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Short version: I can't progress in any quests because NPC dialogue just starts sticking. The caption for the delivered line stays on the screen as long as the NPC is in sight, and they can't do anything after this, so scenes are frozen which breaks most quests. If I talk to them when this happens, control is lost to conversation mode but they never start the conversation, so the game is stuck at this point. I'm on my third save, each time this happens I've gone through my mods with a fine toothed comb, updated everything and got rid of anything that looked problematic. This time I took special care to make sure none of the mods I usually see on the 'known problem mods' lists are not in my order, and it happened way sooner in my playthrough this time (only made it to level 15 as opposed to level 30 last two). I usually notice that dialogue is a little glitchy (like NPCs repeating themselves when you talk to them, for example) throughout the game but when this happens, the whole save is hosed. Sometimes going back to an old save helps but it'll happen again later, if not around the same time. It happens to vanilla NPCs as well as ones from mods (previously it was most often triggered by my 3DNPC followers, so I got rid of 3DNPC and it started happening during a College of Winterhold quest). Any help you can give would be wonderful. I'm pretty new at this, but I do my best to learn anything I can within reason before getting started, maybe this is a case of self-taught-itis... System details: Mod load order: Let me know if anything else is needed and I will do my best to furnish it... Thank you!!!