I had an old character from a previous installation that I simply wasn't able to play on. Eventually I remembered that for that install I had changed the uGridsToLoad in the ini and that was why I couldn't load any of that character's saves. So I backed up my current ini, and changed the uGridsToLoad=9 and now I was able to play that character. Unfortunately the game crashed every once in a while wandering the world which it did not do on my other character using an ini with the default ugrids.

So I set out to find a way to lower my ugrids for the character I want to play.

I came across these instructions and fallowed them

1.Backup SkyrimPrefs.ini, Skyrim.ini and your Skyrim ‘Saves’ folder.
2.Right click on Skyrim.ini in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim and uncheck ‘Read Only’ in the file’s properties.
3.Load your last save game.
4.Press tilde on your keyboard, most commonly placed directly to the left of ‘1.’ If it is elsewhere, the keyboard symbol should be ` or ~. If all else fails hit every key on the keyboard until a large, semi-transparent overlay appears on the bottom half of the screen.
5.In the now-visible in-game console type setini “ugridstoload:general” 5
6.Hit Return on your keyboard.
7.Type saveini
8.Hit Return on your keyboard.
9.Type refreshini
10.Hit Return on your keyboard.
11.Close the console using tilde.
12.Create a new save game.
13.Exit Skyrim.
14.Delete Skyrim.ini in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim.
15.Reload the Skyrim configuration tool.
16.Close the tool.
17.Re-tweak Skyrim.ini if necessary (and SkyrimPrefs.ini if it has since been modified).
18.Reload Skyrim and your most recent save.
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When I loaded up the game the, Skyrim dragon-logo was red, the next loading screen was also red tinted and then the game crashed. Not a single save would load for that character. My other character runs fine.

I put back my uGridsToLoad=9 ini but no saves for the character will load. I am still getting red tinted loading screens.

Is there any way I can fix what I broke?

I want to load my broken character and change the ugrids so the game would stop crashing.