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I've got a couple of new CTDs in the last hours. I'm going to try that mod you've suggested, z929669. Worst thing that can happen is that it does not help, I guess. One thing that I've noticed since this issue started to happen to me is that most of the times it does happen soon after I enter combat.

Hi z929669, Thank you. To be honest, I didn't know the answer to your question. Luckily, Google has helped me know that with Windows System Information tool I can check that information. And so I've done it. According to that tool, the SSD where I have the game and Mod Organizer 2 installed has 512 bytes per sector, so I guess that means that mod wouldn't help, right? I've also read the first post of that mod. The one thing that I've tried very recently and that it's also mentioned there is putting my audio device quality to 16-bit. Normally, I leave it at 32-bit - 44Khz, but since in the Crash Logger online analyzer was also suggested trying lowering that to 16-bit instead, I've tried that as well. The latest news is that in my most recent gaming session, which has been pretty long, I haven't experienced any CTD. That's something.

Hello, I've been playing my game with the current STEP 2.3 build for some weeks now. On top of the complete STEP build, with all of its optional mods, I also installed several other mods, which you can see in this topic. For a few weeks now, I've been suffering random crashes related to this XAudio2_7.dll file. I've tried a range of measures to try to fix the issue. I've also excluded both the game's folders and MO2's folders from Windows 11's native Antivirus. I've also manually set the size of the pagefile on the game's drive to 40000 MB. Nothing seems to really fix the issue. While it's not game-breaking, at least until now, it happens frequently enough that it's getting on my nerves, really. An online crash logger analyzer has suggested verifying the game's files with Steam. I wonder... Is this something that I can safely do without worrying that it can break my mod setup? It took me several days and many hours to follow and complete the current STEP v2.3 build for Skyrim SE to put it at risk with some unfortunate decision. Not to mention that I've been playing my current game for tens and tens of hours and I would hate to break anything. Do you have any suggestion for me? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I recently noticed an issue with the "Evasive Sprint" Light-Armor perk from this mod. It actually makes stamina drains faster rather than slower when sprinting. I noticed the issue fast because I travel on foot in Skyrim and obviously I sprint as much as I can, so when I hit LA level 80 and purchased this perk I immediately noticed that something was wrong because suddenly I ran out of stamina much faster while sprinting. Enai Siaion, the mod author, has just replied to my messages on both the Nexus forums and on Reddit and confirmed the issue. Now I hope that he can work on an update that fixes the problem. Whenever the mod gets an update, I hope that I can replace it in Mod Organizer with the new version and keep playing my current game.

Never mind. I just saw that it's a feature enabled in the mod At your own pace - Companions. My bad.

Hello, After taking a short sleep in my bed in Heljarchen Hall, I've just got this message. The thing is that I haven't got the beast blood yet as part of the Companions questline. Last thing I did for them was completing Proving Honor and becoming a proper companion. But my PC still haven't got the beast blood. I completed Hircine's quest as well, and I teamed up with Sindig in that quest, killing his hunters and getting the Ring of Hircine as a reward. But that's it. My PC doesn't even wear the ring, since he is not a werewolf yet. Any idea what might be happening? P. S. I also have the Aetherial Crown, which keeps the Lover stone blessing. But I removed it from my character before sleeping. EDIT: I just saw that under "Active effects" I have one named "Resist disease". It also says "Resist disease" in the Source column. And the description says: "Your beast blood increases Disease Resistance by 100%". I really don't know how I got lycanthropy. EDIT 2: Yep. I just tested taking the werewolf form with Hircine's ring power and I actually became a werewolf. So that means that now I have to complete the Companions questline if I want to cure my lycanthropy, right?

