[HELP] My Skyrim got broke.... no seriously broke

[enteng]

Well i recently did a mis-half on upgrading Dual Sheathe Redux from 1.6b - 1.7, forgetting a step in the uninstallation was the least of my problems after finding out you cou'd de-install 1.6b and just install 1.7 and play your save without doing the whole uninstallation proccess.

 

Some people suggested that i shou'd use "Savetool" and "Skyrim Save Cleaner" which i did without hesitation. I did followed the process of cleaning my save via the Mod page of those said utilities. Took minutes to complete each proccess though the result of it caused my Skyrim to gone broke.

 

In Savetool i selected Reset Havok, FixScriptInstances & #Fixall which led to the tool removing FormIDs' in Skyrim.esm. That caused the Naked Markarth guards bug (but not all Guards are naked, just the guards near the gate, and around the city exterior, other guards inside buildings are all fine, even the one patrolling the intersection). I did the process again hoping it was just a fluke, but to as the previous result, it broke another thing in my Skyrim.

 

Audio of Skyrim gone crap, i mean whenever i'm talking to NPC their voice is either muted or silent like whispering, but if you correct your camera angle e.g. rotating it a bit in-game, their voices are returned back to normal, but in that specific angle / view the bug occurs everytime. I mean BG music, effects & footsteps are all fine except where the camera / crosshair is facing there's no sound.

 

Skyrim Save Cleaner on the other did exactly what Savetool did but it didn't have any bugs / flaws so the real problem here is the Savetool's "Cleaning".

 

I did some methods like replacing my current Skyrim's content with my Backup content but that didn't work. Load a previous save but still didn't work, Loading saves with different characters e.g. race will show no since of the said problem, My lvl 86 Nord is the only one that has this disease and all of the previous saves of this said character.

 

Aside from that there's no other bugs I've yet to encounter. So if anyone knows how to fix it please, PLEASE post it. As a 190 hours of Gameplay is a serious deal to me, and i don't want to start-off a new one in the near future (I just want to finish all of the quests & clear out every place in Skyrim).

Edited September 26, 2014 by enteng

[RadioactiveBacon]

Have you tried the basic re-install of the mods? I know its commonly the first thing a person would do, but I don't know what you mean by "backup content".

[enteng]

Backup content - a Digital Copy of your skyrim basic'lly in Vanilla, most people do this as a final resort whenever something went wrong with the game and even after uninstalling all mods, Plugins & mesh edits the problem still persist. As for me all of my save which has the same RefID have been effected by the naked guard bug. So after uninstalling all mods the bug still persist and i ended up resorting to uninstalling Skyrim and then installing it & checked Steam for cache integrity.

[Roguespear]

This may not do much for you right now, one big caveat for Skyrim, always add mods to a new restart and not during a game. However, for safety's sake, if you have to reinstall your game, use control panel to uninstall everything Skyrim related, Also NMM. for NMM, rename the NMM folder and make a new empty one. make sure there are no old saves and if you have modified ini files zip them up and same them. also rename any NMM or game related folders in my documents\my games\skyrim only don't forget to make a new saves folder.

After you reinstall steam and skyrim, and NMM in its folder and get DX and other items set. on an external or internal data drive, make a skyrimvirgingame folder and copy the betesda\skyrim\steamapps\common folder into this save folder on another data drive (the common folder and all of its contents is what you need, not the folders above it) . also add the new NMM folder after you install NMM, and the my games\skyrim folder into there as well. Once you have this done, if you ever have a mucked up game just delete the common folder and copy the saved common folder in it's place. delete everything under the my games folder and recopy the skyrim folder from your saved my games\skyrim folder where you deleted the old one and just delete everything in the NMM folder and copy the files from the saved NMM folder back and you will have a new game installed and steam and your computer will never know it happened. If the NMM has been updated since your virgin save, then delete the old NMM files and install the updated NMM. I have done this 8 or nine times since skyrim version was set after the last update and it works every time.

 

One variation of this would be to install all your mods and then do all the copies and you would be ready to rock if anything happens, as for steam, if you have been letting steam update itself there is no need to save the steam junk.

 

hope this helps in the future.