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I'm only commenting here, because I thought T4 was an exceptionally nice person, and extremely patient, considering some of the outright rude comments that he very politely answered. I remember telling him I would have ripped some of these people a new one, if they had talked to me the way they spoke to him. It would have been better if he had stayed retired like he had initially planned, but he tried to fix some issues with textures or ENB interaction, I dunno exactly. Anyway, I'll miss his mods, but I'll make do with substitutes. I don't normally care if people leave or not, that's their right, I just liked his Majestic Mountains and again, he seemed like a nice guy.

I own Legendary Edition myself and have had no problem installing it and getting SKSE to run. Which SKSE are you using anyway? I know there's some alpha release out at the moment.

Does this happen on a new save as well? I guess you could go to Riverwood, and wait 2-3 days. If killed, guards usually respawn in that time. I don't know if that's what happened to the one in your particular game, but it might be worth a try.

I see it affects the floor, the hand, and the torch too. Are there any other mods you're using similar to that Gigantic FPS Patch? Performance mods, basically. Also, there's a setting in your SkyrimPrefs.ini called itexmipmapskip. It should be set to 0. Finally, how long have you been playing before this issue popped up?

A shot in the dark, but if you haven't already tried, run Skyrim under Compatibility Mode. Right click on the .exe, Properties, and it should be in the second tab.

You can crop the picture so it only displays Lydia or you can upload the full images to imgur and paste a url here. http://imgur.com/oljx8Qp I have no idea what that patch does in a technical sense, but I find it hard to believe it would affect the textures. Well, at any rate, let's see those screenshots in their full, uncompressed glory.

Gee, a 4 gig 770... I'd love to have that. Anyway, stuttering and choppiness comes with the territory, bro. If your life's falling apart because of "intermittent stuttering" in Skyrim, then lol indeed. You did the best thing possible. It seems like your personal expectations regarding price/performance are better met with consoles anyway.

Your temperatures don't look bad, at a glance. The GPU should be fine. The temperature for your CPU depends on what model of Core 2 Duo you have (E6600, etc). This site: http://ark.intel.com/products/family/79667/Legacy-Intel-Core2-Processor/desktop should have your model listed, and you can check the max heat in the Package Specifications section. I can't really say for sure if overheating is the cause of your problem. When I had a CPU overheat, it shut the whole computer down, not just close a game. So, I'm kind of stumped here.

ENBoost and Sheson's patch are really for pushing Skyrim with high res textures and numerous mods. If you're crashing frequently with a plain, unmodified, freshly installed Skyrim, I would say there is a deeper problem. Well, someone earlier mentioned overheating, so you might want to take a look at that. Download HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html It just gives you a little display of your hardware. You'll find both your CPU and GPU temperatures. Make a note of the Max value for both of them. Start Skyrim while keeping HWMonitor open, and play until it crashes. Check the Max value of your CPU and GPU temperatures again and see if anything was unusually high. If nothing is out of the ordinary, then I can only offer one last advice. Reinstall Skyrim in a different directory. Like, instead of C:\program files, try C:\Skyrim. I don't know if that'll do anything, but you're not going to lose anything but time.

Well, it's just a thought, but maybe those people only average 60 frames or less with the vsync off?

Don't quote me on this, but as I understand it, Skyrim's physics get wonky out if you're regularly going over 60 frames a second. The only thing I've experienced in my brief experimentation is my character occasionally using the swimming animation while running.

It may or may not mean anything. Could just be that Steam replaced your two .ini files. In any case, the only way to find out if that fixed anything is to run the game. Shenzi's advice is solid, but in your case, you really shouldn't need anything just to run an unmodified game without crashing. And if you have played it before just fine, then either the installation is screwed up or there's a hardware issue on your end. At least, that's how I see it. Could be wrong.

For starters (if you haven't already), begin a new game and play as normal. See if the save issue pops up.

Did you install any high resolution texture replacers? For example, Skyrim HD 2K: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/607/? If not, and you're crashing during a vanilla game... it might be time to consider backing up any save files important to you, and then uninstalling and reinstalling Skyrim. Or use Steam's "Verify integrity of game cache" thing to make sure nothing in your Skyrim installation is missing or out of order. Your hardware seems to meet Bethesda's recommended requirements (the 460 is 1 GB, I assume?). Aside from the CPU. You could try starting a new save on Low or Medium settings, and see if it makes any difference, just to make sure if it's a performance issue. Oh, and how much free space do you have on your hard drive?

