PlatypusBiscuit

I have nearly the exact same problem as the OP. Â I installed Texture Pack Combiner and tested the game immediately afterward (with no other mods installed except for those in the "fixes" section of the guide) and the game ran fine. Â I loaded up the Testing Hall and a number of other areas, ran around, and took some screenshots - no problems (note: Â no, I did not touch anything in the Testing Hall). Â Then I finished installing the STEP mods, booted up the game, and boom. Â I see the Skyrim emblem and main menu screen for about a second before an instant CTD. I enabled Papyrus logging and tried to start the game numerous ways (ran as administrator, SKSE, SKSE as administrator) and I was receiving almost the exact same log as OP when I started up the game (only difference was Load screen budget). Â After many more attempts I discovered, however, that the errors were only showing up when I ran the game through SKSE. Running it through Steam only gave me: [10/28/2012 - 01:43:44AM] Papyrus log opened (PC) [10/28/2012 - 01:43:44AM] Update budget: 1.200000ms (Extra tasklet budget: 1.200000ms, Load screen budget: 500.000000ms) [10/28/2012 - 01:43:44AM] Memory page: 128 (min) 512 (max) 76800 (max total)[hr]BUT my game still immediately crashes as before. Â Does anyone know what might be causing the problem? Note: Â I did try deactivating the lanterns of Skyrim mod, but to no avail. Â Also uninstalled SKSE, but this did not help either.