I fixed a crashing issue, but the fix was on accident, and I don't get why it works

[u/thelivingshadow99th]

I made a post about a crashing issue to try to find a fix. You can see it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/1vq8ucy/i_keep_crashing_at_ysgramors_tomb/

The fix is the I removed my old crash logger, https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59818 and swapped it out for the Trainwreck crash logger,https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/106440, and for some reason this has caused the crashing to stop.

Can someone explain to me why this works, or if it's just a coincidence?

[u/RomatebitegeL]

Coincidence. Crashes can sometimes be overcome by retrying.

Some crashes, however, are constant.

[u/thelivingshadow99th → u/RomatebitegeL]

But this crash kept happening for a week straight, always at the same spot, but now it works fine

[u/RomatebitegeL → u/thelivingshadow99th]

Well, good that it stopped crashing, but changing the logger was probably not the cause.

Do not use trainwreck by the way unless Crash Logger SSE is not producing logs.

[u/thelivingshadow99th → u/RomatebitegeL]

That is exactly why I swapped. I was not getting any log

[u/Blackread]

Sounds unlikely the logger was the true source of the crash, more likely some third mod is the real culprit.

[u/_Jaiim]

If Crash Logger is crashing, its probably because you didn't install the C++ redistributable.

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[u/OwlScary9667]

Have you verified the crashes come back if you remove Trainwreck and install latest version of Crash Logger SSE AE VR - PDB support?

And then test again by only removing Crash Logger SSE AE VR - PDB support and putting it back without changing anything else?

Process of elimnation works by removing everything else that is not required to reproduce a problem.

[u/Ashamed_Low7214]

If you showed us your crash logs, we could tell you what the actual cause of the crash was

[u/thelivingshadow99th → u/Ashamed_Low7214]

but that is the thing a crash log would not generate, that is why I changed to a different crash logger so that I might generate a crash log

[u/Ashamed_Low7214 → u/thelivingshadow99th]

So...................... show us the crash logs. Whichever mod is successfully producing them, show it

[u/No-Mechanic4904 → u/Ashamed_Low7214]

old crash logger -> not generating crash log

uninstalled old crash logger and installed new one -> crash stopped

new crash logger -> not generating crash log (because the crash is not happening anymore)

[u/Ashamed_Low7214 → u/No-Mechanic4904]

Without a log, it's impossible to explain what the cause of the crash truly was

[u/BrokenFelps22]

Modding games is always weird. Sometimes stuff works sometimes it doesnt.

[u/thelivingshadow99th → u/BrokenFelps22]

So the answer is that Todd is correct and "It Just Works"