June 26, 2016 Personal, Tutorials0

Script cleaners are for when updating mods, NOT to fix broken/corrupted saves or to 'clean' saves after a mod or mods is disabled/uninstalled. 'Skyrim bakes script data to save file. There is no such thing as a clean save, when mod is removed. 'Clean save' is for mod updates only. This includes work done with Save Script Cleaner. Apr 01, 2014 I cover the use of Nexus user Hadoram's save game script cleaner for Skyrim. The modding community has been waiting for a save cleaner of this type for quite some time! It helps make your Skyrim. I saw some other people doing this, so I thought I'd join in. Today I released my True Thane mod for Skyrim: Special Edition. It's a mod primarily aimed at making sure that, upon becoming thane of a hold, you feel a lot more like you're actually a thane and not just some random chap who can get out of jail for free once and gets yet another follower who's just like all the others.

I recently made a Skyrim mod to fix an annoying bug with Serana, one of the Dawnguard DLC’s characters. She’s a rather complex entity, using her own AI to help quests in Dawnguard manipulate her follower status and “lock” her to the player when needed. Unfortunately, this AI also clashes with mods like Extensible Follower Framework, which enable you to have more than one follower at a time. Skyrim was coded with the assumption that the player would only have one follower at a time. Because of this, Serana, unlike most NPCs in the game, will basically tell you to go fuck yourself if you ask her to come with you when you already have a follower. My mod fixes this by having a plugin remove the problematic dialogue entries.

Jul 30, 2020 FallrimTools includes ReSaver, which is a powerful savegame editor/cleaner for Skyrim Legendary Edition, Skyrim Special Edition, and Fallout 4. Deleted records are unsafe because if a script from another mod tries to use that record, the game will CTD. To clean these records, SSEEdit removes the Delete flag and marks the record as Disabled instead (thus UDR stands for Undelete and Disable Record).

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However, there’s another problem: Sometimes, Serana’s AI decides to override her follower status and will force her to walk to wherever her “home” is. Even if forced to become a follower again, she will continue to walk home instead of following you. To fix this, I made a plugin in EFF that connects to her AI and tells her to become a follower. It also translates EFF commands (follow, wait, relax, etc.) to the appropriate AI commands, so the AI is always synchronized with her stock follower behavior.

Unfortunately, in v0.0.1 of my mod, I broke the script and it left a dead copy of itself in saves, which can cause crashes and other nasty behaviour. I am told I am pretty good at save cleaning, so I will leave you with this guide on how to clean your saves.

Skyrim uses a game engine called Gamebryo that is probably more than a decade old, starting with the release of Morrowind in 2002. Unfortunately, it hasn’t aged well, and it appears that the developers at Bethesda are afraid to touch the save-game system, since it hasn’t changed much and has numerous problems. Foremost among these problems is the fact that Gamebryo is completely and utterly useless when it comes to garbage collection (the process of cleaning up dead references and objects in an environment). The most common causes of crashes when loading a save in the engine is when it finds a broken reference or object and can’t fix it. Similarly, regular cleaning can result in better performance, as there won’t be as much flotsam floating around. The best way to fix this problem is to fix it yourself.

The best tool for cleaning a Skyrim save is called Save Game Script Cleaner. Most cleaning and diagnostics can be done with this tool, and it is fast and simple to operate.

Download SGSC and install it to a useful, accessible location. You will be using it plenty. You may also wish to add it to Mod Organizer.
Start it up and open your save.
We’re now going to work the first four buttons in the top row, from left to right:
1. Fix Script Instances
2. Delete All #
3. Clean Other
4. Delete Broken Actives
Clean Formlists
Save WITH BACKUP.

Now, open Skyrim and test whether your save works. If it does not, continue with the following guide.

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Open your save, again.
Select Advanced.
Select Remove Scripts attached to nonexsistent[sic] created forms.
Click on Remove a[sic] scripts having invalid variables and continue clicking until it shows no scripts were removed.
Repeat the Basic Cleaning guide to fix any broken references.
Save WITH BACKUP.