twistedtrebla

Thanks, I will try that too. Though, im a little skeptical. Would running out of VRAM cause black screen with buzzing noise? I would think it would just CTD. Did you also have similar condition where the screen would flicker then turn green/black and produce the buzzing noise? Thanks anyhow!

Thanks for the info! Will definitely try the stress test when I get home. Interesting that you mentioned sound drivers. Could a bad sound driver cause the weird green/black stripe screen though? I thought sound drivers just... control the sound

And yea, it does make that buzz (bzzzzz) sound. I guess your description is more accurate :)

Hmmm I do have an upgraded gcard. My PC is a 3 year old Dell XPS 8100. I upgraded my gcard to Radeon 7950 (I think it had 5770, or was it 7770? Cant remember..). It came with a 350w PSU, so I upgraded to Corsair CX 600w when I bought the 7950 about a year ago. Ive been using it to play games without a problem so far. Im currently at work so I dont have my load order, but I use BOSS to order it for me. The only mods that I use that changes graphics or sound are: climates of tamriel Lighting mod: either sharpshooters ENB or ULO I have not stress tested my system. How do I do that?

Hi guys, I've been playing Skyrim for past 3 months or so, and recently started having a problem where Skyrim would freeze (not CTD), and sometimes, freeze my computer altogether, forcing me to restart the computer using the power button. I have Radeon 7950 and my PC is running win 7 64bit with 8GB of RAM. I can run other games, like Civ 5, Call of Duty, Fallout New Vegas perfectly fine, without any freezes or strange behavior. Btw, my gcard temperature hovers around 65C, so it doesnt appear to be overheating issue. I havent overclocked anything - dont even know how. What happens: - Randomly, screen would flicker, blink, and stutter for 1-3 seconds. Immediately after that, the screen would turn green with black stripes, and my PC would start producing a generator-like sound (from the speakers, not the computer itself). At this point, sometimes ctrl alt del would work. Sometimes it wont, and I would have ti force restart with power button. When it happens: - it seems to be random, sometimes after 30ish minutes into the game. Sometimes few hours into the game. But it only started happening recently - maybe because I started adding more mods? What I have done so far, and didnt work: - updated my ATI graphics driver to latest version - try different lighting mods; it seems to occur more frequently with ENB as opposed to running the game with no lighting mods - set verticalsync on ingame and also in Catalyst Anyone have any ideas what could be happening here? Thanks much!

I'm pretty new to modding Skyrim lighting. I've been running vanilla lighting all along and finally hit me that my Skyrim looked a little dull and decided to change it up. I installed Sharpshooters ENB lighting (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/15105/?) and the day looks incredible. I absolutely love the brighter and more vibrant look during the day. However, I had a freak out moment when I stepped into a dungeon/cave; I couldn't see anything! I spent couple hours tweaking the enb ini settings, but I just couldn't find the right balance of keeping the day bright - but not TOO bright - while keeping the nights/indoor bright enough to be playable. Basically, I just want the days to be brighter than vanilla (I think sharpshooters ENB is pretty good for my taste), while the night and indoor be about the same as vanilla, in terms of brightness. I know that vanillas night and indoor is super unrealistic, but I'd rather have something be fake but playable than realistic & unplayable! Could someone point me to a lighting mod that achieves this? Brighter days, and vanilla-level night/indoor. Or an enb ini setting that achieves this works too. Thanks!