When I click on the door to go from Dustman's Cairn to Dustman's Crypt I get the usual black loading screen where ordinarily there would be a picture and some text relating to that picture like a pic of a daedra lord with a brief message about who that lord is. But I don't have the picture or the text, just the black screen with the swirling smoke. It sits there forever. I've tried a dozen times and in both full screen and windowed and always the same thing occurs. I have to end task and reload my save game.

I've left Dustman's Cairn and gone many places since and everything else is working fine but I can't get into Dustman's Crypt.

Any clue as to what might cause this?

Same thing is now happening trying to enter the shop Grave Concoctions in Falkreath.

CaNt even approach Dustman Cairn with the companions quest. THe game either crash to desktop without warning or freeze. Tried several workarounds including gettin naked character, upping cpu processing to realtime, windowed, low settings... it wont work

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