I don't have an answer for you, but judging from some discussions I have been reading on the forums, it seems that the game stores different sorts of data in different sorts of ways on your save files than it did in Oblivion and Morrowind, which results in some presumed-to-be 'safe methods' not working properly.Īt least this is the impression that I got. So what is the safest method of creating a clean save? 'Clean other' this cleans orphan array7 items + visited worldspace array items having a formId 0. In versions 2.00< only savename.ess backup is created. One such a crash persistently happens when summoning Bound Swords. Auto backup, if on,(default) creates a backup from your save, named as backup-date-time.ess and backup-date-time.skse. I have discovered that deactivating all my mods corrupts my save game, causing many crashes. Activate all mods, including the new one, and start the game. Deactivate all mods, start up Skyrim and load my save.Ĥ. (So no quicksave, autosave or overwrite).ģ. Save my game by creating a new file and shutting the game down.
Dismiss all followers and move to an interior cell.Ģ. But attempting to create a clean save appears to corrupt my save instead, provoking many CTD's. Some mods, like for example, tell you to make a clean save before installing it.