp
WetandCold.esp
WetandCold - Ashes.esp
WI_CWI_Patch.esp
Book Covers Skyrim.esp
DawnofSkyrim-AllMajorCities.esp
Skyrim Immersive Creatures.esp
CWIWCIPatch.esp

[spawnzie]

Fixed it! Turns out it came from an obsolete patch for college of winterhold improved and immersive college of winterhold.

[Thickpickle]

I seem to be having issues with crashing as well. For whatever reason if i wait 1 hr the game crashes. It only does it if I wait 1 hr more than once, however.

I run a few mods, but when the crashing started I disabled them all and it still happens. So I verified the integrity of the game cache; found one missing file. The file auto restoted, but even with the mods still disabled the crashing didnt stop.

Any ideas? Currently reinstalling just to be safe

[wowszer]

Verify caache gives the 1 file warning every time to everyone. It is a video setup files, reaquires when you start Skyrim the first time after. Try this before the full download. Gets rid of loose hang ons from previous mods. From Grimus

- unsub and delete workshop mods from the DATA section of splash screen.
- deactivate and delete all Nexus and "other" mods from the game.
- delete Local Content via Steam by right clicking on game from Steam Library.
- exit Steam
- delete all files in Steam>Steamapps>Common>Skyrim folder.
- delete all files in Users>(user name)>My Documents>My Games>Skyrim
folder. (copy Saves fiolder to desktop, your saves may not work with the new install because of the mods no longer being active.)
- clean registry
- run anti-virus scan
- shutdown computer, wait a couple mins., restart computer.
- re-install Skyrim from Steam by right clicking on the game icon in your Steam library.
- verify game cache. (its safe to ignore the "1 file..." message.)
- check load order from the DATA section of the splash screen: dawnguard, hearthfires, dragonborn, HR textures 1, 2, 3.
- test game installation with new character.

[Nevvy]

Originally posted by spawnzie:

Fixed it! Turns out it came from an obsolete patch for college of winterhold improved and immersive college of winterhold.

Oh. my. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. god. Thank you so much. I've been searching for a solution for actual months. I literally searched trough so many forums and found nothing, but this, this humble discussion on steam solved it. I thank you so much.

[spawnzie]

Well, I didn't think someone would have the exact same problem with the same solution ^^ glad it helped though

[normanator1717]

I had a similar problem with crashing after waiting and I had immersive college of winterhold installed. What fixed it for me was the plugin preloader found here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/?