broken_modder Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Hey all. Glad to be apart of the forums. Hate I had to join like this. Anyways I've been researching modding for skyrim for the last week. Intensely. Throughout that process Ive reinstalled the game back and forth many times. Never having any problems. Now I decided to reinstall everything again, this inlcuded Steam, tes5, NMM, LOOT, TES5edit, ect. If it doesnt install to directory I deleted them and then re-extracted the zip. Anyways so when I run TES5edit I get some strange error. > Error Invalid type for". > Here's the bug report: date/time : 2015-07-06, 04:04:16, 737mscomputer name : USER-PCuser name : User <admin>registered owner : Useroperating system : Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1 build 7601system language : Englishsystem up time : 3 hours 39 minutesprogram up time : 144 millisecondsprocessors : 4x Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHzphysical memory : 2748/4095 MB (free/total)free disk space : (C:) 68.64 GBdisplay mode : 1920x1080, 32 bitprocess id : $1b8allocated memory : 24.63 MBexecutable : TES5Edit.exeexec. date/time : 2015-05-26 12:11version : 3.1.1.0compiled with : Delphi XEmadExcept version : 4.0.5callstack crc : $e21fdffa, $3680652f, $3680652fexception number : 1exception class : ERegistryExceptionexception message : Invalid data type for ''.main thread ($598):004dc79f +023 TES5Edit.exe Registry ReadError004dd511 +069 TES5Edit.exe Registry TRegistry.ReadString00775097 +0c3 TES5Edit.exe wbHelpers 967 +7 wbIsAssociatedWithExtension0098ff63 +b3b TES5Edit.exe wbInit 698 +268 wbDoInit00a8fe4e +01a TES5Edit.exe wbInit 705 +1 initialization00407102 +042 TES5Edit.exe System 148 +0 InitUnits0040716b +03f TES5Edit.exe System 148 +0 @StartExe0040be6e +042 TES5Edit.exe SysInit @InitExe00a8ff5c +00c TES5Edit.exe TES5Edit 70 +0 initialization77513388 +010 kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunkthread $4ec:77d21f3f +0b ntdll.dll NtWaitForWorkViaWorkerFactory77513388 +10 kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunkthread $d74:77d21f3f +0b ntdll.dll NtWaitForWorkViaWorkerFactory77513388 +10 kernel32.dll BaseThreadInitThunk Hopefully someone can help. I cant do sh*t until I can use TES5. It figures I get this problem right before my new motherboard is about to arrive and Im finnaly making the switch to Mod Organiser to take advantage of the various profiles. I've posted this everwhere. I will paypal you straight CASH for a speedy fix to this. This may have something to do with running my registry cleaner from Tweaknow then defragging it. After doing so much reserach into this problem I found out how useless and possibly harmful reg claners can be. But I wil say I run it everytime I uninstall things and never had a problem. Also my program makes backups to every registry change. I restored them all one by one opneing tes5 inbetween. Still same error everytime. Like wtf. After 7 hours of troubleshooting Ive been up all night. and I just cant let this go it really pisses me off. I thought I was a nerd!!!!!! I cant figure this out. I hate the registry! Maybe its not the registry at all and I'm just a mudcrab with a monocle and a tophat!!!!!! Also when I re-installed everything this time, including Steam, tes5, mod programs ect. I reinstalled them to another Drive as everyone suggests. I run everything in administrator in case you were wondering. Any help appreciated. I'd like to get more involved with this forum and more involved in testing various mods, helping other, and contributing my mods. I am a perfectionist and wont release anything until i feel its ready but I've got some great ideas. I feel kind of late getting into the Skyrim modding scene. I was totally hooked on WItcher 3 and GalCiv3 but THOSE GAMES ARE BROKEN AND I QUICKLY UNINSTALLED THEM BOTH. Best to wait until the end of spring next year to play witcher (trust me) and maybe another year for galciv three (although they are patching both weekly) Thought Id get back to my roots with skyrim. Things were going well....until this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken_modder Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 Prolly should not have posted this here. >.< Moderator feel free to delete. Problem was solved though and it wasnt because of TESedit, but other factors. I'll post it here in case you guys wanna keep it around. Its whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken_modder Posted July 6, 2015 Author Share Posted July 6, 2015 PROBLEM SOLVED: After hours upon hours of research. It seems I was left with the last resort, re-installing windows/restoring backups. As I braced myself for the tedious process, I decided to actually try messing with the registry. Everything I could find on that subject was either extremely complicated, advice warning against any modifications, use a cleaning software (tried and didn't work, I think it's the cause of the whole issue!). I figure since TES5Edit doesn't have an installer and is just a zip, well it couldn't hurt.***registry editing is a super delicate process and without the proper know how it is very easy to ruin your OS so be sure to backup everything and have restore points ect***Heres a run down of what I did. - Open regedit - Under "Edit" Tab. Go to Find. - Type in the file name, just the first few letters. tes5 - First entry is highlighted, then Under File,click Export. - Save a backup ( I put them in a new folder on desktop) - Under File I click Find Next. - Next Highlighted Entry shows up - then File, Export to back up. - Repeat until you get back to the first file - Start deleting them all (I had 7 entries). (or delete after each backup is made before clicking find next) - I then started the program and it worked. I did try to start it in between each delete as well, didnt work. Although it may have been a combination of entries, deleting them all did the trick. I restarted the computer and was back in business.Hate to go nuts trying to figure something out. But maybe this could help someone else. Googling this issue got nothing. At its core its not a game modding issue, but a registry issue within windows that could come from many different programs or software.The error;"Eregistry Error Exception Invalid data type for "____"I've narrowed it down to this being caused by my registry cleaner program. At least in my case. Even restoring the backups using that program didnt work, neither did system restore. So just deleting them all and allowing the program to rebuild it was the key here.After doing fresh installs of the game, as well as the mod organizer/nmm and tools, I would use my reg cleaner to clean the registry, Thinking Oh yay how cool saving space blah blah.After doing that a few times, boom my windows registry is damaged.Hopefully this will help someone one day. Registry Errors are not fun. I think its better to do them after many many programs installing and uninstalling has taken place (longer intervals) In reality its at most a few megabytes your gaining if you do it often. ::sigh:: Computer cleaniless can only go so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthmoor Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Zilav or hlp would likely have swung by in time, but it's good you found a solution, and definitely appreciated that you posted what happened in case others run into this later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmstearn Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah, I continued to run reg cleaners and defrags a long way past ditching the machine with Win2k on it, and may well indeed run into problems with them. It's all explained here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken_modder Posted July 10, 2015 Author Share Posted July 10, 2015 Well indeed. Haha I posted this all over the web I was so desparate for help. Glad I figured it out. xEdit always works fine. At one point I thought I ran kinto a rare bug! Ha! Hopefully it does help someone down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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