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[Seelord]

So I've gone the entire day without playing Skyrim, spent 5 hours searching for solutions, and about to just give up.

The story is Skyrim will launch off steam, then continue to play Bethesda's logo with nice sound, then suddenly as it disappears a dragon logo appears in the middle of the screen, sound stops, and Skyrim becomes unresponsive. The game's process has to be ended through task manager or a complete computer restart. I updated to the most recent graphic drivers for my graphics card, intalled the latest directx update. Nothing is working.

I run on Windows XP also.

[Tweetybird]

See here:
http://www.thenexusf...hesda-logo-fix/

Seems to be a fix for everyone else.

[jamesman142]

The linked fix does not work for XP as there is no way to adjust the audio output like that.
disabling hardware acceleration or lowering the sample rate conversion quality does NOT work.
Please someone stop rehashing the windows 7 fix and give us a Windows XP fix.

[dlbg]

Alright, I'm also using XP (SP3) and Skyrim runs only after a clean restart of the computer. I tried setting the Audio to different frequencies (could not switch bit rate on XP as OP said) but nothing worked. The game refused to start unless I just restarted the computer. I played around with the 'SkyrimPrefs.ini' and got it to work twice without rebooting. Still had to wait a solid minute or so on the Dragon Medallion screen, and I thought it wasn't working, but it finally did start. Also, got CCleaner to clean my registry, I saw a bunch of Skyrim references there.

Try replacing SkyrimPrefs.ini in 'My Documents\My games\Skyrim\' with this, might work for you. I still have trouble with the LOD, Objects and Textures don't update when I get close, the only way to fix this is to wait a few minutes near the place for everything to load (FPS doesn't drop in that time, running on high/custom) OR just fast travelling, which I was hoping to avoid.

P.S.: If it seems like it's frozen, try ALT-TAB-ing, it should minimize the game (unlike before, where it would just be on top of everything) and ALT-TAB back in, should be loaded.

[General]
fBrightLightColorB=1.0000
fBrightLightColorG=1.0000
fBrightLightColorR=1.0000
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=1
iRadialBlurLevel=2
[Display]
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=1
fInteriorShadowDistance=3000.0000
fShadowDistance=2500.0000
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=1024
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
iShadowSplitCount=2
iMaxAnisotropy=4
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=3600.0000
fGamma=1.0800
iShadowFilter=3
fDecalLOD2=1500.0000
fDecalLOD1=1000.0000
fSpecularLODStartFade=1000.0000
fShadowLODStartFade=200.0000
fLightLODStartFade=2500.0000
iTexMipMapMinimum=0
iTexMipMapSkip=0
bTransparencyMultisampling=0
iWaterMultiSamples=0
iMultiSample=4
iShadowMode=3
bTreesReceiveShadows=0
bDrawLandShadows=0
bDrawShadows=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1050
iSize W=1680
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=512.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=3072.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=4096.0000
iScreenShotIndex=2
bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
bMainZPrepass=0
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=25
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=100
sD3DDevice="ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series"
bFXAAEnabled=0
iShadowMapResolution=1024
fShadowBiasScale=0.3000
iShadowMaskQuarter=3
iAdapter=0
iPresentInterval=1
bFloatPointRenderTarget=1
[Grass]
b30GrassVS=0
fGrassStartFadeDistance=5000.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000
[Water]
iWaterReflectHeight=512
iWaterReflectWidth=512
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterDepth=1
[MAIN]
bGamepadEnable=0
bCrosshairEnabled=1
fHUDOpacity=0.9500
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnTravel=1
bSaveOnWait=1
bSaveOnRest=1
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
[GamePlay]
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
iDifficulty=2
[Interface]
bDialogueSubtitles=1
bGeneralSubtitles=1
bShowCompass=1
[Controls]
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.0000
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0160
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bInvertYValues=0
bGamePadRumble=0
bMouseAcceleration=1
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=750
[SaveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=15.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
fVal7=1.0000
uID7=0
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=0
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=0
fVal4=1.0000
uID4=0
fVal3=1.0000
uID3=94881
fVal2=0.4000
uID2=466532
fVal1=1.0000
uID1=554685
fVal0=0.8000
uID0=1007612
[Clouds]
fCloudLevel2Distance=262144.0000
fCloudLevel1Distance=32768.0000
fCloudLevel0Distance=16384.0000
fCloudNearFadeDistance=9000.0000
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=40000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=150000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=40000.0000
fBlockLevel0Distance=25000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.1000
bShowLODInEditor=1
[NavMesh]
fObstacleAlpha=0.5000
fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000
fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500
fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000
fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500
fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000
fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000
fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500
fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000
fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000
fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000
fEdgeThickness=10.0000
fPointSize=2.5000
[Trees]
bRenderSkinnedTrees=1
uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=20
[Decals]
uMaxDecals=1000
bDecals=1
bSkinnedDecals=1
uMaxSkinDecals=100
uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=60
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=10.0000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=10.5000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=10.0000
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
[Launcher]
bEnableFileSelection=1
bShowAllResolutions=1
uLastAspectRatio=4
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=1
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0

Edited by dlbg, 13 November 2011 - 09:45 AM.

[jamesman142]

bump.

[Chaingang220]

I tried running it immediately after a restart, and still had no luck. Tried putting what you had in my SkyrimPrefs.ini, and had no luck after that either. I waited around 10 minutes on each attempt. C'mon Bethesda. I didn't pay $60 to not be able to play the game.

EDIT (like 30 seconds later): NEVER MIND, IT WORKED. I LOVE YOU DLBG. (<-- caps for extra excitement and love )

Edited by Chaingang220, 13 November 2011 - 05:15 PM.

[Seelord]

dlbg it worked! Dude I'm amazed! Thanks a lot!! I had to turn the resolution down to 1440x900 because my display didn't support it.

BUT SERIOUSLY, you're a life saver!!

EDIT: It's not too easy to get it running. It takes me a clean restart to get it started.

Edited by Seelord, 13 November 2011 - 08:01 PM.

[IronHammer20]

It worked for me until I exited the game. Now I'm back to square 1 and can't get it to work again.

[Seelord]

Once I exited the game I couldn't get back on even after 5 or so restarts. If the game manages to downsize then I know it will work. But whenever task manager is pulled up it just blinks like it did before. This is a really difficult to use fix, but it definitely worked.

[IronHammer20]

After all this trouble and I still can't get it to work I'm starting to think we just need them to make a patch for this or something.