Hello, In case someone else ever hits the same error I described in my OP, here's the solution. I noticed that among the list of mods installed with the STEP build, there was a crash log generator. Effectively, there were a couple of logs from the day I had those CTDs happen. But I couldn't figure out the cause of the CTDs just by reading these logs. So I uploaded them to pastebin and shared them in the thread that the crash logger mod has on Nexus Mods, hoping that someone would have a look at them and help me after. Soon enough, someone more knowledgeable than me replied to my post and told me that I was using a wrong version of ConsoleUtil SSE. This person also gave me the link to the right version. Effectively, replacing this mod with the correct version has solved the issue. I can now give combat roles to followers without any issues. This is the version of ConsoleUtil SSE which I first had installed: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/24858 And this is the version that I was suggested to use instead and that has fixed the issue: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/76649

Hello, I've been playing the game with the current STEP build (v2.3) for many hours already. The stability is pretty perfect. Not a single CTD until I've decided to try a feature offered by the Nether's Follower Framework mod. That mod allows you to assign two classic combat roles to followers: tanks and healers. I assigned Erandur (the dark elf priest of Mara, former priest of Vaermina) the healer role in combat. Since that moment on, I experienced two CTDs in two different combats in a very short span of time. Obviously, I have reverted his role in combat back to the default AI role. At the time when those CTDs happened, besides Erandur, I had two other followers (Faendal and Cosnach) recognized by the framework and two other (the two bugs from the Golden Saints and Dark Seducers CC) that remain out of the mod's control. I wonder if someone else here has added Nether's Follower Framework to their STEP 2.3 setup and has been able to assign the healer role to one of their followers without any issue. Also, if you have any suggestion about what I may do to better know what's causing those fatal errors when I enter combat with healers among my follower(s), please let me know. The good thing is that I can always avoid using that feature of the mod and keep playing just fine.

I see, thanks. You are right. My character was wearing all four pieces of the Dark Brotherhood light armor set. I'm glad to know that what's happened here makes sense. That was actually my only worry: that maybe my mod setup was "malfunctioning" somehow. And yes, you're also right: I've noticed that my light armor skill gained several levels early in the game. It felt like I was slowly gaining XP just for wearing light armor, which again, kinda makes sense. I'm having a blast with the modded STEP setup, by the way. It also runs fine and so far I haven't experienced a single CTD. It feels so good replaying the game after these last few years.

Hello, What the title says. I guess that's not normal at all? I just killed a male deer in Ivarstead with a successful shot with a bow while sneaking and to my surprise my light armor skill increased one level. Not my sneak, not my archery either... My light armor. I'm confused. I'm playing the complete STEP v2.3 build with several additional mods. You can see them in the attached screenshot

DoubleYou That's good to know, thank you. Apparently, the finished build is working fine. The performance benchmarks run fine. And I've started a new game and created my PC. Next thing is going through the MCM menus. I'm almost there.

The name rings a bell, so it's probably that mod, yes. Thank you. My memory was telling me that it was still part of the STEP build for SSE the last time I played the game with it. But I see that you're telling me that it was abandoned with the jump to SSE. Anyway, I'll first play for some time with the current STEP build before deciding if I want to do something else with the appearance of characters.

Thank you. At this stage, I feel like I'm close to finishing the STEP v2.3 build on my end. I've already run the terrain LOD generation, TexGen and DynDoLOD itself as well. Regarding DyndoLOD, I've got a report after the LOD generation process has finished that warns me about some 50 to 100 textures that do not match. I'm attaching a screenshot with the first half of the report, but the list of affected textures is longer than what you can see there. I can upload the report itself, in case you want/need to have a look at it. Is this unexpected? I think I've been considerably strict while following the guide indications, but it's still entirely possible that I've slipped somewhere in the process.

Hello, Unless I'm imagining things, I remember that there was this mod in past revisions of the STEP build (las time I played with STEP Skyrim was like three or four years ago) that made the NPCs look better while still retaining the vanilla feel. But I can't remember what the name of the mod was. Do you? Why is it no longer part of the STEP build, by the way?

Hi again, A bit later in that section of the guide (19 Utilities), I'm also finding some issues when I run Nemesis (as instructed in the guide). Specifically, I'm getting two warnings upon running the application from within Mod Organizer. I'm attaching a couple of screenshots where you can see both warnings. How should I proceed? Also, I ran Loot prior to running Nemesis and I saw a warning there about 15 ITM records in the Smooth Shores mod, IIRC. The entry in the guide for that mod did not mention anything about cleaning it. Should I clean it anyway? P. S. I ignored those warnings and simply followed the instructions given in the guide. As for the dirty plugin, I cleaned it when further down in the guide it was mentioned that we should run LOOT and clean any remaining dirty plugins by that stage of the STEP build.