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Hey guys, just wanting to get some info on crashes. I've always had issues with 32 Skyrim, regardless of mod configuration. Enderal isn't too bad compared to the crashes I get in vanilla Skyrim, but still enough to be an annoyance. Seems particularly bad when loading areas in Ark, but I still get the very occasional crash in other areas, which I've come to expect on the 32 bit engine. I've only got a few extra mods directly from the Enderal section of the nexusmods page, and the few I do have are compatible with the latest version of Enderal as far as I know. None of them change anything within Ark or outside areas.

I actually have to downclock my GPU by 100 MHz on both the memory and core clock to prevent display driver crashes (Which is different than the regular crashes). I have to do this with vanilla Skyrim too, and this is literally the only game I have this problem with (don't have to do this with special edition Skyrim). Also, One Tweak does not seem to help with the regular crashes. I think my GPU just doesn't get along well with 32 bit Skyrim lol.

I should also add that I did a completely fresh install of both Skyrim and Enderal recently following the install guides to the letter. I made sure that I had absolutely no traces of old Skyrim folders before installing.

Anyways, I'll leave my specs below.
GTX 980
16GB DDR4 @3200 MHz
i7 7700k @4.20 GHz

I've also got everything including Windows 10 installed on my 850 Evo SSD for faster load times, which they are definitely faster than when I played Enderal last year on my old build.

If anyone has any suggestions for mods or settings that helps lower the crashes, please feel free to share!

welcome to the forum

you might want to check out ENBoost.
works like a charm (if there's no other problem than "expected crashes" )

and OneTweak seems to work for some people and worsen the problem for others.
so maybe turn it off if it doesn't work for you

If you understand German here is a good short guide to ENBoost.
You can, for example, also use the Google translator (I know that's not perfect...).

Thanks for the replies! I will definitely check out EnBoost.

@urst:
Yeah I turned off One Tweak after I realised it wasn't helping. I'll do some testing with EnBoost today and post back if it does help.

Well that seemed to help with crashes relating to loading, but I'm still having those persistent random CTD's that can happen just by looking around or walking. Some seem to happen in almost the same spots (near the alchemy crafting station in the Sun Temple alchemy store, for example.) I decided to try and check the crash logs out in SKSE/CrashDumps, but I have no clue what any of this means!

I'm going to post the contents of the most resent crash from earlier. This one of those crashes that took place inside the alchemy/magic shop in the Sun Temple:

TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\oca.ini, error 2
TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\winxp\triage.ini, error 2
TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\user.ini, error 2
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* *
* Exception Analysis *
* *
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TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\guids.ini, error 2
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for XAudio2_6.dll
*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for nvd3dum.dll
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for nvd3dum.dll
TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2
GetUrlPageData2 (WinHttp) failed: 12029.
*** The OS name list needs to be updated! Unknown Windows version: 10.0 ***

FAULTING_IP:
TESV+a34117
00e34117 0fb73450 movzx esi,word ptr [eax+edx*2]

EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffffff -- (.exr 0xffffffffffffffff)
ExceptionAddress: 00e34117 (TESV+0x00a34117)
ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
Parameter[0]: 00000000
Parameter[1]: 3320e5a6
Attempt to read from address 3320e5a6

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ

PROCESS_NAME: TESV.exe

ERROR_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s".

EXCEPTION_CODE: (NTSTATUS) 0xc0000005 - The instruction at "0x%08lx" referenced memory at "0x%08lx". The memory could not be "%s".

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 00000000

EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 3320e5a6

READ_ADDRESS: 3320e5a6

FOLLOWUP_IP:
TESV+a34117
00e34117 0fb73450 movzx esi,word ptr [eax+edx*2]

FAULTING_THREAD: 00002fdc

PRIMARY_PROBLEM_CLASS: INVALID_POINTER_READ

BUGCHECK_STR: APPLICATION_FAULT_INVALID_POINTER_READ

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 00e34b4b to 00e34117

STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
4ce9ef1c 00e34b4b 00010293 0000d413 00000000 TESV+0xa34117
4ce9f050 00ebc182 000a0011 128cd640 4ce9f330 TESV+0xa34b4b
4ce9f128 00ebba50 4ce9f330 329ddb7c 4ce9f1e0 TESV+0xabc182
4ce9f208 00ebba50 4ce9f330 329ddb74 4ce9f2c0 TESV+0xabba50
4ce9f2e8 00ebc4a1 4ce9f330 329dda00 4ce9f310 TESV+0xabba50
4ce9f37c 00e16904 4ce9f3c0 4ce9fa30 4ce9fa30 TESV+0xabc4a1
4ce9f49c 00de00a3 3012fa10 14be3870 4ce9f6d0 TESV+0xa16904
4ce9f5d0 00de0236 4ce9f630 4ce9f6b0 00000000 TESV+0x9e00a3
4ce9f674 00d4f26c 334d4000 3012fa10 4ce9f800 TESV+0x9e0236
4ce9f748 0058b081 3012fa10 4ce9f800 4ce9fa30 TESV+0x94f26c
4ce9fefc 0073f4e0 15a82010 4ce9ff34 4ce9ff4c TESV+0x18b081
4ce9ff80 77938744 300d7b80 77938720 6e09ed2a TESV+0x33f4e0
4ce9ff94 77d9582d 300d7b80 c734c311 00000000 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x24
4ce9ffdc 77d957fd ffffffff 77db6364 00000000 ntdll!__RtlUserThreadStart+0x2f
4ce9ffec 00000000 00a4b4a0 300d7b80 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x1b


SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 0

SYMBOL_NAME: TESV+a34117

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: TESV

IMAGE_NAME: TESV.exe

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 51437ce5

STACK_COMMAND: ~17s; .ecxr ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: INVALID_POINTER_READ_c0000005_TESV.exe!Unknown

BUCKET_ID: APPLICATION_FAULT_INVALID_POINTER_READ_TESV+a34117

WATSON_STAGEONE_URL: http://watson.microsoft.com/StageOne/TE ... Retriage=1

Followup: MachineOwner

in that case the chrashes aren't completely random.

what mods do you have installed?
best would be to disable them, one by one.

and could you upload a savegame?
found in ...\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves,
we'll need the skse and the ess of a manual (no quick- or auto-) save,
pack them to a rar or zip archive and attach them to a post here

I played a few more hours last night and only had one crash, which is much better than before! I made some additional changes to the enblocal.ini that were outlined in that guide link that Kermit 61 posted, and I think they really helped. The seemingly random crashes have more or less stopped, so now I just need to find the cause of the other ones.

I'll gladly attach a game save and my mod list too (I just attached two screenshots of my mod list)

well, one crash within several hours seems even sort of okayish

edit
if it's random crashing -
if there's a pattern we have to work on that

Oh, no doubt. I dunno why I never tried out ENBoost years ago. I always assumed it was just a way to apply graphical changes/enhancements that would only increase instability, rather than the opposite. I figured I'd go along with what you posted previously just in case there was an obvious problem you guys could see in my save files or mod list. But if all looks good, that's fantastic! I greatly appreciate the help too

same.
Kermit converted me

glad to hear it helped