I just recently returned to Skyrim after not playing for a while, 6 months or so, and I am having a strange problem I cannot figure out. I have not changed anything in my MO set up since the last time I started the game but I am having a problem with my mods. Not with mods loading into the game, they do that just fine, but it seems every time I load a saved game, any items, spells, anything loaded by a mod to the game are all gone from my character. And I mean everything. Naked character and if I saved the game in a location added by a mod, I am teleported to the nearest (?) inn, and again, everything but the vanilla items in my inventory is gone.
In addition, every time I load the game, all of the mods that use MCM are loaded fresh into the game as if I had just installed them and I have to go back into MCM and configure them all over again.
As an example, i have a mod classic classes and birthsigns that adds, you guessed it, the classes and such from previous TES games to Skyrim. Every time I load a saved game, I am once again given the option to pick a class/birthsign as if I had just installed the mod for that save. Nothing ADDED by a mod is being carried over to a new load when I save a game. EVERY mod I have is installing itself fresh like it had not been used by MO in a previously saved game.
Another example, all of my custom companions are reset to their start position and any progress I have made in personal quest lines, etc, items I have given them anything are all gone as if I had never recruited them. Not sure if this applies to vanilla companions, as I haven't gotten that far in my new game because I keep having my inventory stripped every time I try to load a saved game and I've pretty much given up until I can figure this out.
This has happened to every character I have, in every profile I have, and even in a new game I just started to test this out and see if the problem was a corrupted saved game. But the problem persists in a brand new game. Every time I load a saved game this happens.
Not sure if I am being clear here, but basically, my saved games are not recognizing mods that are loaded by MO into the game so every time I start the game and load a saved game, all of my mods are purged from the save file and loaded fresh at each new load of a saved game. Nothing is carrying over from save to save. Each time I save the game, it is like all my mods disappear from that save file and are again loaded like I had just installed them into the game. The stuff is all there, but I cannot save any items in my inventory from any mods that are installed.
I have no idea what is causing this, if it is a MO error, or somehow something has changed that is preventing mods from being saved to the character, or WTH is going on, and I am at a complete loss.
Any further information you guys need to help figure this problem out I will be glad to provide. And as an aside, I did validate all of my game files through STEAM as a first step to figuring this problem out. And again, all the mods I have installed are loading just fine, just not being applied to a saved game.