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Just did two final tests, reinstalled all of my non-step mods and didn't get a crash on both occasions. I believe, with my unfortunate luck, managed to somehow install those mods wrongly on two separate occasions, causing a script or three to go haywire whenever playing, resulting in a spectacular memory leak. (Or something along those lines) Installing them wrongly on two separate occasions caused me to go through a massive goose chase through the STEP guide, uninstalling and downgrading mods left and right, to no avail. Because SURELY I installed them right the second time, right? That was my reasoning. Anyway, thanks again for all the help guys. You do great work here.

I did a clean install. I use wrye bash. Could it be script lag? Or an incompatibility of some sort? I am pretty ambitious with the overhaul mods I'm using, I think. UPDATE: Uninstalled Skyrim HD and SRO and did the test run again and it crashed. It must be something stupid I've done. Jeez. Thanks for the help guys. I guess what is so hard to track down with this crash is that it's so inconsistent. Man. UPDATE 2: I just installed the package list above (Causes crash) and didn't get a crash. I don't get it.

Alright thanks for the help. I'm going to take a stab at this tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Interesting. So scripts can be an issue with the game as well? Is that why when I tried removing my non-STEP mods the issue would resolve? I could remove any combination of those mods and my game would not crash there. I was thinking it was an engine issue, and I was so confused when people were running full STEP 1024 installs with no problems whatsoever. I'll try to get rid of some extraneous mods to make it stable. It seems I might have to make some sacrifices if I want Skyrim Monster Mod, Skyrim Redone, Deadly Dragons and Climates of Tamriel to work together.

Hi guys. I was hoping you'd be able to assist me with a problem I've been having regarding a reproducible CTD occuring anywhere from Riverwood to the Bleak Falls Barrow Entrance. At first I would CTD (Note: CTD. Not freeze) because (I'm pretty sure) of the 3.1GB RAM limit. Reinstalled Skyrim, downgraded all textures to 1024. Solved. Easy. Now though, I freeze. It's fairly bizarre. I know the freeze is about to happen when NPC's don't spawn or LOD textures don't get replaced. The next time I quicksave/autosave/manually save/change cells the game will 100% freeze when I notice these symptoms. I had a very amusing one where Ralof did his scene with Hod and Gerdur while Gerdur wasn't there. He just continued his prompts like she was there. 90% of the time though it's on the way to Bleak Falls and there are the three bandits in the tower. Either one of them doesn't spawn/one of them spawns/two of them spawn and I freeze shortly there after trying to save. I've tried removing non-core mods. I have also tried removing the installs that are not STEP related piecemeal and testing each time, but I could never pinpoint down a mod and if I did it would be different every time. Another part of this freeze is that if I reload a save right before the game freezed, I can go and beat Bleak Falls, head back to Riverwood, and have a merry old jolly time. BUT once I head to Windhelm and see the Companions fighting the giant. Boom. Another one of these crashes. If I persist on after that, it will crash in 45 minutes to an hour, normally in combat. In the end though, the thing that got me scratching my head the most is when I installed Alternate Start - Live Another Life I don't get that CTD at Bleak Falls when I get there. If it means anything, when I start using that mod I go from wherever I start straight to Helgen, down to Riverwood and to Bleak Falls. I had a timer going to test this and my playthrough lasted 3 and a half hours before this kind of freeze occured. So suffice it to say I'm baffled. I've struggled with this for a number of weeks now and I'm at my wits end. My System Specs OS: Windows 7 Professional GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 570 /w 2.5GB VRAM CPU: Intel quad core i7-3770k @ 3.5GHz Motherboard: Asrock Extreme6 Z77 RAM: 12GB Dual Channel DDR3 RAM @ 674MHz Skyrim install: SSD STEP Install: 1024 /w some non-core mods removed (Want to add them back later if this is not a texture related bug) Package List (The non-STEP mods are at the very bottom of the list) Plugin order (BOSS used, TES5Edit cleaned all plugins that BOSS notified me about. Bashed patch used to merge Leveled lists only) EDIT: Sorry forgot to mention I didn't add a Papyrus log because I tried that and it's different every time. I can add one if requested. Thanks for reading all the way down here!

