SKSE not working

[Lorgren]

SKSE has appeared to have stopped working all together. It started yesterday 15 Nov.

 

I am using MO and had downloaded a number of mods, installed them but had not activated them. Tried to launch skyrim via the skse button in MO a small loader window pops up and states "A component of the Skyrim Script Extender has stopped working". It doesn't even start the game. This was working flawlessly the night before.

I have since:

- activated the mods

- deactivated the mods

- uninstalled the mods

- deactivated ALL my mods save vanilla

- restarted steam

- restarted my computer

- installed new nvida drivers

- reinstalled skse 2-3 times as per Gopher's guide and S.T.E.P.'s

- deleted/uninstalled skyrim as per the S.T.E.P. guide

- deleted/uninstalled MO 

- reinstalled skyrim fresh from steam

- reinstalled MO as per S.T.E.P. guide

- reninstalled ONLY SKSE via the S.T.E.P. guide

 

 and i still the the exact same message. Skyrim works fine lauching from the launcher. But in no way can I launch Skyrim with SKSE, via MO or the skse loader.

I have searched many forums and can not find answers to this issues, most can at least launch SKSE from the loader.

 

Can anyone shed any light on this? I am completely baffled at this point.

 

[Lorgren]

This is what I am getting from event viewer under error.

 

Faulting application name: skse_loader.exe, version: 0.1.7.3, time stamp: 0x55611f7d

Faulting module name: a2hooks32.dll, version: 10.0.0.216, time stamp: 0x582b048f

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x0000b4e3

Faulting process id: 0x12f8

Faulting application start time: 0x01d240ea86c15cb5

Faulting application path: C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Skyrim\skse_loader.exe

Faulting module path: C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\EMSISOFT ANTI-MALWARE\a2hooks32.dll

Report Id: c4e2d923-acdd-11e6-b4d6-7824afbd3961

 

 

 

This is what I am getting from event viewer under information.

 

Fault bucket 1190360397, type 25

Event Name: APPCRASH

Response: Not available

Cab Id: 0

 

Problem signature:

P1: skse_loader.exe

P2: 0.1.7.3

P3: 55611f7d

P4: a2hooks32.dll

P5: 10.0.0.216

P6: 582b048f

P7: c0000005

P8: 0000b4e3

P9: 

P10: 

 

Attached files:

C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\Temp\WER7AD8.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

 

These files may be available here:

C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_skse_loader.exe_48c74a2ce0499ba118e693e6d04ddf7f3c52b_05918ba9

 

Analysis symbol: 

Rechecking for solution: 0

Report Id: c4e2d923-acdd-11e6-b4d6-7824afbd3961

Report Status: 0

 

 

 

 

Going to reinstall my Malware to see if it helps.

Edited November 17, 2016 by Lorgren

[Joat_Mon]

Ok, so I uninstalled EMSIsoft Anti-Malware and SKSE fired right up, reinstalled it and it is crashing again. There must have been an update with with my EMSI malware. 

Yes, it looks like EMSI is your problem.

[Lorgren]

Well Thank you very much for your help Thane, I am sorry I did not know what event viewer was when we started but I am glad you kept harping on me.

I have sent EMSI an email but for now i will use another malware program I guess.

 

Be well.  

[Joat_Mon]

You're Welcome.

 

Maybe you could just disable EMSI when you're going to play the game. I doubt EMSI will "fix" it as it is working as intended.

[Lorgren]

One of the first things I thought of due to the huge problems others have with AV software. I disable all components of it and also turned on the "game mode".

Neither of which I usually need to do, but no go. I even went in this time and manually added the skse_loader.exe to the list of exceptions allowing every possible event I could check off. Still no. Something must changed with that dll file. Of course I know very little about programming and scripts so, I just hope EMSI is willing to do something about it. I will not be uninstalling it every time I wish to play Skyrim.

[Joat_Mon]

Have you told EMSI to ignore that .dll?

[Lorgren]

Holy crap...  

I just added it to the blocked list, nothing,

Excluded the program from monitoring the skyrim folder, nothing,

tried to move the file to my desktop, don't have the rights,

tried archiving it, wont do it.

 

LOL. 

Stupid. I gotta leave now. Be back in a few days.

Thanks again for your help Thane.

[Joat_Mon]

A little reading about EMSI leads me to believe that it is likely that their behavior blocking feature is where the problem is. I hope they can fix it for you.

