voodochild is amazing - as is everyone else that helped with this. I have an AMD Phenom II 830 processor (4 cores) 2.8GHz, 6G ram, WIn7, Radeon HD 6700. I had the same problem as everyone else here - crashes when outside, no more than two minutes even on lowest graphics. Sometimes it would recover after several seconds, sometimes just freeze to black, sometimes CTD. I updated EVERYTHING (BIOS, video and sound drivers, DirectX - I even pulled my video card out and reset it - looked for IRQ conflicts, changed my graphics settings, underclocked the card, downloaded the patches (and then uninstalled), changed the sound settings, did THREE clean reloads of Skyrim through Steam and THREE removing the drivers and doing a clean reinstall - but the stuff here worked. Now, I run on high settings with FXAA and fade out checked, and about 20 mods - 3 hours with no crash, versus 3 minutes. All in all I spent about 20 hours trying to get this to work. If nothing else, I know a LOT more about how my box works - or at least ways it stops working. I tell you - my spring break plan is Skyrim, and I was thinking about buying a whole new box for it.... Whew! Thanks! Why did that work?