Very interesting. I did 2 rough tests with my new Wrye Bash install. First off, I played normally for about 2 hours. Now this is somewhat close to the time range when I get a purple mesh/texture crash. About 30-45 minutes longer though. No purple or black textures/meshes. Secondly, I ran from Markarth to Windhelm, loading as many exterior worldspaces as possible and occasionally entering an interior to check for purple and black textures. All was good and clean. This is great and I'm pretty excited about being able to play the game in all of its 2048x glory. However I really would like to do a 3+ hour session to really check this out and absolutely make sure that no more problems exist. I'll try to fit it in some time this week.

Mod Organizer uses a virtual Skyrim directory, so you have to run BOSS through Mod Organizer itself. 1. Open Mod organizer and in the top right, you should see a listbox with some executables (Skyrim, SKSE if it's installed) 2. Click on that and hit 3. In the new window that pops up, under Title, type the name you wish to appear when you select it in the listbox. 4. Under binary, we have to find the executable BOSSGUI.exe. Click on the elipses button and find where you installed BOSS. !EDIT!: Apologies it is BOSS.exe, not BOSSGUI.exe. 5. If you want ModOrganizer to close when you run BOSS, check "Close MO when started" 6. Click Add, and press OK! 7. Now run boss through ModOrganizer and it will recognize everything! Please note that you will have to run EVERY utility through here that needs access to the Skyrim directory or .ini files or it will access the wrong directory. Also note that you have to do .ini edits directly through ModOrganizer, don't open Skyrim.ini and Skyrimprefs.ini in your documents. Mod Organizer is fantastic and quite brilliant, you just have to wrap your head around how it functions and how to use it. I highly recommend reading the guide on the STEP Wiki as it will answer all of your questions and more. https://wiki.step-project.com/Guide:Mod_Organizer

Hey there. I've had this problem crop up a number of times in my current playthrough. System SpecsGPU: Nvidia GTX 570 with 2.5GB VRAM CPU: Intel i7-3770k @ 3.5GHz RAM: 12GB DDR3 @ 660 MHz MOBO: Asrock Z77 Extreme6 PSU: 860 watt Corsair Skyrim is installed on an SSD Graphics driver version and settings - 314.07 (Latest). Default factory settings except for some colour balancing.Skyrim launcher settings - Maxed with shadows on high and AA on 4x, ini settings on shadows unchanged from what the launcher generatedSTEP version and any additional mods used - STEP v2.2.1 with SkyRe (Races module and [Encounter Zones?] disabled), Frostfall, RCRN, and No Kill MovesTexture/quality resolution options - 2048xInstallation method - Mod OrganizerFrom starting a new character I can usually get to Riverwood without any purple/black textures. I've gone as far as Bleak Falls Barrow to as short as the 3 Standing Stones before I notice purple/black textures and the soon inevitable crash. The 3 standing stones I noticed some purple moss. I examined it for about 5 seconds and then I crashed. The one in which I reached Bleak Falls Barrow, once the interior was loaded, a large amount of the ground was black, as was a lot of armor on the dead bandits in the initial room. I opened my inventory and a lot of the models of clothing and armor were purple. Then I crashed. Quite bizarre. Once purple textures, black textures and crashes started cropping up I reinstalled STEP according to Baseline and didn't have the problem. It's really unfortunate since I'm fairly sure my box can handle 2048x with only a bit of stuttering while loading worldspaces but that doesn't seem to be the case. With the 2048x setup I get a consistent 60FPS throughout the entire game with the exception of swamp areas around Morthal which drop to about 45-50. I've decided to try an installation with Wrye Bash with my 2048x settings. I doubt it will change much, however I will get back to you with results and it will be good practice to familiarize myself with Wrye Bash.