I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem: you draw your weapon in the third-person-view and it seems like the animation stucks. When finally after some attempts the weapon is drawn, when you strike you hear the sound but the animation is not played or stucks again. It makes it really difficult to I have Dragonborn and Dawnguard along with a lot of mods (female walk animations,weapons,armors,...) and before dragonborn this problem occured already but with a workaround(replace some files with files from patch 1.7) it was being solved but this time it doesn't. I removed temporarily the walk animations but the problem still occurs. Must be a bug then.
Ok, while reinstalling skyrim on a different partition, I looked again for that workaround by manually replacing files from Patch 1.8 with files from Patch 1.7, and this time it worked! I don't know why it didn't worked the first time, but everything seems fine now and I can keep the mods. And it looks like it is bad coding from Bethesda's side in Patch 1.8... Anyway thanks for the help and advises
Because after almost every major update, something in the game's code changes to the point where a mod that was working perfectly fine prior to the patch is now unplayable.
This happens across the board, not just with terrible mod writers. There are some really ingenious people out there and they tend to get more respect from the community over the developer because:
So, usually, when something goes wrong after an update with very well-working mods from highly respected authors that spent hundreds of hours testing, correcting, and optimizing their scripts, the blame is usually placed on Bethesda. It was working before, and now it's not. Someone screwed something up in the patch.
But that's the problem! After patches like this, most of them do not work. Usually there's a 2 day to 2 week turn around for all mods to get updated by their authors.
As for why not use no mods at all... That would be a matter of preference. But I suppose using mods is like being addicted to something. Once you've seen the world changed, that's it, there's not really any going back. You can't unsee or unknow it.