Delete Dawnguard, Game Functional : V

» Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:20 pm

I was in the Soul Cairn, wearing a full suit of Heavy Dawnguard Armor, wih many Dawnguard items in my inventory and with Serana as a follower.

Deleted the DLC, and the game was still playable, with the exception of all DG related items (obviously).

So for one I am confirming this is doable.

Secondly I am wondering if this can cause serious problems in the future.

» Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:10 pm

I have deleted DG before (although did not do the MQ quest for it) and noticed an interesting glitch where my PC was able to leave the boundaries of the gaming world. Made it to Vvardenfell.

*this was on 360*

» Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:02 pm

Eh, I personally wouldn't want to risk anything.

» Sat Aug 31, 2013 3:38 pm

Well, if any Dawnguard scripts were registered for updating and were never unregistered, then they will continue to attempt to update and will eventually bloat your save file to massive proportions.

In addition, many factions now have relationship data with invalid factions and form lists contain invalid records.

Not to mention that your save is missing hundreds of scripts that were attached to it; while removed scripts are of debatable concern, it's generally been agreed that users are "married" to their mods once a save has been made with mod content loaded -- and that includes DLC.

Basically, your save is a ticking time bomb, even if you don't see errors now, you're likely to encounter them later.

» Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:36 pm

I guess I'm lucky with 140 hours in Skyrim it's still functional with all 3 DLC on my main character. A few things I do to keep the save file smaller on ps3 are.

1 Clean up all weapons from dead NPC by selling or placing swords bows back on the NPC. When the NPC is deleted so are the weapons.

2 Build one house per character.

3 Don't join every single guild. Save certain guilds like thieves guild or dark brotherhood for my bad-evil character. My main character who is a good honorable warrior completes companions, main quest, dawnguard, dragonborn, civil war and any side quest. No thieves guild or dark brotherhood for my main character.

4 I hardly collect anything. I keep all quest rewards but sell pretty much everything. Basically I dont need stuff to collect. I do keep books but I dont go over kill with it.