This problem might occur if you are not running LOOT from MO2.If you haven’t run Skyrim Through Steam at first, then this problem might occur.Many gamers around the world have reported this error and there may be several reasons behind this error. Error Message What Prevents LOOT from detecting Skyrim and Skyrim SE? If this happens, don’t worry because this is not a big problem and can be solved very easily and very quickly. So, when you launch the app, LOOT does not crash but it simply does not detect the game and keeps on searching for it until it fails by showing an error message. A very common problem that is encountered by so many gamers is when Loot is not detecting Skyrim and Skyrim SE.