 

BTW "Thane" is a title, I am Joat_Mon.

[Lorgren]

My apologies Thane Joat_Mon   

Thanks, me too.

[TechAngel85]

So antivirus. ::

[sgensemer42]

Interestingly (the polite term), I am having the exact same error, starting about the same time as Lorgren's error. I run Skyrim with SKSE, HiAlgo Boost, and ENB Boost. Have had the same setup for months with no issues. Haven't updated any of that either. My event log is pretty much identical to the above; but has skse_loader.exe and the d3d9.dll as the Faulting Modules, not an AntiVirus/Malware. To my knowledge the only thing updated was Win 7 (x64) on the 9th as above, GeForce Experience (with game overlay), my nVidia driver, added a Razor Chroma Mouse and it's software, and updated LOOT to 10.1. I reinstalled LOOT 8.1 (no change), reinstalled SKSE (no change). I've uninstalled the Razor software and will test that. I also disabled the in-game overlay in GeForce Experience (I think) and will test that. I will post again the results of that.

 

So this is not just a one-off error. It's driving me mad. If I uninstall the ENB Boost and Hialgo, SKSE throws the error; but vanilla Skyrim will launch. My moded Skyrim versions will not load (infinite loading screen to CTD) as the full SKSE is used there, and not in the Vanilla version. (I use Mod Organizer to launch Skyrim and use the STEP recommended setup for SKSE.)

 

I am also getting other errors which started at the same time. HiAlgo Boost gives me the error (A Mod Org message, I think) "Unsupported Skyrim® version. HiAlgoBoost is Disabled"; but does seem to start.

 

I run ENB Boost (ver 236 wrapper binary for HiAlgo) and this is REALLY BAD. If this is installed, I get a message box (which appears to be from nVidia GeForce Experience - can't upload an image, can't figure out how). I can find nothing in the event logs that seem to relate to this error or the HiAlgo Boost error. I tried the latest wrapper binary. No difference. I have not tried the Injector version. Wrapper's been working fine 'till now.

 

Error box Title: "ENBHost for ENBSeries".

Body: "How to use."

     "This is memory host process for ENBSeries modification and it

     will be started automatically by the mod, do not run it manually"

Then there is a copyright data for Boris Vorontsov.

And a "Quit" button.

 

The BAD thing is that message generates infinite versions of itself to the limit of my computer resources. It generates so fast, I almost cannot shutdown the computer. Keeps shifting focus to itself. Task manager is useless. There are SO MANY of these messages I can't kill them fast enough. The only way to stop it is to reboot/shutdown.

 

I run McAffee Antivirus, which I cannot edit to exclude programs. Doesn't have that or a gaming feature. I have several Malware programs; but they haven't been updated as I haven't run scans for a while. As far as I know they do not passively scan.

 

I can't run modded Skyrim at all now without ENB Boost. Won't load. (SKSE error "might" be the reason there...)

 

Game runs through Steam and Mod Organizer.

I have a 2015 Alienware 17 notebook

Windows 7 - 64-bit

i7

8 GB Ram

OS and games run off SSD's

nVidia GTX-970

 

Tried verifying the game cache with Steam. No difference.

Have not tried reinstalling Skyrim. Not sure that will make any difference.

I have most of the same software and versions on my desktop; which runs Skyrim OK. (Slow as it's a Core-2 Duo with nVidia GT-640.)

 

Sorry about the long post. Frustrating couple days...

 

This is REALLY puzzling. Any thoughts?

Need anything to help troubleshoot?

 

If this is better in another forum area - let me know.

[Joat_Mon]

First scan to make sure you don't have a virus or malware, then see if you can turn off your antivirus or prevent it from starting. Then test Skyrim. If necessary you could kill the antivirus in task manager.

[Nozzer66]

Are you running any sort of overlays or programs like Razer Synapse etc? 

[sgensemer42]

I was running Synapse. I uninstalled it. Have yet to test that. I have Mumble; but I've had that for months with no issue.

 

I am running malware scans now.

 

<Fill in name of body part> crossed!

[GrantSP]

Slightly off-topic to the discussion but @sgensemer42, you could probably ditch HiAlgoBoost with the system you're running, I don't believe it will give you that much advantage. Of course that's just my opinion, you may like the way it throttles FPS.