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Weird issue in Solitude

Baelor

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Well I am 23 hours into my newest character, level 17. I go to Solitude for the first time for the Diplomatic Immunity quest. I stay at the inn for a night, go out the next day, sell some items, and buy a ring from the Radiant Raimant.

I walk outside to find one of the elves that runs Radiant Raimant (name starts with a T, can't remember exactly), dead in the streets of Solitude. Anyways, I walk into the inn again to talk to Malborn, give him my items, etc. When I try to walk back out into Solitude, the game freezes at the loading screen and I have to kill it through task manager.

This happens after entering any building after I found the elf dead in the streets. Doesn't have to be the Winking Skeever. The game freezes at the loading screen.

Anyways, after some google searching, I removed the textures, meshes, and scripts folder from my Skyrim/Data directory. I am then able to get back out into Solitude. Once I was able to load Solitude again, I put my textures/meshes/scripts folder back where they should be, and all seems to be working. I went in and out of a few buildings in Solitude and it all worked.

Not sure what happened here. I do have mods, but I run BOSS and keep them all cleaned with TES5Edit. It does seem that some people have had issues with freezes/crashes in and around Solitude from searching online.

Anyone ever seen this before? I am now afraid to do much in Solitude because I don't want to risk corrupting my saves. Like I said, everything seems fine now once I got past it initially, but it was very strange behavior which I haven't seen in 300+ hours of playing this game.
 
I assume you're playing on a PC based on the post. Do you have any Mods installed?


Yes, see the snippet below from my post.

Not sure what happened here. I do have mods, but I run BOSS and keep them all cleaned with TES5Edit. It does seem that some people have had issues with freezes/crashes in and around Solitude from searching online.

Again, I've been in and out of Solitude with these mods installed on previous characters. It started working again after moving those folders I mentioned, loading the game, then replacing the folders.
 
Ok sorry, for some reason my brain didn't process that part of your post when I read it (I haven't had my 2nd cup of coffee yet).
 
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