Wicketklown001

Yes, masters of masters need to be enabled as well. Basically make sure there are no missing masters warnings on the plugins tab.

It's integrated into OMEGA.

There's not much difference between the 2. Lexy usually just updates STEP first and then a few days later the changes are pushed to the Nexus version unless something pops up that makes her wait a bit.

Merge Plugin Hide was added to the guide fairly recently (January 14th update I think). The link to it is in the pre-requisites section and I show the installing of it in this video (around the 2 minute mark) https://youtu.be/8Pc9rROe5SU Once installed you can access it in MO via the puzzle icon at the top. I also recently released a 2 part video (around an hour long per video) showing all of the merges done with zEdit now.

When you did the merges did you use the Merge Plugin Hide tool to hide the esps that got merged? Or did you just uncheck them on the right pane? If just unchecked LOOT will still see them so they need to be either hidden or moved to optional. This can be done manually or with the aforementioned tool.

The only thing that comes to mind is the known bug with Frostfall (or one of it's patches, can't recall right now) where quickly transferring items that have warmth ratings can ctd.

Check your relinker version. That sounds EXACTLY like what happened to me and a few others. If you have version 44 it ctds with Minty. Use version 40 and it works.

In almost every case I came across cyclic redundancies fix themselves when you do the merges. If you want to fix it now though you can see what files are going to eventually be in a merge and assign them the same loot rule that the merge will have. That usually cleared things up for me.

Could it be the watery eyes from the ashes section of wet and cold? Just a wild guess, I haven't been to Solstheim with Wet and Cold so I don't actually know what the effect of that looks like.

It's only there for xLodgen generation.

Huzzah! That was the problem. Regenerated the Relinker files and booted right up. I now have a fully installed version of the guide :) Now I just have to do some testing before I start my Let's Play series.

Oh. My. God. When I saw this my first thought was: Yeah I saw the notice and downloaded 40. I very specifically remember doing that. But in the interest of being thorough I went to check. Yep it's 44. Facepalm. Deleting the current stuff and downloading the version 40. Will let you know if that helps. Thanks, If no one had asked I'd have gone on assuming I was using the correct version.

OK I finally figured out what was causing my CTDs. Of all things it was Relinker. After redoing the finish line section I was still getting crashes so I started disabling the various things from that section 1 at at time starting with the last step and working backward. Once I disabled the files from Relinker output I was able to get to the menu with everything else active. Not sure where to go from here though. Running Relinker again doesn't seem to fix it.

An update on my CTD issue. After getting it to load last night by removing Obsidian's esp from the merge, I tried rebuilding the merge with a freshly downloaded copy of obsidian and got the crashes again. My previous fix of removing obsidian from the merge didn't seem to work this time. I tried various things but to no avail. I was convinced it had to be the weather system merge but then I tried disabling everything that I did during final step, bash patch, zpatch, smash patch, even dyndolod and lodgen stuff and re-enabled the esps that were disabled by bash patch. Basically resetting to the point right before the finish line. And to my surprise it's able to load with the merge patch and all. So now I come to the conclusion that I must have screwed up somewhere in the finish line and caused some sort of conflict between the merge and one of the files generated during that section. I'm going to try and start the finish line section over and see if I can get it right this time.

All good. Now that I can get into game, I'm heading to bed. Hopefully after work tomorrow I can boot it up and do some real testing :)