

It's all more or less exactly as described in that improperly closed post, but I don't see a fix, or anyone talking about this issue on other forums. That gender change bit doesn't matter too much because in any case, the game CTDs in about 10-30 seconds after this bug occurs. Changing gender reappears the body, but without hands or feet and the weight slider becomes ineffective for the body (although the neck still responds). If I spend too long adjusting the weight slider, the body disappears. I'm booting up a relatively clean game for the first time in over a year (updating from old NMM to Vortex got me worried my old saves would break, but decided to start fresh anyway) and I'm trying to limit myself to only the most essential mods for now, all of which are the latest version and Vortex is satisfied that there are no current conflicts, so there should be less room for glitches than before, but now this thing is happening. So, this issue has been going on for years for some people, but the post about it on this subreddit was archived even though it's an unresolved issue:
