So like a few others. I was having INSANE CTD issues (every 1-5minutes), and never ending load screens.

After browsing forums and experimenting. Mods being on or off made no difference. Clean saves, validating steam files. Made no difference.

After carefully looking through my steam info I realized that I only had like 26 KB left of available space for Steam Cloud on Skyrim. So I backed up my saves. And deleted most of them from Skyrim's folder.

Started the game no fix. So I made a clean save anyway exited, and turned off Steam Cloud on Skyrim altogether. Then reloaded.

This SEEMS to have fixed the issue. My test run was on a new save, running from Riverwood to Bleak Falls Barrow. Everytime before it would crash at some point on the way up, and would have a DEFINITE crash at the stairs leading up to the entrance.

After deleting saves to bring the total save total to about 50 MBs (a new save is about 3-4) and disabling Steam Cloud sync. I was able not only to reach Bleak Falls, but run around the area, up and down the stairs, all while I had all my mods active (40 atm) and having a pull of bandits from the watchtower and a wolf on me as well. This is after literally dozens of crashes before.

I can't say for SURE that it is fixed. But it appears to be gone.

So the problem seems to be with the way Steam syncs saves with the Cloud after this patch? I'm assuming it adds data to the save in intervals. And if at any interval the data increase is by a certain amount the sync fails and Skyrim crashes atm? Or maybe once you max out your sync data Steam no longer has any clue what to do without a clean save/disabling it completely.

I'd need more testing, but in the meantime others should try if they are having these problems and see if it fixes it for them.

Again. Steps I followed.

1) Backup saves. Delete saves until you have well under the max allowable Cloud space.
2) Load up a working save state. Make a clean save.
3) Exit game, disable the Cloud entirely.
4) Load clean save. Create ANOTHER clean save.
5) Exit. Restart. Load last clean save.

I haven't tried replacing my backed up saved yet. I only really care about current playthrough anyway.

how do i delete saves in Skyrim???

A couple ways:

1) In the in-game Save/Load screen, press "X" while the save is selected.
2) Go to (My )Documents/(My )Games/Skyrim/Saves and delete the ones you want.

Either of these yes. Be sure to copy the "Saves" folder somewhere safe you can remember, before you delete saves from the Skyrim folder though....just in case you want them back.

I never ever would Steam cloud but never the less I have the CTDs. So over here the cloud is not the problem since I do not use it, it's pure 1.5 patch bugged. Also the clean save is not helping here since I tried that: complete clean install of Skyrim. Fresh INIs, fresh saves ... still CTDs, stutter and so on. 1.4 was working just fine, 1.5 ruined it all

My fix was specifically for new issues with 1.5.26.

I never had crash issues with 1.5. I started getting the issue (as some others on the Nexus - where I have also posted), with 1.5.26 (which supposedly fixes CTDs).

Oh wow. This is one of the first things I did without browsing the Skyrim forums. Then again, I was having issues with Steam not wanting to run in offline mode. I found out what the issue was: apparently in a previous version, Steam didn't like capital letters with account names. I also disabled steam community in-game for Skyrim, disabled signing into friends as well. Not sure what got it to work again, but now I can play Skyrim in offline mode.

i didnt use the cloud thing, but i still get CTDs. Esp. near whiterun/riften. Missing meshes are seen too. Strange.
I am using 1.5.26 and i missed 1.4.21
its funny, pre-patched skyrim is always less buggier than postpatched.

My issue is that now the game performs INCREDIBLY poorly, and textures svck.

There is a dragon attacking me right now that is really clearly defined as an outline, but facial features are completely indistinguishable - the skin and stuff is just a blurry mess.

If you have been running the game through multiple patches eventually this could happen. Best bet is total uninstall(everything even save files back them up elsewhere first) including mods and ini files.....basically everything. Clean any remnants of Skyrim on you registry (I prefer using CCleaner as it is free and works great). If you have no other games than Skyrim even uninstall Steam(same deal run the registry cleaner afterward). Reinstall and allow the game to generate a clean fresh .ini. Then move your save files back and load them. Add mods back as a final step.

1.5.24.0.5 incorporated an intended fix for the creation kit navmesh bug that resulted in CTDs for players with certain content mods installed after exiting and re-entering new cells added by plugins.

1.5.26.0.5 backed out that fix and got rid of those CTDs that were triggered by the navmesh bug fix.

If anyone is still experiencing a lot of CTDs with 1.5.26 and at one time you had mods installed that contained scripts, it could be that you need to revert to a savegame from before you installed the mod containing the script. Since these scripts are not stored in the plugin files, there are quite a few mods that can continue to adversely affect your savegame even after you disable or delete the mod. In order to be certain, you may want to try loading an old savegame from before you installed any mods with scripts.

I haven't gotten CTDs from 1.5.24.0.5; however, I do get game freezes and it causes Skyrim to stop responding. Do you know if this is an issue that Bethesda is working on for the next patch, or are you here just to keep the community in-line??

Do you fix the game, or are you just here to demand the mods for your fixes in the rudest way possible? AFAIK, you can't fix the game, so don't criticize people who actually can. Thank you.

By the way, there's this bug report thread called "Crashes during gameplay" which could maybe possibly have the goal to report your game crashes. Reporting it in there could be more constructive? Maybe even persuade the devs to fix your reported bug, since you made mention about it in its designed place. Imagine that.

P.S. Being rude won't make people do whatever you want them to, au contraire.

LOL not trying to keep anybody "in line" - just sharing what I have heard.

I know the devs commented that they've been working on a fix for the navmesh bug for quite some time, and if I understand correctly, a version of that fix was what caused CTDs for certain mods with 1.5.24 (which is why the fix was backed out for 1.5.26).

Noob question...

I am still trying to get my head wrapped around all this "mod, script, clean save" stuff. I have been playing around with different mods. Installing manually and with NMM alike. I started having issues with followers, as well as other NPC moving backwards and sideways. I thought I might have royally screwed up the game. I deleted everything completely. I mean SKSE, NMM, Skyrim...any saves in the save file. I then downloaded Skyrim again, from Steam and started over.

I am nervous that I might be in that same situation. This time I copied the Skyrim folder into a "storage" folder. I don't want to have to download for 6 hrs again. If that even does anything.

I removed all the mods, deleted all my saves and started a new game. Going into Helgen, the main High Elf chick starts flying off on her horse. I don't mean running. I mean flying into the sky. Hell, she is probably along side Talos by now.

My question is..

If I restart a fresh vanilla start, does that new game have any chance of being corrupt?

Is there some evil hidden script that could affect the game later?

I have a solid list of mods that I want to run. I want to feel assured before I commit to a lengthy playthrough.