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Got my first crash while testing a rebuild today, and crash dump analysis leads me nowhere. It points to a vanilla tree in Dawnstar that isn't affected by any mods, and upon going back to it, the crash doesn't repeat. EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff) ExceptionAddress: 004aef0c (TESV+0x000aef0c) ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation) ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 2 Parameter[0]: 00000000 Parameter[1]: 00018a78 Attempt to read from address 00018a78 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ PROCESS_NAME: TESV.exe Perhaps the wording was confusing but there is no conflict there. 1) Vanilla Skyrim install could be "stressed" for 25 minutes at 2000 speed without CTD. This is no ESM cleaning, no SKSE, no USLEEP, only a vanilla steam install with all DLC. 2) At some point along the STEP chain, CTDs start to happen. But I'm willing to accept the ones I'm encountering are purely random and unaffected by anything specific to the install. 3) I never "re-used" a save like you are describing. I create new games every few mods or so, and save before leaving Helgen, then do some experiments and start over.

Yes, that's part of the reason I'm here. I don't believe at all that this is being caused by the mods themselves, or the STEP procedures, or anything like that. Since I also have (mostly) ruled out hardware, what I'm left with is a configuration specific to my machine that I'm unable to determine at this point. However, Skyrim is the only game giving me instability, and I have done pretty exhaustive hardware diagnostics, which is why I'm thinking it is probably something to do with a specific and odd interaction with my system and the way Skyrim is configured. I'd like to figure that part out. My previous install, pre-Windows 10 (Windows 7), was stable. I had a game that was about 250 hours old, and I think I had a CTD maybe once a week. But now, it's constant :(

I do this already, and yes, I had previously verified that vanilla Skyrim was stable, in the sense I was able to play normally for an extended period of time without experiencing CTDs. No, Skyrim is installed to a set of SSDs reserved exclusively for games, and more recently, there is an SSD just for Skyrim itself, to isolate as much as possible. I have not yet completely ruled out some extremely rare and hard to reproduce hardware failure.

Sorry - in each of the cases above, I never even got through getting extended or core. Before the full mod list was out I was already getting severe instability. I at first was pointing all fingers at SRO, because once SRO was active, that's the point where I started hitting "crashed while reading from binary stream" errors constantly. Since then it's been an unraveling process. For now I have repeated STEP only through step 2C, and tomorrow I'm going to do 2d and then apply the texture mods, with nothing else at all, and see what it's like.

I documented each attempt from start to finish, logging every thing I did, down to which files were installed and what configuration options were selected. Once I can get my 5th attempt to crash, I will report the exact details here.

Oh, one other thing. Upon installing SRO, I started getting very frequent crashes due to "Game has crashed while reading binary data stream". SRO seems to trigger it non-stop, where I can't even play for more than about 5 minutes, but without it, I have seen it happen a couple of other times too. This is just normal play, around Riverwood. I did re-download and reinstall all texture mods used to test, which at that time were only SFO, SRO, and SMIM. This is what I mean regarding CrashFixPlugin, from the attached file in the mod:

Preloader is required by the CrashFixesPlugin (at least according to its page on Nexus - is that not true?). Additionally, without DoubleCursorFix, I was still getting a double cursor - I am using the latest SKSE. But you have a point, they aren't in STEP - I didn't introduce those until round 3, however, because I started looking for other options. Sorry for missing that. The thing is, it wasn't just the stress testing. I began playing normally, and would experience frequent CTDs.

Hello, I have used STEP installs for a number of years to give myself a stable base to build on. I recently built a new machine back in May, and decided to finally reinstall Skyrim and give it a go. I installed fresh from steam, and began following the STEP guide to rebuild. I ran into trouble almost immediately, starting with constant CTDs. I have spent the past 3 weeks trying to diagnose and resolve the CTDs, and am now at the point of giving up due to no progress. I've reinstalled 4 times at this point and tried just about everything I can possibly think of. Here's the symptoms and configurations I'm dealing with Primary symptom: Constant CTDs whenever stress testing Skyrim Here's the system in question: Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshero VI CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X, stock speed and configuration (no overclocking) RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator series, stock speed (no overclocking) ASUS ROG GTX 1070, stock speed and configuration Windows 10 Skyrim is installed to a pair of SSDs, but more on that later. Some major findings I have already resolved: 1) I have turned off the touch keyboard service in Windows 10 that is known to cause Skyrim to crash every 15 minutes 2) I have the patch from Microsoft that allows DX9 apps to access more than 4064MB RAM I have reinstalled Skyrim a total of 4 times, each time reducing how far I proceed with STEP before I try to stress test. The most recent one is the most concerning. I have *only* followed Step up to the point of installing SKSE and its plugins along with ENBoost, with NO mods except the USLEEP and UHRTP patches. As it stands, I'm currently sitting on a Skyrim install that was build as follows: 1) Fresh install + file validation to prove they aren't corrupt + initial launch 2) ESM Clean + STEP guides to prepare driver configuration 3) ENboost, installed and configured per STEP 4) SKSE and the following plugins: Plugin Preloader, CrashFixes, FISS, PapyrusUtil, BugFixes, EnhancedCamera, DoubleCursorFix 5) INI configuration done through BethINI according to STEP ... and that's it. The game is incredibly unstable. I do a simple stability check by setting my character speed to 1000 or 1500 and running around the world. Without fail, I'm crashing constantly, so far never able to make more than 17 minutes without a crash. I've tried every guide I can find to improve stability. SKSE arguments correct. Other ini tweaks. Really conservative settings. All of it. What I have already ruled out: 1) Skyrim is not running out of VRAM. Never exceeding 3GB VRAM used. 2) Skyrim is not exhausting internal memory blocks 3) CTDs occur with or without CrashFixes plugin present 4) CTDs occur regardless of what I do with enboost. 5) CTDs persisted after reinstalls, even to different disks. I have no idea where to proceed from here, but would really appreciate some help.