jcbq Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 So long story short old laptop crashed. HARD. got a replacement, swapped all the files over with a new install of skyrim via anthology disk and same steam account. Will not play for longer than 2 minutes. Ok, corrupted files. Redownload everything and fresh install. Nope 2 minute CTD every time. Ok... systematically remove mods until it plays. Pulled every thing including SKSE. nope 2 minutes CTD. Ok then its MO. use the steam loader. Nope 2 minute CTD. Go online and validate (one file to be reaquired -expected-) THEN use the steam loader. Works, while its online. Add in SKSE. Nope. 2 minute CTD. Redownload SKSE and install. Nope. 2 minute CTD. Performed .ini edits nope. 2 minute CTD. Its sounding like theres some sort of anti-piracy stuff thats been enacted on my side as it will play only when the folloing is true: Online, unmodded,and no 3rd party launchers. The really bizare thing about this is that the new laptop is a mid-high gaming laptop (i7 - GTX 950m) and yet the cruddy laptop from before (AMD A6) could play these just fine Mod list with .esp and .bsa's, .ini edits, system specs., and known trouble shooting is available at request Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOQuinn Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 (edited) Maybe you could switch nvidia drivers. Lately I've seen a few people post this same or similar issue with Windows 10, nvidia GTX x50m on a new laptop. Maybe it's a crappy driver.Besides that I have a couple other suggestions:Get Stable UgridsToLoad, even if your uGridsToLoad are default.Do you use enb/enboost? If so please post your enblocal.ini.Whether you use enb or not, use Skyrim STEP Nvidia Inspector Guide.With a 4gb vram card I recommend enb. p.s. Another thought, if it's happening after exactly 2 minutes it could be a default power savings setting of some sort. Like your hard drive is going to sleep mode. Edited March 8, 2016 by Tony_OQuinn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbq Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 I have enboost and using the vram DX9 test and step direction made memory adjustments accordingly, have intergrated a stable version of Ugrids via skyrim.ini as well as all KINDS of minor little recommended bug fixes. From what your telling me makes sense as once i intergrated all of these fixes the moment i started skyrim all of my fans began reving up like a jet engine and proceeded to get louder when i loaded into a mostly empty cell. I wandered around skyrim and it would CTD then proceed to almost attempt to self recover as skyrim would flicker for a second then crash totally. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwAiqEbbvlaSa29EdzZvZEJwMUk/view?usp=docslist_api My skyrim and prefs.ini are available as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOQuinn Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) I recommend a couple of minor adjustments in your enblocal.ini:[MEMORY]With these both true...ExpandSystemMemoryX64=trueReduceSystemMemoryUsage=true... you can take advantage of enb's ability to spawn new processes, preventing ctd, but it's capped by theseReservedMemorySizeMb=64VideoMemorySizeMb=3714 On my system with 4gb vram I use:ReservedMemorySizeMb=1024VideoMemorySizeMb=10240 EDIT: But since Boris is a genius and I am not, go with his recommendation over mine. Also I would suggest you configure your power settings for Windows 10. On my Windows 7 it's Control Panel -> Hardware -> Power Options. Set it to the High Performance profile. Go through the profile settings and set everything to 'Never' on ac power. I'm not familiar with Windows 10 but I've read you get to the same things by right clicking desktop. Edited March 9, 2016 by Tony_OQuinn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbq Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 Expand system memory 64 is enabled as well as reduce system memory. My laptop only has turn off screen after 10 min everything else is never. Im trying your settings into my system to see what it does and still, about 3 minutes in crash. Although, this time it was a stable crash. My fans were noticeably quiter though except in the wilderness, but expected. My SKSE edits are FINALLY taking and im not running out of memory there so at THIS point it sounds like the 361.91 Nvida driver is being totally and ridiculously cenile... greaaaatt... EDIT: Tested it with the monitor and my GPU will max out upon skyrim start up and STAY there (85 to 100) with no amount of tweaks lowering it and it looks like an overheat crash. Not memory. Awesome it is the driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOQuinn Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 My fans were noticeably quiter though except in the wilderness, but expected. My SKSE edits are FINALLY taking and im not running out of memory there so at THIS point it sounds like the 361.91 Nvida driver is being totally and ridiculously cenile... greaaaatt... EDIT: Tested it with the monitor and my GPU will max out upon skyrim start up and STAY there (85 to 100) with no amount of tweaks lowering it and it looks like an overheat crash. Not memory. Awesome it is the driver...Cool, you're making progress. The latest Geforce driver is 362.00, so I think you should update. Uninstall Geforce Experience since it's not working for you and download drivers directly from nvidia.com.Also I think you need to use the STEP Guide for Nvidia Inspector. Besides doing everything in this guide, find a setting named Frame Rate Limiter and set it to just under your monitor refresh rate. For example, my monitor is 60Hz, so I set this to 58 fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbq Posted March 9, 2016 Author Share Posted March 9, 2016 Turns out my enb setings were right in the first place. Just the driver being crappy. And the Experience works just been offline this whole time to try and get the thing running. Will still download the updated drivers and install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbq Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 Tried to install 362.00 and it will NOT install, stating that the version of windows is incompatible as WELL as not finding the graphics card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOQuinn Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 If you went off the link I posted above, that's my fault. I'm on Windows 7 and must have included my system in the link somehow. Start clean at www.geforce.com/drivers, select your correct card and operating system to get the right driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingofOldSchool Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Just a thought do a google search for a program called DDU install it boot into safe mode and uninstal the drivers and try again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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