Infinite Loading Screen in Whiterun

[Galahad]

I got a problem with my STEP setup. im early in the game, traveled to whiterun, entered dragon reach to talk to the jarl about those guards for riverrun. Cant leave anymore (neither through to main entrance  nor through the jarls quaters, because when i try to enter whiterun, the loading screen just never stops. dont think its a load order problem or something like this. read somewhere in the internet that i happens when you have tweaked your Map. But i didnt edit the map, so that cant be it.

 

Anyone has/had similiar problems? anyone got a solution?

[Farlo]

I know poking the problem with a stick is asking for trouble, but is there any chance you could increment them a bit until you start getting CTDs again to determine just how much it needs to be lowered?

[JudgmentJay]

I know poking the problem with a stick is asking for trouble but is there any chance you could increment them a bit until you start getting CTDs again to determine just how much it needs to be lowered?

I think that will vary greatly depending on the individual's mod/graphical setup and location in-game. There won't be a magic number.

[Bael]

telling you, its the damn z-fighting values. :) at least for me it was. and it kinda all makes sense to me: what those z-fighting tweaks do (as far as i understand) is to load LODs of far away regions. so when you leave Falkreath, Skyrim tries to load all the exterior landscape, objects, LODs and so on. So i guess this is where SSD or Video Memory or something comes in. If you have a fast enough system, than it seems to work. But if you have a mid-range rig, like i do, without SSD and only 1 gb of video memory, plus massiev amount of mods, than skyrim seems to get problems with the amount of memory needed to load in all those landscapes.

 

Thus deinstalling Distand LOD Mods, Map Tweaks, and Z-Fighting Ini tweaking is likely the reason for infinite loading screens. therefor i would recommend that STEP includes a warning in the section with the z-fighting guide. cause for me it was definite those ini values.

I have the SSD card and it doesn't seem to help with the loading. I'm getting random CTD, but almost always when I enter or leave a load area. So, not sure what the issue could be. I did notice that changing the Z fighting to vanilla helped with the infinite load as well.