I was waiting for Dawnguard to be released for PC so I didn't play Skyrim for about a month. Just the other day I started it back up and got the 1.7 patch and purchased Dawnguard.

I had a lot of CTD issues when entering Fort Dawnguard at first but after working through many mods I narrowed it down and reloaded some of the other mods that did not seem to be a problem. Now though I sometimes see an enemy with their arms out stiff and naked. If they are human they are also headless. I have seen this with Trolls and Bears and some Bandits. It is not always and it is quite infrequent and after you kill the enemy you cannot loot the corpse. The corpse is just standing there and you cannot interact with it anymore.

Has anyone else experienced this? I am trying to figure out whether it is some game bug or some mod is causing this strange issue. Thanks in advance for any reply as to whether you have seen this happen or not.


Edit: I went into the mod manager and unchecked all the mods. I loaded up a save and went to an area with enemies that I can see this happen. Even with all the mods unchecked I still get the stiff, naked, headless enemies. They speak and will chase you but, it is pretty strange.

No, the only glitch I'm aware of is the alchemy lab problem. Remove all your Mods and add them back one at a time until you find the one that's giving the problem.

I had this shortly after the 1.7 patch, it lasted for about a week or so rl time, but I haven't seen it since. It also sort of caused bodies to catapult away from you after you had a kill animation of a decapitation, and I noticed that it was some of those bodies that resurrected themselves and did the floating around and attacking you thing.

It only happened to me on the road from whiterun to the intersection up near rorikstead, and only in two encounter zones specifically. I'm not sure why it happened, certainly wasn't mod related with me, but it did stop.

How about dead humanoids, stuck in place, standing while is a Boxing position? I just had this happen too.

is this the breezehome issue? You buy the lab from the steward and it doesn't purchase and appear in the home?

Unfortunatly until this is fixed, all my characters after dawnguard was installed that didn't have breezehome now have a dark dirty corner in the house.

Here is a link to a topic that shows the issue. Scroll down about half way to the post with the 2 video links. These video's (one on console) show the issue I am having.

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/762150-stiff-headless-enemies-anyone-else/