Skyrim near constantly freezing up and

[SpellAndShield]

to escape.

 

Basically every hour or two Skyrim will just freeze in place, be in game or a loading screen and there is nothing I can do short of shutting down the pc and starting again. Nothing else works, not ctr del esp or atl f4, nothing. Is there anything I can do about this or a common cause? because it really takes away from immersion. Thank you in advance.

[Njorunn]

A wild guess would be that you are running out of VRAM (especially if you play on high settings and with lots of high def textures from mods).

 

What computer are you using?

[korun]

looks like a power saving setup that's why you have a timing, or your anti virus check every 1or2 hours or or or what's your rig, laptop? desktop? low end? high end? how many mods, which one etc..

[SpellAndShield]

A wild guess would be that you are running out of VRAM (especially if you play on high settings and with lots of high def textures from mods).

 

What computer are you using?

 

Toshiba, Quosio X505, 2.40 GHz, 4.00 GB...off the top of my head, a kind of old gaming laptop (I know, not optimal but it's what I have). I have setting at medium now, I guess I could try low and see what happens....do have lots of high texture mods though...suggestions? and thanks for the help

[Njorunn]

 

A wild guess would be that you are running out of VRAM (especially if you play on high settings and with lots of high def textures from mods).

 

What computer are you using?

 

Toshiba, Quosio X505, 2.40 GHz, 4.00 GB...off the top of my head, a kind of old gaming laptop (I know, not optimal but it's what I have). I have setting at medium now, I guess I could try low and see what happens....do have lots of high texture mods though...suggestions? and thanks for the help

Then it's definitly your VRAM reaching its limit. First of all you could try this nifty tool out: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12801

 

If that doesn't help, there aren't many solutions sadly. You could either try removing some of custom high definition textures added by mods, lowering the overall graphic settings or simply getting better hardware :)

 

Hope this helps!

[korun]

ok it's a laptop, go to your config panel and change your setup for power saving, it's probably set to shut down or go in low energy after 1 hr or so :)

 

Njorunn can be right but if it's this Quosio you mentionned

Graphics Controller Model: GeForce GTS 360M

Graphics Memory Capacity: 1 GB

Graphics Memory Technology: GDDR5

 

you really have a ton of high texture :)

Edited February 16, 2013 by korun

[SpellAndShield]

 

 

A wild guess would be that you are running out of VRAM (especially if you play on high settings and with lots of high def textures from mods).

 

What computer are you using?

 

Toshiba, Quosio X505, 2.40 GHz, 4.00 GB...off the top of my head, a kind of old gaming laptop (I know, not optimal but it's what I have). I have setting at medium now, I guess I could try low and see what happens....do have lots of high texture mods though...suggestions? and thanks for the help

Then it's definitly your VRAM reaching its limit. First of all you could try this nifty tool out: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12801

 

If that doesn't help, there aren't many solutions sadly. You could either try removing some of custom high definition textures added by mods, lowering the overall graphic settings or simply getting better hardware :smile:

 

Hope this helps!

Thank you, unfortunately, the link does not work. What is the name of the mod that you are linking to?

[Njorunn]

 

 

 

A wild guess would be that you are running out of VRAM (especially if you play on high settings and with lots of high def textures from mods).

 

What computer are you using?

 

Toshiba, Quosio X505, 2.40 GHz, 4.00 GB...off the top of my head, a kind of old gaming laptop (I know, not optimal but it's what I have). I have setting at medium now, I guess I could try low and see what happens....do have lots of high texture mods though...suggestions? and thanks for the help

Then it's definitly your VRAM reaching its limit. First of all you could try this nifty tool out: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12801

 

If that doesn't help, there aren't many solutions sadly. You could either try removing some of custom high definition textures added by mods, lowering the overall graphic settings or simply getting better hardware :smile:

 

Hope this helps!

Thank you, unfortunately, the link does not work. What is the name of the mod that you are linking to?

Apologies - I accidentally inserted a space at the end of the link - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12801

[PhaseVerocity]

Bethesda games have always been buggy as ever. Daggerfall was very bad, then morrowind got a bit better then oblivion fell down again and sadly it hasn't gotten much better since as the engine makers went broke. Sadly its just the way it is. I'd play and mod crysis if it had better modding gear because its 64bit but unfortunately you need to buy expensive software to mod it. I think the problem is that skyrim bangs the graphics so hard that the systems that are running it build up too much electrostatic energy and then something goes west and then you're stuck back at the desktop. Alt tabbing out and back in sometimes can help but then that has other side effects. Mods are especially potent. There are so many things that mods can do to crash the game and there made by ammatuer programmers/modders so you can't expect 120 mods to behave perfectly. Modders aren't exactly in constant communication with each other either so don't expect mod A to like mod B. I don't even think the game is really designed to take on mods because it always seems to freeze crash what not when you have just one mod turned on. I was seriously hoping skyrim would have been a much more stable system being that its there 4th attempt but unfortunately that's just not the case. I'm not saying any of the assertions above are wrong. you can make it crash less with lower textures and what not but it will still crash eventually, The real question is how long can you keep it running before it crashes. Mods to look out for are mods that add heaps of weapon's or clothes or any other items that are copies of other mods as they create duplicate id's that don't match. And that's about 90% of the mods out there. Too many graphics mods will crash the game. I know i tested it on a very fast 64 gig computer. Too many scripts will give the papyrus engine a headache and you'll crash. Actually the papyrus engine just doesn't process stuff if there's too much and you're left with stray programming. Seriously if you can play for at least one hour with mods without crashing then you're doing a lot better than other people What the world needs is a new engine that can be modded. One that actually gets worked on. Not just software artists creating great looking graphics.

[helloyoda]

Bethesda games have always been buggy as ever. Daggerfall was very bad, then morrowind got a bit better then oblivion fell down again and sadly it hasn't gotten much better since as the engine makers went broke. Sadly its just the way it is. I'd play and mod crysis if it had better modding gear because its 64bit but unfortunately you need to buy expensive software to mod it. I think the problem is that skyrim bangs the graphics so hard that the systems that are running it build up too much electrostatic energy and then something goes west and then you're stuck back at the desktop. Alt tabbing out and back in sometimes can help but then that has other side effects. Mods are especially potent. There are so many things that mods can do to crash the game and there made by ammatuer programmers/modders so you can't expect 120 mods to behave perfectly. Modders aren't exactly in constant communication with each other either so don't expect mod A to like mod B. I don't even think the game is really designed to take on mods because it always seems to freeze crash what not when you have just one mod turned on. I was seriously hoping skyrim would have been a much more stable system being that its there 4th attempt but unfortunately that's just not the case. I'm not saying any of the assertions above are wrong. you can make it crash less with lower textures and what not but it will still crash eventually, The real question is how long can you keep it running before it crashes. Mods to look out for are mods that add heaps of weapon's or clothes or any other items that are copies of other mods as they create duplicate id's that don't match. And that's about 90% of the mods out there. Too many graphics mods will crash the game. I know i tested it on a very fast 64 gig computer. Too many scripts will give the papyrus engine a headache and you'll crash. Actually the papyrus engine just doesn't process stuff if there's too much and you're left with stray programming. Seriously if you can play for at least one hour with mods without crashing then you're doing a lot better than other people What the world needs is a new engine that can be modded. One that actually gets worked on. Not just software artists creating great looking graphics.

The truth has been spoken!