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Load Screens 'Not Responding' + Crashes in Windowed Mode [Windows 10]


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I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard, CPU, RAM - and a clean install (NOT an upgrade, I completely formatted my hard drive) to Windows 10 (was previously on Win7 64-bit). Prior to upgrading I had been playing Skyrim just fine, but since the upgrade I've been suddenly experiencing load issues (the game will go into 'not responding' mode with the load circle, effectively doubling load times if not more, though it will eventually load if left alone) and eventually crashes, every single time. With the holidays I hadn't had a chance to take a look at what the issue could be until today, but I think I've finally narrowed down the problem: window mode.

 

First thing I did was uninstall the game, delete my skyrim folders in both steamapps/common and documents/my games (after backing them up of course), and reinstalling fresh. I even had Steam verify the integrity of the game files for good measure. Then I forced myself to sit through the whole Helgen sequence on a brand new character on pure vanilla Skyrim - no mods, no SKSE, not even an ENB until I got down to Riverwood. Then I tested these things one at a time. ENB didn't cause any issues, nor did just running SKSE through MO with nothing but SkyUI, Static Mesh Improvement and Vivid Landscapes.

 

Before I had uninstalled I had already tried running a brand new vanilla save without SKSE or MO (just using the Steam launcher) and I was still having the issues, so I already figured it shouldn't be related to SKSE or any of my mods...especially since, as I said, I was having no issues at all on Windows 7 before the upgrade using these same mod profiles and saves. So since it was now working fine with a fresh install and ENB wasn't the cause either, I figured I could load up one of my existing saves and see how that worked.

 

Just like that, I had the problem again.

 

First, I thought it was OneTweak, so I disabled that - and instantly the problem stopped. When I re-enabled it, it started again. So I thought, problem solved!! Then I tried turning on forced borderless in enblocal.ini...same problem. So I thought, is it just forcing borderless that's the problem in general? And tried setting the game to Windowed mode with the launcher from Steam. Turns out, regular windowed mode has the same exact problem too. No matter what save I try it on, from old ones to the brand new fresh-outta-Helgen one I just made, and whether it's with or without running it from the SKSE launcher...I get the 'not responding' load screens, and when I do finally load, after running around for about 5 minutes and playing the game, I will CTD every time.

 

When I did my initial Helgen tests, I was doing so in fullscreen without issue...but now when I try to turn on fullscreen I get this obnoxious incessant screen flickering. But besides that, I don't want to play in fullscreen anyway - I never have before, and I would rather not have to now. I like being able to alt-tab out and use other programs, which I can't do if I run the game in fullscreen. So fixing the issues running in WINDOW MODE are priority to me more than fixing the fullscreen flickering...I just thought I should mention that too, since I didn't have flickering before, but now I do. I'm not sure what could have changed in that regard, either, because it still flickers if I run straight vanilla through steam.

 

TL;DR neither of these problems should related to SKSE or mods in any way because they happen even if I run vanilla. But since I never had them in Windows 7, it has to be somehow related to Windows 10. And my hardware has been UPGRADED from what it was before, so I can't imagine THAT could be the issue...if anything, shouldn't things be loading faster and running better now that I have an improved CPU and more RAM? And my graphics card is the same GTX 960 that it was before. Other games are also running just fine, including things like The Witcher 3. It's only Skyrim where I'm having this issue. I'm just completely stumped as to how I had no problems running the game or dealing with these crashes on Windows 7 on crappier hardware, but now I can't even play the game on a brand new save file without long loads and CTDs after 5 minutes of playtime, unless I play in fullscreen (assuming I could fix the flickering) - which I do not want to do.

 

And I know this seems to be a common issue because googling it showed a lot of other people who have had this problem...but I'm not finding any solutions that actually work for me, either. So I'm not sure I'll get any new information from posting this, but...I'm out of ideas of my own so it felt like it was worth a shot.

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