Hej, I'm not really sure if I'm posting this in the right forum because I don't know if it's mod-related or not, but if it isn't perhaps someone can point me in the right direction anyway?

I was watching gopher's latest videos recently and he mentioned something about a bug that prevented the appearance of random dragons after the "Dragon Rising" quest. I also see that the bug is mentioned on the UESP Wiki, under the Notes section:

"Random http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dragon will start appearing in the world after completing this quest (this may not occur in some versions of the game, in which random attacks do not occur due to a bug)."

I've tried googling this and found only a few random mentions of it, but I seem to be suffering from it myself. In my last two or three playthroughs I've encountered no random dragons at all, despite getting up to level 30 or higher, and spending a month of travelling on foot and horseback around Skyrim (without using fast travel).

I thought the bug might be mod related, so in my current playthrough I turned off Alternate Starts, guessing that the problem might lie there. Doesn't seem to have had any effect though, I'm still not encountering any random dragons. For what it's worth, I've not progressed further than "Dragon Rising" in the main quest yet, but in previous playthroughs that's all I needed to do to spawn random dragons.

Below is my mod list. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated:

GameMode=Skyrim

Skyrim.esm
Update.esm
HearthFires.esm
Dawnguard.esm
GeneralStores.esm
SPIKE.esm
HighResTexturePack01.esp
HighResTexturePack02.esp
HighResTexturePack03.esp
Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp
Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp
Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp
HighResTexturePackFix.esp
AchieveThat.esp
LeftHandRings.esp
AutoHarvest.esp
Ghostifish-Magical Alchemy Harvest-o-tron.esp
PlayerHomeMapMarkers.esp
Invisibility Eyes Fix.esp
BlackSacramentArmor.esp
BlackSacramentDBReplacer.esp
ImprovedSkillBooks.esp
LocalizedGuildJobs.esp
TheChoiceIsYours.esp
Ish's Souls to Perks.esp
Dr_Bandolier.esp
CraftableCloudStorage(GS).esp
Convenient Horses.esp
Blaze Of Eventide.esp
No NPC Greetings.esp
WATER.esp
WATER Plants.esp
StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp
Skyrim Shadow Striping Fix.esp
Predator Vision.esp
LFox No Racial Power Cooldown.esp
Chesko_Frostfall.esp
Immersive Weapons.esp
ReProccer.esp
SkyRe_Combat.esp
SkyRe_EncounterZones.esp
SkyRe_EnemyAI.esp
SkyRe_EnemyScaling.esp
SkyRe_Main.esp
SkyRe_Survivalism.esp
hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp
Lock Overhaul.esp
RealisticNeedsandDiseases.esp
RND_Dawnguard-Patch.esp
RND_HearthFires-Patch.esp
RND_Water-Patch.esp
RND_USKP-Patch.esp
1nivWICCloaks.esp
1nivWICCloaksCRAFT.esp
1nivWICCloaksNoGuards.esp
Apocalypse - The Spell Package.esp
DynamicMerchants.esp
CandlelightToggle10.esp
Eld-combinePotions.esp
UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul.esp
UFO - Dawnguard AddOn.esp
UFO - Heartfire AddOn.esp
MoreTraining_50.esp
More Visible Soul Trap Effect.esp
Facelight.esp
SkyUI.esp
iHUD.esp


So, is this a mod-related problem, or is it a bug in the core game, and if the latter, is there a workaround?