I am having a problem now with the game crashing to desktop, either when I try to do a manual save or when I move from one cell into another and the game has to load the new cell (i.e. going from a city street into a shop or inn or home, or vice versa).
After messing around this evening it seems like the crashes are only happening *after* I have done something to advance time - first noticed it after sleeping overnight in an inn, after which the game would crash when I tried to go out of the inn. Reloaded a previous save and went back in the inn but did not sleep or wait, just went right back out the door and it was fine. Then I did a Wait in the street to get to the time when the shop next door would open, and the game crashed when it tried to load the interior of the shop.
I could use console commands to move myself back and forth from the village street to the inside of the shop, but I couldn't go through the door normally without a CTD.
Have also tried similar stuff with trying to move into a new cell after fast traveling or even using one of the carriages to get from one city to another. Pretty much the same deal - once I do that, at some point I have to move from one cell to another and *boom* I'm back at the desktop. This also happens if I've done a wait/sleep/fasttravel/carriage and then try to do a manual save.
I looked online and found suggestions about playing only in offline mode, deleting old unwanted saves, disabling all the Autosave functions, and I will try those but if anybody has any other suggestions please let me know.
I also found something about using a utility of some kind to identify corrupted save data and delete it? But that may have been for one of the consoles and not the PC version. I've looked in all the Skyrim folders and I can't find anything like what I read about.
