CTD happened in Rorikstead. Not much was going on, just walking around Skyrim testing for stability problems. Bandit loaded in and Boom goes the Dyanmite.
So I have been able to diagnose this problem. The issue is the winter is coming cloaks patch. If this is enabled when I make a new game the "a new patch" dialogue pops up before I can load into the game and everything crashes. If I am in a current save and then activate the patch everything works fine.
Initially after installing this mod I wasn't having any crashing issues. Later after installing other things and making a bunch of tweaks to different stuff in xedit I starting getting crashes. I thought it was related to a certain other mod and it seemed to go away after I did some troubleshooting, but later on came back. Even after totally removing the mod I had previously thought was the problem I was still getting the crash. After some more testing and research I uininstalled this mod and the crashes went away. So still not 100% sure it was this mod, time will tell if I don't see the crashes again without it.
I had been doing testing of various new or tweaked mods by starting the game and just doing a "coc riverwood" from the console at the the main menu to start fresh but skip the long game intro. After the load screen I would get a CTD in anywhere from 1-2 seconds to 10-15 seconds after gaining control of my character, but it would always be immediately after game load never later on. Whenever the game was stable, I could test for up to 30-60 minutes with no crash.
I tested with and without the SKSE version independence patch, both had the same result. Used CRB 0.22a beta for all testing.
1. What's your game version? (Just to ensure you are on the correct version) Game version 1.5.97, SKSE 2.00.19. I am using ENB, latest version 0.448. 2. What's your mod manager (NMM, Vortex, MO2)? What's the version of your mod manager? Vortex 1.3.21. Here's what it says in "about" - Released on 12/17/2020, Electron 8.5.5, Node 12.13.0, Chrome 80.0.3987.163, then a very long list of 3rd party libraries. It did get an auto update recently, so the crashes were on the previous version. 3. Is that CTD issue caused by the compatibility patches? Could that fix by disable those patches? I don't have anything that is patching or otherwise changing any of the files from your mod other than the downloads/patches you provided, including no changes or overwrites to the ESP (verified in xedit) EXCEPT for the weather ESP changes are being overridden by my weather mods (vivid weathers, truestorms). 4. Go to "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE", open file "MaxsuUtilityPlugin.log",then copy and paste the content to here. It's been a few days since I uninstalled your mod, I'll have to reinstall and get a fresh copy of the log. Will post soon.
I also just saw there is an update to SPID (4.1, I was on 4.0). I'll install the latest version and see if anything changes.
UPDATE: Tried to reproduce the crash and it is no longer happening. Between when it was happening and now I have updated quite a few other mods as well as installed a few new ones, so possible it was an incompatibility with something that has now been fixed. Also the load order position is different now since I've reinstalled CRB, so perhaps it was loading at the same time as too many other things and now it is further back in the line? This is using 0.22a beta and the SKSE version independence patch.
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1. What's your game version? (Just to ensure you are on the correct version)
2. What's your mod manager (NMM, Vortex, MO2)? What's the version of your mod manager?
3. Is that CTD issue caused by the compatibility patches? Could that fix by disable those patches?
4. Go to "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE", open file "MaxsuUtilityPlugin.log",then copy and paste the content to here.
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CTD happened in Rorikstead. Not much was going on, just walking around Skyrim testing for stability problems. Bandit loaded in and Boom goes the Dyanmite.
Anyone see anything like this before? Any advice?
So I have been able to diagnose this problem. The issue is the winter is coming cloaks patch. If this is enabled when I make a new game the "a new patch" dialogue pops up before I can load into the game and everything crashes. If I am in a current save and then activate the patch everything works fine.
So still not 100% sure it was this mod, time will tell if I don't see the crashes again without it.
I had been doing testing of various new or tweaked mods by starting the game and just doing a "coc riverwood" from the console at the the main menu to start fresh but skip the long game intro. After the load screen I would get a CTD in anywhere from 1-2 seconds to 10-15 seconds after gaining control of my character, but it would always be immediately after game load never later on. Whenever the game was stable, I could test for up to 30-60 minutes with no crash.
I tested with and without the SKSE version independence patch, both had the same result. Used CRB 0.22a beta for all testing.
1. What's your game version? (Just to ensure you are on the correct version)
Game version 1.5.97, SKSE 2.00.19. I am using ENB, latest version 0.448.
2. What's your mod manager (NMM, Vortex, MO2)? What's the version of your mod manager?
Vortex 1.3.21. Here's what it says in "about" - Released on 12/17/2020, Electron 8.5.5, Node 12.13.0, Chrome 80.0.3987.163, then a very long list of 3rd party libraries. It did get an auto update recently, so the crashes were on the previous version.
3. Is that CTD issue caused by the compatibility patches? Could that fix by disable those patches?
I don't have anything that is patching or otherwise changing any of the files from your mod other than the downloads/patches you provided, including no changes or overwrites to the ESP (verified in xedit) EXCEPT for the weather ESP changes are being overridden by my weather mods (vivid weathers, truestorms).
4. Go to "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE", open file "MaxsuUtilityPlugin.log",then copy and paste the content to here.
It's been a few days since I uninstalled your mod, I'll have to reinstall and get a fresh copy of the log. Will post soon.
I also just saw there is an update to SPID (4.1, I was on 4.0). I'll install the latest version and see if anything changes.
UPDATE:
Tried to reproduce the crash and it is no longer happening. Between when it was happening and now I have updated quite a few other mods as well as installed a few new ones, so possible it was an incompatibility with something that has now been fixed. Also the load order position is different now since I've reinstalled CRB, so perhaps it was loading at the same time as too many other things and now it is further back in the line?
This is using 0.22a beta and the SKSE version independence patch.
1. What's your game version? (Just to ensure you are on the correct version)
2. What's your mod manager (NMM, Vortex, MO2)? What's the version of your mod manager?
3. Is that CTD issue caused by the compatibility patches? Could that fix by disable those patches?
4. Go to "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE", open file "MaxsuUtilityPlugin.log",then copy and paste the content to here.
Thanks for your helping on solve this issue!