You don't have a ton of mods, so just disable everything and start a new game. It's important you start a new game, as mods tend to "stick" to a save if you have saved with them active. If you're not crashing on a plain vanilla game, then it may be one or more of those mods. Save after Helgen, activate a few mods at a time, and try to narrow down what may be causing the issue. Also, it might be a good idea to get the various Unofficial Skyrim Patches.

How did you install the textures? Just copied and pasted the whole deal to the appropriate data folders, or did you do it through a modding utility like Mod Organizer or the Nexus Mod Manager? Did you install any other mods between the time you installed amidianborn's armor pack and booting up in the afternoon? Did you mess around with any settings/.ini tweaks during that period of time? And for curiosity's sake, post a picture of said Orc armor.

Thanks for the reassurance. Nonetheless, I decided to do two things. First, I did a standard cleaning of the Update, Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonfire .esm files (I'd been holding off on this). Then I reinstalled SMIM, going through the options manually, this time leaving out the hawk and chest fix to have two less .esp. When I fired up the save, the warped mesh was gone. I'm not entirely sure what did it, or whether it might pop up again, but boom. Could cleaning up the master files have removed or realigned that vertice?

I'm in Whiterun at the moment and I spot this little anomaly behind a farm: http://i.imgur.com/CPq4dKg.jpg I actually had a similar problem in a previous playthrough in this exact area, except it looked way bigger/wider, like a wall. I don't really have anything that changes up Whiterun mesh-wise at the moment. I do have SMIM, and that's pretty much the only mesh changer I can think of. At any rate, I am intensely curious about what this is, whether it will harm my save file, what kind of mod might cause this, and so on. I ignored it on a previous playthrough, simply because it was pretty easy to ignore, but I am wondering why a similar glitch has occurred on a new run, in pretty much the exact same place. Here is my load order: Skyrim.esm Update.esm Unofficial Skyrim Patch.esp Dawnguard.esm Unofficial Dawnguard Patch.esp HearthFires.esm Unofficial Hearthfire Patch.esp Dragonborn.esm Unofficial Dragonborn Patch.esp Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm SPIKE.esm XFLMain.esm HighResTexturePack01.esp HighResTexturePack02.esp HighResTexturePack03.esp Unofficial High Resolution Patch.esp Weapons & Armor Fixes_Remade.esp Clothing & Clutter Fixes.esp MoreRain.esp Better Dynamic Snow.esp Morning Fogs.esp SplashofRain.esp ExpandedSnowSystems.esp Remove Interior Fog V2 - Full Version.esp Cutting Room Floor.esp StaticMeshImprovementMod.esp StaticMeshImprovementMod-DragonbornTernFix.esp StaticMeshImprovementMod-FurnitureChestSnowFix.esp TradeBarter.esp CalienteVanillaArmorTweaks.esp Disease Descriptions.esp DD_Dawnguard Additions.esp DD_Dragonborn Additions.esp Immersive Battles.esp Immersive Brigands.esp Immersive Dawnguard.esp Immersive Dragonborn.esp Immersive Factions.esp Immersive Mercenaries.esp Immersive Patrols.esp Immersive Travelers.esp Immersive Werewolves.esp Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - RLO.esp PilgrimsDelight.esp Populated Forts Towers Places.esp Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp WetandCold.esp WetandCold - Ashes.esp SkyUI.esp AMB Glass Variants Lore.esp Cloaks.esp Cloaks - Dawnguard.esp 1nivWICCloaks.esp 1nivWICSkyCloaksPatch.esp Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp Immersive Weapons.esp Unique Uniques.esp FloraRespawnFix.esp CornerofTheSkyrim.esp Inconsequential NPCs.esp Inconsequential NPCs - Enhancement.esp Run For Your Lives.esp When Vampires Attack.esp Book Covers Skyrim.esp Book Covers Dawnguard.esp Book Covers Hearthfire.esp Book Covers Dragonborn.esp Differently Ebony.esp Guard Dialogue Overhaul.esp Convenient Horses.esp aMidianborn_Skyforge_Weapons.esp Populated Cities Towns Villages.esp Realistic crime report radius.esp 3DNPC.esp XFLDialogue.esp XFLPlugins.esp 3DNPCEFF.esp WATER.esp WATER Plants.esp WATER DG.esp WATER DB Waves.esp Clothing & Clutter_3DNPC_Patch.esp Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp SkyFalls + SkyMills + DG + DB.esp