AzureBadger

:) I think your first guess was accurate! I didn't have updated bash tags on the LOTD Patches Merged.esp which goofed up the leveled lists. Also had an outdated and mismatched 2k texture pack for it. Many thanks for everything you do here m8!

Lol I cant find any books at all actually. I actually tried to get through the game despite that only to realize that most quests are impossible without them. vendors and containers with books cause instant crashing. I tried rebuilding everything multiple times to no avail so far. Based on nexus forum advise I came across, I tried loading xEdit and applying "Apply filter for conflict users" on the Skyrim.esm which showed some overwrites on most of the books from the LegacyoftheDragonborn.esp and then Unofficial skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp. ? I'll try to make sure I got those updated per the guide.

I've been using this guide for a while now successfully and have gone through and updated everything over the course of the last week or so and must say how amazing the game looks and plays, its never been better. However, I have a question that might sound strange, no one seems to have had a similar issue as far as I can tell. There are no books of any sort to be found and vendors that sell them cause ctd. as well as some quest items like the bottle of double distilled skooma fellow in Windhelm needs. otherwise the game plays perfectly with no fps drop, script lag, anything. I can find no evidence that they are there and invisible. So I went back and troubleshot everything that I can think of to no avail. they remain in vanilla skyrim so I know that something is amiss in my mod list but I just cant find it. I'm going to try to rebuild the patch for RS children since that seems to overwrite files for Books of skyrim. after that i'm absolutely stumped. Please help