Step guide worked fine for a while, now getting consistent crashing on loads and travel

[yeti]

Not sure what to make of this, I installed the guide and got about 40 hours of play before getting these symptoms:

• CTD on load after death
• CTD on fast travel
• CTD on wait (less often than the other two)

Crash log: https://pastebin.com/BgmSqjrj

Load order: https://pastebin.com/KEeySVi6

Possible other relevant stuff:

Running without Grass LoD
First ~35 levels were fine, kind of wonder if the instability started as something relating to some of the CC content added in AE, which I'd never played any of before
Seems to happen regardless of whether it's a regular save or autosave

 

Not real sure where to start with troubleshooting, I have been looking at the log files that the various plugins generate but nothing's jumping out at me far. The only other thing I know to do is go back over my mod list with a fine toothed comb and see if I missed some kind of config option or installed the wrong version of something.

[z929669]

2 hours ago, yeti said:

Not sure what to make of this, I installed the guide and got about 40 hours of play before getting these symptoms:

• CTD on load after death
• CTD on fast travel
• CTD on wait (less often than the other two)

Crash log: https://pastebin.com/BgmSqjrj

Load order: https://pastebin.com/KEeySVi6

Possible other relevant stuff:

Running without Grass LoD
First ~35 levels were fine, kind of wonder if the instability started as something relating to some of the CC content added in AE, which I'd never played any of before
Seems to happen regardless of whether it's a regular save or autosave

 

Not real sure where to start with troubleshooting, I have been looking at the log files that the various plugins generate but nothing's jumping out at me far. The only other thing I know to do is go back over my mod list with a fine toothed comb and see if I missed some kind of config option or installed the wrong version of something.

You only shared the first 34 lines of your crash log.

Did your mod list, LO, or configuration change at any point prior to the CTDs?

Did you start a particular quest or complete a particular quest objective just before the CTDs?

Ar you running the complete Step SkyrimSE 2.3 build without any changes?

[yeti]

On 7/13/2025 at 7:41 PM, z929669 said:

You only shared the first 34 lines of your crash log.

Did your mod list, LO, or configuration change at any point prior to the CTDs?

Did you start a particular quest or complete a particular quest objective just before the CTDs?

Ar you running the complete Step SkyrimSE 2.3 build without any changes?

 

Re the crash log, that's actually all there was in the file, I thought it looked weird too but I didn't write code so I wasn't sure if it was supposed to have more info or what.

Mod list/LO/config changes--not that I know of. I was playing with brightness and the interior/exterior brightness adjustment that Cathedral weathers exposes in the MCM but that was it.

Quests-- The session I first noticed it I had been doing some CC quests-- Saints & Seducers, Dawnfang/Duskfang, as well as the Moon & Star mod's material. It doesn't seem confined to interacting with DLC or mod content though.

Step build-- Step SkyrimSE 2.3 with post processing, the only parts where I diverged was leaving out FIZZLE, and I verified that I removed the one related esp in section 20 and omitting grass LOD for the sake of framerate

Edited July 15 by yeti

[z929669]

3 hours ago, yeti said:

 

Re the crash log, that's actually all there was in the file, I thought it looked weird too but I didn't write code so I wasn't sure if it was supposed to have more info or what.

Mod list/LO/config changes--not that I know of. I was playing with brightness and the interior/exterior brightness adjustment that Cathedral weathers exposes in the MCM but that was it.

Quests-- The session I first noticed it I had been doing some CC quests-- Saints & Seducers, Dawnfang/Duskfang, as well as the Moon & Star mod's material. It doesn't seem confined to interacting with DLC or mod content though.

Step build-- Step SkyrimSE 2.3 with post processing, the only parts where I diverged was leaving out FIZZLE, and I verified that I removed the one related esp in section 20 and omitting grass LOD for the sake of framerate

If you are getting CTDs, it seems like it's a bug related to a quest or quest item, since it never happened previously and suddenly it does. Either that, or you have an artifact in your save. A full crashlog would possibly help diagnose.

[yeti]

On 7/14/2025 at 11:32 PM, z929669 said:

If you are getting CTDs, it seems like it's a bug related to a quest or quest item, since it never happened previously and suddenly it does. Either that, or you have an artifact in your save. A full crashlog would possibly help diagnose.

 

I went over the crash log mod's install to see if I missed anything and  I think it's all there. If the crash logs are coming out truncated I think that would suggest either:

the crash log mod is the problem

or

that Skyrim is quitting so abruptly the mod isn't getting enough data to finish the log

Right?

[z929669]

10 minutes ago, yeti said:

 

I went over the crash log mod's install to see if I missed anything and  I think it's all there. If the crash logs are coming out truncated I think that would suggest either:

the crash log mod is the problem

or

that Skyrim is quitting so abruptly the mod isn't getting enough data to finish the log

Right?

If you are using the crash log we recommend in the guide list, it's not the issue. It should output a full crash log. Check the next time you CTD.

[yeti]

Yeah, I'm using that one version 1.15 which is the latest as of this post but was released after the latest Guide release, not sure if that's relevant. Reviewing the mod page there I think I misunderstood one of the optional files, it's got the older 1.5 version on it but the instructions imply I'm supposed to choose SSE or VR so I added it to the mod to see if that makes any difference but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

Here's a selection of crash logs from a few hours playing this evening:

• NGIO disabled (Curious what would happen here since NGIO came up when I was first looking into the issues)--game CTD immediately but I did get way more log info. Crashing seems expected when turning that off mid play. https://pastebin.com/xTXjbZq3
• Played some hours with no issue, got killed, CTD on loading save https://pastebin.com/079WTXzv
• Reloaded, accidentally did some weird combination like drink potion, leave inventory, immediately hit autosave  and CTD https://pastebin.com/VjS7qYwh