SAM Crashes Potentially Solved

[berk324 0]

I've been trying to use SAM for a while now and I kept getting these CTD's when I entered Whiterun. I also looked at posts of other people, one of which was "Game crashes on entering Whiterun - Is "SAM-Update Actor" Guilty? I was having the same symptoms with this person and saw that there were a few more like us in the same boat.

I never posted here before so I hope I'm doing things right. Here is what fixed it for me.

I already had Crash Fixes, and UseOSAllocators was set to 1. However I didn't have "AlignHeapAllocate=1".

Setting AlignHeapAllocate to 1 solved the issue for me. Now I didn't have a playthrough with SAM yet so I don't know if the problem will happen again, but without the setting it crashed 100% of the time. With the settings I am not getting any crashes so far.

Hope this helps someone else too.

 

[Galowyn 0]

I ran into this issue with a fresh install and was worrying about not being able to play Skyrim without SAM.

But your solution works perfectly !

Thanks for your help ! ?

[Naurdor 232]

I swear by Crash Fixes https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/72725/

And I'd recommend Bug Fixes too to fix a few engine things like lip-syncing that broke in the latest (and final) patch https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/76747