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Troubleshooting & Logs

Two log files and four console commands answer almost everything.

Where the logs are

Both live under Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\:

Log Path What it tells you
SLO VE script log Logs\Script\User\SLOVE.0.log Script and dependency errors: a missing mod, an unresolvable spell, a sound that didn't play. Written by SLO VE itself — not the general Papyrus log, and it needs no INI changes.
AudioUtil log SKSE\AudioUtil.log Everything audio: which slot an actor resolved to, which category resolved to which folder, TOML parse errors and overlay warnings. This is the file for any voice problem.

Mod Organizer 2 users

Logs go to the real Documents\My Games\... folder, not into MO2's virtual file system or the Overwrite folder.

For more detail, raise AudioUtil's verbosity in the base AudioUtil.toml:

[general]
log_level = "debug"     # trace | debug | info | warn | error

and turn on the live console play-by-play with printdebug = 1 in the relevant SLOVE.toml section ([director], [voice], [expressions], [sfx]).

Console diagnostics

cgf "SLOVE_Test.DumpState"                       ; config flags, the player's slot, esp loaded?
cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F1"             ; which categories a slot resolves / is MISSING
cgf "SLOVE_Test.SampleCategory" "F1" "Orgasm"    ; play one clip now (handle=0 means nothing resolved)
cgf "SLOVE_Config.Reload"                        ; re-read SLOVE.toml
cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig"                     ; re-read the AudioUtil TOMLs and rescan folders

SLOVE_Test needs ConsoleUtil to print. AuditVoicePack picks the female or male category list from the slot id's first letter (F… → female, otherwise male).

Nothing happens at all

  1. Is SLOVE.esp enabled? cgf "SLOVE_Test.DumpState" prints esp loaded=. If it's False, the plugin isn't active.
  2. Is AudioUtil installed and loading? If SKSE\AudioUtil.log doesn't exist, the DLL never loaded — check skse64.log for why (usually a game-version or Address Library mismatch). SLO VE fails open: without the DLL every setting falls back to its default and nothing plays.
  3. Are you launching through SKSE?
  4. Did the quest start? SLO VE's quest is start-game-enabled and ships Seq\SLOVE.seq. On an existing save give it a few seconds after load. If the SEQ file is missing from your install, the quest won't auto-start.
  5. Is full Hentairim p+ also installed? They are mutually exclusive and will fight over the same faces and voices. Disable one.
  6. Is the scene actually a player scene? The voice engine is player-scene driven; NPC-only scenes elsewhere in the world aren't adopted.

Nobody is talking

Work down the resolution chain:

  1. cgf "SLOVE_Test.DumpState" — does the player have a slot? An empty slot line means the routing config never loaded.
  2. Check the TOML conflict winner. The most common cause of an empty slot is AudioUtil's SFW-neutral AudioUtil.toml winning over SLO VE's. SLO VE must sit below AudioUtil in MO2's left pane. AudioUtil.log will show zero slots parsed.
  3. cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig" then read AudioUtil.log — a parse error names the file and line. A file that fails to parse is skipped entirely.
  4. cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F1" — if everything is MISSING, the slot resolved but its audio didn't.
  5. Is voice.enablevoice/director.enablevoice on? DumpState prints them.
  6. Volume: voice.pcvolume / voice.partnervolume in SLOVE.toml, and [groups] startup levels.

A voice pack I installed isn't playing

  1. Are the WAVs loose — not inside a BSA? Folder scans cannot see into archives.
  2. Are they at exactly Data\Sound\fx\IVDT\F1\<Category>\*.wav? A pack that installs one level too deep (…\F1\F1\…) scans as nothing.
  3. cgf "AudioUtil.ReloadConfig" — a fresh install needs a rescan (or a game restart).
  4. cgf "SLOVE_Test.AuditVoicePack" "F1" — a healthy pack reports a high n/71, because missing categories backfill from the stock moans. All missing means the path is wrong.
  5. cgf "SLOVE_Test.SampleCategory" "F1" "Orgasm" — handle=0 = nothing resolved for that category.
  6. Did an update overwrite your SLOVE_voices.toml edits? Move them into your own overlay.

The wrong actor has the wrong voice

  • [npc_overrides] beats voicetype and race — check nothing is pinning them.
  • For an ESL-flagged plugin the form-id key uses the last 3 hex digits, not the 8 digits the console shows.
  • [race_map] is substring-matched, longest hint first — a broad hint can swallow a narrow one you expected to match.
  • pc_female_slot/pc_male_slot are reserved: no NPC can ever resolve to them. If you routed an NPC to F1, that's why she isn't using it.
  • Set log_level = "debug" and read the resolution lines in AudioUtil.log.

Mouths don't move

  • Lipsync needs a loose PCM wav. BSA-packed and compressed audio plays without mouth movement — this is expected for creature slots.
  • Mfg Fix NG is a hard requirement for every face write.
  • The category may be in [lipsync] block_categories — Orgasm and the two blowjob-action categories deliberately don't move the mouth.
  • A gagged actor has lipsync suppressed by design (the device owns the mouth).
  • While the climax/ahegao face owns the mouth, lines play without lipsync so they can't fight the expression.
  • SexLab Survival's ahegao takes the mouth over while it's active.

Faces don't move

  • Mfg Fix NG (MfgConsoleFunc/Ext) must be installed and winning its file conflicts.
  • Check director.enableexpressions plus the per-class gates (enablepcexpression, enablemalenpcexpression, enablefemalenpcexpression).
  • Creatures without facegen are skipped.
  • A mask covering the face is detected and respected (Masks.json).

SFX are wrong or missing

  • sfx.enable = 1? sfx.volume above zero?
  • Thrust-synced sounds need velocity data from SLPP interactions — with none, the engine falls back to label pacing. sfx.printdebug = 1 shows what it's getting.
  • Don't reach for useadaptivevelocity first; it's the heaviest path in the mod and needs timestosearch > 0 as well.
  • Gape one-shots need the Accurate Penetration bridge. The four gape* thresholds are unitless — calibrate them from the printdebug pull-out line in your own scenes.

Reporting a problem

Attach both logs:

  • Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Logs\Script\User\SLOVE.0.log
  • Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\SKSE\AudioUtil.log

plus your load order and the output of cgf "SLOVE_Test.DumpState". If it's a voice-resolution problem, set log_level = "debug", reproduce, and send the AudioUtil.log from that run.