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My Preference: I would like to not use Men of Winter, I'm not a fan of any of the faces modified by the mod, and that mustache is hideous. I've added 2 of my own mods (Skyrim Sizes, iEquip) and have tried the modding setup without those, same problem persists, onto my problem. Having an issue with NPC Textures. In any setup the game gets stuck on loading screen with the wheel in the bottom right spinning infinitely without NPC Retextures Merge SSE.esp and OMEGA NPC Retexture - Conflict Resolution.esp both activated, which when opting against textures from Men Of Winter, causes a lot of immersive purple people. If I do have all of the 'optional' NPC Retexture mods (WICO, Bijin and friends) activated and the NPC Retexture Merge and the fix esps according to the guide, the game loads and works except that the game crashes whenever various NPCs are enter my line of sight and there are male and female NPCs with missing face textures, Delphine and Hjoromir in Riverwood for example. On the crashing, I've noticed when I load into Riverwood that very few times my game will crash, but I've noticed consistencies in the NPCs I see if my game does crash. If I look at Sigrid by for example, my game will crash, there are also maids and such in Dragons Reach who will do the same. The game will still refuse to progress past the initial load if I have no optional NPC retexture mods (Wico, Bijin and friends) activated unless I have the Merge and OMEGA Fix esps activated so I have no findings for any situation without any texture mods at all. If I do have the NPC Retexture duo activated, there will be missing textures from any mod that I don't have activated in the left pane, which results in a bunch of blue-eyed twins staring at me in a cart on launch of the Helgen start and the thief main body is also purple, and all of the guards around me, I don't judge personal life choices, but I don't think Nords are meant to look like that. I've tried opting for just using WICO following similar install instructions to the guide, ignoring the deleting of the esps and the game still won't progress past launch without NPC Retextures Merge SSE.esp and accompanying OMEGA NPC Retexture Fix mod. Only thing I haven't tried is loading the optional NPC Retexture mods (Wico, Bijin, and friends) with their ESPs still active and no Merge & OMEGA Fix active. At this point, I would prefer to run with my own NPC Texture setup, which I've tried, but I can't get pasted the launch loading screen without the NPC Rexteture Merged, which would result in purple people everywhere. I've tried generating all the patches in Final Steps with multiple different setups without the NPC Rextexture duo active and MO shows no errors without them but still the infinite loadscreen problem persists. Just being thorough with my findings and giving everyone as much information as I can to help ya'll out. Multitude of things that it could be and I've been working on this for a day or two to figure it out, wondering if anyone has any thoughts.