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I installed a bunch of mods I just downloaded, and one of them is causing this strange game-breaking glitch. It happens in Helgen, just as Ralof tells you to jump across the gap to the inn on the other side. Every single time I attempt the jump, my character gets stuck in place, apparently walking but not moving. My controls are completely frozen, so I can't get out of this. It's as if the game is trying to run a special animation but isn't sure what to do. It happens whether I land safely, land in the fire, land on the railing of the inn, fall off the left side to my death, and even at the tower ledge before I can jump.

These are the mods I'm running, and the load order:

Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch
Campfire
Unofficial High Resolution Patch
FloraRespawnFix
SkyUI
SkyCompleteLegendary
FNISspells
Brevi_MoonlightTalesEssentials
Better Transmute
hearthfireextended
RealisticNeedsandDiseases
RND_Dragonborn-Patch
RND_USKP-Patch
RND_Dawnguard-Patch
Duel-Combat Realism
UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul
Frostfall
RND_Hearthfires-Patch
Hunterborn
Hunterborn_RND-Patch
Hunterborn_Frostfall-Patch
Deadly Mutilation
Combat Evolved


I've heard of others who have had this same problem after installing a large number of mods, but I can't figure out which one is causing it. I'm going to try ruling out each of them, but this is going to take a while. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.

ETA: I disabled Campfire, hearthfireextended, RealisticNeedsandDiseases (and all its compatibility patches) UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul, Frostfall, Hunterborn (and all its compatibility patches) and Deadly Mutilation. Now the game works. I'm going to start reintroducing them one at a time and see when it screws up again, so that I'll know which one is the culprit.

Edit2: It turns out that RealisticNeedsandDiseases, UFO - Ultimate Follower Overhaul, and Deadly Mutilation were ALL responsible for the glitch. The game works now that I've excluded them. I was really hoping to try some mods like this, so can anyone recommend some possible alternatives? I tried the newer version of RND that was picked up by a different author, but it doesn't work either. I also tried Amazing Follower Tweaks, but that doesn't work.

It turns out that EFF is the only stable follower overhaul I could find, and Imp's Basic Needs is more stable than RND despite being older.

VirtualWeasel wrote:I would try running LOOT—it's the best way to organize load order and has gotten me out of similar problems. It sounds to me like it's a load order issue with those three mods (UFO is probably the primary aggressor), but if LOOT doesn't help, then it's probably a bad install.

I forgot to mention that I already did this. The load order I posted was the one determined by LOOT.

Regardless, I'm now using EFF along with RND 2.0, and it seems stable enough.

Okay, I finally found a solution to the problem.

It turns out this is a common glitch that can be caused by some mods. I've read reports from others who have said that it happens in the same exact place, Helgen in the beginning. To get around this, I got the Alternate Start mod by Arthmoor, which bypasses the Helgen tutorial and thus bypasses the glitch. In my case, the glitch was being caused by Ultimate Follower Overhaul, as well as Awesome Follower Tweaks when I tried switching to that.