
This is very important so that any bad modifications you may have made can be removed. STEP 1 : REVERT YOUR INIs TO SKYRIM’S DEFAULTS Last thing, WARZONES has built in DEBUG MESSAGES that are marked by “WZMSG”.

These mods add “notes” to your Papyrus Log which will often say “Ignore Errors between these lines”. These are not ‘errors’ so much as they are ‘messages’. …but do bear in mind that some mods (Frostfall, WetNCold, Convenient Horses, etc) have built-in compatibility checks that throw intentional errors when they fail to find compatible mods in your load-order. You will be able to spot these by reading your Papyrus log and finding many errors… Of course, that choice is yours and results may vary. It is also possible that mods with “poor coding” will throw a zillion errors, thereby polluting your save and robbing Papyrus of resource cycles – and it’s generally my opinion that these mods should not be used – even if all appears to be working as planned. Poor load-order and poor resource-use can also contribute to seemingly random CTDs, but for this page we’re going to focus on Polluted Saves and how to try to clean them.Ī Polluted Save is a SaveGame that contains a number of Orphaned Scripts from mods you’ve removed improperly – which will, over time, “snowball” and cause decreased performance, unpredictable (and often hilarious) issues in-game and will – eventually – prevent you from saving/playing (because the save game will be huge). Many popular mods use scripts and failure to remove those scripts from your SaveGame can easily contribute to CTDs, create massive SaveGame files and Papyrus logs of over 1GB! Think of it, an over 1GB text file is a LOT of text, no? While this is true of mods using no additional scripts, it is NOT true of mods using scripts. Just remember, no matter how good your system is, it’s often a matter of what Skyrim can handle, not the PC.Īn extremely common misconception is that removing a mod from your load-order actually REMOVES the mod. Well, here we are… let’s get you straightened away. You didn’t follow our mandatory installation instructions, didya? I will attempt to help you as I can, but I’m not an expert on these matters… no guarantees implied or otherwise. I recommend you visit them to get a better understanding of what you’re doing before diving in… and follow the author’s instructions over mine – after all they know their tool better than I do.įurther disclaimer, the below method has been how I have successfully removed orphaned scripts from my SaveGame, your results may vary. More detailed explanations about the SAVE GAME CLEANER will be available on its Nexus pages. And no guarantee that the method described below is the ONLY method. Just so it is said, there is NO guarantee that this will work for you – especially if you’ve got a long history of removing mods improperly.
