With the latest update, Skyrim Special Edition now uses Visual Studio 2019 rather than Visual Studio 2015, which is good news in the long run but also bad news for some mods which now break the game as they don't have time to be loaded properly, or as DJ Khaled would say, Skyrim AE is 'suffering from success'.

'However, as the script was running so fast, Inigo's reference hadn't had time to load, so the script was attempting to fill the alias with a NULL, causing a crash.' Inigo is another companion mod that was crashing the game. This meant that when the player loaded the game, Inigo's esp was detected, so the game tried to grab his reference to put into the alias,' Russell explains. 'I theorised that what was happening was the script was running faster than it used to.

It turns out that the game now loads significantly faster and Lucien's assets don't have enough time to properly load, thus causing the game to crash.

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And while you may think this has to do with compatibility, it actually has to do with the extra optimisation the game has received following the update.Īs spotted by a developer behind the Lucien mod, modder Joseph Russell, it seems that many mods are having issues simply because the game is now running much faster than a previous build. You either get a black screen immediately after loading the game (while sound can still be heard in the background) or your game randomly crashes at some point.Īs you may have guessed, this is related to how Skyrim Anniversary Edition and mods interact with each other after the update. If you enjoy Skyrim stuffed with all kinds of mods, you might have encountered issues with the game following the release of Skyrim AE. How to fix Skyrim Anniversary Edition black screen Lucien companion is one of the mods causing black screens.

If you are among these players, read on to understand why is this happening and what can you do to fix it. Nonetheless, many players are still reporting issues with Skyrim Anniversary Edition black screens and crashes, particularly when trying to boot up a modded save in Skyrim Anniversary Edition.

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