IngwiePhoenix
commented
4 years ago I spent some time and traced it down and got a few interesting results out of it.
First, I modified GamebryoGameModeDescriptorBase::OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginNames { get } to actually print me something useful:
public override string[] OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginNames
{
get
{
try
{
if (_officialUnmanagedPlugins == null)
{
if (OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames != null)
{
_officialUnmanagedPlugins = new string[OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames.Length];
for (var i = OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
try
{
string p = Path.Combine(PluginDirectory, OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames[i]).Replace(Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar, Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
_officialUnmanagedPlugins[i] = p;
}
catch (ArgumentException e)
{
Trace.TraceError("An error occured while reading an internal mod file.");
Trace.TraceError("Arguments:");
Trace.TraceError("PluginDirectory = " + PluginDirectory);
Trace.TraceError("OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames[i] = " + OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames[i]);
}
}
return _officialUnmanagedPlugins;
}
else
{
return new string[0];
}
}
return _officialUnmanagedPlugins;
}
catch (ArgumentException e)
{
Trace.TraceError("Problem encountered when parsing official plugin file names, see information below.");
TraceUtil.TraceException(e);
return new string[0];
}
}
}Then I traced the calls and instantiation to this method and class and found it in SkyrimSEGameModeDescriptor. From there, I noticed that it was reading Skyrim.ccc. So I compared this version with an older one. And yes - NMM works on the older version, but not on the newer one. That means the internal format of it changed, which ultimatively delivered this on a perfectly clean install:
An error occured while reading an internal mod file.
Arguments:
PluginDirectory = C:\Games\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition\Data
OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames[i] = �%~�s�Sgu(
An error occured while reading an internal mod file.
Arguments:
PluginDirectory = C:\Games\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition\Data
OrderedOfficialUnmanagedPluginFilenames[i] = ���P��x�j�A?�0��1�����YSo, to fix this issue, you may want to look at the various versions of Skyrim.ccc :)
Describe the bug While starting NMM, one of the mods causes
CheckInvalidPathCharsto be thrown but not to be handled at all. The resulting traceback also does not indicate which file exactly caused the issue - thus, it is impossible to figure out what exactly caused this. I am not the actual reporter since I use Vortex with SkyrimVR and my friend is the one using NMM with Skyrim SE. However, I was given the traces, off which I had him move a few files around to verify my thesis.Environment
To Reproduce The game has been moved between harddrives and OS versions. A clean reproduction is thus not possible and this may be treated as an edge-case. However, the fix is very easy to do! :)
Snippet from the trace: (removing a few information as to strip the length and highlight the more important aspects)
Solution:
catch(System.ArgumentException)and either create a warning prompt with which path is broken, or skip it alltogether if possible. This should also give room to properly passp_strPlugin.