Need Help Installing a Mod

[amourfou]

 I need help installing what I thought would be a very simple modding exercise and I get the strangest result. 

 

I have been trying to install a HUD mod so I can minimize and relocate some of my HUD elements, mostly messages as in "E" Talk to (NPC).

 

I tried to install "Less Intrusive HUD" and also "Minimal HUD". I get the same error with both of them. I am using Mod Organizer with SKSE, FNIS, Sky UI, Extended UI, I have all DLC and Patches, and I followed STEP so the instillation is good, with all DLC and Patches cleaned as per STEP. My operating system is WIN 7 64bit. I run about 250 mods all working fine.  I use LOOT for a correct load order. I also tried installing the HUD mods either first or last to see if that helped.

 

After installing either HUD mod, when I launch a save game I get this message:

 

"This save relies on content that is no longer present. Some objects may no longer be available. Continue Loading?  Missing Files:  Skyrim.esm, Update.esm, DG.esm, HF.esm, DB.esm, Legendary Edition Patch, SOS.esp, .....

 

Does anyone know what is going on here? I thought installing a simple HUD mod after all the other rather complicated mods that I managed to successfully install would work with no issues. Yet it seems Skyrim and all DLC and everything else won't load when I have these HUD mods installed.

 

Thanks in advance. Any help will be much appreciated.

[Nebulous112]

That error means that you have unticked items in MO. Verify that everything present on that save is ticked. You may have accidentally created a new profile, which means that everything is unticked to start.

[amourfou]

Thanks @Nebulous112 for the quick response to my post.

 

I did check in MO that the left pane is the correct Profile with all mods checked and that the right pane had all plugins checked. Is it possible that the profile I am viewing in the Left Pane is not the actual profile that MO is running? How can I verify what is the profile that MO is actually running ?

[Nebulous112]

What is shown in the left and right panes is always for the profile that is open. When you run SKSE from the MO window, the profile that is open will be the profile loaded.

 

Are you sure you didn't remove a mod at any time in that save? That you are only adding a mod?

[GSDFan]

You may have removed a mod and did not realize it. Click on the saves tab and hover over the top save. A message will pop up telling you what ESp or ESM is missing.

 

 

[amourfou]

I think my MO is corrupted, it is acting very strange, never did this before.

 

I unchecked all mods in the left pane. Then one by one i checked the mods and made sure the plugins showed up in the right pane. I checked all saves, they all say "none" so all saves show all esm and esp plugins are activated in the right pane and I made sure all mods were checked in the left pane.

 

Then I ran LOOT and after checked the load order, looked good.  I also ran FNIS again, with no problems.

 

Then when I launch Skyrim through SKSE v1.7.3 I still get a message saying that none of the esm or esp files are there.

 

Any ideas how this happened and what can I do to fix this?

Edited February 1, 2016 by amourfou

[GrantSP]

So what you really want to know is what is wrong with your save, not how to install those mods.

 

Just for the sake of argument, start a new game with the HUD mods installed and see what happens, if all is well then we can move onto the saved game. Straight away though if you are getting this message ingame, MO has done what it is supposed to and passed all the information to the game. Somehow I think the issue lies on that save though. How can ANY save not have Skyrim, Update or the DLCs loaded? That is the game, if they are missing then the game is broken.

[amourfou]

No matter what save game I choose, I get the same message, Skyrim.esm, Update.esm and all other plugins are not loading. Skyrim and Update are greyed out, how can they not be loading?  

 

Could this be an issue with SKSE being corrupted and not loading any of my MO plugins when I launch the game from MO? 

 

Should I reinstall SKSE? any suggestions?

 

All my save game show that all content is present, there are no missing esp plugins in any of my saves.

[Nebulous112]

What happens when you start a new game?

[amourfou]

I closed down and relaunched Steam, I checked and steam shows I have the game and all DLC installed.

 

How is it possible that I launch Skyrim with MO and all save games that were working fine as of a few hours ago, now say that I am missing all plugins including Skyrim.esm and Update.esm. 

 

It seems MO is not loading any of the plugins. It does not seem to me to have anything to do with my save games.

@Thane, thanks for helping me.

 

I use a clean game starting in Helgen at character creation so I avoid the wagon ride bug. I can't load that save though, since MO says that even that save does not have Skyrim.esm , Update.esm, nor any other plugins.

 

I need help getting MO to launch any game with Skyrim.esm and Update.esm loading as well.

 

Help.

[Nebulous112]

Just try a brand new game. Whether you get the "Wild ride" bug for the intro cart ride is irrelevant. If it loads and starts to that point without that error, that will help with the diagnosis.

[TechAngel85]

Is Archive Invalidation on?

[amourfou]

When I start a new game, should i uncheck all my mods or leave them all checked?

 

I have about 250 mods, it might crash the game to load all that in the MCM at one sitting. 

Where do I check to see if Archive Invalidation is on? 

 

In The Archives tab in the right pane, "Have MO manage archives" is checked and i made sure all archives in the list are also checked.

Is that what you mean? 

[Nebulous112]

Leave them all ticked, same as you were when checking your save games.

[amourfou]

To give you some more info, I was playing with no issues earlier today, then I started to get this problem of an error message when I tried to launch a save.

 

The problem started right when I tried to Install a new HUD mod. At first I only got the problem when I tried to launch a save with the new HUD mod installed. When I uninstalled the HUD mod I was able to launch a save game and play.

 

But the problem got worse, and now I have no HUD mods checked, the mod list and plugin list is the same as when I first created my save games, I also ran LOOT and FNIS just to be sure everything was good.  But when I tried to launch any of my saves I get the message that the game is missing all esm and esp files. 

 

So there was a steady degradation of my MO setup.

 

Hope this helps.

[amourfou]

I tried to play a new game from a save game from nexus that lets you play from Helgen at character creation. I could not play because I got the error message that Skyrim.esm and Update.esm were missing.

 

I then launched a new game. The game started and I immediately got the wagon bug with the wagon bouncing and rolling around, really gives me a headache watching that scene. But the game did launch and managed to load all my plugins from that profile.

I was really amazed the New Game didn't crash while loading all those mods in the MCM but It managed to load all of them. I had to stop the game though, seems I never got to Helgen, the wagon wouldn't stop bounching around seemed to go nowhere.

 

I'm thinking of unchecking the FNIS mods, I think they cause the wagon bug.

 

This did prove that a New Game will load Skyrim.esm and Update.esm, so what does that tell you?

 

Thanks again for helping me out.

Edited February 1, 2016 by amourfou